SARM Source Red Flags: How to Spot a Scam Vendor

A practical red-flags checklist for vetting a SARM vendor: missing COAs, crypto-only checkout, prices that are too cheap, no recent reviews, and exit-scam patterns.

The research-compound market is one of the easiest places online to lose money. There's no insured checkout, no chargeback safety net once you pay the wrong way, and an endless supply of slick storefronts that exist for a few months and then vanish. This guide isn't about whether any compound is safe, legal, or worth taking — that's a separate question, and not one a trust platform should answer for you. It's narrowly about one thing: how to tell whether the vendor you're looking at is a real, accountable business or a scam set up to take your payment and disappear. Below is the red-flags checklist we use when independent reviewers and our own team vet a storefront. Run any vendor through it before you trust them with a cent. Why vetting the vendor matters more here than anywhere else A landmark analysis published in JAMA tested 44 products sold online as SARMs. The results are the single best argument for treating these storefronts with suspicion: only 52% actually contained the SARM listed on the label , 39% contained a different unapproved drug entirely, 25% contained substances not listed at all, 9% contained no active ingredient whatsoever , and 59% had am…