Is Nootropics Depot a good brand? Are they a scam?

Yes, we grow every single plant and mushroom we use at our facility... even ones that only grow wild in the deserts of China, or the jungles of Brazil, or the semi-arid regions of Africa... Come on! Nobody does. It's literally impossible. We have partners all over the world that grow and extract things to our specifications. Some things only grow in certain regions, or need specialized equipment to extract. Our Erinamax is grown in massive bioreactors that cost millions of dollars to build. It's not practical for us to build that here, so we partner with people who have bioreactor facilities, and they make it for us on contract. Cistanche only grows wild in certain desert regions of China. We literally can't grow it here. Even Gaia who has their own farms in North Carolina only grows a handful of their plants. 90% of the plants they use for their products are still grown by partner farms. We have over 500 unique ingredients. When you have hundreds of products from all over the world, that's the only way you can do it. You are acting like we are Smirnoff, just buying bulk grain ethanol from the commodities market, then diluting with water and calling it craft. We don't use contract manufacturers like everyone else, and we source and test everything ourselves to specifications we set based off the science, then manufacture everything in-house on our production lines. We do that all at our facility in Tempe Arizona. We have 90 employees and 75,000 square feet of space in our complex. I agree that most brands you see are just shell marketing companies that use big contract manufacturers and contract fulfillment companies, and basically just have small teams of people that do marketing. We are not that.