There are portions of the GLP-1/peptide/etc. community that heavily cater towards people new to the space and have all sorts of guides, resources, and discussion around people getting their start in the grey market.
This is not one of them. The expectation is a certain level of self-sufficiency, because the philosophy here is that this is an area where you are dealing with injecting yourself with health altering substances being sold by drug dealers in another country where we have no legal recourse if anything goes wrong. We know that exit scams happen. That mislabeled vials happen. That zero-peptide vials happen. That customs seizures happen. That for every reliable source there at 10 more that are at best unknowns and frequently outright scammers.
No one on this forum is here to take responsibility for your health and financial security. We want to share information with each other and help each other, and that includes new people, but we also know that enabling people to do this without learning self-sufficiency is enabling people to end up hurting themselves because they haven't got the skillset required to understand if what they're doing is safe or not.
Our resident ScarJo stan is plenty helpful in plenty of places. But if you look at the forums you see this same topic reposted many times a week - people wanting to be told "go buy from this vendor and you'll have a great experience" - but that's not what this forum is. You might get recommendations, but one of the fundamental things you should understand before buying from these vendors is that any random person on this forum giving you a recommendation is just some asshole on the internet and that there is no guarantee that any of us know what we're talking about. If you want to make an informed decision to be as safe as you can, you need to be researching a variety of vendors and going through a variety of anecdotal experiences, testing results, etc.
Some of these vendors are selling things that can straight up kill you. You can buy more than enough DNP to give yourself a lethal dose. There are people on here that discuss using it or other mitochondrial uncouplers. I don't think there's anything wrong with that discussion - adults can put what they want in their body as far as I am concerned - but if you don't understand you need to research and learn about things, you might go "oh wow this thing will make me lose weight without exercise I should buy it" and find yourself hospitalized or dead because you raised your internal body temp enough to cook your brain.
The best thing we can do to help you maximize your chances of a good experience with all of this is get you to understand that you should be doing significant personal research on all of these things and not relying on making a thread to ask a question and getting the answer spoon fed to you, because there is no guarantee that answer will be remotely accurate. If you can't handle that, then yes, you should be buying pharma, because otherwise god knows what is going to happen to you.
