No open Scam Watch flags
No unresolved counterfeit, non-delivery, or COA-forgery reports on file. 2026-08-29: CHECKOUT DISABLED, DAY 13 - CONFIRMED STILL DISABLED, and the day count is the only thing that changed. The cart drawer renders verbatim 'Checkout is temporarily disabled' with the control labelled 'Checkout Disabled'; the catalog header renders 'Web checkout is temporarily disabled / We are setting up a dedicated sales desk to better accommodate our current customers. Thank you for your patience - stay tuned.'; and the MOTS-c product page itself renders 'Web checkout temporarily disabled.' twice. The unfulfillable promos are ALL still running verbatim above it: 'Use code COSMIC10 for 10% off orders $75+ - spend more, save more', 'Same-day shipping before 2PM CST - because your research timeline matters', and the catalog meta description still ends 'Use code WELCOME15 for 15% Off.' NO MONEY IS BEING TAKEN, SO THIS IS NOT FRAUD - and it must not be written up as such. But thirteen days is long enough that A LISTING NOTE IS WARRANTED: a store that cannot transact is a materially different proposition for a visitor, and the live discount codes make the mismatch worse. Product-page lot data still renders fine and is unchanged (MOTS-c Lot 26118 / 99.87% Purity, GHK-Cu Lot 25065 / 99.8% Purity), so this is a STOREFRONT-STATE issue, not a documentation one. The COA database still renders 'Loading COAs...' only - JS-gated, a READ LIMITATION, NOT counted against the vendor, which is why coa_documentation stays PENDING.
|| PRIOR: 2026-08-28: CHECKOUT HAS NOW BEEN DISABLED FOR TWELVE CONSECUTIVE DAYS. Confirmed verbatim: the cart drawer renders 'Checkout is temporarily disabled' with a dead 'Checkout Disabled' control, and the homepage carries 'Web checkout is temporarily disabled / We are setting up a dedicated sales desk to better accommodate our current customers. Thank you for your patience - stay tuned.' THE DRIFT WORTH NOTING: the site still runs unfulfillable promos above that notice - 'Use code COSMIC10 for 10% off orders $75+ - spend more, save more', 'Same-day shipping before 2PM CST - because your research timeline matters', and a meta description advertising 'Use code WELCOME15 for 15% Off your research.' NO MONEY IS BEING TAKEN, SO THIS IS NOT FRAUD - but twelve days is long enough that a LISTING NOTE IS WARRANTED: a store that cannot transact is a materially different proposition for a visitor. The COA database page still renders only 'Loading COAs...' (JS-gated - a read limitation, explicitly NOT counted against the vendor). Product-page lot data renders fine and is identical to yesterday: MOTS-c lot 26118 / 99.87%, GHK-Cu lot 25065 / 99.8%, NAD+ 26096, Epitalon 26074, BPC-157/TB-500 26110.
|| PRIOR: 2026-08-27: CHECKOUT IS STILL DISABLED - DAY 11. Confirmed first-hand: the cart drawer on every page renders 'Checkout is temporarily disabled' with a dead [Checkout Disabled] button, and the homepage carries verbatim 'Web checkout is temporarily disabled' / 'We are setting up a dedicated sales desk to better accommodate our current customers. Thank you for your patience - stay tuned.' THE DRIFT WORTH RAISING: with checkout dead for eleven days the site still runs ACTIVE PROMOTIONAL BARS it cannot honour - 'Use code COSMIC10 for 10% off orders $75+' and 'Same-day shipping before 2PM CST'. NO MONEY IS BEING TAKEN, so this is NOT fraud and it is not scored as one; but it is the second consecutive week of drift between marketing copy and operating state, and eleven days is long enough that a DIRECTORY LISTING NOTE IS WARRANTED - a store that cannot transact is a materially different proposition for a visitor. The COA database at /pages/certificates-of-analysis still renders only 'Loading COAs...' with no rows - JS-gated in a server-side fetch, so it is a LIMITATION, NOT EVIDENCE of missing COAs, and coa_documentation stays at pending for a third day rather than being downgraded. PRODUCT-PAGE LOT DATA DOES STILL RENDER and is unchanged: MOTS-c 'Lot: 26118 / 99.87% Purity', GHK-Cu 'Lot: 25065 / 99.8% Purity', NAD+ lot 26096, Epitalon lot 26074, BPC-157/TB-500 lot 26110. RUO framing is strong and explicit - 503A/503B disclaimers, in-vitro-only, age gate. The internal tension recorded on 2026-08-26 persists: the homepage promises 'COA, HPLC, mass spec for every lot. No available upon request BS. It's right there on the product page' while the dedicated COA database returns nothing.
|| PRIOR: 2026-08-26: CHECKOUT DISABLED DAY 10, and the COA database is now unreadable end-to-end. First-hand: the cart renders 'Checkout is temporarily disabled' with a 'Checkout Disabled' control, and the homepage explanation is unchanged - 'We are setting up a dedicated sales desk to better accommodate our current customers.' NEW THIS RUN: /pages/certificates-of-analysis renders ONLY 'Loading COAs...' with an inert 'Load More Results' control and Lot Number / Product Name search fields that return nothing server-side - so for a SECOND consecutive day no lot-tie could be verified from the COA route. Held at PENDING, not fail: this is JS-gating, an access limitation, and a fetch failure is never evidence against a vendor. Product-page lot data DOES still render and is specific (MOTS-c lot 26118 / 99.87%, GHK-Cu lot 25065 / 99.8%, NAD+ lot 26096 / 99.8%, BPC-157/TB-500 lot 26110 / 99.8%, Epitalon lot 26074 / 99.8%, Bacteriostatic Water lot 26105), with molecular formulae shown - so lot data exists, it is the certificate documents that are unreachable. TWO INTERNAL TENSIONS WORTH RAISING WITH THE VENDOR, recorded not scored: the homepage promises 'COA, HPLC, mass spec for every lot. No available upon request BS. It is right there on the product page' while the dedicated COA database returns nothing; and the ticker still advertises 'Same-day shipping before 2PM CST' and 'Orders over $200 ship free' on a store that CANNOT TAKE AN ORDER. Pricing remains clear and per-vial (MOTS-c $47.99, GHK-Cu $32.99, Epitalon $39.99, Bac Water 30ml $17.99). RUO framing is strong: 18+ in-vitro interstitial gate verbatim, plus a full compliance block with both 503A and 503B disclaimers and an explicit 'We do not... provide dosing instructions or administration guidance.' reship_policy stays PENDING (/pages/legal not re-read this run). no_scam_flags stays PENDING - no adverse evidence, only the absence of a first-hand third-party read. FOR FRANK: ten days of disabled checkout is long enough to warrant a listing note - a store that cannot transact is a materially different proposition for a directory visitor, and that is a disclosure question rather than a compliance failure. || PRIOR: 2026-08-25: CHECKOUT DISABLED FOR A NINTH CONSECUTIVE DAY, now with an explanation the vendor did not previously give. /products/bpc-157 and /collections/shop-peptide-catalog both loaded first-hand today (the homepage was an empty body yesterday; the catalog is readable again). Verbatim on both pages: 'Web checkout is temporarily disabled', and NEW today: 'We are setting up a dedicated sales desk to better accommodate our current customers. Thank you for your patience - stay tuned.' The cart itself confirms 'Checkout is temporarily disabled.' An explanation is better than silence and is credited, but nine days of email/phone-only ordering remains the standing operational concern: it removes the card-network chargeback path that protects buyers, which is a BUYER-RISK SHAPE, not a scam finding, and it is not scored as one. NEW FIRST-HAND DEFECT AND IT MOVES A CHECK: coa_documentation PASS -> PENDING. On the BPC-157 page the embedded COA viewer FAILS - 'Loading certificate... Unable to load certificate. Download COA' - and THE FALLBACK DOWNLOAD LINK HREF IS LITERALLY '#', i.e. dead. Lot 26107, 99.7% purity, sequence and MW are all displayed on-page, so the lot DATA is present and the vendor is not hiding anything; the CERTIFICATE DOCUMENT simply could not be retrieved by any route today. Pending, not fail - this is a broken widget, and it should be raised as a fixable bug rather than treated as absent documentation. /pages/legal returned an EMPTY BODY, so reship_policy stays pending on a fetch failure, which is never counted against a vendor. Pricing is clear and per-vial ($38.99 BPC-157 10mg, sale from $42.99). RUO framing is strong: an 18+ in-vitro gate on entry plus a 503A/503B non-compounding disclaimer. || PRIOR: 2026-08-24: CHECKOUT STILL DISABLED — 8th consecutive day. Homepage again returned an EMPTY BODY (8th run of fetch anomalies) but /products/bpc-157 loaded fully first-hand and shows 'Checkout is temporarily disabled' / 'Web checkout temporarily disabled' in three places; ordering remains email-only via customercare@. Product page shows price, RUO framing, lot-tracking, third-party COA language — content posture intact, so still monitoring not flag-candidate, but the outage streak is the standing operational concern. reship_policy carried pending (not re-verifiable this run). || PRIOR: 2026-08-23: FETCH FAILURES THIS RUN — direct fetches of the homepage and catalog returned EMPTY BODIES and the Trustpilot page would not render; all checks carried unchanged per the no-downgrade-on-fetch-failure rule. Search-indexed content indicates CHECKOUT IS STILL DISABLED: 'Web checkout is currently temporarily disabled' while a 'dedicated sales desk' is set up, orders routed through customercare@cosmicpeptides.com — the SEVENTH consecutive observation, though today's is via snippet, not a first-hand read. Scamadviser 67 ('probably legit'); indexed Trustpilot reviews remain positive. Monitoring premise unchanged; re-attempt first-hand read next run. || PRIOR: 2026-08-22: FIRST-HAND READ RESTORED — /pages/about rendered IN FULL, ending THREE consecutive unfetchable runs (no first-hand read since 2026-08-10, twelve days). THE HEADLINE: CHECKOUT IS STILL DISABLED. The cart drawer reads verbatim 'Checkout is temporarily disabled' with a 'Checkout Disabled' button — the SIXTH confirmation and the FIRST FIRST-HAND one since 2026-08-10. The monitoring premise (a storefront that cannot take an order cannot be assessed on fulfilment) is re-verified as CURRENT, not stale. RUO POSTURE UNCHANGED and remains among the strongest in the directory: 18+ in-vitro gate (still 18, not 21 — standing comparative note), explicit 503A/503B non-compounder disclaimers WITH LINKS to FDA's own 503A/503B pages, 'We do not provide dosing instructions or administration guidance', 'not for human or veterinary use' repeated in body and footer. RECORDED NOT SCORED: homepage banner claims '99.0%+ purity guaranteed' (a spec claim future COAs should be held against); 'You pick the charities, we donate the profits' (unverifiable marketing); 'patent-pending lo [...earlier history truncated - see compliance-reports/ for the full record...]