[Discussion] can we stop arguing about cloned site until somebody posts a number

Question in the title, detail here: can we stop arguing about cloned site until somebody posts a number.

Reported something here with dates and screenshots and was asked for the document trail. Fair challenge, and it made the report worth reading.

The checks I run before sending money anywhere new, in order, and none of them cost anything.

Domain first, character by character, pasted rather than typed. Then registration age against the claimed trading history. Then a request, in writing, for a batch-specific certificate for the lot they would ship — not the catalogue document.

Then a small order, tested independently. Only after that a real one. This sequence has cost me a handful of small orders and it has never once cost me a large one, which is the whole point.

Now I buy small from anyone new, test it, and only then commit. It has cost me a few small orders and saved me one large one.

Not medical advice, obviously, and nothing here is approved for human use. One person with a spreadsheet.