Cyber Pharmacy

Vitamins and Supplements

With thousands of vendors competing for your attention and your pharmaceutical dollar, how are you, as a consumer, going to differentiate between truth and myth, fair prices or inflated, misleading advertising, safe products or the stuff dreams are made of? Every day, an average surfer may hit as many as twenty sites in an on-line session and each one will be touting a product it wishes to feature. The overwhelming motivation of the surfer is to get the best buy for his/her dollar. The major thrust of the vendor is profit.

Most of the better known and more strongly funded entities that maintain sites on the Internet are reputable companies whose image is of primary importance and their claims, prices, policies, and procedures are exemplary. There are, unfortunately, too many individuals who are more driven to making money than operating in a fair and honest manner. These individuals create an atmosphere of distrust, confusion, bad feeling and matching web reputation in the minds of the surfer.

Using a hypothetical situation to illustrate the point, we will follow an average surfer who has decided to look into weightlifting. His Web research has pointed him to several companies that will sell him a wide range of equipment at an even wider range of prices. Included in the regimen is the need for vitamins and body building supplements. He happens onto "Tim's Nutrition and Weightlifting Page" (A good informational site) and finds numerous links to articles concerning weightlifting, and other links to Internet emporiums that sell a wide variety of Vitamins, Minerals, Amino Acids and other nutritional products.

He also reads articles on Steroids which pique his curiosity and he institutes a search for products he can obtain that will enhance his body building results in a shorter period of time. Following his leads, he arrives at a site that makes fantastic claims about their product while offering to show him how to obtain anabolic steroids legitimately so he may compare results. There's only one catch. He MUST purchase product from the vendor before they will reveal those "legal" sources. Price of the product being offered? $114.95 plus $6.00 shipping and handling. Buy 2 and get one free they say. Cost? $240.00 Not only is this company offering to point you to what they admit is an Androgenic black market where you are told the drugs can be obtained "legally", but are offering to sell progenitors of Testosterone, itself an Androgen, at outrageous prices. What isn't mentioned is that Androgenic drugs are now considered in the same category as narcotic drugs and are very closely watched. Without making a purchase, no information. This is an example of a bad site, and our weightlifting surfer may open himself up to any number of serious medical and legal side effects, all dangerous, and many of the medical effects could result in a fatality.

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