TikTok is really creating problems in this space.

[Airborne Daddy]

I am not sure if I wanted to laugh or propose..
But that is the best sentence I have read in a while! 🤣 💍 🥰

That's hilarious! Here's one... many years ago was partying with my gf all weekend and I was off Monday, she wanted to call off and asked what should I text my boss? Jokingly I said text him "I'm not gonna make it in tommorow my pussys all jacked up." She texted that verbatim. His response? "Lady issues? No problem I understand. "

 

[bradakai]

You are 100% right. It is one of the reasons why I started hoarding. I feel like one day something is going to happen that is going to make it very difficult to get.

I see more and more posts on Reddit from people who don't know the basics but somehow wound up buying a vial of Reta. Like they don't even realize the vials come in powder/puck form. They think it is shady if the vials are not labeled. They don't know what a kit is. They post the literal dumbest questions. They can't do basic math like what is 20mg divided by 10. They ask questions like "Is 10mg more than 5mg". One GI symptom and they are posting about how terrible it is and "Is it normal to have diarrhea" ....

I read something that said AI use (and I think Tiktok use tbh) is rotting people's brains and I believe it.

Plus combine that with spending their rent money and last dollar on glp1s, expecting vendors to ship out immediately after payment like Amazon does, not understanding it can take weeks to get from Asia to the US, not understanding Chinese holidays, customs, or just general international shipping...Yeah it is a recipe for disaster. It is just going to take one media expose or high profile death blamed on GLP1 grey stuff for the ban hammers to start coming down.

This. This. All this.

 

[KevinNaka]

Research the worst possible outcomes. Prosecution could happen for several reasons. It’s not likely they will prosecute for small, personal amounts but eventually they will make an example out of someone. If people aren’t willing to accept that then this is the wrong hobby.

I hope you don't mind me asking more questions. I am obviously very ignorant and also I don't see much information about this elsewhere, but what is your experience with ordering overseas (if you have tried them)? Is the packaging discreet and are the items labeled? I am really curious why, if the FDA is making a fuss about it, can overseas transactions even push through.

 

[hexagonal]

The idea that you're lecturing with this condescending, self-aggrandazing ("stupid" "lazy") tone ignores the fact that the EARLIEST and most PROLIFIC users of crypto/bitcoin were dudes living in their moms' basements consuming black market p*rn! Good for you, you're in great company.

The time and energy you're taking to continue insulting and bashing people is odd -- the very definition of insufferable.

As someone who has been unfortunate enough to be hearing about crypto since you could get multiple bitcoin for a penny:

Porn was not the primary use case for it. Just as it is with us, it was buying drugs. Silk Road was a big name, but drug buying sites on TOR predate crypto and they all adopted it quickly once it got even into the tens of cents range and there was more liquidity.

 

[hexagonal]

I don’t see anyone saying that’s why they use a CC. That’s not why I use it.

I use CC because I can’t be bothered to learn and deal with crypto, too many steps and options for my ADHD brain such that I’m bound to mess it up, and my vendor is close enough to crypto vendors where there’s little to no benefit to me to using it.

There have been a variety of people saying that that is explicitly their reason for using a CC on the forums over the time that I've been here.

Also people that have opened paypal/alibaba disputes, etc. And vendors give chargebacks and disputes as explicit reasons as to why they don't accept them.

 

[YoYoFat]

There have been a variety of people saying that that is explicitly their reason for using a CC on the forums over the time that I've been here.

I was referring to this thread. Obviously. There are many assumptions being made about the people in this thread, one being called “stupid” for preferring CC over crypto.

 

[esdsafepoet]

I prefer CC to crypto for a few reasons, but mostly because I'm still bitter for selling all my crypto years ago before it got popular.

 

[mlke6]

I prefer CC to crypto for a few reasons, but mostly because I'm still bitter for selling all my crypto years ago before it got popular.

I will never sell what I bought in 2017. Mentally I can't. Peptides were my first time actually using crypto in any real way.

 

[esdsafepoet]

I will never sell what I bought in 2017. Mentally I can't. Peptides were my first time actually using crypto in any real way.

2017 is when I sold, about a month before everything went up. I spent years trying to educate people on crypto, only to be brushed off constantly. Finally it got to me and I thought, "I guess they're right, I'm wrong and dumb for bothering with this". Sold it all. Wasn't long after that those people starting hitting me up asking about it. 😡

Good life lesson there, I suppose.

 

[AndyPanda]

I hope you don't mind me asking more questions. I am obviously very ignorant and also I don't see much information about this elsewhere, but what is your experience with ordering overseas (if you have tried them)? Is the packaging discreet and are the items labeled? I am really curious why, if the FDA is making a fuss about it, can overseas transactions even push through.

The Chinese are discreet. India is quite predictable.

 

[mlke6]

2017 is when I sold, about a month before everything went up. I spent years trying to educate people on crypto, only to be brushed off constantly. Finally it got to me and I thought, "I guess they're right, I'm wrong and dumb for bothering with this". Sold it all. Wasn't long after that those people starting hitting me up asking about it. 😡

Good life lesson there, I suppose.

That's why I can't ever sell what I set aside. Too many stories like yours. It would haunt me lol.