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joezydeco 2 days ago

Maybe check out AirAnswers.

https://www.airanswers.com/

Aurornis 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

Everything about this website screams alternative medicine scam. "Integrative medicine" and "book a consultation" is not what you want to see on your mold testing lab's website. It means they're out to sell you things. I can almost guarantee that everybody who gets one of their test kits will get, surprise, a positive result that requires more expensive consultations and treatments from them.

joezydeco 2 days ago | parent [-]

One of the founders is a friend of mine that has been an IVD researcher for decades. I don't smell any scam. They are just looking for traction in the consumer and real estate sectors. They already have customers in agriculture, especially with cannabis farms looking for molds. They don't sell treatments. It's more like a radon sampler you leave in a house for a day to get a reading.

bflesch 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

The AirAnswers website blocks visitors from the EU.

Most likely because they are in violation of GDPR and have no plan to care about data privacy. This is a really big red flag for all AirAnswers customers.

andsoitis 2 days ago | parent [-]

> Most likely because they are in violation of GDPR

Why do you say that’s the most likely reason? You can’t imagine other plausible reasons?

bflesch 2 days ago | parent [-]

What if not GDPR would make an american B2C startup intentionally block visitors from Europe? Their investors most likely fly in and out of Europe all the time and want to show their portfolio company to their buddies. The startup's growth case is international expansion.

ted_dunning a day ago | parent [-]

Because they don't understand GDPR and don't have time to figure out if and how it applies to them?

bflesch a day ago | parent [-]

AirAnswers is not a startup as I originally thought, it seems to be a ten year old company with mature product and a set of patents they mention in marketing materials. If they block EU customers it's definitely a conscious choice.