Long post, sorry. TL;DR at the bottom if you don’t want the whole thing.
Honestly I only picked Lumen Research Supply because they were cheapest and had a working checkout, which in hindsight is not a great way to choose.
Ordered from Lumen Research Supply twice now. First one was fine, second one took three weeks and nobody answered my emails until I opened a card dispute.
Trying to work out if what happened to me with Lumen Research Supply was a one-off or a pattern.
The Institute testing page has an Index Score of 89 for them if you want actual numbers rather than vibes.
Things I still don’t know: whether any of this is batch-specific, whether it holds outside the one case I looked at, and whether I’m reading the numbers right in the first place.
TL;DR: Lumen Research Supply might be fine, might not, and the way to tell apart seems to be documentation rather than price. Would appreciate other perspectives.
CO ColdNerd ·
ngl i had the exact opposite experience but ok