With that experience, would you recommend getting 'the company' to preform extra quality testing and attach additional data to the usual documentation, or just use minimal labeling?
  In other words, is going the extra mile on documentation worth it? - Does it change how they view any particular shipment, other than having it go through their system smoothly and not raise any red flags.

How much money have you guys burned by sending it overseas to new suppliers to try out?  Thats a rhetorical question of course, but is there somewhere you guys read legit feedback about companies?  Being so easy to setup websites these days it just seems like a first time customer would be destined to get hosed, no?

choose to label it as an "additive", but in bad handwriting so the custms person thought that it said "addictive

lol classic    isnt it amazing how things you would NEVER consider have a way of fucking you up 

@anyname

        lol "you talkin to me?"

Have never been burned outright

      that's great to hear you're doing well    (and fresh wishes he could say the same )  and he hopes it stays that way for you (and ALL wasps  )

       Your tales also gives hope to those currently tiptoing around waiting for a 'knock' from hopefully, the Postman..the REAL Postman doing their usual high standard of UNcontrolled deliveries

There are some rip off sites out there, but they are pretty easy to spot, like when every link you click on opens a new browser window (a sure sign it was put together by an amateur/con). Also if you see a company selling "phenylacetone", guaranteed its a scam, no one sells phenylacetone anymore (maybe 12-15 yrs ago but not today), also sites that sell nothing but precursors are good places to avoid.

    yes very good advice AB 
       I guess there will always be people dumb enough to try and enjoy the (apparently) easy way to (cheap? )   precursors  "whats too good to be true like" 

      A bit like the "United Nuclear" type places/sites where you can order "anything and everything" from PE to Uranium   
     Makes me wonder just how many place a) how many suppliers like this are fronts for LEO?     b) how many idiots try to use them 

       I also wonder how many people each year in somewhere like the US get busted doing stupid shit like trying to order PA in this day and age?   
         I'm sure there's plenty of greedy bastards out there who see ClanChem as a way to make money BUT the days of 'shake n bake' clan chem are rapidly fading and the 'other' easier paths to 'fun recreational chemicals' imo are not really so 'easy'

        How long do these fools last?  It surely cant be long if they are stupid enough not to know better about trying to buy precursors like PAA  
 
        Like you (Ab2)  said in another thread, the 'personal requirements' for playing the Clanchem game, and those needed to even do this gig on a small scale are substantial.
       
        Just the commitment and application needed to even start a fairly 'simple' synth  suggest those involved are capable of logical thoughts . . . but that said, I guess whether they apply that logic, is another thing altogether!

       And there's a even a (slightly esoteric) word to describe these  astonishing "lapses in logic" by some (of even the smarter wasps)..........Strike!   

    To bring this thread somewhat back on topic ( omfg no, not by fresh!) 
 
        As you'd know, LE today has some very sophisticated software and other methods for checking out the legitimacy of any business

      I have my doubts that a 'front' company which isnt actually  'producing' something to sell, would hold up under even mild scrutiny.
 
       IMO this avenue of access is no longer a viable method of acquisition for the home chemist in most first world countries

        As you say, maybe 10-15 years ago, but for any large amounts of precursors but certainly not now!

@ fresh - It was sad day when Strike went down. Although in fairness, the internet was a lot like the wild west back in the late 90’s. What really did him in was when 60 mintes did the documentary on him the Hive and his book Total Synthesis. They also embarrssed a few sassafras oil dealers in the episode. They did their homework and tracked down the ownership of the front company he was using Panda publishing (or some such) and then sprung it on him in the middle of e TV interview after he had just denied any knowledge of it. To give him credit though, once the game was up, he didn't persist with the pointless denials which Ab2 though was pretty cool headed of him. He went down with dignity. Ab2 still remembers the day he posted on the Hive that he had been raided and that ALL his records were now in the had of the DEA. There were a lot of freaked out bees about then ...

@ anyname - that means you're human. Ab2 get herself tied in knots for days working up the "balls" to make place some orders, especially from a new supplier. Its hard. But after a few times you kinda get the hang of it, are able to hold up your end of a conversation with your chem dealer, maybe even chit chat with them about things completely unrelated, like how their kids are doing in school, politics sports etc. After a while they know you so well, that the order part of your call is the formality to get out of the way so the two of you can catch up with each other. Get to know them, they are people too.

If you don't mind me asking, does 'Strike' have to use a windows computer to avoid the possibility that he would just circumvent the rules of his parole and likely not be caught for doing so?