Not from the streets. But i realize i was in the wrong for saying what i said. So…nm.
No worries.
This site is also advertising on TV, if that makes it seem more legitimate to anyone.
I looked at it briefly, until I saw that it was a subscription. It seemed like your regular doctor had to be involved in some way (although since I only read it once I may have got that wrong) and the actual prescription comes from the online doctor.
They market this as a service to men with ED who don’t like talking about it, which they claim is every man who has ED. I don’t think it’s a scam per se, that is, I think you get what you are expecting to get. The fact that you might be able to get the same thing cheaper somewhere else doesn’t make it a scam.
OK, I took a bullet and looked at it more thoroughly again. Your regular doctor is not involved. The process is 1) fill out intake forms (on which you can, I suppose, lie if you like), 2) take photo and provide picture of photo ID to prove identity, 3) consult with their doctor either online or through a phone call, and 4) get meds. The cost model is confusing to me, probably as intended. I’ve never purchased an ED drug so I don’t know what they cost, except that they are supposed to be expensive.
There have been multiple documented cases of people ordering drugs from a foreign website, and finding out that they contained little or none of the active ingredient they were wanting or needing. The most common one I’ve heard about is people ordering Xanax from Thailand, and it contained - you guessed it - Viagra.
My favorite story was told by someone on another website, and it HAD to be true because you just can’t make this up. She was having some issues at work, but was embarrassed to see her doctor about getting “nerve pills”, so she ordered something (either Xanax or Valium - I can’t remember) online, and a few days later, she got a box in the mail with a Mexican return address. She opened it, to find a cheap transistor radio that looked like it was probably from the 1970s.
She couldn’t figure out where the medication might have been, so she called a 1-800 number that came with the paperwork, and to her surprise, a probably-native English speaker answered, and told her that the medication was packed behind the battery pack. Sure enough, she removed the battery, and behind it was a panel with several tiny screws, and upon lifting the panel, removed a package of 30 tablets in a cellophane wrapper that resembled a package of Sixlets.
IDR if she took them, or if so how well they worked. And this cost $120, which was a lot more than she would have paid had she obtained them legitimately. Lesson learned, for her anyway.
Did they say what a month’s supply is? And precisely what drug it is? Their own doctor writing for their own pharmacist really gives one confidence in the sourcing, doesn’t it?
Don’t know what the rules are now, but back when I was practicing, most insurances paid for ED meds at the rate of 6 doses per month. They could get more if they wanted, but had to pay full price for them.
Medicare and Medicaid do not pay for them if they’re used for that reason; TriCare does, which is a controversial decision that I personally agree with 150%. I mean, why shouldn’t (ex) military people have sex, if these drugs are appropriate for them?
I misread this as “take photo of ED” :eek:
May be one of those businesses whose subscriptions are impossible to turn off when you want to and have a clause about the price only being so low for a certain # of consecutive months; if you cancel before those months are up you pay an inflated difference.
If I were interested I’d google the business and the word complaint and see what others have learned from experience w/ them.
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Do your research so you don’t get stiffed that lasts for more than four hours.
They didn’t say what a month’s supply is, I suppose it varies by drug. Viagra you take when you want to have sex a few hours later; Cialis you take every day and you can have sex any time (these are my understandings from commercials and comments about them). So I suppose it varies by medicine. But this issue is all part of what is not clear.
They say you can use your own pharmacy if they accept e-prescriptions, and that almost all pharmacies do. They also say that going that route will mean that the drugs will cost twice as much (per pill, I assume that means). And if you use another pharmacy you won’t be on the subscription plan, I also assume, but that’s not clear.
So, you can get only the benefit of not having to talk out loud about ED, and probably not save any money, or you can also (supposedly at least) save money by using their pharmacy on a subscription basis. So it probably isn’t a scam, but it is a marketing method towards which I would have serious reservations about signing up.
I know how they work. But if they quote a monthly price, it matters a lot if their definition of monthly supply is 2 pills, 4 pills or 30 pills.
If you use your own pharmacy, do they pay? Sounds like you pay. Do they have an insurance relationship with the pharmacy, where the pharmacy agrees on a certain cost to the customer? Sounds unlikely.
Thanks for investigating this. It sounds to me like a great thing if you can use this and others like it to score tons of pills, more than is probably good for you. I doubt the pet doctor does a good job evaluating one’s heart and blood pressure and the like. And I don’t see how they make money if their doctor writes prescriptions to be filled at other pharmacies.
So I’m with you on your conclusions.
Right. I remember doing that with Amazon. Good times.