sulkyb
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Reged: 11/30/02
Posts: 9
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I just got an email from a site called Body-bionics and I would like to know if anyone here has dealt with them or even heard of them. They have something I often order and the price is very good, but their site looks quite new and I hate getting ripped off. Thanks
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ellen1
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Reged: 07/03/02
Posts: 233
Loc: N. Calif.
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--It is the vehement advise of both the DB site and all of the experienced posters that ALL "email OP"s are frauds and rip-off sites and some may be inept "sting" operations.
--Don't do it. Look around here at DB instead.
--If it looks too good to be true, it is.
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Listvoer
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Reged: 01/14/04
Posts: 389
Loc: New America
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I have to disagree with the above a little bit. Despite my reg, date, I am very very experienced with email OPs, US OPs, and IOPs and do not agree at all with the statement that "all 'email OP's are frauds and rip-off sites..." because there are at least 2 or 3 in the e-mail sources forum that are & have been reliable for many years and those are just the ones that I have tried and discussed with other old-timer DB members. Certain e-mail sources are quite well known as rip-offs, but that doesn't apply to all of them. In this particualr case, if they spammed you unsolicited in any way, I would probably avoid them until someone else has given it a good test, but to say that all email sources are rip-offs and sting operations is not true. Of course it depends on what you're trying to buy - Oxycontin is going to be much much much more likely to be a rip-off than a benzodiazepine or codeine products or so many of the others that aren't on the "top 5 most wanted" meds. Instead of writing off all e-mail sources completely, it's much wiser (and advantageous) to ask around, post some questions about the particular site in question, and see what kind of replies you get. Sorta like the thread-starter here  . Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater, just do the proper research....
I do mostly agree with the 'if it looks too good to be true...' part, but still, you should research it anyway because I personally have had many experiences where it looked too good to be true, but contrary to the saying, it was true.
HTH
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Due to PM spam I rarely check mine so if you send me one, make sure to let me know...
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lassie
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Reged: 02/07/04
Posts: 102
Loc: Illinois
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Well said. List, I believe reliable email sources are valuable to support regular OP's to get meds to supplement a regular pain management program. I wish some of the DB Old Timers would share more about the proven email sources.
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What's that boy? Tim fell in the well!!!
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stevesmith
Reged: 10/01/04
Posts: 431
Loc: Southern
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--It is the vehement advise of both the DB site and all of the experienced posters that ALL "email OP"s are frauds and rip-off sites and some may be inept "sting" operations.
--Don't do it. Look around here at DB instead.
--If it looks too good to be true, it is.
the majority of spam email sources are rip offs but there still are some real good email sources out there. I woulndt go as far as to say "ALL"
once again that is my opinion and I might have had a few dirnkins sagain tonight!
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Listvoer
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Reged: 01/14/04
Posts: 389
Loc: New America
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Well said. List, I believe reliable email sources are valuable to support regular OP's to get meds to supplement a regular pain management program. I wish some of the DB Old Timers would share more about the proven email sources.
Well....... in a nutshell, when you do find a couple good e-mail sources the tendency is to hold them tightly to your chest & just share them with your most trusted friends. It'd be nice to just throw their names around but for a few reasons, one being that more customers usually means higher prices or longer processing times or out-of-stock problems, and another reason is that I know at least 1 or 2 e-mail sources that don't want their addresses posted on any major site because of their own personal reasons. It kinda stinks, but that's what i've observed over the years. It IS a bit selfish but with the way things are going these days you sometimes want to keep a couple aces in the hole for when the majority of the IOP world has an earthquake as occasionally happens..
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lassie
Member
Reged: 02/07/04
Posts: 102
Loc: Illinois
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List, that all makes sense. I guess you have to do some homework and build some relationships to earn some trust. I've been around less than than a year and I have seen the few remaining sources of DHC get bombarded and overwhelmed into oblivion. I've also seen new people post email sources and get aggressively questioned about motives etc. Especially on the VIP side, which keeps information from flowing. At one point it made me angry. Now I can see both sides. Old Timers want to protect everyone from getting scammed.
This is a quite a tricky subject. I wish everyone good luck as they search for sources to relieve the pain in their lives.
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