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Reminder that Reta has yet to actually hit the market, and social media is flooded with counterfeit resellers.
by ramoz 9mo ago
Reminder that Reta has yet to actually hit the market, and social media is flooded with counterfeit resellers.
- sowbug 9mo ago"Counterfeit" is a tricky word when the Eli Lilly product in question isn't actually available for sale, meaning that nobody is selling anything purported to be a branded version. Nobody even knows yet what the Eli Lilly brand of retatrutide will be called. There isn't anything yet to counterfeit. You're correct that the amino acid with the sequence YA¹QGTFTSDYSIL²LDKK⁴AQA¹AFIEYLLEGGPSSGAPPPS³ is being manufactured and sold. And people are justified in being wary whether the substance they get is actually a pure version of retatrutide. But it's not counterfeit. It's an important distinction. Counterfeiters are by definition liars, and it's reasonable to assume that liars are cutting corners. But someone correctly manufacturing a specific amino acid is truthfully selling what they claim to be selling. It might turn out that retatrutide causes you to grow extra eyes in five years, and the FDA trials are on the brink of discovering as much, in which case Eli Lilly-branded retatrutide will never come into existence. For that reason it would be prudent to wait for FDA approval.
- ramoz 9mo agoI would say that it seems the vast majority of the social media buyers think they're buying the drug from Eli Lilly. So maybe I'm grammatically and formally incorrect. But a lot of this feels very scammy.
- sowbug 9mo agoIf bros are saying they're selling something manufactured by/for Eli Lilly, then yes, that's scammy. The chatter I've encountered has been clear it's gray market from China.