Pfizer, the enormous drug company that makes the well-known spammers secret of Viagra, has decided to start selling the product on the web starting Monday. The purpose of this is to fight websites from selling counterfit versions of the drug.
The move, with a partnership with CVS Pharmacy, is to target the black-market that sells counterfeit Viagra pills, often with little or no real effect.
According to Pfizer, only 3% of websites actually sell a real version of the drug, and the rest are selling little blue pills that do little or nothing.
“We’ve seen how fake pharmacy websites can lure consumers into buying counterfeit medicines with what seems to be an easy purchasing experience, but it may be putting their health at risk,” Carmen Catizone, executive director of National Association of Boards of Pharmacy.
Will this move hurt spammers? No idea, but probably not. One of the reason that so many people buy online is that often the drug is actually less expensive online, is a generic version and doesn’t require going to a doctor to probe your genitals. You will still require a drug prescription to get the real stuff shipped from Pfizer, so not much is changing.
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