There is one large online vendor of an unusually wide selection of supplement brands that is exhibiting unusual behavior. House of Nutrition headquartered in Yonkers, NY, appears to scour the Internet regularly and remove all reviews and other content by customers about them. They have an especially large "affiliate" program, which is basically a pay per click ad system, so their links are everywhere, but thorough searches find no mention of them otherwise. Also, even though their website is administered by Yahoo!, Yahoo! shopping does not have them in the merchant directory. Unlike almost all of the other large online retailers, such as iherb and Lucky Vitamin, they do not sell through amazon.com marketplace. Both those venues would generate customer feedback and ratings, but they have avoided them. None of the shopping sites that generate customer feedback of vendors, like epinions or shopwiki, etc., link to any of their merchandise, but places like thefind.com who don't rate merchants, are full of offers by them.
Recently I noticed three more reasons to investigate further. The photo they have on their website for NOW Foods AHCC, 500mg, 60 vegicaps, shows a white cap, when the manufacturer's site and most other retailers show blue. Also HON's site offers almost the entire line of Foodscience of Vermont supplements, but the company's site doesn't show them as an authorized dealer. They do such a high volume business that one would normally expect them to be ordering directly from the mfr., especially from such a small outfit as Foodscience. They also offer unusually low prices. My concern is that they are buying their inventory from a Chinese (or other) counterfeiter.
Does anyone have any information about the legitimacy of HON's stock?
