 Dangers of "Black Market Supplements"
Before you buy from another website, please read this important information.
Rockwell Nutrition is licensed to sell the restricted brand name supplements on this website including: Designs for Health (DFH), Pharmax,
BioGenesis, Genestra Seroyal, Douglas Labs, Pure Encapsulations, Thorne,
Metagenics, and Standard Process.
If you purchase them on Amazon or other online discount websites thinking you are getting a good deal, here's the BAD NEWS:
1) You may not get what you think you're buying. Products go through formula changes over time, so if you buy from online discounters ("Black Market"), you will not know if you're getting "stale" supplements like last year's version of the product which has been sitting around for a year, nor will their website correctly indicate ingredients, suggested use, or pertinent information since no one is monitoring this critical info.
In contrast, because we are licensed practitioners, we constantly monitor our website, product descriptions, and provide critical information you'll need to know before buying a product. And you'll get the freshest product. Not last year's batch because we often ship straight from the manufacturer.
2) You may buy the wrong products or take them the wrong way. They have no nutritionist or health care practitioner on staff to help guide you or warn you about how these products should be taken, contra-indications, optimal dosing, safety, and complementary products for your health concern.
3) If you have a problem or question about what you purchased from a discount website, there may be no one to help you by phone or email. In contrast, we provide phone and email support by our Customer Service and licensed practitioners who know how to answer your supplement questions before and after your purchase (see our Contact Us webpage). We also put our health practitioners' and support staff names, titles, and credentials right on this website's About Us page and are easily identifiable and reachable.
4) When it comes to professional brands like Designs for Health (DFH), Pharmax, BioGenesis, Genestra Seroyal, Douglas Labs, Pure Encapsulations, Thorne, Metagenics, Standard Process, etc, these lines are made for health professionals to be used in their practice for their clients under the supervision of a health professional. It is against the policies of these companies to sell their products online without there being a health professional on staff to provide consultations.
About Us
We, at Rockwell Nutrition, Inc. are licensed nutritionists, and this
is our website dedicated to provide nutritional guidance to our
clients. We provide paid consultations
and provide free 15 minute follow-ups to our existing clients who purchase supplements from us. All of
the products we carry are shipped to you from our health professional distributors,
which carry the freshest batches of products available. They also keep the products in climate controlled conditions and send products with cold packs free of charge in the summer.
How can you tell if a website is a "Black Market Supplement Company"?1)
Does the website which carries the supplements provide the client an
opportunity to consult with a licensed provider (e.g. Doctor, Chiropractor, Naturopath, Registered Dietitian, Licensed Nutritionist)
regarding their health concerns through a paid or complimentary consult?
- If the answer is "no" - this is probably a "Black Market Supplement Company" - Buyer Beware!
- If
the answer is "yes" - then are you able to schedule an appointment time
and actually get a consult? - If so, then the site is probably
legitimate site - Read on...
2) Does the website offer the consult by a licensed/credential
health provider? Such credentials would be MD, DO, DC, ND, RD, LD, LN,
CCN, CN, LNP. If you are not able to determine if the provider has the
appropriate credentials, then the provider may not be properly educated,
so again, Buyer Beware!
3) If they tell you they have a provider on staff when you call, but
they are not able to make an appointment for you because they don't
know when the provider is going to be available - Beware! They
may not really have anyone, even if their website says they do. If they
really have someone, they should be able to schedule a consultation for
you and you should get a response from their practitioner.
What is a "Black Market Supplement Company"?The
way these companies operate, is they find practitioners who are willing
to use their license/credentials to let them purchase these
professional lines of supplements in bulk, they pay them a percentage of
the sale and pick up the supplements, which they then take to their
warehouse, which is usually not climate controlled, and fill their online
orders with them.
Many of their products may be stored in unfavorable,
hot conditions until they are sold. By the time you get your
supplements, they may have been sitting in a hot warehouse for 6-12 months
deteriorating! Would you really trust a company like this with your
credit card info?
The companies (Designs for Health, etc) who make these professional
lines do try to stop this type of activity from happening, and sometimes
are successful at shutting down these unscrupulous websites if they can
figure out whose account the products are being ordered through. One
of the companies we carry successfully shut down $8 million dollars in
sales from these "Black Market Supplement Companies", just last year.
However, these "Black Market Companies" are sneaky, when they get shut
down, they may come back under a different name with the same
products. It is constant policing of the internet, which takes time
& resources of these supplement companies. Therefore, in order to
keep prices as low as possible for these excellent quality supplements,
please do your homework to make sure that you are purchasing your
products from a health professional company that is operating within the
policies of these health professional supplement companies.
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