Fortnightly digest · 2025-01-27 → 2025-02-09
the holiday notices go out earlier than last year
The suppliers had learned something from 2024 and so had the room. Holiday notices started landing a full three weeks ahead of the shutdown, and the sourcing channel turned them into a table rather than a hundred separate questions. The lead-time crunch still happened. It just happened to fewer people who were surprised by it.
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145day logs
3channels noted
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What happened
- Hubei Jianxiang posted dates early and answered follow-up questions about them, which the channel noted as the standard it would like everyone to meet.
- Quoted lead times across the channel moved from around twelve days to around twenty-five over the fortnight, tracked in a shared table.
- Members were reminded that a factory holiday is a factory holiday and looks identical from outside to a supplier who has stopped replying.
- Price per milligram comparisons got redone with shipping included, which reordered the list for about half the people doing it.
- per_mg_pete rebuilt the comparison spreadsheet with a shipping column and the channel has used that shape ever since.
Channels this fortnight
#vendor-talkSupplier experience. Price per mg, lead time, communication, fill consistency.9 logs · 188 msgs#shipping-customsTransit times, declared value, seizure letters, cold packs that arrive warm.2 logs · 21 msgs#announcementsRead-mostly. Archive changes, verification changes, pinned resource updates.3 logs · 39 msgs
Most-reacted messages in this fortnight
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split_the_costthats the pattern46 reactions · #scam-watch · 2025-02-01panel_before_afterright so SURMOUNT-1 versus SURPASS-2, which one was the weight trial45 reactions · #tirzepatide · 2025-01-30LC_MS_Lenais the nausea meant to be worst around day 9 or is that just me45 reactions · #side-effects · 2025-02-04vat_on_importfollow up did the football go the way anyone expected42 reactions · #off-topic · 2025-02-08mag_citratecongrats38 reactions · #wins · 2025-02-07night_pinplacebo maybe37 reactions · #other-peptides · 2025-01-31vat_on_importtriple check it37 reactions · #payments · 2025-02-01tarpit_tamis anyone else oddly attached to their sharps bin37 reactions · #off-topic · 2025-02-06
Busiest logs in this fortnight
#tirzepatide · 2025-02-08did anybody switch back to semaglutide after trying this51 msgs#tirzepatide · 2025-01-30easier gi for me50 msgs#dosing-titration · 2025-02-03whats the longest anyone has stayed on one dose46 msgs#coa-reading · 2025-02-09nobody can authenticate a certificate from a scan. you authenticate the material by testing it yourself a…46 msgs#retatrutide · 2025-02-08anyone tracking blood pressure alongside the heart rate45 msgs#tirzepatide · 2025-01-31i went to 15 and came back to 10, more suppression wasnt more useful for me44 msgs#wins · 2025-02-01coming back to this i was down 22 at month six and then nothing at all for eleven weeks. it moved again.…44 msgs#tirzepatide · 2025-02-03switched last year43 msgs#side-effects · 2025-02-04dont push through43 msgs#bloodwork · 2025-01-30how much does the lipid panel move just from losing weight42 msgs#scam-watch · 2025-02-01anyone recognise this pattern, a discount that expires in an hour42 msgs#anz · 2025-02-01the last leg to a rural address is where it bakes. the depot and the van are hotter than the plane ever was41 msgs