Seller class
Pharmacy, clinic, marketplace, and laboratory supplier are recorded as different categories. They are never ranked in one list.
What we score.
What we refuse to imply.
Peptide Local is a comparison publisher. A source link proves that we saw a public statement; it does not prove the vial, the molecule, or a medical claim.
The seven-field rubric
Small enough to audit.
Every published comparison row should be reproducible from the source page and the rules below.
Public price
We record the visible single-unit price for a clearly named size before optional coupons. Price rank puts available rows first, then orders by list price; searching or re-sorting the view never rewrites that canonical rank.
Normalized cost
Price boards divide the visible price by labeled quantity and keep shipping visible. The calculator adds shipping and mandatory fees to the basket before dividing by total nominal milligrams.
Evidence label
We describe what is visible: report displayed, COA on request, or seller claim. We do not convert a document link into an independent purity verdict.
Checked date
Every commercial row includes the date we read the public source. A nightly monitor checks exact product URLs for price, currency, size, and stock changes. Public snapshots still expire after 14 days and advance only after source review.
Publishing gates
A product needs three unique like-for-like sources. A location needs distinct local depth, at least two primary sources, three checkpoints, three unique source-bounded search answers, and a valid place in its jurisdiction cluster.
Commercial-link integrity
Each commercial click resolves from the public product-and-vendor record. Partner parameters are validated at runtime, never change the reviewed destination, and never affect price rank.
Source refresh lifecycle
Automation finds changes. Editors publish facts.
Every exact seller URL is checked nightly without giving a parser permission to rewrite the catalog. The output records product identity, nominal size, currency, price, availability, response state, retry count, redirect destination, and a stable offer fingerprint.
Read
Public source reachability and redirect destination
Extract
Match the exact product identity and nominal size before comparing USD list price and page-level availability.
Queue
Unclear, changed, redirected, blocked, and unreachable pages remain review candidates instead of becoming silent catalog edits.
Publish
Every accepted row receives one new shared snapshot date before ranks and exports regenerate.
Nightly monitor, candidate-only publishing
A parser match is not evidence that a differently sized variation, coupon, bundle, subscription, or stale embedded price belongs on the board. An editor must confirm the exact-size public source before the snapshot date advances.
Inspect the current qualification manifest →Search the official country source directory →Large-scale publishing controls
Every location must earn its own page.
Required
Unique market context, at least two primary sources, three local checkpoints, three visible direct answers tied to those checkpoints and sources, and a location-specific decision path. Every city must belong to a published parent jurisdiction, and every published state must have a qualified city child.
Conditional
A price table appears only when the page explicitly inherits a qualified comparison market and the complete product-board set is available.
Build failure
Duplicate slugs, copy, reader questions, or direct answers; shallow answers; broken parent-child clusters; unpublished related links; mixed vial sizes; repeated vendors; unprofiled sellers; or missing dated evidence stop publication. Vendor coverage may vary; missing cells remain explicit.
Structured-data boundary
Location questions are published as ordinary visible editorial content. We do not label publisher-written answers as user Q&A or add FAQ markup that misrepresents who asked or answered a question.
Automation and AI assistance
Software calculates normalized prices, builds tables, checks source coverage, connects internal links, and assembles repeated jurisdiction records. AI assistance may help organize or draft source-bounded copy, but it does not create evidence, make medical or legal judgments, invent reviews, or bypass publication gates. Community reports are never generated or rewritten by AI.
Data parity
The visible boards, CSV, and JSON share one canonical source. Missing rows, stale unit prices, duplicate identifiers, mismatched dates, or affiliate-decorated export URLs stop publication.
Link firewall
Commercial anchors use a stable comparison-record redirect. The server accepts only known records and safe partner parameters, preserves the canonical seller page, and falls back to the undecorated source if a setting is missing or invalid.
Referral eligibility
Commercial eligibility is tracked separately from price and evidence. The planned referral-only directory mode requires a verified partner agreement and working destination attribution. Affiliate status never changes price rank, evidence labels, or correction decisions.
Review trigger
Regulatory alerts, seller closures, and reader corrections trigger an immediate editorial check. Otherwise, the 14-day price-review deadline blocks the next build until all commercial rows are revisited.
Firsthand, unedited, and clearly labeled.
Community reports cover ordering, fulfillment, support, documentation, and website experiences - not medical outcomes. Every report enters a private moderation queue. We apply the same rules to favorable and critical submissions, require material relationships to be disclosed, reject personal health information, and publish accepted text without changing its message. Reports remain labeled anonymous and unverified unless we introduce a separate verification process.
Evidence access gets a score. Safety does not.
The separate 100-point provider transparency standard measures seven published categories: document access, laboratory and method disclosure, lot traceability, business identity and scope, commercial-policy clarity, external review evidence quality, and correction responsiveness. Its badge means the published evidence-access gates were met on the checked date. It is not a safety, purity, sterility, legality, approval, or product-quality certification.
Providers cannot buy points, suppress a qualifying record, or improve a score by joining an affiliate program, linking to Peptide Local, or displaying a badge. Factual corrections remain free and are scored only when a dated public-source exchange can be documented.
Specific, visible, dated.
A vendor or reader can request a correction by identifying the exact page, statement, and current public source. Commercial pressure does not qualify as evidence. Corrections, source updates, and commercial disclosures can be submitted through the private editorial contact form.