lessthanhalf
Banned
While the best strategy by far is to test your own batch personally , and second to buy where group testing is being done, and third buy from vendors from batches where third party testing has already been done, etc. Most people are not testing.
I find it weird that what is essentially a purely reputation market works much better than I would guess it should. I think if no one was doing independent third party testing, standards would be worse as no one would get caught selling crap or nothing or mislabelled products, but thankfully some tests are being done, and the tests the sellers do to make sure they are not being sold crap or nothing and to reassure their customers, all seem to somehow work. The cost of being caught selling bad peptides is possibly large in terms of lost sales, hundreds of thousands to millions, so it is really only this keeping them honest. The cost to set up a replacement business is tiny, and the profit margin must be huge, so you might think it would not matter , but there are a surplus of sellers, so the hardest part of starting up as a new vendor is acquiring customers, and the only way to keep them is to never get caught out selling crap. Which thankfully for us gives them a surprisingly strong motive for quality control. At least this is the best theory I can work out for why it somehow works.
The studies I have read of actual real researchers buying peptides from random sellers online show very high rates - at least half - of mislabelled or no product or underdosed product when tested, so buying randomly is actually risky and genuinely dangerous, but there is zero chance that is what is happening here, as they would be getting caught out much more often if it were anywhere near that common. There is unfortunately no way to work out the actual numbers involved from the info on the forum, but there seems to be less than one scandal per month or two at most.
I am definitely not an economist but I still find it weird that this reputation market somehow works for peptides from China but not for Amazon US, where as far as I can tell probably half the supplements are underdosed or fake, yet every product has customer reviews , and I can still find my review where I said a product was fraudulent and it has not been deleted.
I find it weird that what is essentially a purely reputation market works much better than I would guess it should. I think if no one was doing independent third party testing, standards would be worse as no one would get caught selling crap or nothing or mislabelled products, but thankfully some tests are being done, and the tests the sellers do to make sure they are not being sold crap or nothing and to reassure their customers, all seem to somehow work. The cost of being caught selling bad peptides is possibly large in terms of lost sales, hundreds of thousands to millions, so it is really only this keeping them honest. The cost to set up a replacement business is tiny, and the profit margin must be huge, so you might think it would not matter , but there are a surplus of sellers, so the hardest part of starting up as a new vendor is acquiring customers, and the only way to keep them is to never get caught out selling crap. Which thankfully for us gives them a surprisingly strong motive for quality control. At least this is the best theory I can work out for why it somehow works.
The studies I have read of actual real researchers buying peptides from random sellers online show very high rates - at least half - of mislabelled or no product or underdosed product when tested, so buying randomly is actually risky and genuinely dangerous, but there is zero chance that is what is happening here, as they would be getting caught out much more often if it were anywhere near that common. There is unfortunately no way to work out the actual numbers involved from the info on the forum, but there seems to be less than one scandal per month or two at most.
I am definitely not an economist but I still find it weird that this reputation market somehow works for peptides from China but not for Amazon US, where as far as I can tell probably half the supplements are underdosed or fake, yet every product has customer reviews , and I can still find my review where I said a product was fraudulent and it has not been deleted.
