How to sell prescription drugs online
Buying prescription drugs online
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well you can buy just about anything
online nowadays including your
medication and while it can save you
money it could also end up costing you
more in the end if you're not careful
talk about this now tom stevens better
business bureau president the better
business bureau i should say joining me
this morning good morning glad to be
here all right listen
we love shopping online it's very easy
but that is the number one way scammers
are going to get you yeah that's true
especially when you're talking about
drugs you need to watch out for a couple
of things number one is make sure the
pharmacy is licensed
okay that's the number one thing if it's
canadian pharmacy the provinces are in
charge of that if it's a u.s pharmacy
fda is in charge so make sure the
licensing is good and you can check that
through their databases
uh make sure that they
require a prescription most of the fake
ones will not require prescription they
just say we'll ship it to you so if
you're able to likely if you're able
especially to get sanex or something on
it's not right a real website right
exactly and um you know sometimes
they'll uh in most cases uh if it's a
fake website that the drugs are gonna be
cut they're gonna be out of date they're
not gonna be the right thing there may
just be a sugar pill or there may not be
anything at all it may be a you know
organized crime is just there to get
your id and steal your credit cards and
all that good stuff i mean is it one of
those things though especially with
prescription drugs you know in the last
hour i showed lipitor costs 300 plus
dollars if you're seeing it for
a hundred dollars with no insurance
right that's that's one of the red flags
if it's way way way discounted uh it's
it's probably a fake
or if you start getting spam emails that
say we can give you this drug for ex for
cheaper price you only need a
prescription we'll ship it
internationally et cetera those are all
red flags and it's a fake i mean how
problematic is this i know the better
business bureau does handle this um
the the estimates are that of the
thousands of online pharmacies only
about three to five percent of them are
actually legitimate the rest of them are
fake
wow that is a staggering statistic
that's the statistic i read
and so what are your biggest takeaways
for anybody at home who's thinking about
doing this because actually i just
received an email this morning from
someone who watched our segments who
said i got it online my wife's pills for
years and it was a canada a canadian
pharmacy right well canadian pharmacy
usually pretty good as long as they're
licensed and again the provinces are in
charge of that and you can check that
licensing with them
make sure you're dealing with a licensed
pharmacy make sure they have an address
and a phone number on their website
preferably one in the u.s make sure they
have a pharmacist pharmacist on staff to
answer any questions
and again make sure they require
prescription
and if you have to pay with a gift card
yeah that's that's not the good thing
that's always the number one when we say
if they ask you to pay with a gift card
right it is more than they're not going
to take your gift card for lipitor right
right you you can't play your taxes with
with uh keith urban two leaders
all right anything any last segments uh
just one thing a lot of the if it's
that the domain will have a dot pharmacy
in the if it's a legitimate really
legitimate
pharmacy check that domain and if it
looks off if there's some words or
letters off misspelling it's one of
those things you know we're talking
specifically about drugs but right it
works for most things exactly all right
tom stevens better business bureau thank
you thank you all right vic
