I took your advice and used edrugstore and had a wonderful experience. I ordered on Thursday night and received my Viagra on Saturday.

Great site and they kept me updated on my order with online tracking. Great company.

RS

You asked for feedback on consumer experiences with the online supplies you reviewed. Based on your praise of Pill Value, I ordered from them and cancelled another company. Now I regret that decision.

Attached is my last communication with Pill Value. You can see that I am very displeased.

Best regards,

JML

Tokyo, Japan

--- JML wrote:
> Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 22:53:02 -0800 (PST)
> From: JML
> Subject: Re order cancellations
> To: support@pillvalue.com
>
> On 1/22/03 I placed order # 146784. When I did not receive my order, I checked and found >that it had been "cancelled" without my knowledge and without notification to me.
>
> I again placed an order on 1/28/03, order # 148778.
> Today I checked and found that it has been
> "cancelled"
> also, again without explanation nor notification.
>
> And I am annoyed to say the least. If Pill Value doesn't want my business because I am >located in Tokyo or whatever, then just say so. This delay is not acceptable. I cancelled >another company on 1/22/03 because I found Pill Value and was impressed that Pill
> Value didn't charge for an online prescription. Now 9 days have been wasted and I am >regreting that cancellation.
>
> What gives?
>
> JML
>
> Tokyo, Japan

Hamlet,

Attached please find the response I received from
pillvalue.

There are 2 issues involved here.

First is the inconvenience and time wasted/lost by me
because pillvalue did not have the courtesy to
immediately notify me that they were canceling my
orders. And the reason why.

Second, in the case of Japan, I have done extensive,
comphrehensive research for a major US dietary
supplement supplier on the current Japan state of
foreign dietary supplements, deregulation, and import
restrictions and customs duties/restrictions.

While point of sale within Japan still contains
restrictions on potency of content, efficiancy claims,
etc., residents of Japan are allowed under the
"personal import" exemption to order abroad, either
through mail order or Internet virtually any dietary
supplement, mineral, or herb. There are even lucrative
businesses which act as "personal important
representatives" which help the Japanese consumer fill
out their orders and even pick them up for the
consumers taking care of any duties, etc. For a fee,
of course. The key point is that if the amount is too
large to be considered "for personal use" or if a
company tries to "sell" them within Japan, then they
are considered involved in commercial import and
subject to the rules, regulations, and restrictions of
the Japanese Ministry of Health and Welfare (MHW).

The same goes for prescription drugs which require a
doctor in the USA to first ascertain that the patient
consumer needs and can safely use the requested
prescription drug. One very popular example is Viagra.

Hope this helps your readers.

Regards,
JML
--- "PillValue.com" <support@pillvalue.com> wrote:
> Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 12:07 -0500
> Subject: [#82909] Re: Re order cancellations
> To: JML
> From: "PillValue.com" <support@pillvalue.com>
> CC:
>
> Dear John,
>
> We are sorry there is nothing that can be done
> regarding this matter at this time we are not
> shipping overseas due to heavy custom regulations.
> If you have any further questions regarding this
> matter please let us know. We are sorry for the
> inconvenience.
>
> PillValue.com
> support@pillvalue.com
>
> --- Original Message ---
>
> > On 1/22/03 I placed order # 146784. When I did not
> > receive my order, I checked and found that it had
> been
> > "cancelled" without my knowledge and without
> > notification to me.
> >
> > I again placed an order on 1/28/03, order #
> 148778.
> > Today I checked and found that it has been
> "cancelled"
> > also, again without explanation nor notification.
> >
> > And I am annoyed to say the least. If Pill Value
> > doesn\'t want my business because I am located in
> Tokyo
> > or whatever, then just say so. This delay is not
> > acceptable. I cancelled another company on 1/22/03
> > because I found Pill Value and was impressed that
> Pill
> > Value didn\'t charge for an online prescription.
> Now 9
> > days have been wasted and I am regreting that
> > cancellation.
> >
> > What gives?
> >
> > JML
> >
> > Tokyo, Japan
> >
> >