Often members of one of the other forums will send us an email asking for some free stuff, either to run a log, sponsor them in a show or just because they got tons of juice head friends and own a gym and they are also a personal trainer so it could be great for business, or so they tell me. Once I say no I will very often hear how it should not be a big deal because test only costs us $4 a bottle. I say that is an insanely short sighted and ignorant way to look at things. The reason they think that is the case is that they think like a homebrewer, they can get 100g test e, use 2.5g to make each vial and will end up with 4 vials, since they get their 100g for $160 it breaks down to $4 per vial. They really forget that their are expenses and pretty heavy overhead to running any business and this one is no different.
We have to pay and pay for
shippers
receivers (2 different kinds)
chems ( ba and bb are no big deal really but when you get into eo and guaiacol they are very expensive)
vials
labels
stoppers and caps
website design and maintenance
server
tech support, especially since our server is across the world
separate and autonomous trash removal
And those are only the things I feel comfortable talking about, in general between reps, contests, promos and reships we give away all the free stuff we really can, i'm not saying it's not worth it because we do well but not as well as we would if each vial of test was really worth $4. As far as i'm concerned each vial of each compound is worth whatever it is listed at because if we don't give it away someone is going to buy it at that price, so anything we lose or give away is the loss of the retail price. it's just another one of those myths that I hate, the ones that make us all look like some greedy hand wringing schisters sitting on our yachts petting our fluffy white cats trying to dream up new ways to screw customers. I can assure you it is nothing like that!
We have to pay and pay for
shippers
receivers (2 different kinds)
chems ( ba and bb are no big deal really but when you get into eo and guaiacol they are very expensive)
vials
labels
stoppers and caps
website design and maintenance
server
tech support, especially since our server is across the world
separate and autonomous trash removal
And those are only the things I feel comfortable talking about, in general between reps, contests, promos and reships we give away all the free stuff we really can, i'm not saying it's not worth it because we do well but not as well as we would if each vial of test was really worth $4. As far as i'm concerned each vial of each compound is worth whatever it is listed at because if we don't give it away someone is going to buy it at that price, so anything we lose or give away is the loss of the retail price. it's just another one of those myths that I hate, the ones that make us all look like some greedy hand wringing schisters sitting on our yachts petting our fluffy white cats trying to dream up new ways to screw customers. I can assure you it is nothing like that!