Foreign Internet Pharmacies - How to Buy From Them Safely   by Cheapscrips Sales

The greatest fear first-time users have about foreign pharmacies is being ripped off. The Internet is full of scammers and a good many of them are involved in the online pharmacy business. In addition, if your would-be pharmacy is in a foreign country, you have little recourse if they don't ship your order. So what is the best way to know if an online source is trustworthy? The simplest one is this: the positive recommendation of a good friend! If your best friend ordered from a foreign pharmacy and got good quality product in a timely manner, then it's fair to assume you will too.

So, what if you don't know anyone who's ordered successfully from an online pharmacy? In that case, we can offer several tips on what to look for in a trustworthy source.

• Do they have a web site? If the answer is no, move on. E-mail sources are notoriously unreliable. If a would-be seller of medications is too lazy to even bother creating a half-way decent looking web site, then they are also probably too lazy to provide buyers with any kind of legitimate customer service support.




• What payment methods do they accept? Generally speaking, any online pharmacy that accepts credit cards has undergone a rigorous screening process by the financial institution providing them with a merchant account, so doing business with them is probably a safe bet. Plus, if they don't deliver, you can always do a chargeback. However, not accepting credit cards should not automatically disqualify a potential pharmacy from further consideration, since a lot of internet pharmacies that don't take credit cards have been victimized by one of the many crooked credit card processors who have ripped-off online merchants for tens of millions of dollars.




• Do they answer e-mails in a timely manner? It never ceases to amaze us how many internet retailers can't understand that online sales between unknown parties are based largely upon trust, and that the fastest way to lose that trust is by not answering e-mails. If you e-mail a pharmacy and they don't answer within 24-48 hours, look elsewhere because they are obviously not committed to providing even a minimum level of customer service.




• Do they provide a physical address and a telephone number? Again, this goes back to the issue of trust. Even if the physical address is just a mail forwarding service, the people who run the service know who the operators of the pharmacy are and will respond to law enforcement inquiries about them.




• Are they truthful? If their web site makes claims such as "It's completely legal to import a 90-day supply of Valium for personal use" or "Our packaging is so discreet, we guarantee your order will not be seized", they're lying. (For the record, to legally import Valium into the U.S., you must have prior written authorization from the DEA. With respect to seizures, Customs officials inspect what they want to inspect, regardless of how it's packaged.) An honest internet pharmacy will make these issues clear on their web site. A complete list of Scheduled medications is available on the DEA's web site.

  
  

• Is the site run by native English speakers? At the risk of sounding racist or xenophobic, it is an unfortunate fact of life that, with the qualified exception of the central and northern countries of western Europe, most people from non-English speaking countries simply do not share the same sense of business ethics that one would expect from a North American, British, Australian or New Zealand-based operation. Most of the rest of the world views Americans with contempt, and would laugh themselves to sleep at night knowing that they were able to use the technological marvel of the Internet to rip off a "gringo" or an "Amerikanski" thousands of miles away.

• How long have they been in business? If they are a new operation, be careful, because they can disappear just as quickly as they appeared. You can check the age of any web site here. If they've been around for a few years, even if they have some negative reviews posted about them, they're probably legit.