Self-Introduction of BigMountainDrugs.com
BigMountainDrugs.com is an online pharmacy and drugs distributor which is offering both generic and branded medications from their Canadian centers but they claim to offer medications from other countries world wide such as: Turkey, Mauritius, Singapore, New Zealand and United Kingdom. According to the information on the site, they are claiming that the pharmacy address is located: 202A, 8322-130th Street, Surrey, British Columbia, Canada V3W 8J9 so this means we’re dealing with a Canadian online pharmacy. They are claiming to have as their main goal to provide the customers with some high quality and cheap priced medications. This online pharmacy is claiming to be a top rated pharmacychecker.com pharmacy as well as a pharmacy approved by CIPA, all of which I found on their website and that’s what I’m going to check later in this review if that’s true. They are claiming that customer satisfaction is what they aim but their safeness too which means that customers can get prescription medications only by providing a prescription. There’s a message on the site suggesting that they are taking customers privacy and security very seriously at Big Mountain. According to the information I managed to find there, the pharmacy seems to be 9 years old as according to the copyright information, they have appeared on the market in 2009. In addition to that, they are having an outstanding customer support service making this online pharmacy a reliable online shopping place. They are also claiming to try helping Americans as they have a right to safe prescription drugs at affordable prices which they can get here. obviously, so far, all of this sounds really good, but through my review I am going to try to check all of these points in particular and check if this is true.
Assortment Diversity at Big Mountain
As much as it seems, this online pharmacy Big Mountain Drugs is offering their customers all sorts of medications of all types. For example, there’s information on their website suggesting that they are offering both branded and generic medications and you can find them in different categories depending on the health issue that you need treated. Except for both generic and branded meds for a lot of different categories the pharmacy is also offering both prescription and OTC medications. All in all, the pharmacy seem to offer medications found in categories such as: acne medication, Alzheimer’s disease medications, ED medications, Birth Control Pills, Hair Loss Treatment, Dermatology, kidney disorders, pain medications, blood pressure drugs and many others. In the end, this online pharmacy seem to have a total number of 105 categories that are being arranged in an alphabetical way. To find them you can click on *drug categories*
and you’re going to be displayed the following page looking like this:
There you are going to see all the categories of medications found on this pharmacy. By clicking on whichever category you can see that each medication is either with Rx or OTC icon near it. This way you can know if the drug you’re looking for is requiring a prescription or not. I have been searching for ED medications and I found out that there are a lot of different drugs for them. For example, Cialis comes in a lot of forms differing in: manufacturer, country of origin, and dosage.
Pretty much same goes for all other ED drugs. In the end, I do believe that most people can find most drugs they are searching for at this pharmacy. This makes me rate them with 5 stars for this unit.
Price Affordability
This online pharmacy is offering expensive version of drugs – branded medications but people are also able to get their less expensive alternatives – generic medications. The prices greatly depends on either you get generic and branded medications, on country of origin and quantity of drugs you’re getting. As much as it seems, the lowest possible price for generic Viagra (sildenafil) is 125 USD for 88 pills. You get an Indian version named Suhagra by Cipla.
The lowest possible price for brand Viagra 50 mg is going to be 239 USD for 24 pills which means there’s a price of 10 USD per pill.
Lowest price for generic and brand version of Cialis are displayed here:
The price is pretty much in the same range as Cialis and Viagra for Levitra. Honestly talking, the prices are pretty high, compared to other online pharmacies price for same medications. People are able to save some money if comparing the prices for these medications in their local drug stores, nevertheless, if comparing same prices with other online pharmacies then they are a little bit higher. It is obvious that the prices are getting more attractive by purchasing more pills at once and yet there are some high prices. For these reasons, my mark for this unit is going to be 3 stars.
Shipping Policy
There’s a big problem that I encountered – I was not able to find any information suggesting where exactly they are shipping medications to. With this being said, I am not very sure who exactly is able to purchase medications from this site. I just found information suggesting that they are shipping to *most countries in the world* but which are they – that’s not being mentioned. They just claim that restrictions may apply. One sure thing – they do offer medications to people living in the United States of America. As they claim, the delivery charge is 10 USD but the delivery in other countries starts at 25 USD which is very much. They claim that the shipping time varies from 10 to 18 business days but no information what’s the shipping timeframe for other countries. Another thing to mention is: they are not offering overnight shipping as they only offer regular ground shipping and that may take a good while until the parcel would reach your door.
Taking in consideration that they have not mentioned to which countries they are shipping to – they are only offering ground shipping which takes a while to reach you, they offer high shipping fees and no way to get free shipping option, I doubt this pharmacy deserves more than 2 stars given only for the *most countries shipping option*.
Payment Options
There is information on their website suggesting that BigMountainDrugs.com is accepting credit cards such as Visa and Master card, they also accept International Money Orders and Personal Checks. This is being confirmed both on the information I managed to find about payment options on FAQ page on their site and according to the icons presented on their website.
They are claiming that the pharmacy is not accepting money orders that are US only and state “negotiable only in the US” so that’s good to know. I am quite sure that most customers may find it satisfying as they have a diversity of payment options to choose from and for this reason my mark here is 4 points. I can’t rate them with maximum as there are many other payment option that can be added such as cryptocurrencies and others.
Technical Characteristics
Google Page Speed Data
Using the google page speed data test I am able to determine some technical characteristics that this online pharmacy website has. For example, the most important point here, to my opinion, is the page loading speed. That’s because there are few people out there, in my opinion, who would have the time to wait for each page to load. As you can see in the screenshot below, the mobile page speed load is really good – fast loading speed is a good indicator, however the optimization of the page is really low scored only 51/ 100. That’s something that you can see by entering their website as half of the page is blank – empty space. Site administrator needs to do something about this.
At least, the information I managed to find about the desktop version is absolutely satisfying as page speed is fast and optimization is good. The optimization is good but it is scored nearly medium – 80/ 100 which means that one point lower and the optimization is medium.
Google Page Speed data is offering recommendations on how to improve the overall situation. In the end, the technical characteristics are looking good and that’s why my rate for this unit is 4 points.
Mobile Version
According to another google test – Mobile Friendly Test, BigMountainDrugs.com is having a mobile version as the page displayed on a mobile device is user friendly making the site easy to be used on a mobile screen. Since it is user friendly, customers can easily arranged orders from different mobile devices without additional problems. The text is properly displayed, all the elements are easily noticeable and clickable elements are not too close to each other. As much as it seems, there are no visible problems that I could mention here and obviously, such a positive arrangement deserves 5 stars rate.
Is Connection Secure on BigMountainDrugs.com
From as much as it seems by trying to analyze the information I could get about the security measures on this website – all the connection and the transactions are safe and secure meaning that people shouldn’t be worried their personal data would be obtained by third party users. You can see that the website is secured by checking the green lock near the address bar. Clicking on *more information* after clicking on that green lock, you can see information suggesting that this online pharmacy is using 256 bit SSL encryption which is a high encryption level meaning that it is not so easy to get through this security.
The data of customers, even when transitioning is in safe. My rate is 4 stars. Will give 5 stars if there would be the website owner information as well which misses. It doesn’t influence the data protection of customers but a full transparency between customers and the site owner’s is going to be appreciated.
Antivirus Presence On-Site
The antivirus is extremely important as without one there’s a very high risk that customers would get their personal devices infected with viruses or some other online threats that exposes their personal data and personal lives at risk. Sadly but BigMountainDrugs.com does not seem to care about this as they do not offer an antivirus on their website meaning that people should protect their devices on their own by installing an antivirus or being extremely careful on what they are doing on this website. Being exposed to such a risk isn’t satisfying at all so my rate here is 1 point.
How To Make Orders?
There’s an entire page entitled *how to order* and people can access that website and you’re going to see how to order medications. As much as it seems there, people are having 3 different ways to purchase medications on this website. The first one is “order online using their secure checkout” second is “order over the phone” and the third is “order by mail or fax”. I am mostly going to pay attention to the first method which costs of 5 different steps including: search for the medications that you need; click *add to cart*; select *begin checkout* when ready or continue shopping by adding more items; select *new customers* if you’re new or enter the data if you’re a returning customers and lastly enter the contact info: name, address, email and phone number.
As much as you can see in their fourth step – if people want to make an order on this online pharmacy they need to register on the site. There you need to fill up some essential information as your name, city, phone numbers, birthday, allergies, medical conditions and others.
As you can see in that screenshot, you sign in, enter the billing information and confirm your order. In addition to that, they claim that after you’ve done it all, you need to upload a prescription that is offered by a licensed specialist if you plan getting prescription product.
Overall, the ordering procedure does not seem too hard and yet, you still need to register and plus to that – to enter some data about yourself until you will be able to register. All of this makes it not so easy to order and takes some time. My mark for *how to order* unit is 3 stars.
Is BigMountainDrugs.com Safe and Legit?
ScamAdviser.com Estimation of Big Mountain Drugs Security
Scamadviser.com is the site that I’m always checking to see if an online pharmacy is trustworthy and safe to use as in most cases, this scam warning engine can really help. Checking the screenshot below, you can see that scamadviser.com offered less than 50 % of trustworthiness which is pretty low and that’s even though the domain age is 9 years (as promised, by the way). A long lasting pharmacy with low trustworthiness isn’t a good sign. Scamadviser.com thinks the site is suspicious and people should review the data. Plus to that, although they claim to be located in Canada, probable origin website is most likely either from US or Barbados. Another alarming thing is that a malware report has been detected for this site too.
That’s all not very encouraging to purchase medications here as there are strange things going around. Plus to all of that, the popularity of this online pharmacy, for whatever the reason is hidden. The mark I am going to offer for this information is 2 stars as it has an overall suspicious reputation.
Prescription Request
As I said this earlier, this online pharmacy is offering both prescription and OTC medications. A really good thing is the fact that before you are going to click on a drug, you can see that the pharmacy is either asking for a prescription or not to get that drug because it has an icon attached near the drug with either Rx or OTC.
People are able to send their prescription using different methods. You can upload your prescription online, send it to them by fax, by email or by mail as well. The phone number, the email address and the address where to send the prescription are given on their site.
It seems they are taking customers’ health and safeness seriously and requesting a prescription is a sign of legal pharmacy. This makes me rate them with 5 points.
LegitScript.com Legitimacy About BigMountainDrugs.com
This online pharmacy is asking for a prescription taking this aspect very seriously and I was having hopes to see a positive result checking for the pharmacy’s legitimacy on legitscript.com. This site is offering an estimation of different online pharmacies legitimacy and so I checked it for the site we’re currently talking about. Unfortunately, we are not dealing with an approved internet pharmacy as I hoped. This pharmacy got the ROGUE approval status meaning that customer rights may be violated when trying to use their services. This is the worst approval status legitscript.com can offer and for such a status, the pharmacy cannot receive anything more than 1 point for this unit.
BigMountainDrugs.com Reviews
Reviews about BigMountainDrugs.com On-Site
The customer reviews are giving us an image about how an online pharmacy is treating their customers because those reviews are written by people who already had experience with the pharmacy. Regretfully, there are no customer reviews being presented on the website. With no reviews on their site, people are not able to estimate what might be the level of personal satisfaction that is being taken from some previous website using experience. I honestly think that the site administrator’s need to do something about this by adding an opportunity to leave comments on the site. Without being able to read any reviews to estimate what’s like to purchase medications from this site, my mark can’t be higher than 1 point.
External Reviews about BigMountainDrugs.com
Since I have found no customer reviews on their own website, it is obvious I got really interested if there are some external reviews about this online pharmacy as I really hoped to find some since the site seem to be online for the last 10 years, nearly. Doing this internet search I did found review about this pharmacy and that’s really good. The first review that I found was written directly on scamadviser.com suggesting the site should be avoided because of fraudulent charges.
However, that negative review was written 2 years ago. I continued doing my research and I found other sites with reviews. One of them is pissedconsumer.com. There are 40 different reviews and there are both positive and negative reviews.
All in all, there seem to be a lot of people who claimed they have lost a lot of money, but there are people who said they got outstanding service. My overall rate for such reviews is 3 out of 5 stars as there are a lot of positive customer reviews and there are a lot of reviews on different websites indicating that they are all most likely real and not fake. Nevertheless, although there are many positive reviews my rate is 3 stars because many people said they have lost money using this pharmacy.
BigMountainDrugs.com Coupon Code
According to the information that I have managed to find on their site, the pharmacy is offering 5% rewards program.
With this being said, people are able to save 5% on their next order if they would continue ordering from this online pharmacy. Another thing to mention here is the fact that they are offering: “Today’s Big Mountain Specials”. By clicking there you’re going to be redirected on a page with 6 different drugs claimed to have special offers.
As you can see, Levitra, Cialis and Viagra with 3 other medications are having a special price. One last thing to mention is the fact that this online pharmacy seem to offer coupon codes, however, I couldn’t find them anywhere online. Maybe the 5% rewards program give the coupon code. Not sure but they do have the coupon code space.
All in all, my rate is 2 stars as there is no free shipping, no free pills, the coupon codes that I’m not sure where to find, the special prices which aren’t *so special* and the 5% reward program which is the only thing worth it, but that’s not that much in my opinion.
Quality Certificates
There are icons on their website suggesting to be CIPA and IPABC approved as well as pharmacychecker.com approved pharmacy.
But those are only empty icons without proving this and so I checked the Cipa’s official website where I found this:
For the quality certificates I am going to rate them with 5 stars.
Customer Support Service
Contact Information on BigMountainDrugs.com
I have checked the page on their website where I have found they are offering enough information there. The page you would see is something like this:
As you can see in the screen, there are phone and fax numbers, email address and their physical address with their working hours included. Since all the necessary information is included my rate is 5 stars here.
Trying to Get a Consultation
There is no live chat function so I tried to get a consultation by sending them an email. I have waited for a period of 24 hours and I expected to get some response but I didn’t get one. My rate for such an irresponsible customer support service is 1 star.
Conclusion: Not a Highly Trusted Pharmacy With No Customer Support Service
BigMountainDrugs.com is an online pharmacy that has its main office located in Canada which has good customer review on third party websites and that might inspire trust. Nevertheless, the pharmacy is low trusted by scamadviser.com, it has rogue legal status on legitscript.com, it has customer reviews suggesting they got scammed by this pharmacy and no antivirus on the site.
The technical characteristics are good of this website with good security measures and a reward program. However, there are no other special offers with average prices for medications and high shipping fees. Before ordering here, I recommend checking everything twice.