lead times stretch around public holidays everywhere. order before, not during, slow and correct is fine by me
per milligram delivered is arithmetic anybody can
Spun off from a message in #vendor-talk on 2025-10-08. 16 messages, 4 participants.
- adelaide_assay — sourcing question per milligram delivered is arithmetic anybody can do and almost nobody does before ordering. not the product 23:36
minimum orders push people into buying more than they want, which is a real cost nobody puts in the per mg number
about regional stock again per milligram, delivered, with the paperwork you actually got. that is the comparison and it is not complicated
asking questions before ordering has never once got me worse treatment, and it has twice got me a better price, that was one order not a study
two places, same month does anyone read the whole certificate before ordering or only afterwards
quotes have been valid for about a fortnight in my experience, though nobody promises that
nobody here gets paid to say anything about any supplier and the mods would end me if i did, paperwork over feel
a good support reply is worth a surprising amount, because the thing you are really buying is what happens when something goes wrong
minimum order values are a real cost and they are not the same as a bad supplier
is there anything useful in a suppliers own testing or does everyone skip it
spreadsheet update is anyone tracking price per milligram over time or is that overkill, i did search first
support reply worth noting my first order from PPG was fine and my fourth was better. they have improved
for the log i keep three on a list and order from two of them, more than that and i stopped being able to compare anything
what do people actually check before a first order somewhere, happy to be told to read the pin
i went back through two years of my own orders and the price per milligram had barely moved, per mg including shipping though
for the log a first order that goes perfectly is one data point, and i say that to myself every time i want to recommend somebody, regional stock is the variable