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Comment · Tue, November 21, 2017 · Ceretropic & Nootropics Depot

Anyone know of any sites that have Black Friday deals?

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clementehling · 4 points

Does notropicsdepot.com will have a black friday ?

u/MisterYouAreSoDumb · Ceretropic & Nootropics Depot

Unfortunately not. I'd love to do a sale, but we are going to hit our processing limit again this month. So it doesn't make sense for us to do sale to hit it even faster. Also, Bigcommerce does not allow me to do a discount based on paying with cryptocurrency, or I would do that. We are going to change to Magento eventually, since Bigcommerce limits us so much, but for now I am kind of limited in the options I have. This marks the 12th straight month we have hit our card processing limit. A whole year of more people wanting to buy from us than our bank wants to allow us to process. It's a crazy place to be.

As Liftmode/NewMind said above, it's a perfect time for people to start looking into cryptocurrency. It's truly the future of currency, and blockchain technologies are going to be used a lot more in so many things. I know you as consumers don't see all the BS going on in the background. You don't see how corrupt and broken the processing and banking industries are. You don't see how much money entrenched companies are squeezing out of the economy for literally doing nothing. In fact, they are doing worse than nothing. They are putting barriers to entry for commerce; actively strangling businesses. They are not just a leech on society, they are a disease. They have created a monopoly that exists in the background, and they actively limit the ability for competition to enter. I've paid over a million dollars in fees, commissions, and reserves to banks and processing companies over the past 4 years. That's money siphoned from us to allow us the privilege of letting you pay for our products. They consider the ability for you to pay us a privilege that they alone control. We pay 10% in fees sometimes, on top of 10% in reserves. They actually consider our processing limits a line of credit to us. Yes, the money you pay us though them is considered a line of credit to us. Like you paying for an order is us taking out a loan on the transaction.

It would be as if you wanted to buy something from me on the street for $10, and you had a $10 bill in your hand to give me. However, you can't just hand it to me. You have to hand it to a guy standing in front of me, who then takes two dollars out. He keeps one, puts another in a lock box just in case, then hands me $8 a week later. Then he also gets to decide if the product I am about to sell you is okay, based on his own internal made-up rules. It's actually much worse than that. There are actually more like 5 guys behind the guy in front of me; each one taking a little bit of that $10. Then I need to take that $8 that I have left from the sale, and put it into another person's lock box (a bank). Then they also get to decide if what I am selling is okay, based on their own internal made-up rules, which are totally different than the rules of the other guy. Except this time they control all my money, and if they decide you broke one of their rules, they freeze that money for 6 months or more. This is what vendors like us and Liftmode/NewMind deal with every single day.

With crypto, everything is decentralized. You control your private keys, and I control mine. Nobody can prevent me from sending crypto to you, or you to me. Nobody can decide that what I am selling is not allowed, and block my crypto transfers. Nobody can freeze my access to my own crypto like a bank can freeze my access to my fiat money. There are also not 6 guys standing between me and you, taking little pieces of the money you want to send me for a product. I send to you, and you send to me, and nobody can prevent that transaction. This is what currency was meant to be. Currency should enable easier transactions in an economy, not stifle them. Currency should expand what is possible in business, not limit it. Fiat is no longer that. So crypto is what the future needs. I bet all you want to do is work for your money, then be able to use it how you see fit, without people telling you who you can send to, or taking little pieces of it for the "privilege" of doing it. Well fiat currency no longer allows that.

Sorry for the soapbox as well, but people need to realize that banks and processors are limiting them from new nootropic compounds. If I did not have these issues, I would release hundreds of new products over the course of the next year. If I did not have these handcuffs on me, the nootropics market would be a very different place right now, and I don't think many people would think that's okay. A risk manager or underwriter in a bank, who has never heard of nootropics, is deciding what products you are and are not allowed to buy. Cryptocurrency puts an end to that.

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