Actually most if not all of the CBD sellers on the internet are the manufacturers themselves. At least in the USA. All of the social media platforms prohibit CBD sales/advertising. Paypal will ban any seller for life who uses Paypal to make sales of CBD, . Credit card companies will not give merchant accounts to anyone selling CBD online. You cannot advertise CBD products anywhere on the web. Google ads, will not allow CBD and will ban you if they catch you. I know this because i tried to get into the business. I had to get a high risk merchant account for CBD, with transaction fees three times the normal. and could not find anywhere to advertise. This is why only the manufacturers are able to make it online. Online stores have no chance. There is somewhere between 6 and 10 American manufacturers selling direct to the public online. They all have inspection certificates for potency and purity on their web sites. Amazon carries brands no one has ever heard of before. So yes, ask for their inspection certificates, but there are plenty on the net that do have them. I just sold my entire inventory for 10% below my cost to liquidate it. It was the Pet Releaf brand, which was one of the first five in the USA.
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Yeah you can't use a credit card at any dispensary anywhere in the country. Here in Oregon they have an ATM in every dispensary for that reasonPaypal bans a lot of things..right or wrong, to keep themselves out of trouble with the feds.
Our dispensaries were set upon by the FDA for selling "pet CBD" products so they stopped; since they didn't want the FDA messing with them. It simply was not worth their trouble.
Here is a Petsmart ad for a CBD product where you can use a CC in person in a brick and mortar store.
Mary's Tails CBD Hemp Extract Tincture, Bacon Flavor, 150mg or 300mg | dog Vitamins & Supplements | PetSmart
Mary's Tails CBD Hemp Extract Tincture, Bacon Flavor, 150mg or 300mg at PetSmart. Shop all dog vitamins & supplements onlinewww.petsmart.com
Petco too: (online or in person)
Well thats part of the problem too...big corporate players get special treatment. I hate Facebookl. Ebay owns paypal so...no big surprise there. It is very confusing. Just imagine how confusing it is trying to get in the business. I lost a ton of money. I don't know how Petsmart is doing it, they really are not supposed to be able to...but big money talksOK, I think I got a few things wrong.
I assumed that facebook allowed it because I know that they used to, didn't know they changed that. I don't do facebook myself, so probably shouldn't have thought I knew anything about that. I thought EBay sold it but I guess they don't, so I got that wrong. Sorry.
here are links to the Petsmart and Petco website pages where you can get CBD products:
Search Results | PetSmart
www.petsmart.com
Search Results
www.petco.com
Still, it is clear to me that you know more about this than I do, so I will take your word for this. The voice of experience is usually the one to listen to.
This is not really on topic, exactly, but....
While it is apparently true that credit card companies don't like to sell accounts to businesses that sell CBD and so they charge high prices, I don't think they hold very high standards in other ways.
For instance I recently found an ad online from someone selling a cheap piece of plastic and metal jewelry for $150 because she said it had the spirit of a Werewolf trapped inside it. SHE had a merchant credit card account. So those card companies are being perhaps a bit arbitrary in their choosing who can have an account based on the reliability of claims that the seller makes!
At the dispenseries I presume it is more of a case of THC than CBD! I am not really that sure now of anything i said...except for the advertising!
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