Comment · Fri, February 1, 2019 · Natrium Health & Nootropics Depot
Nootropics Price Comparison Index
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u/MisterYouAreSoDumb · Natrium Health & Nootropics Depot
You don't account for dosage of capsules. So the price values of those are all inaccurate. Take noopept for example. We are by far the cheapest per mg in capsules. We just sell it in 30mg and 10mg amounts. Also, multiple options are not accounted for. Again, look at noopept. We have two sizes of 30mg capsules and two sizes of 10mg capsules on the same listing. They are all different prices. You have to account for that somehow or the numbers are all meaningless.
We also now sell caffeine and L-theanine in 100/200 and 200/100 amounts, with both having two bottle sizes. Same deal there. You need to account for dosage and amount per bottle.
Then you have to account for shady things like making a recommended dosage two capsules to make the price look better. We are dealing with this right now on Amazon with the "ELITE Caffeine with L-Theanine" product. It looks like they are the cheapest, and Amazon ranks them higher than us, but you have to take TWO capsules to get the 100mg caffeine and 200mg L-theanine when ours is only one. They do that on purpose to trick people. Your site does not account for that.
Also, not everything shows up properly when searched. If you search for "piracetam" you get a bunch of phenylpiracetam listings, and don't even see any of our piracetam listings. Many search results are missing a lot of our products.
Then as others have stated, you need to account for quality and packaging type. Jars cost more than bags, and properly testing things costs a lot more than doing nothing. So it is not a like-for-like comparison. That's going to be tough to build in. The other issues are higher priority, but it is still something that needs to be accounted for. If you got the site actually measuring things properly in a like-for-like basis on size, dosing, and packaging type, then a rating system might work as a stopgap for a better solution to quality. You'd need to moderate it heavily, though. Shit devolves quick when left open. I also don't think you are ever going to be able to fund actual lab testing of things to give quality rankings, unless you get massive amounts of funding.