Thanks for the clarification.
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I don’t disagree, but I have the same bone to pick with them as I do for all of y’all engaged in the Supplements Industry:
Ignoring the three-possible purchasers (me, myself, and I) who’ve been clamoring - for years - for the introduction of a formulation based upon The Mighty Rutabaga chafes me to no end.
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I never thought about that and there’s this! 
Rutabagas are a hearty vegetable packed with fiber, vitamins, and antioxidants. They can help prevent weight gain and have compounds that help fight inflammation, prevent premature aging, and possibly reduce cancer risk .
It’s got everything! Gets rid of extra lbs, cures cancer, and eliminates inflammation (pain). Of course, those are the 3 things that the FTC loves to police so there’s that…
Rutabaga extract - 500mg.
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Hiss. Extract. You’re likely losing the fiber! 
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Broadly: most supplement raw materials* are fairly inexpensive. Even doing things properly, it costs next to nothing to take the ingredients of the average multivitamin and shove them in a capsule. It costs a little more to put it in a bottle and label it.
*aside from proprietary, branded materials, some less common ingredients, etc.
I feel you there. The things I do take, I expect them to be what they’re labeled as.
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Thanks, from the context I couldn’t tell if you were saying they were cheap as in inexpensive or cheap as in poor product.
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Latest rogue Amabot in the category seems to flag the following, regardless of whether it’s labeled properly or not:
This product has been identified as a dietary supplement that does not meet Food and Drug Administration (FDA) labeling requirements. We have determined that the amount of botanical extract per serving on the label is inaccurate and/or misleading. Labeling recommendations for botanical extracts shall be according to criteria described in 21 CFR 101.36 and/or USP <565> Botanical Extracts. Amazon policy prohibits dietary supplement products that do not meet FDA labeling requirements.
Joy.
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I tend to buy major brands like US Nutrition.
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More often than not, the bottle / cap / label, and the labor to make all that happen costs a lot more than what’s in the bottle.
Also… Testing is a big component of the cost for certain products.
Raw materials cost nothing, partly because of where they come from (80%+ from China is the industry avg). Most raw materials aren’t available from anywhere else.
Tariffs won’t affect costs much. If 10% of the cost of something gets tariffed 10-20%, the increase amounts to pennies.
Could give brands the excuse to raise prices though well beyond their loss just because… Inflation builder.
Kind of like how everyone increased their prices when fuel was a lot more expensive than it is today. Those surcharges never went away (sort of like Amazon’s FBA fuel surcharge). That was put in place when fuel was 30-35% more expensive than it is today.
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That was the story of the Russian Wheat Deal back in 1973. Prices of everything containing wheat, like breakfast cereal skyrocketed, never to return to past levels.
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