Let me ask you this, would you be just as cynical if EVERY test came back bunk or underdosed? The community as a whole seems not to be when every labmax or blood test comes back disappointing. They seem to expect it. Why then when the opposite is true are the expectations different?
Let me explain then Doc. First i know one thing - i know one of those sources has a real bad rep locally in my area. I also know he is top 3 on e-roids and pumps his product to the sky and has shills lined up talking out of their ass. I know for a fact that same source has given me good product once upon a time, many years ago, and has since gone to giving me bath oil. I ran those last two cycles in conjunction with someone else and we purchased from the same source at the same time. This was not a small cycle, it was a gram a week for 10 weeks of long ester test. So, from my own personal knowledge i can say he used to be good, but now i wouldn't piss on him if he was on fire. I even repeated the process a year later and got the same garbage. So i would say i verified personally, second hand with a close friend that had the same rubber to the road experience and also locally with guys at the gym who i tried to warn off, but went with the same source. I think between the 5 of us the low was no noticeable gains(above and beyond normal training) and one guy gained 7 pounds as the high. Even 50% gear would have had a noticeable effect, but not one of the guys in that group had that response or anything even close. It has been my experience that running a gram a week for 10 weeks should not have you guessing as to if you did anything.
Now could he have cleaned up his act? I guess anything is possible. It has been 2 years or so. I could be a cynical asshole with that eating at the back of my mind and totally smearing people/sources that might not even deserve it. Thing is, that source isn't the only one people have been experiencing these things with and my story isn't even that special. I'm pretty sure i'm just screwed over customer #2342. I'm also fairly sure this source can put out good product when and if he deems it necessary. I know that for a fact because i have experienced when things were good before they went sour with me and this particular source.
I know this was a rant and i could be totally off-base about this. I agree that one test doesn't necessarily mean anything, but how many good tests until it is actually too good to be true? I know that i am biased in this and when i hold a fucking grudge it stays held. I personally would never deal with that source again if he went 100% legit and became everyone's hero, but it isn't just that one source, it's all that has been tested so far.