One concrete data point for the thread. Red flags, in rough order of how much they should worry you: no verifiable address, no batch numbers, prices far under market, vendor-commissioned tests only, pressure toward irreversible payment, and shipping with no temperature control.
One thing that is still open after VanRx_Mike’s answer:
How to check the arithmetic without trusting a website calculator, since three calculators gave me three answers?
stefan_berlin said:Red flags, in rough order of how much they should worry you: no verifiable address, no batch numbers, prices far under market, vendor-commissioned…
Adding the part of the answer the thread has not reached. The pattern that distinguishes a bad batch from an exit is behaviour rather than product. A bad batch comes with communication, a reshipment offer and a batch number. An exit comes with slower replies, pressure toward less reversible payment methods, sudden discounting, and the same reassurance repeated without any new information. The product tells you less than the correspondence does.
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Browse GL BiochemOP back with an update, since a thread like this is useless without one.
My error was treating units as a mass. Once I wrote mg/ml on the vial in marker and worked in millilitres first, the two of us got the same answer.
BariatricNurseD said:The pattern that distinguishes a bad batch from an exit is behaviour rather than product.
Agreed, and it is worth saying that rounding to the nearest whole unit is usually acceptable at maintenance doses and is not acceptable at the bottom of a ladder, where one unit can be a fifth of the intended dose.
That is the short version; the long version is somebody else's post.