cold packs are not standard everywhere. ask explicitly and it usually costs nothing, that is the paperwork you are paying for
reply speed is mostly a timezone artefact and i
Spun off from a message in #vendor-talk on 2026-04-20. 13 messages, 5 participants.
- dublin_dose — from the quote log reply speed is mostly a timezone artefact and i stopped counting it as a virtue, no ranking by feel here 01:34
two places, same month ask which warehouse holds your line before you order. it changes the delivery answer entirely, ok ill stop
free shipping changes the per milligram number more than the headline price usually does, from my quote spreadsheet
comparing two of them and i drifted away from a good supplier out of habit and went back for the same reason, which says more about me than them, three on rotation here
i have never had a problem i could not resolve with BCH, which is a low bar and a lot of suppliers fail it, do the arithmetic yourself
a good support reply is worth a surprising amount, because the thing you are really buying is what happens when something goes wrong, do the arithmetic yourself
timezone not virtue
i keep a spreadsheet of every quote i have had since 2024 and the per milligram trend is genuinely interesting, quotes hold about a fortnight
ordered somewhere new and is a fast reply actually a signal or does everyone reply fast now, or have i misread it
per milligram, delivered, with the paperwork you actually got. that is the comparison and it is not complicated, what i paid, for the record
three orders no issues
how do people decide when a list has got too long to be useful
i asked for a batch record on a first order and got one, and that told me more than the certificate did, regional stock changes the answer