Syntrax was one of the companies that actually sued some individual people that were forum reps a long time ago. Now granted, some of them deserved it and to a degree the companies they repped for should have told them to STFU and not post some of the stuff they were posting - I didn't fault Syntrax for some of it because some of it was outright slander on their parts. But then, after they actually were successful in suing a few, they went overboard with it and sued some people that weren't even reps for just voicing what amounted to being their opinions. I knew one of those members and it cost him thousands of dollars.
If they had stopped with the first round, where they sued the companies and reps that were being just complete lying jerks, I would have had no issues with it. Because it probably needed to happen to get some of them to stop spreading lies.
That was a long time ago - its not that I dislike them today so much that I wouldn't buy their products. It's that that was why I stopped buying their stuff back them bc I actually loved their Swole and Nectar products back in that period of time. After that, I just got out of the habit of using them and kind of forgot about them. I bet I've thought about Nectar and meant to buy some 5 or 6 times in the last couple years and then just forget about it again and don't. Enough time has passed, that I wouldn't mind buying it now and may actually buy one just to see how good it is by todays standards.