PSA for you here today.
There are many possible reasons you’d want to avoid using Amazon for shopping. But this is especially true for supplements, because of the fraud that sometimes takes place.
From a recent press release…
“NOW® recently discovered multiple fraudulent supplements sold on Amazon impersonating the NOW® brand as well as another prominent supplement brand.“
Can you tell these are fraudulent products and are not what they claimed to be?
“Today NOW® concluded its analysis of the white powders in the capsules and confirmed that they contain white rice flour. NOW® also found trace amounts of the pharmaceutical Sildenafil in some samples.”
White rice flour would at least be fairly harmless.
But Sildenafil is the generic term for Viagra®…and not so harmless!
(Sadly this is used in many so-called “Chinese herbs” which is why we also test many of our herbs to ensure this spiking is not done.)
This applied to NOW as well as another unnamed top brand. This was the case from just one fraudulent seller.
How many more are out there?
How easy does Amazon make it for fraud like this to happen?
Literally as I was writing this to you, another email came in with a notice from Fungi Perfecti listing out not one but a whopping 24 counterfeit Amazon sellers.
Amazon may be convenient, but that comes at a cost.
In most cases you are probably getting what you’re paying for…but do you want to take that gamble? To throw your money away or worse?
Yes, Lost Empire Herbs does sell on Amazon too. (In our case, we are the only legitimate seller for our brand so it actually comes directly from us, not 3rd party sellers.)
Still, this leads us to other reasons to avoid Amazon. They keep kicking our products off left and right for what are very often meaningless reasons.
Like a couple of years ago Amazon said Schisandra had N-acetyl-cysteine (which was helpful for the pandemic disease) so our product got banned…yet other company’s Schisandra was still available. The thing is Schisandra is many things, but a source of NAC isn’t one!
They just kicked off our Megadose Pine Pollen, but not our regular size Pine Pollen.
Thus, only about half of our catalog is available there, and you don’t get our regular discounts nor sales there either.
We don’t like doing business with them, and don’t spend much effort on the sales channel at all for these reasons and more.
I figure with the direction the technocracy is going, we’ll be squeezed completely off there in due time! So it’s a matter of letting it run its course for us while we focus our efforts elsewhere and specifically try to remove reliance on the control-grid companies.
As I said, this is a PSA to let you know “caveat emptor” for buying supplements on Amazon in case you were aware of the issue.
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