Pfizer Goes Direct With Online Viagra Sales To Men

Posted: Published on May 7th, 2013

This post was added by Dr P. Richardson

If you're interested in buying Viagra, Pfizer, the drug's maker, will now sell it to you from its official website.

If you're interested in buying Viagra, Pfizer, the drug's maker, will now sell it to you from its official website.

The ubiquitous blue-toned TV ads for Viagra look downright tame compared with Pfizer's latest gambit for the impotence remedy.

Pfizer is now selling the drug directly from the official Viagra website.

Men still need a prescription for the diamond-shaped blue pills. But instead of going to the pharmacy in person, or taking their chances buying from an online pharmacy of unknown repute, men will be able to buy Viagra from the maker of the drug itself and have it shipped to their homes.

To be clear, Pfizer isn't getting into the pharmacy business. The CVS drugstore chain will take care of processing and fulfillment. Still, the direct form of selling from a Pfizer website is quite a departure from the typical way that prescription drugmakers go about their business.

Pfizer says this company-sponsored approach offers two advantages. Men who are embarrassed about going into a pharmacy to fill a Viagra prescription won't have to. The official website will also give online shoppers confidence that the Viagra they're getting is legitimate.

Those are counterfeit Viagra pills on the left (top and bottom) and real ones on the right (top and bottom).

Those are counterfeit Viagra pills on the left (top and bottom) and real ones on the right (top and bottom).

Viagra is a frequent target of counterfeiters. And a slew of online pharmacies tout cut-price Viagra. But people who buy drugs online are "playing Russian roulette," Matthew Bassiur, a Pfizer security specialist told The Associated Press.

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