Does supplement marketing influence you?

**BigDyl** · 05-11-2006, 04:44 PM

For example, when you buy a bottle of something from say, Designer Supplements, and the bottle has a DNA double helix that is expertly photoshopped to blend chemical shapped compounds all intertwined in a vortex with the product name, and each gel caplet is coated in flurescent green with a ds logo on the side of it--does this make it seem more effective than another product in a boring brown bottle with white tablets?

Discuss.

**Twin Peak** · 05-11-2006, 06:49 PM

We don't have our logos on the capsules. Yet. And we have nothing in flurescent green.

**BigDyl** · 05-11-2006, 07:18 PM

Originally Posted by Twin Peak

We don't have our logos on the capsules. Yet. And we have nothing in flurescent green.

Hey man, I'm not knocking it, I think it looks cool as hell.

**Twin Peak** · 05-11-2006, 08:05 PM

Um, but we don't do it. I'd like to, but we aren't producing in nearly the right volume to get custom capsules.

**maniclion** · 05-11-2006, 08:30 PM

No, but then again I'm not dim witted enough to fall for eye candy.

**scbz01602** · 05-11-2006, 08:57 PM

You must have gone nuts when looking at the old packaging for NO-Xplode and Nitrix.

I guess I too succumb a bit to flashy packaging, but moreso flashy advertisements. Do I end up buying the product? Not for those reasons, but tend to read the descriptions of a company's product before looking up a bulk supply of the supplement's active ingredient.
Speaking of that though, I just got over that hump - was using AX Perfect Cycle for liver support but now buying in bulk from nutraplanet.com... milk thistle @ $9 dollars lasts me the entire cycle, ALA and NAC are also in there.

**dontsurfonmytur** · 05-12-2006, 11:32 AM

the ONLY thing that makes me want to buy or try a supplement is people's experience or reviews with them.

**bludevil** · 05-12-2006, 01:10 PM

I will say yes when I was a newbie like 5 to 10 years ago, but now I just read the reviews and browse forums to look at other user experience. If it's positive, then I just usually look at main ingredients and buy in bulk myself.

**TJ Cline** · 05-12-2006, 01:12 PM

It did when I was 14 and 15 but after than I knew 99.9% of it was BS.

**Action-Jackson** · 05-13-2006, 04:28 AM

Originally Posted by dontsurfonmytur

the ONLY thing that makes me want to buy or try a supplement is people's experience or reviews with them.

same.

**BigPapaPump68** · 05-14-2006, 05:47 PM

Some people tell me that they buy twinlab products because of the bottle

**cacjr** · 05-14-2006, 09:53 PM

Supps with flashy labels always catch my eyes but when I buy supps, I always read the facts on the back for each product before I decide on a purchase. If the facts are shady, which they usually are with flashy-label supps, I tend not to buy them.

**Robboe** · 05-19-2006, 06:34 AM

I wouldn't buy them, but i am really attracted to the new plastic-wrapped brightly coloured tubs sold by MuscleTech and EAS right now.

**Twin Peak** · 05-19-2006, 07:59 AM

The large tubs of ON have a cool full length black wrapper, that look much nice than the white tubs.

**topolo** · 05-19-2006, 10:25 PM

Originally Posted by Twin Peak

The large tubs of ON have a cool full length black wrapper, that look much nice than the white tubs.

I find this comment to be racially divisive.

**fufu** · 05-19-2006, 11:02 PM

When I was new to the whole thing it did. Not anymore though. Atleast I would like to think so.

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