@notsmokeymcpot42088 - I finally 'bit the bullet' to see how much dubious suppliers were charging for (whatever it is they actually sent but is labelled) SR17018 and it is FASCINATING.
To borrow a term from a Bohman Brothers EP 'A Twist For Every Pocket'
I began with someone who evidently went 'all in' naming their shop after the product and frankly, it doesn't look great (even at the prices) They DO provide a CoA... from a company that states it does not provide instrumental data to vendors; oh dear. But it strikes me as a bit odd that they sell 50mg tablets at a pretty hefty premium compared to the powder when I'm also aware of how a few pages I've been sent give very specific taper schedules so what are the pills for?
The NMR identifes the batch not as SR17018 but a positional isomer!!! Specifically the 4,6-dichloro homologue. They do add 'probably Cl is in meta position instead orto (sic) position' as I assume it's PRESUMPTIVE i.e. they are told what the sample is supposed to contain and go from there. I say this not as criticism but simply because with just an NMR, 'blind' analysis is almost impossible. But the structural model is overlaid and each atom numbered... but the peaks aren't marked with the numbers which is really odd.
That's why I always recommend an NMR/GC-MS pair. Still not perfect but real-world cases where absolute configuration is required can be counted on the fingers of one foot.
So onto the usual '4 fingers of trust'
1-Use WHOIS to see if the true owners are identified (they are not)
2-Analyse the website to see how many E-mail addresses are associated with it (1)
3-Read the whole website to see if any other method of contact is available (no)
4-Use a tool to find how the website was created as sometimes XSS occurs (yes)
The first three simply shows that the vendors have set their site up so that nobody can name or locate them which I suppose if fair if you are selling a schedule 1 controlled compound. The fourth isn't intrinsically a problem but obviously if a tool is used by many, many sites, it becomes a target as it may offer a sort of 'master key' for all the sites that use it.
I'm genuinely curious to understand why unsealed bags cannot be returned but sealed bags MAY be 'on a case by case basis'. I sense that may be something to do with a legal requirement but if you open it, test it and it's something else - sorry, we won't accept your return!
But the 50mg tablets which appear to be selling out MAY suggest what primate models and a few reports here on BL both mention. That in sufficient doses, SR17018 produces the typical mild subjective effects of low-potency opioids... While I sense pharmokinetics work against it (slow onset, low potency) , it seems entirely possible that users will buy the pills with the stated goal of getting high. If it's supposed to be entirely safe I can imagine people buying it thinking that while not potent, they can quit whenever they want to (cue psychological addiction). Lest we forget, some people take buprenorphine for fun and it most certainly has a stree price.
Site 2.
Holy s**t they are selling 30mg tablets (in three flavours)! On per-mg basis the price is similar but no pretense is being made of any carefully calculated schedule. These f**kers are quite clearly selling them in the hope people would keep on using them. So a third flavour of 杀猪盘 using the safety paradox. People think it's non-addictive (primate models suggest otherwise) and just start taking that stuff instead.
I've said it before, a business model in which a person only buys a low potency synthetically complex compound ONCE makes no sense. But people taking it every day... THAT makes sense.
Site 3.
I found a web-site under construction which had the structural model of trimetubine with the file-name SR-17018.SVG. Now trimetubine is considered a perpherally acting opioid but it's a coincidence that of the millions of things that could be mistakenly saved as SR17018.SVG, that would be one of them.
The more I look, the more I realize that because the DEA didn't act right away (just like tianeptine and 7-OHM) there was a window in which larger scammers (I note several that also sell kratom) will wade in on the simple basis that money is money.
CONCLUSION
Can I just point out that although it seems to be far safer in cases of acute overdose, SR17018 kills in the same ways as classical opioid specifically respiratory collapse (with cardiovasular collapse also being an issue). So if anyone out there is quietly taking increasingly large doses of SR17018 on the basis that it's 'safe', it isn't.
Side-note
In the UK we had a mini-epidemic of deaths caused by tramadol. For a few years clinicians were more or less told tramadol was a safer alternative to codeine. Now by safe they really meant 'non addictive' because the truth is that tramadol is far more toxic. But people who would take a strip (10) 30mg codeine tablets imagined that a strip (10) 50mg tramadol would be similar. It wasn't. So now UK clinicians have circled back to codeine while those of us who have both direct experience and an education know that dihydrocodine is considered inferior to codeine, lasts for 6 hours rather than 4 and is safer. Hence in nations like Japan where they do their homework, plain codeine is rare, DHC is more common as if nothing else the longer action means the patient is prescribed less so there is less to end up on the street.
With SR17018 I sense we have another tramadol in which the fact it doesn't produce physical dependence as quickly is conflated with it being non-toxic.
If and when SR17018 is used clinically, it may well be a really useful 'last step' in which a person on a low dose of methadone or DHCs might benefit from avoiding AWS but it isn't the miracle some people say it is!