NEAPTIDE — DISTRIBUTOR PRODUCT-DESCRIPTION CASE SERIES
Study: DISTRIBUTOR-PAIRS-2026-10-13
Public English product pages observed 12–13 October 2026 UTC.

QUESTION
What information does a distributor product listing add to a manufacturer catalog page with the same SKU?

SAMPLE
9 pairs, 5 distributor organizations, 2 manufacturer catalogs, 4 distinct catalog models, 13 unique product URLs. Seven pairs are Benchmark mixers. This is a selected case series, not a representative US-market survey. Company US addresses/operations were checked publicly. Corporate ownership and authorized supply-chain relationships were not audited.

SELECTION
Start with six distributor organizations in the earlier B2B-36 register, first three product candidates each; keep at most two exact matches per company. Exclude unverified own-label equivalents and unresolved model/variant matches. Expand from branded parent models when fewer than five organizations qualify. Security interstitials and empty pages are retrieval failures, not absent features. Expansion cap amended from six to ten before coding; eight domains attempted. Five organizations reached with nine pairs; a tenth pair was not forced.
Full search-engine result pages were not archived. Discovery order is reconstructed from the research session; this is not a reproducible SERP ranking. Selection log retains exclusions and attempted pages.

IDENTITY
Match exact catalog identifier and displayed configuration. Manufacturer pages may include multiple electrical options. Where distributor names 115V, compare against that listed manufacturer option. ARES/Marshall BV1007 list the same two electrical options as the manufacturer: those are matching multi-voltage listings, not proof of the cart-selected voltage. MG attachment and -E rows are excluded. Pacific Vial attribution rests on exact code/material/capacity/neck/case-pack agreement, not verification of the supplier chain.

CODING
Seven fields: concrete compatibility, applications, availability, minimum/order-unit/pack information, lead time, named linked technical documents, product-specific support. Categories: comparable on both pages; distributor addition; manufacturer only; neither observed; unresolved difference. An addition means extra displayed information, not a validated technical claim or a quality score. Global footer contact and Add to cart alone do not establish product support or stock. Quantity default 1 does not establish MOQ.
Documents are coded by visible name and purpose. Different hosting is not unique content. PDF contents are outside this comparison. An earlier T04 review identified Flow-Eze Binder1.pdf as a generic reference without the studied SKU; its specificity remains unresolved here.

RECHECK
The same agent revisited all 13 unique URLs after initial coding, covering all nine pairs. Shared manufacturer revisits serve all pairs for that model. Ordinary specification/document/warranty/FAQ tabs inspected where relevant. Delayed tab-state captures were corrected and retained in the log. No independent second coder or inter-rater metric. Six specification flags across five distributor pages are qualitative conflicts, not independently proven equipment errors.

BOUNDARIES
Logged out; browser location not forced to the US. Displayed delivery and availability are not verified inventory or fulfilment. No purchase, inquiry or contact submission. No ranking, indexing, citation, conversion or causal SEO outcome measured. No duplicate-content penalty inferred. Missing means not observed in reviewed states. Full third-party text/PDFs are not redistributed; public files contain derived observations and source links.