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How a vendor gets on the Scorecard

Published September 28, 2026. This is the whole policy. There is no private version.

The Vendor Scorecard exists so a reader can pick a research peptide vendor without getting an underdosed vial. That only works if the score cannot be bought. So there are two separate things a vendor can do here, and they never mix: an editorial review, which is free and which you cannot pay for, and a verified listing, which is paid and which changes what a reader sees around your entry but never the score itself.

1. Editorial review (free, and the only way to get a score)

Any vendor that sells research peptides to the public can be reviewed. There is no fee, no minimum size, and no requirement to run an affiliate program. To qualify you need two things:

  • Public COAs. A certificate of analysis for every batch you currently sell, reachable from the product page or a public COA library, naming the lab, the method and the batch number. A COA on request is not public.
  • One blind sample. We tell you which compounds after you apply, usually two of your top sellers. You ship them to a forwarding address we provide, at your cost, and we send them for an independent purity and mass check. You are not told the lab. If you would rather we buy the vials as an anonymous customer, say so and we will, but then the review waits until the order cycle is done.

We score every vendor on the same nine points: COA transparency, batch consistency (our test result against your COA), price per milligram on the compounds we track, catalog coverage, shipping speed and packaging, cold chain, checkout and payment options, support response, and reader order data from this site. The score is published whether it is good or bad. You see the review when everyone else does. You can send factual corrections after publication and verifiable ones are fixed the day they are confirmed.

Affiliate terms do not enter the score. Several vendors on the scorecard pay us a commission on reader orders and several do not, and the order of the table has never moved because of it. If you run a program we will usually join it, because commission funds the test orders, and the outbound links will say so.

2. Verified listing (optional, $199 a month)

A verified listing is for a vendor that has already passed the editorial review and wants to keep proving it. It is paid, it is labelled as paid on the page, and it does not touch the score. What you get:

  • A quarterly re-test. We buy or draw a fresh blind sample every quarter and publish the result next to your entry, dated. Vendors without a verified listing are re-tested when we get round to it, which in practice is once or twice a year.
  • A "Verified" mark on your scorecard row and in the price tables across the site, with the date of the last passed test. The mark comes off the day a test fails or the listing lapses.
  • A live COA panel on your entry: the current batch COAs for the compounds we track, updated when you send new ones.
  • A named contact at the Bureau and a 48-hour turnaround on factual corrections.

What you do not get: a higher score, a higher position in the table, softer wording, or a preview of the review. If a verified vendor fails a re-test, the failure is published, the mark comes off, and the listing fee for that month is not refunded. The fee is billed monthly and can be cancelled any month.

3. How to apply

Write to [email protected] with the subject line Vendor listing: your brand and include:

  • your storefront URL and where you ship from;
  • the link to your public COA library;
  • the name and email of the person who can ship the sample;
  • whether you want the verified listing as well, or the editorial review only.

We reply within five business days with the sample request. From the day the sample lands, an editorial review takes three to five weeks, most of it lab turnaround.

Questions we get

Can we pay to improve the score? No. There is no price for that and there will not be one.

Can we see the review before it goes live? No. You can correct facts afterwards.

Can we be listed without a blind sample? No. The sample is the review.

We sell wholesale packs only. That is fine. The review will say so, because most readers here buy single vials, and the price per milligram is computed on the smallest pack you sell.

Does the verified listing include a do-follow link? Vendor links on this site carry the same attributes for every vendor, paid or not.

Who reads this site? Roughly two thirds US, the rest Canada, the UK, the EU and Australia. Most arrive from a dosing or reconstitution question and go on to the scorecard or the Stack Builder, which recommends a vendor per compound.

Existing affiliate relationships are listed on the disclosures page. This policy applies to every vendor on the scorecard from the date above, including the ones already there.