Self Introduction of UnitedPharmacies-uk.md
United Pharmacies is an online pharmacy that claim to have more than 100,000 of customers world wide as they have been in the pharmaceutical business for more than 10 years, while on their copyright information they claim to have started their business in 2001 meaning this is a 17 years old company. The pharmacy is claiming to provide a wide range of commonly prescribed medications to customers and those medications are high quality and affordable, something that I am going to pay attention if that’s true or not. The pharmacy is claiming to have so many customers and their database of loyal customers keep on growing because they are doing their best to assist their customers in any way that they can. The pharmacy is claiming that all of their products that they supply are being genuine branded products otherwise they are clearly stated and are still having a high quality with good expiry dates. The pharmacy is claiming to offer a 30 day customer satisfaction guarantee on all their orders meaning that customers can return the goods in the original condition within this timeframe for getting a refund. The company also claims that they are taking the customers privacy very seriously protecting all the data as they have high security measures standards. The packages are sent discreetly with no reference whatsoever to medicine or pharmacies. Since this online pharmacy is having the ending on their website name *uk* plus all the prices are in UK, the phone number is UK and there’s the UK flag – I can assume that this is an online pharmacy based in UK, however there’s no mention of this on their site. All in all, the pharmacy seem to have good claims and offers that I am going to check carefully within my review.
Assortment Diversity
As it was earlier mentioned, this online pharmacy is mostly offering original brand medications for a lot of different health conditions, otherwise this is clearly stated, so I can assume they should have some generic medications as well. The pharmacy claims to have a lot of drugs and by checking the categories of medications, they seem to offer lots of medications for lots of conditions such as: Allergies, Antidepressants, Asthma, Arthritis, Cancer, Cholesterol, Diabetes, Eye Drops, Heart, Hormones, Thyroid, Skin, Mens and many others. There’s a specific category named *generics* and I can assume all the generic medications are found there.
Here’s how the list of categories of drugs looks like on their site, something you can see as soon as you enter their main page.
You can use these categories if you don’t know the exact name of the drug that you need depending on your need, however if you do know the exact name of the drug, you can also use the search box function available on their website.
You can also check the bestseller’s list as well which you can see on their main page. I have checked their *Mens* category where I noticed that no Viagra, sildenafil, Cialis or other famous medications found in ED category are there. This was proven by trying to search by keywords and no results were given.
There are some ED treating medications such as avanafil, nevertheless, there aren’t the most famous ED drugs. Plus to that, I did found a good list of categories of medications and yet, I still found out some important categories are missing, like for example: blood pressure medications, anti anxiety meds, sleep aid drugs or others. In the end, my rate here is 3 stars. They do not offer famous ED medications which is really important to my opinion plus, many important and widely used medications in different categories can’t be found at this pharmacy.
Prices Affordability
To check the prices I’m going to take a look at the medications they are offering for ED treating drugs and I am going to compare them with the prices at other online pharmacies for most famous ED drugs. In addition to that, we should remember that most famous drugs are usually more expensive than less known drugs simply due to the fact that they are famous and the demand for such drugs is high. So here’s what I found: avana 50 (avanafil active ingredient similar to sildenafil) 50 mg 4 tablets would cost you 9.33 GBP (all the prices on their site are in GBP). Converting the price it would be 12.22 USD for 4 tablets = 3 USD for a single pill of 50 mg.
To be honest, the price for such a product is unacceptable! There are online pharmacies selling brand Viagra by Pfizer for 3 USD but this pharmacy is offering a much less known and less expensive product for such a price. Plus that’s a generic version. I have tried to check if the price is getting anything more attractive if I’m going to purchase more pills at once and I realized that this is the most attractive prices if I buy at least 4 packs, but if I get less the price is even higher.
I have got extremely disappointed seeing such high prices for generic medications, the best price of 3 USD per generic pill of 50 mg avanafil is sky scrapping, not mentioning that it can be even higher. Such a price policy won’t deserve more than 1 star as I doubt you would save any money using this pharmacy.
Shipping Options
There is information on their website which suggests that United Pharmacies is only shipping to customers that are located in the United Kingdom. Nobody outside UK can order here. At least, this online pharmacy is claiming that people are able to choose from 2 shipping options. I do not like that they do not offer overnight shipping option especially when they ship only to a single country but at least they offer 2 option. One of them is EMS courier with a service that takes between 3 to 7 business days which is pretty a lot for Express Shipping to a single country. Another thing which I got disappointed about is the fact that their EMS shipping option costs 25 GBP and that’s about 33 USD. That’s one of the higher price I’ve ever seen for shipping fee. The regular shipping option is having a delivery timeframe of 7 to 14 business days which is very much and a price of 8 GBP (10.50 USD) which is a lot too.
As if that was not enough, another thing that I noticed is – the pharmacy claims to have 100,000 customers world wide and now the question – how is that possible? That’s keeping in mind the pharmacy is only shipping medications to UK. That’s really confusing and misinforming.
So the pharmacy offers confusing information, big delivery timeframes, shipping only in UK with extremely high shipping fees and no overnight shipping option. My mark is 1 star for all of this as it doesn’t deserve anything more than that.
Payment Options
This company has dedicated one entire page for payment methods where you can see their summary of their currently accepted payment methods. As much as you can see there, the company is only accepting 2 different payment options and they are giving details about how to use them. The payment methods accepted includes:
1st is international wire transfer (international bank transfer) – a transfer of the money from your personal bank account to their account and second is international bank draft (cashier’s cheque or money order) – the customer’s bank will debit the amount from the customer’s account immediately and not when they cash the cheque. As much as we can see, this online pharmacy does offer 2 options for paying, nevertheless, there are no famous payment methods such as credit cards or something in this matter. The customers do not have an opportunity to use their preferred payment methods. My final mark for this unit is 2 stars only because there are 2 different options.
Technical Characteristics
Google Page Speed Data about the Website Loading
By using the Google Page Speed Data Test I have seen that nearly all the indicators are colored in red and here’s how it all looks like.
As much as we can see, all the data we found there is unsatisfactory except for the page speed of mobile version which is still not good but medium. The optimization for both versions are low and that’s really bad, plus to that the page speed for desktop version is slow meaning that people might wait a lot until the pages are going to load. The only better thing is the page speed of the mobile version which is medium but still not accepted. People have high chances encountering technical issues by browsing through this pharmacy’s website and that’s something unacceptable. Site’s administrators seriously should do something about this but until then, the poor technical data I found out is worth 1 point.
Mobile Version
Unfortunately, it seems that the more I keep on searching for details and information about this online pharmacy – the more disappointed I keep on getting. The next thing that I got disappointed about is the mobile friendly test results that I got using other google’s tools. As much as you can guess, I got disappointed because the page is not mobile friendly and this means that this website is difficult to be used on a mobile device – a big problem for modern websites as a lot of people are browsing websites from their mobile devices.
Google is recommending site administrators to fix 2 issues that might make this online pharmacy site more usable on a mobile device: content is wider than the screen and the clickable elements are too close together. Trying to use the site from my own smartphone that was horrible. I won’t recommend trying to use your mobile device to surf this pharmacy’s website. For this, my rate is 1 point.
Is the Connection Secure?
Yes it does seem that the connection with this website is secure, at least at this point I didn’t got disappointed. However, it is not all fully perfect. Each of their web pages seem to be secured and they are using the highest level security – 256 bit SSL encryption which is a security that each customer can have trust in and be sure that their personal data is encrypted and protected. That was verified and certified by COMODO CA Limited. But the reason why it is not perfect all way around – the website does not supply ownership information. A complete transparency between customer and site owner is preferably. My mark – 4 stars.
Antivirus Presence On-Site
The antivirus software is important because customers are sure that they are not going to get their devices infected with internet viruses or malwares while browsing a website if that website does have such a software. But sadly, United Pharmacies does not offer an antivirus on their website. I do think that a reliable online pharmacy needs to protect their customers but United Pharmacies does not seem to agree with me. While searching their website people’s personal data and privacy is at risk and for this reason my rate here is 1 star.
How to Make an Order?
I don’t like those online pharmacy which are requesting their customers to undergo a registration on their website before they are able to complete an order on the site and as usually, this pharmacy disappointed me too by making the registration mandatory if people are planning to purchase medications on their site. Except for that, this online pharmacy does not ask customers for a simple registration but for completing the registration there are 3 different steps you need to fill up including: 1. general information – first name, last name, company name, phone, fax; 2. account information – e-mail address, login ID, new password; 3. billing/shipping address – first name, last name, address, city, country; postal code/ZIP code, phone.
When you have created your personal account that’s when you can start ordering. You should select the needed medication, choose the quantity of drugs or packs that you want to get and then see your virtual cart as:
After this you’re free to checkout (again, only if you have an account). I honestly think that this entire ordering procedure is not as simple as it could be or as customers might want it to be. For this reason my mark is 3 stars as it could have been much worse.
Is UnitedPharmacies-uk.md Legit and Safe?
ScamAdviser.com about the Website Security
The information on scamadviser.com suggests that unitedpharmacies-uk.md is only 75% safe and that’s why they are recommending to use care when trying to do business with this company. As we can see in the screenshot, the site has been threat listed. Even though this online pharmacy is claiming that they are UK based and shipping medications only in UK, their website is United States based and this is strange. Another rather strange thing is the fact that the domain age is 6 years according to scamadviser.com but the pharmacy claimed to be only for at least 10 years and to be more exact – 17 years if believing their copyright information. This just doesn’t add up. Another alarming thing is the fact that a malware report has been detected for this online pharmacy too. Plus, we couldn’t find a phone number out there.
Generally, the data that we have found here is too little. A lot of contact information simply misses and that’s why I can assume that this online pharmacy is hiding something from their customers. I think that such a review deserves nothing more than 3 stars.
Prescription Request
According to the information on their FAQ page, the pharmacy is Oceania based and because of this they are not requesting a valid prescription. To be honest, the pharmacy’s location doesn’t matter – a valid prescription is required anywhere and any how to get a prescription medication otherwise you’re putting the customers health at risk only to sell medications and make money. in fact, I don’t think that there’s anything that can justify the absence of prescription requirements. Since the prescription medications are not being legally sold out without a prescription I am not going to rate this pharmacy with more than 1 point!
LegitScript.com About the Website Legitimacy
As much as we see, United Pharmacies is not a legitimate online pharmacy that should be allowed to do business, or at least that’s what I found on LegitScript.com test. This is a Rogue internet pharmacy which is not following the legal rights. There are some standards a pharmacy should follow to become a legal online pharmacy but this pharmacy doesn’t meet any of them. I usually recommend to stay away from such business practices and obviously my mark here is 1 point.
Reviews about UnitedPharmacies-uk.md
Reviews on UnitedPharmacies-uk.md
The customer reviews are extremely important as this way people are able to have at least some ideas how an online pharmacy is treating their customers. The reviews are written by real people who had real experience and that’s why they are so important. But unfortunately, there are no reviews on their own website. There’s nothing that could make believe this online pharmacy is successfully in sending high quality medications. Without customer reviews on the site my rate is 1 point.
Third-Party Resources Reviews about UnitedPharmacies-uk.md
Since there are no customer reviews on their website, I thought that I may find at least some feedback and reviews on third party resources and luckily I did. It seems I found multiple resources with customers leaving feedback about this pharmacy and that’s really good as this way we can get a better idea about how this online pharmacy is working and treating their customers. So, it seems I have got mixed reviews. There are people saying good words about this pharmacy but it seems there are people who doesn’t really agree with this. Here are examples of positive comments:
But as I said, there are mixed reviews with a lot of negative reviews as well.
I wouldn’t say that there are more negatives or more positives as the number seem to be pretty much equal, plus or minus. But that’s really good that there are a lot of customer reviews and they are on different sources. This gives a sense of reliability making me believe that they indeed have a lot of customers and popularity as said by scamadviser.com. The problem is that a lot of them said bad words even including that they are scammers. It seems this company is *choosing* who to please.
In the end, I think that overall, the customer reviews on third party websites that I found average on the rate of 3 stars.
Discount Code on UnitedPharmacies-uk.md
There is a table on their website which is showing all of their special offers, free stuff, discounts and everything else. As much as it seems, this online pharmacy is only offering a discount voucher for your next order depending on how much your previous order sum was and they are also able to get you a shipping fee discount or offer it for free. Again, the discount % and the shipping fee discount all depends on your previous order sum. Here’s how it all looks like:
As you can see there, anything until 50 GBP doesn’t offer bonuses. From 50 to 100 GBP you get only 5 % discount for next order. From 100 to 149 GBP you get discount of 8%. From 150 GBP to 199 GBP you get discount of 12 % and free regular shipping or discounted EMS shipping. From 200 GBP above you get 15 % discount and free shipping to all methods. My mark is 4 stars. I’ve seen other online pharmacies with much better special offers and coupon codes.
Customer Support Service
“Contact Us” Section
This online pharmacy is claiming that they are having 3 different ways that people can get in touch with them. you can see these methods by accessing their contact page and there you’re going to see they are offering: telephone number, email and contact form. other than that – there’s nothing else.
This information is not complete, there is no mailing or physical address either. As much as it seems, I have a strong feeling that this company tries to hide something from customers. My mark for all of this is 2 points since there’s at least no live chat function.
Customer Support Service
There is no live chat function as I earlier said and I don’t really love talking by phone and that’s why I had to either write them an email or use the contact form, both of which are basically the same method. I used the contact form and I got no response back.
I waited for 24 hours and no response has ever arrived. This attitude from their customer support service deserves 1 point.
Conclusion: Lots of Reviews but Stay Away
UnitedPharmacies-uk.md is an online pharmacy which is mostly oriented in selling branded medications without a prescription to UK customers.
This online pharmacy has a few strong points such as: lots of positive customer reviews on foreign sites, pretty good coupon codes and offers, secured 256-bit SSL encrypted connection on their site and a trustworthiness of 75% by scamadviser.com.
However, there are a lot much more negative points – horrible technical characteristics, not a safe and legitimate online pharmacy according to legitscript.com and few other issues found by scamadviser.com, not requesting a prescription, there are also lots of negative reviews, no response back from customer service, extremely high prices for medications and not a full diversity of medications on their site and no antivirus on the site.
Weighing pluses and minuses I come to one conclusion – avoiding this online pharmacy is recommended.