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Are the sourcing rules too strict?

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Enriq
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I’ll say what some people are thinking. If someone gets a bad product, we can’t warn others by name. So the scammers stay anonymous and the good pharmacies get no credit. Isn’t the rule protecting the wrong people?



   
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Readgoat
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We considered this. Every review board we’ve seen ends up as advertising, either through fake positive reviews or competitors posting fake negative ones. We can’t verify any of it. What we can do is help people check legitimacy themselves, which keeps working after a shop changes its name.



   
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Alex
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And if a product is genuinely dangerous, report it to your national regulator. In the EU they share alerts with each other. That actually gets things pulled.



   
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Bawston
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I’m with the mods. Old board had a ‘trusted’ list that turned out to be one guy’s affiliate links.



   
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Enriq
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Fair points. I don’t fully agree but I see the logic.



   
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