Comment · Wed, August 10, 2016 · Ceretropic & Nootropics Depot
Why should I spend additional money on suppliers that charge more than powdercity?
Original post in this thread
8-7-16 · 0 points
For example, New Star Nootropics and Nootropics Depot both charge more than PC. If all the products are really the same quality, than how do NSN and ND even stay in business if they can't compete with PC's prices?
What they were answering
Direct reply to the original post — see the thread post above.
u/MisterYouAreSoDumb · Ceretropic & Nootropics Depot
Have you actually even looked at the prices, or are you just assuming PC is lower? We are actually lower on certain things, and the exact same on others. In fact, we are half price on some things. Actually look at the price per gram. Also, keep in mind ours are in jars, and most of theirs are in bags. Our Adrafinil 5g in a tub is $12.99. PC's is $12.45 in a bag. Their Piracetam in a tub is $9.99 for 100g, or $0.10 per gram. Ours is $11.99 for 125g, or $0.096 per gram. So cheaper. Our 1kg Piracetam is the same price as theirs, and in a custom 1kg tub, not a bag. Their Aniracetam capsules are $9.99 for 30 caps. Ours is $19.99 for 60. However, theirs are 325mg per capsule. Ours are 750mg! So our Aniracetam capsules are literally half their price. Their Noopept capsules are $7.45 for 30 capsules, but are only 10mg/cap. Ours are $9.99 for 30 capsules, and are 30mg/cap. So our are MUCH cheaper than theirs. Their Choline L-Bitartrate in a 100g tub is $5.03, or $0.0503 per gram. Ours is $9.99 for 250g, or $0.0399 per gram. Their Alpha-GPC 50% in a 10g tub is $7.15, or $0.71 per gram. Ours is $14.99 for 30 grams, or $0.49 per gram. Go through all the products, and you will find we are a lot cheaper on a lot of things, or the same price as them accounting for the tub; which they charge $1.09 for separately.
We specifically set our prices to try to be either the absolute cheapest out there, or the same as PC with the tub. We work very hard to bring prices down, and it is frustrating when people act like we are more expensive, when we are often the cheapest you can find. Saying we are more expensive is just not true. We also carry many patented products that you literally cannot get anywhere else as cheaply as we sell them for. That's actually very hard sometimes, as the patent holders have strict pricing policies. However, we really work hard to make the numbers work so that we are the cheapest. You have to look at the price per gram and the amounts in each capsule. We also don't sell small amounts in bags to make the lowest price look lower than it actually is per gram, or put less mg in each capsule to make things look cheaper. We set our jar sizes to make sense for the dosage most people use, not to make our prices look low. We set our amounts per capsule to make sense for the common dosages people use, not to artificially deflate the price per count. I would just prefer not to play pricing games to make things look cheaper than they are, and give people sizes that make sense for the intended use of the compounds.