The first interview I conducted with SQ Peptide stood out for all the wrong reasons. His answers were extremely brief, often limited to a single word, repetitive or barely responsive. It quickly became apparent that the rep didn’t really understand the purpose of the interview. On several occasions I had to go back and ask follow-up questions just to obtain enough detail to make the responses useful. So when it came to posting the ZKTechnoligy interview, I immediately had a strong déjà vu that I’d already seen the answers before. And i was right because when i went back to look at the responses provided by SQ scon, they were too similar to ignore.
Although the ZK interview was a bit fuller, more polished and personable, the underlying structure and format was almost identical. Across the full questionnaires, both vendors share:
10-year company history
Sales background
“Peptide” as the answer to best-selling products
PayPal / Alibaba / USDC / USDT / BTC payments
Europe and America as primary markets
No personal peptide use
No peptides they would avoid
No travel to the UK or USA
Shanghai as favourite Chinese city
Identical team structure (5 delivery, 3 customer service, 2 after-sales)
Identical reship policy
Identical Canada seizure policy
Identical warehouse answer
Identical customer base answer
Identical job satisfaction answer
Identical testing scope answer
Identical third-party testing answer
Even the formatting follows the same pattern. What changes is mostly the personality layer.
SQ
No challenge
No favourite artist
Noodles
Doesn’t cook
Dream holiday: China
Sales if not in peptides
ZK
Human emotions are challenging
Likes hiking
Likes soft pop music
Likes hot pot
Cooks scrambled eggs with tomatoes
Dream holiday: coastal cities
Trade/business work if not in peptides
The COA pattern is harder to explain away
The interview overlap was strange, but the COAs are where the comparison becomes much more difficult to dismiss. SQ and ZK both shared Janoshik reports for the same products:
TB500 10mg
Tesamorelin 10mg
SS-31 10mg
The reports are identical apart from one digit difference for the batch number and task number, and I also note that the batch numbers remain identical across different products for both vendors.
The price lists follow the same commercial logic
The price lists are not identical, but they clearly appear to come from the same kind of catalogue system. Both lists use similar product codes, similar product ordering and a very similar box-based structure.
The stock photos also look like they come from the same warehouse.
After all the similarities are combined with the interviews and COAs, it becomes increasingly difficult to treat them as completely unrelated vendors.
The Many Names of ZK Technology
The naming convention was also somewhat confusing.
We have FW-Li, Grace and her invite is for Emma’s Telegram group.
The multiple identities don’t prove anything by themselves, but they added another layer of complexity to an operation that was already becoming difficult to untangle.
By the end of the comparison, the question was no longer whether the interviews sounded similar. They clearly did. The more interesting question became why. Matching questionnaires, matching operational answers, paired Janoshik reports and overlapping catalogues all pointed in the same direction. None of it conclusively proves common ownership, but taken together, it creates a pattern that’s difficult to ignore, and one that leaves SQ Peptide and ZK Technoligy feeling much less like strangers than their branding would suggest.
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