15:59 < Jayson_Virissimo> Yeah, sorry. Was much more interested in the claim about peptide sourcing specifically. 16:00 < Jayson_Virissimo> Is that 4-5 weeks duration normal? How flexible is it, if at all? 16:01 < yashgaroth> some of them might offer expedited service, though I’ve never had cause to find out when ordering peptides and am not bothered to check...and it’d save you a week or two at most 16:02 < Jayson_Virissimo> What would you guess as to the main cause? Does it really take that long to manufacture or is it slow to ship, or is there some legal check that happens that isn’t instantaneous? 16:04 < yashgaroth> the legal check isn’t an issue, though I’m sure all the major synthesis houses are aware of the Radvac peptide sequences and may hassle you about them—especially if you’re not ordering as a company...shipping’s not a problem since overnight is standard, so I’d say manufacturing time combined with the people ahead of you in the queue 16:04 < yashgaroth> and manufacturing includes purification, which is an important step for something you’re ingesting, even if you’re just snorting a line of it 16:07 < Jayson_Virissimo> yashgaroth: do the labs have any legal risk of their own if you are ordering something like Radvac sequences as a private person, or are they “hassling you for your own good”? 16:09 < yashgaroth> nah they’re usually okay legally on their end, though most of them won’t risk selling a small quantity to an individual since ‘plausible deniability’ wears a little thin on their end when you’re buying sequences that match the Radvac ones
What explains the 4-5 weeks delivery time for special lab peptide synthesis?
I don’t know, this is simply what they state for all peptides and this is what actually took them to deliver.
I asked around about this on the ##hplusroadmap irc channel: