Hi everyone,
If anybody has any lingering doubts about this group buy, I can confirm that I have personally entrusted the organisation of this group buy to brightpath. I started the group buy thread way back in about July last year and my goal was to raise $7000 which would give people 50 days' supply for $350. However, that required the participation of 20 people each giving $350, and it turned out that this way never going to happen. Since the lab's minimum quantity for a synthesis at that time was 5 g, even a smaller group buy required the participation of 10 people each giving $500, which was also not going to happen. A number of people expressed their interest last year, however the amounts they were willing to contribute were too low to make the group buy happen in the way I envisaged it.
In about October last year I wrote in the thread that I had no energy to continue as the organiser in any event because of the current status of my health condition. At that point, everything that I collected to to make the group buy happen was public knowledge, including information about the compound, the identity of the lab and the pricing which I had negotiated. However, the thread lingered until late last month, with new people occasionally expressing their interest, but nothing else happening.
That was until brightpath came along virtually a week ago and stated in a personal message to me and in the thread that he would like to see this group buy happen ASAP and to that end he was willing to put in a large amount of money (several times that of the next highest contributor, which is myself). He also resumed negotiations with the lab and we found out that their pricing policy had changed in that the compound became a little cheaper and the minimum amount the lab was willing to produce went down drastically from 5 grams to about 500 mg, which made a small group buy possible. I told him that since at this point in time he's got the most drive and is putting in the greatest financial contribution (by far) to see this happen in the quickest time possible, he should be organising the group buy. We thought about the idea that I should collect the money as the more senior member with documented history of ordering an testing compounds synthesised by labs, including this particular lab, but I said that I was not currently able to do organising duties and anyway that would create an unnecessary logistical step in the process. So he has my full blessing to be the new organiser of this group buy.
At the moment, brightpath has collected about $2250 from about five people, including myself. We have decided that we will set a very tight deadline on the collection of funds, which is this weekend (if you still have doubts, if brightpath's intentions were not genuine, he would let this group buy linger to collect more money). I have exchanged about 20 emails with brightpath and have no doubts about his integrity and motivation for this. The motivation for both him and myself is that we have tried everything possible for our respective conditions and CERC-501 is a promising compound that we would like to try, but we can't wait forever. So as I said we decided to set a very tight deadline and go ahead with the group order by that deadline irrespective of the amount raised. Because the group buy will be smaller than envisaged, unfortunately the cost of participating will be greater than that I first envisaged way back last year. This is obviously how lab pricing works. The CERC-501 buy thread has been active on the Brain Health forum for about 9 months. As brighpath said in this thread, if at the end it turns out that we are only a small group of people willing to be the first to get this done, we will have to settle on ordering a smaller overall quantity and thus pay a premium on the price.
I have given brightpath little pieces of advice here and there (although he is an intelligent university student perfectly capable of organising the group buy himself). It was my suggestion that he start a thread in the Mental Health forum, because it would generate more attention than the current thread in the Brain Health subforum. The purpose of this thread is to hopefully get some people interested at the last minute, because if more funds can be raised, the price of the synthesis will be cheaper and people will get more of the substance for their respective contributions. I also think that if not for this thread, people interested in the compound who don't monitor that Brain Health forum would have missed the thread there and then be "kicking themselves" once they found out that the group buy went ahead.
So all I can say is "jump on board". Brighpath has my trust along with the trust of about five other people who have already contributed funds. At any rate, as far as I understand it, PayPal has a charge back system which would allow people to recoup their money if this group buy was in any way not genuine. I understand the concerns of people over contributing money in such haste to a newcomer to the forum (I would no doubt have the same concerns had I not the chance to get to know brighpath over email during the past week or so), but I'm happy to advise everyone that to my judgment everything here is above board.
Edited by tolerant, 03 April 2017 - 04:33 AM.
