Not true at all, every single pro has the connections bro, there are lots of source on line alone that give bottles for 40 bucks, this statements is so not true. If you compete at the amatuer shows and especially if you are winning shows you make 100's of friends, by the time a bodybuilder makes pro he knows everyone, this is a friendly circle and back stage at nationals everyone is friends with everyone, not to mention that amount of people he would meat spending years many years at the gym.
If you're doing a show and your placement at that show determines how you're going to pay your bills the next couple months, you're not going to take a chance with some online guy's $45 underdosed tren (uh mm M**) and $40 underdosed test. You'll go with products you can put a face to, rather products that are produced buy some faceless-name on the internet/email, 1000cc's at a time in somebody's kitchen and who knows if they're filtered... and they run the risk of the products not even arriving due to customs, or fuckup at the post-office. If you're paying the bills with contest money, and money that comes from the photo-shoots and endorsements, and publicity, that's a big risk. Pro or amatuer.
Now, if you're a supplier, you got into the business for one reason and one reason only... to pay your bills. Not to be the cool-guy steroid dealer at the YMCA.. and not to rub elbows and get buddy-buddy with famous bodybuilders. It's to make money. As much money in the shortest time possible and get out.. because you're lying to yourself if you think it will go on forever without getting caught. Now, if I see you driving a CL600 and wearing a Bell & Ross, I'm not gonna quote you $400 for 10 bottles of test... if i see you driving a 4Runner and wearing a workshirt from GNC, you'll probably get a quote of $350 for 10 bottles, because that's probably all you can afford, and if you don't get it here, you'll get it somewhere else. If you're bringing me magazines to show me your new ad, and you're telling jokes about your 52yr old sugar-momma (or 70yr old sugar-daddy), you're not gonna pay the same price as a college student trying to make 2nd string.
If you give a guy a discount because he's a pro, or he's "famous", you're nothing more than a groupie.