No COAs

[Mayostardayonnaise]

This isn’t regarding a vendor from this forum, just a hypothetical, and hopefully this isn’t already posted somewhere or isn’t allowed:

How often have you come across a grey vendor since you’ve started, that does not provide COAs? Or that only does a “representative set” of COAs every 3-6 months?
To be really clear, I’m not talking about vendors that do preorders, then they do a COA weeks later. Just, you know, no COA.
Thanks!

 

[lessthanhalf]

I have been looking for a vendor since SSA disappeared that does not require crypto and has good prices and has the ones I am looking for, and finally found one yesterday. MXM, lots of posts and pictures from seemingly happy customers, but they have one COA on their pepchat page since July, which is a bit of a concern.

 

[ktg123]

I'll pay more from a vendor with COA's. The only time I buy without them is if what I want isn't available otherwise.

 

[SummerX]

Vendor COAs arent worth much, to be honest.

Who's to know you will be receiving the same batch of product that was tested?
Vendors definitely wont share failed reports either.

I see them as what they are, marketing material.

 

[IshimaruKenta]

I'd rather they have them and post them, then not having any at all. I don't like vendors that only post 1 or 2, especially if they offer a wide variety of products. I wanted to buy some ARA-290 but every vendor that carried it, never had a COA for it. So I ended up going with PGB, since they had COAs and shipped in the US.

Can a vendor take a COA? Sure, but at least have it to give someone a reference to how much is there. We don't want to be taking "10mg" when it actually contains 15.

 

[cldfront]

Vendor COAs aren't worth much, to be honest.

This. If there's not third party testing on a singular full batch, I invest in my own testing. This means that it's usually cheaper to pay a bit more per mg up front for a group buy that provides testing and/or going with a vendor that has both vendor and third party testing for each batch.