Comment · Thu, December 18, 2014 · Ceretropic
Noohack.com example of hyperbolic exaggerating language.
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theskepticalidealist · 60 points
Sorry to call you out Noohack, but it pisses me off to see companies do this. You're new and you should not go down this road. You're not the only company that exaggerates the effects of nootropics, but this is one of the worst examples I've seen in a while, barring a few notable exceptions.
Oxiracetam does not give you a photographic memory, no "nootropic" does, at least not yet. (And no, saying "near" doesn't help). This is such an exaggeration it might as well be a lie. The old Nootropics.co.uk used to sell similar products (pressed pills of pure powder), but from what I saw they only repeated what the scientific literature said and gave you links to all those studies if you wanted to see them. There's many ways to make a substance sound more effective than it is in a much more honest way.
I expect most people that come to the site anyway will be people that already know about the substance and just want a good deal from a trustworthy vendor. If people (are stupid enough) to buy a product without researching it first, they will be disappointed and you'll have to deal with the complaints and you may even put someone off nootropics com…
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theskepticalidealist · 2 points
Thankfully Noohack are selling products that are for the most part not too dangerous. As I said in the OP companies that do this kind of thing are really screwing themselves because the customer that knows nothing about what they are buying and is swayed by the promise of a "near photographic memory" is going to think either they weren't sent the real product, or they were lied to. Lied to by the company themselves, or the idea of nootropics in general. If its the latter they've not only been put off as a potential customer in the company itself, but in nootropics as a whole! The customers who actually know what the substance is are more likely to think the company doesn't care about accuracy or truth and be suspicious about the quality of the product itself. It seems to me that its bad all round, unless the business reason for the exaggerated claims is to sustain income from new customers. Like a bad dating website making their money on constant floods of fresh disappointment, lol.
u/MisterYouAreSoDumb · Ceretropic
It's bad for the nootropics community as a whole too, because it makes people think we are all falling victim to placebo. In Noohack's case, it's less about safety, and more about efficacy.