Self-Introduction of SimpleOnlinePharmacy.co.uk
SimpleOnlinePharmacy.co.uk is an online pharmacy which, as much as we can conclude only by checking their domain address information, is a simple pharmacy and is a pharmacy that is from UK, or at least, usually, sites ending in .uk are from UK. I found information on their website suggesting that they are also an Online Doctor pharmacy and all the medications that people can find on the site are allowable for sale by the MHRA organization (Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency). The pharmacy is offering NHS prescriptions and people can get free delivery directly to their door. According to the list of reasons why this pharmacy is worth using, the pharmacy has 5 different reasons including: Express Delivery, Genuine UK Medicines, Lowest Price Guarantee, UK Registered Pharmacy and also confidential and discreet. The About Us page displays information that suggests the pharmacy has been established in 2012 (but on copyright it suggests from 2013), and the pharmacy is always aiming to make their pharmacy as simple and cheap as possible. Their main office is located in Glasgow. Customers can use the contact form for complaints in case something goes wrong. So, people can shop high quality medications here (private prescription) and they are also offering online doctor services too for different conditions. There’s information on the site with the company’s registration number so customers can be assured the company is legitimate. The pharmacy is claiming that customers can get a wide selection of drugs from this pharmacy if they are interested and also they claim that customer support service is always doing their best so each customer would be happy with the service they get here. In addition to that, the pharmacy seem to be a social media user of Facebook and Twitter so customers can follow the company’s activity there.
SimpleOnlinePharmacy.co.uk Assortment Diversity
According to the information displayed on their main page, the online pharmacy is offering different drug categories which the pharmacy is calling them *popular clinics*. The categories include medications for: hair loss, weight loss, premature ejaculation; erectile dysfunction; malaria tablets; period delay; contraceptive pill and acne drugs. Here is how they look on their site:
I got interested in checking their ED drugs and I have managed to find 8 different medications with most famous drugs such as: Viagra, Cialis and Levitra including their branded forms and their generics along with: Spedra and Viagra Connect.
Except for this, the pharmacy is allowing customers to find the needed drug using the search bar option available on their website which show look like:
In the end, all in all, I wouldn’t say that the total number of drugs found at this pharmacy is very large. There are a some number of drugs in each category but I wouldn’t call it a lot, plus, there are no big number of categories of drugs either. My rate is 3 stars only because there seem to be popular drugs at this pharmacy that are mostly used by people.
Prices Affordability
This online pharmacy has shared information suggesting that they are offering very good prices for medications and I got interested if that’s true. To check the prices, I am going to check the ED types of drugs and I am going to estimate the prices. All the prices on this online pharmacy are specified in GBP. Remember that one GBP is 1.27 US Dollars. So, to estimate the prices I am going to take each medication in particular and I can say that sildenafil (generic Viagra) 50 mg is priced 9.99 GBP for 4 tablets. That’s around 12 USD for 4 tablets of generic Viagra and that’s about 3 USD per pill.
The brand Viagra is higher, of course, for example 50 mg of brand Viagra 4 tablets is 29.95 GBP. Honestly talking, that’s a bit overestimated price.
Next drug that I am going to talk about is vardenafil (generic Levitra) that’s priced 31.95 GBP for 20 mg x 4 tablets. That’s a really high price to my opinion.
The last drug that I am going to talk about is tadalafil (generic Cialis) which is priced with 22.25 GBP for 20 mg x 8 pills which is a bit better, but I still think that’s a really high price for the generic version.
The prices for brand Cialis and brand Levitra are obviously higher compared to their generic medications which are still overestimated to my opinion.
I honestly think that the prices at this online pharmacy are overestimated, regardless if we are talking about generics or branded medications, with this being said, people can save a little bit of money here, to be honest, however they can barely save something compared to local pharmacy’s prices and they definitely won’t save compared to other online pharmacies where the prices are much more better compared to the prices here. Not all customers may afford such high priced medications and this is the reason why I am going to rate them with only 2 points here.
Shipping Options
According to the information about shipping option on simpleonlinepharmacy.co.uk, they do offer international shipping but they delivery is not world wide as not all countries can order here. according to the information on the site only the following countries can order prescription drugs from the site: Republic of Cyprus, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Greece, Malta, and obviously, the UK. A few more countries can order non prescription drugs and cosmetic items from this pharmacy such as: Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, France, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Slovakia, Spain and Sweden.
According to the information on the site, they are offering 3 different shipping options which includes: standard delivery with a delivery timeframe of 2 to 5 days, express delivery via DX secure, but the delivery timeframe is not shared and there’s also next day delivery.
According to the information on the site, the standard shipping has a fee of 3.20 GBP, the express delivery fee is 4.99 GBP and the next day delivery is having the highest fee of 6.49 GBP. There is no information on the website suggesting the pharmacy is offering free delivery. In fact, there is barely any other information about the shipping options on the site.
My rating is 2 stars because they do not offer world wide shipping and a lot of information misses, without free delivery option. My 2 stars is only given for the next day delivery.
Payment Methods
Unfortunately, I was not able to find any other information on their website except for the one suggesting that they are accepting credit cards, so people can only use VISA and Master Card.
With this being said, customers have no other payment methods to choose from. They cannot pay with echecks, wire transfer, cryptocurrency or any other credit cards or any other forms of payment at all. I do think that the pharmacy should add other payment methods to accept. Until then, my rating is 2 stars only.
Technical Characteristics
Google Page Speed about the Website Loading
Using the Google Page Speed I determined the technical characteristics in terms of page speed load and as much as we can see in the screen below, the mobile version is having a very slow page speed load while the desktop version, although not perfect (scored 96 out of 100) it has a fast page speed load.
All of this means that customers will definitely have page speed loading using the mobile version but they shouldn’t have any with the desktop version. With this being said, the technical data is only satisfactory for the desktop version and for this reason, my rate can’t be higher than 3 stars for this unit.
Mobile Version
The mobile version of an online pharmacy is extremely important because there are around 50% of all the internet traffic being used from the mobile devices. Plus, this number seem to grow constantly. That’s why it is very important for all websites to have a mobile version for their site. Checking the mobile version with google mobile friendly test I discovered that the page is user friendly for mobile versions meaning that customers can easily arrange orders from their mobile devices.
The site is adapted for different types of mobile gadgets and that’s a big plus for this pharmacy. I tried to access the site from my own smartphone and the site is very well done being user friendly without optimization problem. The only problem it has is, as said earlier – the page is very slowly loading and I even had to reload the page. This is inconvenient for a mobile user and for this reason my rate is 4 stars. Fixing this problem would make me rate them higher.
Is the Connection Secure on SimpleOnlinePharmacy.co.uk?
Yes it does seems that the connection on simpleonlinepharmacy.co.uk is secure and all of the pages are secured and it seems there are no hidden information at all. Getting on their website you can see near the domain address bar the company owner information which is Simple Online Healthcare. This suggests there is no hidden information and the site has secure connection.
According to the information I managed to find, there is one problem – the encryption is only offered by a 128 bit SSL encryption level. It is obvious that this is much better than nothing as the customers data is still protected, nevertheless, it is better to offer the higher security level of 256 bit SSL encryption as this fully protects customers’ data from third party access. The encryption is verified by Symantec Corporation.
All in all, my mark is 4 stars for this unit as there is security and no hidden information, but a higher security level is preferable.
Antivirus Presence
I did have managed to find an icon on their website suggesting they are Norton secured meaning that no viruses should be on their website. I did clicked on that icon and a page displayed, a page suggesting that the site is indeed secured against viruses and their site has: encrypted data transmission; identity verified; malware scan and vulnerability assessment.
The certificate status is valid from August 23 2018 to September 22 2019. Since customers are fully secured against viruses and they can arrange orders here risk free, my rate is going to be 5 stars here.
How to Make an Order?
It seems that making an order with this online pharmacy is not very easy. That’s because customers should register an account before they would be able to register on the site. Customers need to create a login and password for ordering and the registration includes 2 steps: first name, last name, phone number, email, password and again password. The second step is entering your address. After you register – that’s not all as you also need to have a doctor consultation for ordering and enter your information about your health. It includes 4 different steps.
All in all, the pharmacy is not convenient to be used to my opinion. The customers should register and they should enter a lot of information along with a doctor consultation until they are able to order on the site. A lot of time and energy is consumed until you manage to place an order on the site. You cannot change the language or the currency on the site either. In the end, my rate is 2 stars. And I decided to offer them 2 stars only because they offer an option to *compare prices with different medications and other pharmacies.
Except for this, I honestly haven’t found anything worthwhile. With all of this being said, my final rate is 2 stars for the convenience of ordering at simpleonlinepharmacy.co.uk since it is not as simple as they claim.
Is SimpleOnlinePharmacy.co.uk Legit and Secure?
ScamAdviser.com about Simpleonlinepharmacy.co.uk Safety
Scamadviser.com is often having very valuable information about a pharmacy and so, I decided to check it all about simpleonlinepharmacy.co.uk. According to the info there, the site is 100% safe meaning that it has a high trust rating and the site looks pretty safe to be used. It has a lot of visitors which is very good but there are other problems – I was not able to find the pharmacy’s owner, company, address, phone etc. information being shared. Plus to that, the website location is US, but we were said this is an UK pharmacy.
All in all, the pharmacy is claimed to be safe, however no information about owner, company etc. is a problem along with the fact that site location is US while pharmacy is UK. This may be misleading. For this reason my rate is 4 stars.
Prescription Request
Except for the fact that this online pharmacy sends prescription products exclusively only if you have a valid prescription – not having a prescription is not a problem and that’s because they can give you one if you undergo their online doctor consultation. However, without a doctor consultation or without a valid prescription you are not able to order here.
All in all, the pharmacy does ask for a valid prescription or offers you one, but you cannot purchase prescription drugs without having one and with this being said, the pharmacy does not seem to break the law and for this reason, my rate is 5 stars – the pharmacy has a serious attitude over selling prescription drugs and even offering the option to get one if you don’t have it.
LegitScript.com about the Website Legitimacy
Another way to find out if the pharmacy is legitimate is to check the website through LegitScript.com service. However, the problem is that legit script doesn’t have any information about simpleonlinepharmacy.co.uk legitimacy.
This doesn’t mean the site is legitimate and this doesn’t mean the site is not legitimate and for this reason I can’t rate this unit.
Reviews about SimpleOnlinePharmacy.co.uk
Reviews on SimpleOnlinePharmacy.co.uk
The customer reviews are really important to check before making a conclusion if the pharmacy is actually worth it or not. I wanted to check for these reviews on their own website but, unfortunately, I didn’t managed to find any on their own website. I do see the recommendation on their website suggesting to read customer reviews written about them on trustpilot.com and that’s very good, nevertheless, there should be customer reviews on their own websites. Since there are none, my mark for the unit is 1 star.
Foreign Resources Reviews about SimpleOnlinePharmacy.co.uk
As said, the site is recommending customers to read customer reviews on trustpilot.com and I decided to check it myself. I managed to find out that there are 1,183 customer reviews and 89% of them rated them with 5 stars and only 2 % with 1 star with 9 % rest from 2 to 4 stars.
I honestly think that this is amazing. Most customer reviews are positive and there are a lot of them as much as we can see. They are unique and most likely trust worthy. Few negative reviews indicate they are trustworthy.
The few negative reviews didn’t suggested fraud but other problems like incorrect delivery address, slow delivery, *shambolic service* and big prices.
All in all, the customer reviews on foreign sites are really good and trustworthy. I just think that it is very strange – the pharmacy has 1000+ reviews on trustpilot.com, but it has no reviews at all anywhere else on other sites. Because of this strange fact my rate is 4 stars.
SimpleOnlinePharmacy.co.uk Coupon Codes
Unfortunately, I was not able to find any coupon codes or any other forms of discount codes, discounts, free stuff like free delivery or free pills or anything in this matter. They do not offer any promotions and to me that’s a big problem as customers have no chance to get any savings and reduce the prices for medications they may want to purchase here. This is a great way to attract customers but seemingly, the pharmacy doesn’t really care. That’s why my rating is 1 point for the coupon codes offered.
Customer Support Service
“Contact Us” Section
According to the information that I managed to find on the contact form the pharmacy does offer a phone number, their address, the pharmacy registration number and the contact form.
However, they have not shared what are their hours of operation, no email listed, no fax to send in case you have a prescription and plus, the address is in UK while on scamadviser.com the site is suggested to be from US. For all these reasons, my rate is 3 stars.
Customer Support Service
The pharmacy claimed they have live chat function but I was not able to get in touch with them through it. I guess they were offline. I was only able to leave a message. I did it and I have got a response back to my email within 24 hours period. Truth is that the response arrived 23 hours later. In addition to that, I didn’t love the fact I couldn’t reach them through live chat as they claim to have one. My rating is 3 stars here.
Conclusion: High Prices with No Coupon Codes but Reliable
SimpleOnlinePharmacy.co.uk is an online pharmacy that claims to be located in UK with an exact address offered. They are an online drugstore offering both generic and branded medications but the selection of medications at this pharmacy is pretty limited.
The pharmacy has good technical characteristics except for mobile version page speed load and the convenience of ordering here since you should register and enter a lot of data before ordering which takes a lot of time. The pharmacy does have a mobile version, fast page speed for desktop version, secured site with owner information and antivirus installed but they only use 128 bit SSL encryption.
The site does seem to be reliable since it has customer reviews on trustpilot.com (but no reviews anywhere else online, including their own website) and it has 100% trust from scamadviser.com. The pharmacy also does require a valid prescription to order here or they can offer online doctor consultation in case you don’t have one. Unfortunately, legitscript.com doesn’t have any information about this company.
They do have a responding customer support which is very good but there are several other issues: the pharmacy is only sending medicines across the Europe and not in all European countries. They do offer next day delivery but they have no free shipping option. In fact, the pharmacy has no promotional offers or coupon codes that can save your expenses and big problem is – you would have expenses here. The pharmacy does offer pretty high prices for medications, much higher compared to other online pharmacies.
Customers may use the pharmacy, but I’m not very sure if it’s worth it as long as they offer limited payment methods, limited countries where they ship, high prices for medications and absolutely no discounts.