Comment · Wed, March 23, 2022 · ND Owner
Not sure this is the best advertising idea...
What they were answering
handemande1 · 3 points
Most of the products are Literally available
To be fair, most all fish oil (various kinds), berberine, EGCG + piperine capsules, Adrafinil, racetams, phenibut, etc have been out for months. I bought all of the above and had to change products. EGCG just had a restock this week after being out most of the year.
u/MisterYouAreSoDumb · ND Owner
We have gotten totally fucked by our tablet partners the past year. Like seriously, the industry is pretty much in shambles right now. It's a fucking mess. The berberine tablets got done, and all the barrels were delivered to our facility. Then we got a frantic call from them to not open them. There was BLACK MOLD in them! I guess they used a filler that had mold it in, and it contaminated a quarter million of our berberine tablets... The EGCG ones are because they are enteric coated, and there is literally only one coating company in the United States that can properly enteric coat. All the other companies we have tried have failed our testing in the lab. Everyone out there is just selling fake enteric coated shit. It's insane! The whole market is just selling normal coated tablets and capsules, but calling them enteric.
Also, the quality of the whole market has tanked since the pandemic started. The supply chain is so royally fucked, and people are so desperate to get things in so they can stay in stock, that raw material suppliers are shipping out lower quality batches to get people by. I've never seen this many things fail testing since I started the company in 2013. Most other brands out there are just accepting these lower batches, because they are not properly testing things. Obviously we are not, so we have to fail raw material batches and deal with things going out of stock. What other choice do we have, though? We are not going to approve subpar batches. I had hoped the supply chain would be more back to normal by now, but it is not. We have THREE 40ft shipping containers on ships off the coast of California right now. They are just sitting there for months waiting to be let into port, as there are not enough longshoremen to unload, and there are not enough drivers to keep the containers moving efficiently out of the port. Plus, we have to pay over $10K per container for the shipping costs right now, and we have 25-31% tariffs on top from our stupid government as well. It's an absolute mess. I could go on and on for days about everything else we are dealing with, but it's all really the same story.