@ResearchCat I tend to agree with that about being the biggest flex. I think that's what all these women I've been meeting and attracting have been attracted to. When I am out and about and look at other men my age, all I see is how unfit they are, are unkempt and put no effort in how they look, so I think I standout because I do in comparison to them. Then when we get to know each other better in these settings, they are surprised that I don't have the "baggage" of not being previously married or kids. But like I said above, I've also attracted my share of toxic women who I am drawn to and created a lot of chaos in my life.

And regarding married women. It's flattering and tempting and all, but I won't go there. I behave. I don't want to be on the other side of that situation one day in the future if I do get married.

@SouthernAminos At the end of the day after all is said and done, you offer TERRIBLE customer service and no one should shop with you.

The only positive reviews you have are when no one has an issue with their order. But as soon as someone does, that's when you guys fail your customers. Other vendors here actually do work with the customer, aren't accusatory or place blame on the customer, and work with the customer when there is an issue. There are plenty of good vendors to shop with. You have time and again shown you are not one of them.

@dispensarysupport said:

The only StudzPeptides I know was a kid on Tiktok who looked stoned out of his mind and selling peps out of his bedroom. Is that the same Studz??

Is this you? https://www.tiktok.com/@studzpepofficial4/video/7667181387719494942?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc

Does it really matter? As long as he's providing good service, using a quality lab, and delivering said product, I don't really care how old he is or what he does in his own life. I imagine a lot of vendors are no different than the guy in the video maybe just a bit older.

@SouthernAminos Hey Southern let's cut the bullshit. As @randy has said, you don't lyophilize your own peptides. You buy from China and slap your label on it and send a couple vials in for testing. You are getting reports, along with pictures of people reconstituting Reta with HOSPIRA Bac water and getting cloudy vials, while also using the same BAC water to reconstitute other peptides which come out fine. You can't use the excuse of "there are number of variable outside of our control, including the material used for reconstitution, storage conditions, handling, temperature exposure, technique, and the condition of the materials being used" as an out for your product not being consistent across the entire batch, as you are NOT the one making it. You are getting first hand reports of issues, yet you blame the customer.

I experienced an issue with Instant Peptides and AOD-9604. You know what they did when I sent Chris the owner an email about my issue? He tried to narrow it down if it was the Bac water, the Acetic Acid, or the actual batch with me. But immediately sent me replacement vials to try and figure out what the issue was and we did. That's customer service. Instead of blaming me, he worked with me to resolve my issue. Again you provide terrible customer service, and no one should spend a single dollar with you.

@dispensarysupport said:

@denti said:

@dispensarysupport said:

The only StudzPeptides I know was a kid on Tiktok who looked stoned out of his mind and selling peps out of his bedroom. Is that the same Studz??

Is this you? https://www.tiktok.com/@studzpepofficial4/video/7667181387719494942?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc

Does it really matter? As long as he's providing good service, using a quality lab, and delivering said product, I don't really care how old he is or what he does in his own life. I imagine a lot of vendors are no different than the guy in the video maybe just a bit older.

He is literally using an address that doesn't exist on his website. His Discord is just him dropping random pricing with literally zero way to actually buy anything. Its a scam to get people talking. Thats it.

Not sure where you get its a scam. There have been people on here that have bought from his site and received what they ordered.

@Stevepep said:

People, let's wait and see. How many times have we seen this in the last two years? It's always been a ploy to get people to order like mad. Send an email "order now because the price is going to double". Look at peptide test after the big 60Pct price hike email. Still the same price over a month later, and no order restrictions, no sell-outs per day.

The sad part is it works and gets people in a frenzy, so they go back to it over and over and move a bunch of inventory when sales slow down.

Exactly. I will never purchase from Peptidetest again. And I used to buy all my BAC water, needles, syringes from them. They went from having $11 bottles available all day to then saying there is a shortage and doing daily drops of 600 bottles so you should buy now at $15 a bottle and limiting you, to now having as many as you want 400 vial boxes available and a new single vial price of $16.50 a bottle. All in the span of what 2-3 months? I don't believe there is an actual shortage. But they and others were able to create a temporary artificial supply issue and were able to move the avg price up across the market.

@Mydogdaryl423 said:

@denti said:

@Mydogdaryl423 said:

@southernaminos I am a customer of yours. I have had no issue with the products I have purchased and agree with what you said regarding reconstitution issues.

You missed an opportunity though. Even your response lacks customer service tact. Using words like legitimate and automatic. Insinuating that peoples concerns are not genuine. If you are going to respond, take your lumps say you will do better and then do better. Most of the negative issues people have reported are in the customer service interactions once an issue arises. That is what I would like to see addressed.

You may agree with their general statement regarding reconstituting, but you have more than one customer now posting pictures of cloudy Reta, using HOSPIRA Bac water, and reconstituting other vials of the same or different peptides with the same Bac water that come out fine. Southern doesn't lyophilize their own peptides, they just slap their label on China purchased peptides, so they can't guarantee their entire batch is good or consistent.

Some are legitimate recon issues and yours may be. We also have people that dont know how to recon and after using toilet water want refunds.This is an issue that all companies deal with.

We have seen companies that respond to the criticism well and others that implode here trying to defend themselves. I would like to see these issues handled better than what has been reported.

I really appreciate this communities ability to hold companies to a standard and push forward expectations on things like customer service and testing. Hopefully SA will take the criticism and make improvements.

You are right. There are people using toilet water to recon and having issues. Those customers need to be educated on why their peptide became cloudy or gelled. But when you have two customers reach out to Southern, both submitting pictures of using Hospira, and also that they reconned others fine, and Southerns response is to blame the customer and come on here and try to defend themselves with a stupid general statement and not actually take accountability and stand behind what they sell, then they are a trash company and should not be listed as a vendor on this site. I imagine many people do not come and read the forums here and just see them under the price index or what not, and blindly purchase from Southern, without knowing that Southern will not be providing customer service if they do have an issue. If they aren't listed here, or banned, at least the users coming here, have a less chance of supporting a terrible company like Southern Aminos.

@ResearchCat said:

Over and over and over again, doctors and influencers will tell you that proper sleep, diet, and lifting heavy things are the best thing you can do for hormonal balance and overall well-being. There are even arguments to be made that all this peptide nonsense is just driving you to get better sleep and eat better, which leads to the results you want.

TL;DR - and no, I am not your real dad ( ), but if you know your test is tanking because of lifestyle issues, try to solve that organically before you spend a ton of money on peps and other stuff.

I was talking to a urologist yesterday and they were saying a large swing(drop) in T levels from one test to another could be just due to short term stuff and doesn’t necessarily warrant TRT.

Sorry I am rambling. Seth Capehart made a video recently that basically says what I said above, and what @diegoc is saying. Do lift, eat, and sleep for 6 months and if you don’t feel great and have good labs, then dive down the rabbit hole.

You're right but unfortunately I do not have the willpower to leave a toxic situation that is slowly killing me, yet I have the willpower to strap on 40lbs and run and not stop. Wish I had that determination and fortitude in my relationship.

Received my V3 Ultra today. Really like it. Almost feels close to a Gansulin/Convipen.
Please get us more colors in the store Randy.

Also loving the Uncle Wangs hot sauce. That's a winner!

@Randy

I purchase a kit that has same cap and crimp that has not been tested for endotoxins. I actually do not want to use this kit anymore incase it’s part of this same batch. I can send it to you if you would like to have it tested.

@Stevepep You're correct those are autopens so completely different. I should have been more clear in that I meant quality/weight/feel of the v3 ultra is up there with those pens.

The biggest change for me has been the amount of women, even married women, who have come on to me. Never in my life have I experienced that before. I am a single 40 something year old so I am available and now comfortable putting myself out there and for the past year or so have been enjoying meeting and dating several women. It feels nice to be wanted and desired by the opposite sex, but it has also come with the realization that I am especially attracted to toxic women and relationships which hasn’t been good for me either.

IMO it's good when vendors are responsive here like Studz is. Also @studzpeptides I think it's a no brainer on your part to expand your testing and use good labs. There's so much competition in this space now, and you can stick out by being:

1. Active in this community
2. Pricing
3. Expanded testing.

You are already doing 1 and 2. So 3 is the last thing left.

I’m glad to see that you should be getting a refund. Still not impressed that you had to even go public with this. Too many other vendors available to shop from so Flawless lost my business. Mistaken closed ticket or not. Even the owners email reply weeks later offering store credit is ridiculous after this much time has passed. Just refund and be done with it. It’s not like he was refunding all 3000 vials that were purchased according to him.

@pep_researcher said:

@denti Their latest shipment has Nov 2027 expiration. Just got for a friend last week. But yeah they are using their old inventory at a higher price.

I would respect them more if they just went about it in an honest way and said the market is charging more so we are going to raise our prices as well. Instead of this limited inventory nonsense and then raising the prices. I’m sure they are sitting on hundreds of thousands of bottles as they appear to be shipping the same inventory from earlier this year.

Please name the vendor. It so ridiculous to me that some of these vendors don't want to keep a customer happy. As we all know their margins are incredible on single vial peptides. They replace the vial and keep you happy and ordering from them in the future. They don't and consumers like me will add them to our do not buy from list. So please name the vendor.

To put it in perspective though mine was a slightly different issue, I had purchased about I believe 24vials of AOD 9604 from Instant Peptides. 3 straight vials gelled using Hospira Bac water and their own Acetic Acid. Contacted Chris the owner and he sent replacement AOD 9604 and AA to try out. The new vials reconstituted fine and I figured out the issue was actually their AA. Just using Hospira alone without AA reconned fine. Because Chris did the correct thing to keep me happy, by sending out new vials to try, he kept me as a customer even though I can find cheaper prices elsewhere. And I buy in bulk. Some of these vendors are penny wise and pound foolish.

@Stevepep said:

Trying to figure out how this is a deal on the presale; it's less on Nexaph without the presale after the 25% discount. I just bought a 24mg, 10-pack for $396; $1.65 a MG this is $1.80. This Crush stuff is maddening to me, and I have ordered 3 times from them. I almost fell for it again.

Steve I also primarily order from Nexaph and have about 10 years worth of Reta stocked up from all their presales this year. May never need it as I’m already under my goal weight now. But I would like to titrate down and microdose for the time being and these 10mg vials from few weeks ago that Crush had a presale on and this 15mg presale seem like a good deal for me to use for the time being. And I don’t want to take the bigger mg Nexaph vials out of the freezer so I purchased these.

And I have some friends and family that I just got them started on Reta few weeks ago at 1mg and 2mg and I hate wasting 24 and 30mg vials on them when I discard after 4 weeks no matter what. So these will also work for them their first couple of months with less waste. And I do like they do endo and sterility testing. I know Nexaph is starting to also and once they have it for everything they sell I probably will not purchase from any other vendor as they have the best pricing out there besides going completely grey.

@Randy

Okay did my part ordered one along with the hot sauce. Now waiting for more colors

@erichulburt said:

Yes, I was a little surprised they wouldn't send a replacement for a $35 vial... I mean I am seeing posts from vetted grey market vendors issuing credits/replacements for the entire kit for similar issues. Still no change in the solution, not risking my rat for this.
Vendor SouthernAminos, I included a screen shot of their policy so no one has to create an account to view it. No issues with them till this, first time I had to deal with customer service, which is what other negative reviews also mentioned. Researchers be aware of their policy. I don't think an issue with the batch is the problem. Product ships from the same fulfillment address as other vendors and no issues with those ones either. Just customer no-service...

Thank you for naming them. They are already on my do not buy list as I had an issue with them with AOD-9604. If you look up my posts you can see a thread I started about them. They did offer for me too ship it back (at my own expense for a refund) but it was not worth the hassle for me to do so. I simply don't trust them.

Market is saturated with so many vendors, that we can pick and choose who we want to buy from. I imagine with their policy they have lost a customer in you.

Why do you not think it's an issue with the batch? I think that's exactly what the issue is. They sent me two different batches of AOD 9604 but used the same batch # on the bottle. That does not seem right to me and actually concerning. But on their bottles they label the avg mg in each vial. So same batch # but different avg mg?? As you can see in the picture below, the vial on the left looks old and faded compared to the vial on the right. The vial on the right matches the COA while the vial on the left does not match the COA in regards to mass and purity. I discarded 10 vials of the older looking AOD from them



Their pricing is good. But yes just need a known lab and they will get my business.