Hayfever scam

[edo]

I just paid £9 for 30 hayfever tablets in Lloyds Pharmacy. I suspected their profit margin for hayfever tablets was high but didn't realise HOW high.

I just had a look online and came across a site called Chemist Direct selling exactly the same 30 tablets for £1.19!

Nice one Lloyds Pharmacy.

Ed

 

[KarlM]

Thats a nice markup lol

I just paid £9 for 30 hayfever tablets in Lloyds Pharmacy. I suspected their profit margin for hayfever tablets was high but didn't realise HOW high.

I just had a look online and came across a site called Chemist Direct selling exactly the same 30 tablets for £1.19!

Nice one Lloyds Pharmacy.

Ed

 

[Alien]

I just had a look online and came across a site called Chemist Direct selling exactly the same 30 tablets for £1.19!


Ed

I buy from Chemist Direct often, can save a ton! When ordering sun tan lotion for example for hols, it saves ££!

 

[edo]

I buy from Chemist Direct often, can save a ton! When ordering sun tan lotion for example for hols, it saves ££!

Yeh, I'm going to be using them all the time from now on. It's actually a very good business idea. They're clearly aiming to be the Amazon of pharmacy drugs.

Nice to see them use the old-English word of chemist too. Not that I ever use it these days!

Ed

 

[grantw]

Chemists are a proper con.

If you get bad hayfever give one of these a try. I was well dubious about it but it really does work, been using it all summer and have hardly had to take any tablets:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B003TQKCXW/?tag=acorn06-21

Grant

 

[expertc]

I just paid £9 for 30 hayfever tablets in Lloyds Pharmacy. I suspected their profit margin for hayfever tablets was high but didn't realise HOW high.

I just had a look online and came across a site called Chemist Direct selling exactly the same 30 tablets for £1.19!

Nice one Lloyds Pharmacy.

Ed

I better NOT tell you about the wholesale prices in pharma industry. It might be the biggest surprise

 

[mat]

HayFeverTablets.org.uk free to reg ;-)

 

[disruptive]

I just paid £9 for 30 hayfever tablets in Lloyds Pharmacy. I suspected their profit margin for hayfever tablets was high but didn't realise HOW high.

I just had a look online and came across a site called Chemist Direct selling exactly the same 30 tablets for £1.19!

Nice one Lloyds Pharmacy.

Ed

yes I had noticed their high prices. I buy generics where possible and you can get exactly the same ingredients. Most compounds are off patent now anyhow...so paying for a brand is pointless....well no, some studies have shown that patients respond better to good packaging (headache pills)...but the placebo with H-fever is a no-no.

 

[newguy]

What a rip off. Disgusting!

 

[GreyWing]

You don't know the half of it, my friend works for the RSPCA

The prescription the vets give you and try and sell you drugs in-store can usually be bought at any human chemist for 20% of what the vet will charge you.

They are legally obliged to tell you that you can get the drugs from a chemist but they rarely do.

Stick dog or cat on it and you will pay through the nose. Of course you could take your pet prescription to a site that which is highlighted here at save even more.

 

[peter_w]

There's a huge markup on pretty much all drugs. Especially on "branded" paracetamol. Generally speaking, they have exactly the same chemicals in them as the 16p equivalents from Wilkinsons etc.

 

[tifosi]

get all mine from superdrug or the supermarket. Shopping around at the start of the grass pollen season there's always plenty of special deals & 2 for 1's. Generic unbranded ones work just as well.

 

[Skinner]

Our dog needed a pet product called Atopica, its also a human product used in transplants called cyclosporine. Currently for dogs is £56 for like 15 capsules, prescribed under the cascade (a vet prescribing a human drug or a doctor prescribing off license sometimes have to do this). For human branded is around £3-4 per pill.

Our dog needed 3 capsules per day, and as it brand new at the time and almost double that cost for dogs and wasn't available in the UK at that time so the insurance wouldn't cover it.

In the end we picked the stuff up from an Turkish Pharmacy for about £1 a pill, sent via fedex, so was here next day.

Compare UK prices to US/EU prices.

Hayfever wise, the 1st generation AH which is often sold as a sleep aid, 16 tabs are around £2 on own brand. In the US a company called Kirkland do bulk packs, you can get 300 tablets for about £6. Aspirin 1000 tablets are £9, 1500 Ibuprofen are £15,Paracetamol 1000 are £18. I have even seen 5,000 tablet drums while over there. Yet here they look at you like your going to off yourself if you wanna buy 2 packets

 

[anthony]

I just paid £9 for 30 hayfever tablets in Lloyds Pharmacy. I suspected their profit margin for hayfever tablets was high but didn't realise HOW high.

I just had a look online and came across a site called Chemist Direct selling exactly the same 30 tablets for £1.19!

Nice one Lloyds Pharmacy.

Ed

A nice profit like that is not to be sneezed at, it's enough to make your eyes water!

 

[WaftyCrank]

They also sell them in poundland edo.