Self-Introduction of PlanetDrugsDirect.com
PlanetDrugsDirect.com is an online pharmacy that claims to be based in Canada and a pharmacy approved by CIPA (Canadian International Pharmacy Association). According to the information I managed to find on their website, they are not an actual online pharmacy, but online prescription referral service that is offering customers an instant access to affordable prescription and non prescription drugs. They claim that customers can save a lot of money on their cheap drugs offered online, up to 80% compared to other pharmacies out there. According to the information placed on their website, the pharmacy is safe to use, they claim that getting your rx to them is very easy; they are offering consistent shipping time frames and they claim to be cheap. They also claim to be active on social media pages and they claim to offer coupons and special offers, but we are going to check it all later. Also, according to the information on the website, the pharmacy seem to be run by COASTAL HEALTH GROUP INC. or at least, that’s the information I managed to find on their website. Plus to that, the pharmacy seem to be online for 17 years as they were opened back in 2001. They have information suggesting to offer: accountability; identifying purposes; consent; limiting collection; limiting use, disclosure and retention; accuracy; safeguarding personal information; openness; customer access as well as handling customer complaints and suggestions. So all in all, the pharmacy claims to be absolutely all legal, licensed and they are selling high quality drugs for low prices internationally and they claim that 400,000 customers trust them so everyone can do it. That’s all very good but we are going to need to check it all and determine if this is true or not.
Assortment Diversity
According to the information that I have managed to find on their website, the pharmacy is offering medications that are being categorized in 3 groups. The first one is Prescription Drugs and Non-Prescription Drugs as well as Pet Meds.
Customers can search for their needed drugs based on these 3 categories or they can search for the needed drugs through the search box function which you can see on their main page. This option on Planetdrugsdirect.com looks like this:
If you click on the prescription drugs category you can see the top sellers medications on their site, different medications for different health conditions can be found there. But to find the needed drug here you should use the browse by letter function. All of this is displayed on their *prescription drugs* as soon as you click on it like this:
By clicking on non prescription drugs you can find information suggesting there are 158 different items there. The products seem to be arranged alphabetically.
It does seem that this online pharmacy is offering both generic and branded medications, they offer pet medications, prescription drugs as well as non prescription drugs. nevertheless, we cannot understand what’s the assortment of drugs here and I do find this to be quite a bit of drawback as we don’t know what’s the assortment of drugs here. For this reason, I am going to rate them with 4 stars. The assortment does seem to be pretty wide, lots of different medications prescription and OTC seem to be here including generics for those with limited budgets and brands for those who don’t trust generics.
Prices Affordability
As I earlier mentioned, this online pharmacy is claiming to offer very cheap prices for medications, prices that can save customers a lot of money compared to other pharmacies, save up to 80%. That’s the information I managed to find on their website.
In order to find out if that’s true or not, I had to check the prices on their website and be sure that this is not a fake claim. For checking the prices I would need to check the ED medications and doing so I found out that Viagra price is greatly depending on the dosage and on the quantity of pills you decide to purchase. Unfortunately, they do not offer the price per pills, but I did found out that 4 tablets of brand Viagra mg is priced with 63 USD and 88 tablets are priced with 536.99 USD. To be honest, that’s by far not the most affordable price that I’ve ever seen. The generic form of Viagra is priced with 14.99 USD for 4 tablets and 118.99 USD for 88 tablets of generic Viagra 50 mg.
I also got interested in checking the prices for Cialis where I found out that 88 tablets of brand Cialis 20 mg is priced with 1,300.99 USD and 88 tablets of generic Cialis 20 mg is priced with 204.99 USD.
All in all, I can’t say that these are the best prices that I’ve ever seen as I do think the prices are quite overestimated. The price policy here is by far not the best, but they are by far not the worst compared to other online pharmacies prices. Customers may save a little bit compared to the prices they can find at their local pharmacies and that’s the only reason I can’t rate them with lower than 3 points, but I can’t rate them higher either.
Shipping Options
According to the information on their website, they shared a full list of countries where they ship to. So, they do seem to offer international shipping but they do not offer world wide shipping. The pharmacies are shipping to Australia, Brazil, Chile, China, Costa Rica, El Salvador, France, Hong Kong SAR China, Israel, Italy, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, Philippines, Romania, Singapore, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, and United States. However, they claim that if your country is not listed above then you should contact the customer support service and maybe they would process the order. Plus, they claim that in case the package is seized by the customs or regulatory authorities then their pharmacy will offer to re-send the package. This pharmacy do not accept returns as they claim, because of legal requirements.
According to the info on the site, the average shipping time is approximately 14 to 28 days, however if your parcel is not delivered within 28 days then you should contact them. It seems that there are no other shipping options. I managed to find out that the shipping is free in United States, however all other destinations shipping fee is 19,95 USD.
In the end, I can’t rate the shipping options with more than 2 stars. That’s because I couldn’t find any free shipping to other countries except for USA, they do not offer other shipping options (not mentioning the overnight shipping option), they have limited countries to which they ship and they have a high shipping fee. No information about the online tracking either without returns.
Payment Options
While I was searching for information about payment methods, I couldn’t find anything at all until the moment that I went on the checkout page. I managed to find those payment methods only after I checked out and for doing so on this pharmacy, you have to spend a bit of time. I honestly think this is very inconvenient as you should spend a lot of time here and in the end you may not like the payment methods accepted here.
So, I found out that this pharmacy is accepting such payment methods as: electronic check – preferred method; check or international money order via mail; credit card; wire transfer.
I honestly think that it is good they accept multiple payment methods, but it is not good they don’t share any information about them. My rate here is 3 stars.
Technical Characteristics Data
Google Page Speed PlanetDrugsDirect.com
I honestly think that the technical data of any online pharmacy’s site is extremely important and that’s because a lot of modern customers may not want to wait for the pages to load or other technical data to make it inconvenient to order from a site. Different aspects are going to be checked but the first one is google’s page speed test. This test is analyzing how fast the site’s mobile and desktop version are loading. According to the information I managed to find there on the site, the mobile version is having an average page speed, it is 55 scored and yellow marked. This means that some page speed issues may arise. The desktop version is near to perfect, green marked and scored with 99 out of 100.
All in all, the website administrators should do something about the mobile version page speed and until they fix the problem, I am going to rate them with 4 stars.
Mobile Version Planetdrugsdirect.com
According to the information that I managed to find on the mobile version test that is offered by google developers, the mobile version is present and it does seem to operate well for PlanetDrugsDirect.com. I was not able to find out any noticeable drawbacks, I noticed the mobile version has no scrolling, the text is easily readable, clickable elements are far away from each other and the images are normally sized.
I tried to access the site from my own smartphone and I noticed they indeed have a mobile version. Since it is all good, the mobile version of this online pharmacy well deserves a 5 stars mark.
Is Connection Secure on Planet Drugs Direct?
In order to be able to check if the online pharmacy is having a secure connection, customers should check for a green lock if present near the domain address bar. If the green lock misses it means the connection is not secure with the website you visited. By accessing planetdrugsdirect.com you can see the green lock there which indicates the connection is secure. That’s really good and it is very important as the customers’ personal data is protected, and this is being verified by COMODO CA Limited. I have searched for more details and I found out that they are using 128 bit SSL encryption that is encrypting your personal data. However, this is a lower protection level as there is the 256 bit SSL encryption technology that is considered a better security. Another problem – the owner does not supply ownership information which is quite a problem as well. Anyway, at least some kind of security is still much better than nothing, my rate is 3 stars for this unit.
Antivirus Presence
While searching for an antivirus on their website, you can see there’s an icon suggesting the website is Norton Antivirus Secured. Often, an icon doesn’t mean anything but on planetdrugsdirect.com you can click on it and the following page displayed:
So this site is protected by an antivirus and this means that customers should feel safe when ordering drugs here. My rate – 5 stars.
Convenience of Making Orders on PlanetDrugsDirect.com
While I was trying to order medications at this online pharmacy I have noticed that I couldn’t continue and go any further without registering here. This is extremely important when talking about convenience of making orders because registration is taking too much time and energy. Worst thing is the fact that the registration on this website is extremely long and time consuming as they are requesting everything they can only except for the credit card number. Here they are asking a lot of medical information such as info about allergies, about medications, about diseases and so on. So, only the customers who are registering here and entering all the needed information are able to order here as avoiding the registration procedure is impossible.
Another extremely important factor to say here is – you cannot change the currency or the language on the website, you cannot know what are the shipping or the payment methods at this pharmacy without checking out. Other very big inconvenience – you cannot see what’s the price per pill, they do not offer categories of medications by health condition either. With all of this being said, the ordering convenience at this online pharmacy is not very convenient. With this being said, I doubt that someone would find ordering here too convenient so my rate is 1 star.
Is Planetdrugsdirect.com Legit?
Scamadviser.com Data about Planetdrugsdirect.com
It is obvious that before starting to order from any online pharmacy it is extremely important to check the online pharmacy’s legitimacy. There are a few factors that make us determine if a pharmacy is legit and I’m going to talk about each of them about planetdrugsdirect.com. The first one is the information we can get on scamadviser.com about this site.
As much as we can see in the screenshot, the website is low trust rating and this site may not be safe to use. That’s all because it got a trust rate index of 0%. Site is US based but also may be from Barbados. That’s because a lot of information is hidden and the site doesn’t seem to have anything to do with Canada – as they claimed. For such a scamadviser.com review my rate is 1 point. That’s sad – such a long lasting company that has no trust.
Prescription Request on Planetdrugsdirect.com
As I have earlier mentioned, the pharmacy is categorizing their medications in 3 main categories – pet medications, OTC medications and prescription drugs. They claim that absolutely all medications found in the prescription drugs cannot be purchased without a valid prescription for them. You can send them the prescription by methods listed on their site. In the end, this pharmacy seems to take the prescription policy very seriously and for this reason, my rate is 5 stars.
Legitscript.com about Planet Drugs Direct
The legitimacy status of planetdrugsdirect.com, unfortunately, is rogue according to legtiscript.com. this status means that the pharmacy is violating applicable laws of regulations. Because of this, customers needs to be extremely careful if they want to order anything from this online pharmacy and the reason is simple – the pharmacy might send customers fake medications or not send anything at all after transferring your money. Rogue status on legitscript.com deserves 1 star.
Certificates of Quality
According to the information on the website that I managed to find, the pharmacy claims to be verified by pharmacychecker.com and is currently having a valid verification status. In addition to that, the pharmacy also claims to be a CIPA verified pharmacy too. I have managed to find it all out my icons on their website.
Both the icons are clickable and both indicate this is true. With this being said, the pharmacy is getting a rate of 5 stars.
Customer Reviews on Pharmacy’s Website
Unfortunately, I was not able to find any customer reviews on their website. All that I found is the pharmacy’s suggestion to read customer reviews on canadapharamcyreviews.com. however, I do think that the pharmacy should have an option to read and write customer reviews on their own website. Because of this, my mark is 1 star for this unit.
Customer Reviews about PlanetDrugsDirect.com on Foreign Sources
As I earlier mentioned, this online pharmacy is suggesting to read the customer reviews on the other source with domain address canadapharmacyreviews.com. according to the information there, they are having 30,849 customer reviews and a total of 4.7 stars out of 5.
Most of the customer reviews, as much as we can understand, are positive and they seem to be unique. They are fresh – there seem to be 10+ reviews every day.
I addition to that, this pharmacy seem to have some other customer reviews on some other websites. All of this is great and for this reason I am going to rate them with 5 stars!
Planetdrugsdirect.com Coupon Codes
As it was earlier mentioned in my review, the pharmacy has information on their main page suggesting that customers are going to get 5% discount on your first order.
In addition to that, customers are said that they can get a coupon code that is going to give you another 5% discount if you are going to like their page on Facebook.
To be honest, I don’t think that these are the best options to save money. 5% discount is given only on your first order and then you are given 5% for liking their page. Then what’s next? It seems that these codes can be used once and that’s it. I am going to rate this unit with 3 stars are other coupon codes should be added and other ways to save some money.
Customer Support Service
“Contact Us” Information
Searching for the methods to get in touch with this online pharmacy, I have managed to find out the pharmacy is offering email, phone number, fax number, live chat as well as mailing address too.
That’s all amazing, but the problem is that the online pharmacy’s location doesn’t coincide with the one shared on scamadviser.com. This is too suspicious and for this reason my mark for this unit is 4 stars as the information seem to be complete.
Getting a Consultation
As I earlier said, this online pharmacy is offering a live chat function, and this is my preferred method to get in touch with online pharmacies. I have asked the live chat function consultant questions about payment methods and about the shipping methods. Both the questions were answered extremely shortly and in a professional manner.
For this reason, I can very easily offer them 5 stars for a professional live chat function and generally a good customer support.
Conclusion: CIPA approved but Rogue on Legit Script and 0% Trust on Scam Adviser
PlanetDrugsDirect.com is an online pharmacy with extremely suspicious legitimacy. That’s because this online pharmacy seem to be legitimate according to CIPA and to pharmacychecker.com, however they are having 0% trust on scamadviser.com and they are considered to be a rogue internet pharmacy according to legitscript.com.
This pharmacy seems to have a wide selection of drugs but we can’t determine it for sure for no categories of drugs. They have a bit overestimated prices but at least they have a bit of coupon codes which can make you save a bit of money. They have pretty good technical characteristics with antivirus and secure connection, however it is not convenient to order here at all. I am not very sure how worth it is to purchase here.