<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Matt wrote: <blockquote cite="mid20070302153752.GA5817@quark.beyondzero.net" type="cite"> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">3. Prescription, sex performance or narcotic drugs offers (will I be grossly overcharged, get fake drugs, or nothing at all? - or perhaps a narc squad busting my door?) </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> Grossly overcharged and possibly receive fake drugs. Most of these sites issue you a "prescription" by having you fill out a form that is "reviewed by a doctor" [instantly, apparently].</pre> </blockquote> Most drugs sold via the internet, even controlled substances like Oxycotin, deliver the actual drugs being advertised. There is no reason to substitute fake drugs. Fake drugs are not unknown but make up a statistically insignificant portion of internet drug sales. The term grossly overcharged is inaccurate as well. Have you seen the list price on Imitrex? While my co-pay is only $25 with a legitimate script if I had no insurance and was buying it myself outright it would be less expensive to trash my legitimate script and buy from an online source. My local pharmacies charge much more than online retailers. Ask your pharmacies their retail price on Viagra. I guarantee you can get a better price online. Same for Imitrex, Tramadol, and many other drugs. Drugs like Lortab, which are quite inexpensive at a pharmacy even without insurance, are not markedly more expensive online. The issue here is getting the script. You can shop around until you find a doctor willing to write it or go online and find one much more quickly and at virtually no cost. Office visits are not free and are money wasted if you are only looking for a script for a painkiller. There are too many sellers online to allow many companies to gouge their customers. These companies rely on repeat business a great deal. Buy from one once and I will guarantee they will send you many emails and leave you many phone messages trying to get your repeat business. Yes, an online consultation is usually instant and the drugs are also generally shipped next day FedEx or UPS. There is nothing illegal or legally questionable about this. For overseas orders the greatest risk is confiscation. When you buy drugs from overseas they come in the same packages as their American counterparts and are sealed by the manufacturer. Drug sales on the internet are almost never a scam in any real sense of the word. You will get what you pay for unless confiscated by customs. Your chances of getting a fake drug are exceedingly slim. Quality control problems at the shippers end occasionally mean you may receive the wrong drug but it will almost always be packaged so that it is obvious. Usually this means you get Viagra instead of Cialis or Phentermine instead of Tramadol. The company will usually correct the error when notified by sending the correct product and issuing a call tag for the incorrect item. Drug sales online do not belong in the same category as internet scams. You are simply buying a product thats distribution is heavily controlled through a different source that almost always legally avoids much of those controls. Since you write "instantly apparently" you don't seem to have much firsthand knowledge of how internet drug sales actually work. Have you personally investigated internet drug sales or are you repeating what others have told you? I have helped literally hundreds of people with internet drug sales when traditional channels were either closed to them because of their economic situation or else they simply wished to avoid doctors, pharmacists, etc. for other reasons. If you placed 100 orders with 100 randomly chosen internet drug selling sites you would either get all 100 orders filled properly or else 99 of them filled properly. John Thornton </body> </html>