All of your hesitation is from your correspondence with Eric. Eric, who released a letter to certain holders, yourself included, on the eve of products landing in Walmart.
I was privaliged enough to read the letter, and was also very concerned. My conversation with the company however, took away 90% of my doubt. Have you spoken to anyone other than Eric?
What you are positing is that AAPT is a scam. I have invested in some scams... Not one of them have gone to the trouble of uplisting or manufacturing and distibuting their product to Walmart. Seems we may have a real company here. Your dog thinks the bars are real, so do Stella and Tanner.