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[jaydfox]

uniquenutrition Posted: Mar 9 2006-21:43 | link

While our offices are in Chicago our business license was not obtained in IL and our GMP approved lab is not in IL either. We have been around for over 6 years and continue to grow, no matter some people choose to think about us. I have no comment however if the company licensed in IL owned by Heather is a separate division of our company, but it only started 3 years ago.

[jaydfox]

LifeMirage once again claims on his BrainMeta profile to be Lee Crost M.D. He had removed the name for a while when ImmInst users were posting at BrainMeta.

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[jaydfox]

LifeMirage pinned a topic attacking his market competitor, Adam Kamil, which is a flagrant abuse of his moderator privileges, due to commercial conflict of interest.

I don't have a screenshot, but the original text was:
Pinned: Adam Kamil Warning
nootropikreations / le-creations

In the attached screenshot, you can see that "Adam Kamil Warning" has been changed to "Nootropikreations Warning". Ethically, I cannot disclose the contents of private communications received from BrainMeta's members, but suffice it to say, LifeMirage was not the moderator that made the change to the topic title. The topic is still pinned, however. (Since the forum is otherwise empty, the pinning of the topic is effectively irrelevant, but it still shows an abuse of LifeMirage's moderation powers to attack market competitors.)

I have the original wording documented in a PM I sent to Shawn, BrainMeta's admin, as well as in a message thread that was deleted from brainmeta.com by Shawn:

PM sent: Mar 11, 08:55 AM
From: Jay Fox
To: Shawn

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Shawn,

[excerpted private communications] ...As a moderator, he [LifeMirage] has a serious commercial conflict of interest, issues of identity fraud and misrepresentation of "medical" credentials notwithstanding.

By "Lee Crost"'s own admission--assuming that's who you think LifeMirage is--he works for Sherwyn's Health Food Shops, and yet he is/was an advisor for Unique Nutrition, a direct market competitor, under both the names Lee Crost and LifeMirage. He has slandered Adam Kamil--yet another direct market competitor--on other sites, but here as well, and has used his moderator privileges to pin the topic (I assume it was he who pinned the topic).

[excerpted private communications]

Jay Daniel Fox
Director and Chair, Immortality Institute

[excerpted reposts of deleted BrainMeta.com forum posts]

Jay Fox Today, 08:30 AM

One way or the other, the leadership of this forum needs to be alerted to the serious mistake they made in granting him a moderator position on their site.

Despite the fact that LM has been involved in fraud, he is still a knowledgeable source on Nootropics, his posts, so long as they are taken as posts by someone who does not have medical qualifications, might still hold some value.

I see that LifeMirage has posted and pinned a topic:
Pinned: Adam Kamil Warning
nootropikreations / le-creations

Given that LifeMirage is an "Advisor" for Unique Nutrition, and that there is evidence that "LifeMirage" and Steve Sliwa ("president" of Unique Nutrition, a direct competitor of Adam Kamil's) share accounts, it is an unacceptable abuse of moderation powers for that topic to be pinned and given the prominence it has. Truth is right, "granting him a moderator position" was a "serious mistake".

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[jaydfox]

BTW, here's the text of LifeMirage's warning against Adam Kamil.

Remember, the title of this post used to be "Adam Kamil Warning, nootropikreations / le-creations", not "Nootropikreations Warning, nootropikreations / le-creations". The title was changed by another moderator at BrainMeta, after complaints about LifeMirage's conflict of interest.

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[jaydfox]

Unique Nutrition--which is incorporated in the state of Illinois, with Edward Younan as the declared President--is registered with the Better Businiess Bureau in Chicago, IL, to Steve Sliwa. Note that Steve is the "Principal", meaning not necessarily the legal president of the company. Here's a link to google maps showing the distance between the two locations:
http://maps.google.c...A CHICAGO 60613

Note the date Steve registered with the BBB: Feburary 2006. This is at most 26 days before LifeMirage attacked Adam Kamil's business for not being registered with the BBB. How convenient.

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[jaydfox]

BTW, searching the BBB website for "Unique Nutrition" only turns up the one entry, the one in Chicago, IL, with Steve Sliwa as the "Principal". This was a nationwide search.

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[jaydfox]

uniquenutrition wished to add this clarification:

It was closed as:

1    Administratively Closed   
BBB Definition:

Administratively  Closed - The Bureau determined that the complaint could not be satisfactorily settled using standard methods of voluntary dispute resolution.

(click on Administratively Closed to see more details) 
 

 
  1  BBB determined the company made a reasonable offer to resolve the issues, but the consumer did not accept the offer.

[jaydfox]

An old Google Groups post:
http://groups.google...236c284c362adac

Note that Steve signed as VP of UNI, and the date is Jan 20 2004, which is not quite six months after Edward Younan was registered as the President of UNI, July 23 2003 (see the second post in this thread).

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[jaydfox]

Hmm, found another one, signed VP Steve Sliwa, dated Dec 1 2003.
http://groups.google...ef6bfbcb3ef8380

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[jaydfox]

And another gem in the same thread, someone else who is confused about who runs UNI:

Is this "Steve" or is it Edmond again indeed. Wait, I get it: you're both
geniuses sporting aol accounts! Have you been forgetting to take your
nutropecs again?! LOL How the "heck" I'm supposed to know where it's you
and where you're quoting other retards?

Edmond, Edward...

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[jaydfox]

Another one mentioning VP Steve Sliwa. Actually, just google "VP Steve Sliwa" in google groups to find these.
http://groups.google...1bb5a9307825d44

Update: Apparently there is a cross-posting at Mind and Muscle:
http://www.mindandmu...=ST&f=41&t=9042

This one is from a disgruntled customer, so I'll refrain from posting a full screenshot. Here's an excerpt:

I recently placed an order with UNI (Unique Nutrition Incorporated)
and decided before payment went through that I wanted to cancel the
order because of some unexpected payments I had to make to my
university. When I e-mailed UNI to inform them that I wanted to cancel
my order, they replied asking me why. ... The next
e-mail I get today, with UNI saying "All orders are final." Nowhere on
their website, that I know of, does it inform you of this. ...

...

The VP Steve Sliwa is the one who sent me the e-mail asking why I
wanted to cancel, and there was no name given on the e-mail that
informed me "All sales are final."

(bold added for emphasis)

Edited by jaydfox, 16 March 2006 - 02:26 AM.

[jaydfox]

One more from VP Steve Sliwa, for good measure.
http://groups.google...ce7ab53d78cb6fa

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[jaydfox]

http://www.imminst.o...t=0

Heh, right here at home. In fairness, I didn't try searching for this on our forum because our search engine requires 4-character words or longer, and VP is unfortunately less than 4 characters long. However, googling "VP Steve Sliwa" did find it.

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I emailed Unique Nutrition to see if they were still in business and if they were planning on adding anything to their product line. I thought I'd share what they had to say. The more competition the better for us...

"Hello Josh

Yes we are still in business and plan to be for a long time. Being the first US supplier for Piracetam and Aniracetam we will and plan to expand our line as our company grows. Just a matter of time and money really. Our oxiracetam introduction was expensive and it see if it would sell, which it did, when we reorder we will come out with a powder form and a larger less pricey capsule bottle. Also we expect to have Piracetam in a pleasant liquid form in 2-4 months FYI.

Sincerely VP Steve Sliwa
Chicago, IL
UNI"

[jaydfox]

Cross post:
http://www.imminst.o...t=0

The Sherwyn's product description for Piracetam used to direct users to look for "Brain expert LifeMirage at www.imminst.org in the nootropic forums". This screenshot was Posted: Mar 1 2006-20:14 by ImmInst member ajnast4r:

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[jaydfox]

Cross post:
http://www.imminst.o...t=0

After LifeMirage was kicked off of ImmInst, the product description was for Piracetam was changed to direct users to look for "Brain expert LifeMirage at www.brainmeta.com in the nootropic forums."

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[jaydfox]

I took screenshots last week of the site with Steve Sliwa's name all over it. Prometheus, would you like me to post, or is it common knowledge that doesn't need evidence?