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Saying the price rises is not the same as publishing what it rises to

A minority of sellers print three or more rungs of a dose ladder. Far fewer state that the price scales at all — and the two groups are not the same sellers.

Dana Sullivan5 min read
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There are two quite different things a seller can do about dose pricing. It can tell you the price changes as the dose climbs. Or it can tell you what it changes to. Only the second is something a reader can budget against, and the gap between how often each happens is the subject of this page — one of several silences counted in what sellers do not put on the page.

How many actually print the numbers

166 sellers of 475 on this roster publish three or more distinct figures on at least one line — a ladder rather than a headline with a warning attached. That is 35% of the corpus. By contrast only 38 sellers state anywhere that their price scales with the dose, and 292 say nothing either way.

The two numbers do not overlap as neatly as they should. A seller can publish a ladder without ever writing the sentence “the price rises with your dose”, and several do. The ladder is the better disclosure in that case, because it answers the question the sentence only raises. Every seller printing a ladder is listed with its own note.

Why a ladder beats a promise

A flat-rate promise is worth more than a ladder if it holds, because it removes the question entirely. But a flat rate is a claim about the future and a ladder is a published fact about the present, and the second can be checked before ordering. The disclosure scorecard marks both, and the open-questions census counts how often neither is offered.

Counts are computed from this site’s own records at build time, most recently read September 2026. Nothing is modeled or taken from a third party.

Frequently asked

What counts as publishing a ladder?
Three or more distinct dollar figures in one recorded pricing note. It is a deliberately mechanical test: it cannot be gamed by wording, and it credits nobody for merely saying the price changes.
Is a flat rate better than a ladder?
If it holds, yes — it removes the question. But a flat rate is a claim about the future and a ladder is a published fact about the present, and only the second can be checked before ordering.
Could a seller be missed by this count?
Yes. A ladder living in a table where only the opening rung was recorded would not qualify, so the count is a floor rather than a census.

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