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Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Feedback from my great customers

I want to share with you some of the feedback I got from my great customers. I got so far 308  positive feedback. I get so happy to see another positive feedback everyday in my shop. This makes me more motivated to work harder and improve the shop  to be  better, nicer look and easier to find the things in there.

 Thanks for taking time and read this blog today. I appreciate if you follow my blog too.

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I absolutely LOVE this. It was going to be a gift but I love the colors so now it is staying with me! Thank you for such quality work and speedy delivery!



These are gorgeous -- pretty & glamorous at the same time! Many thanks & happy holidays!


Gorgeous in person..........can hardly wait to wear it, and show it off! Thank you for the Super Fast Shipping too!


a very beautiful kind of malachite; one of a kind it really is. most malachite doesn't have this incredible color to it. many thanks


Even more beautiful in person! Thanks for great customer service and fast shipping; I love these earrings!!


OOO They are so so so perfect just got them yesterday fast shipping! Such a cute product they are gonna look perfect in my flowers!      
               
                                    


This is amazing. I didn't really look at the size in the description. It's so much larger than I thought and just gorgeous! I would highly recommend this seller for supplies, but especially for jewelry!



Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Costco

I don't have anything to blog and then I got this email from a friend and said to myself why not post it here. It's a long post so forgive me.

Did you ever wonder how much it costs a drug company for the active ingredient in prescription medications? Some people think it must cost a lot, since many drugs sell for more than $2.00 per tablet. We did a search of offshore chemical synthesizers that supply the active ingredients found in drugs approved by the FDA. As we have revealed in past issues of Life Extension a significant percentage of drugs sold in the United States contain active ingredients made in other countries. In our independent investigation of how much profit drug companies really make, we obtained the actual price of active ingredients used in some of the most popular drugs sold in America .

Celebrex:100 mg
Consumer price (100 tablets): $130.27
Cost of general active ingredients: $0.60
Percent markup: 21,712%



Claritin:10 mg
Consumer Price (100 tablets): $215.17
Cost of general active ingredients: $0.71
Percent markup: 30,306%



Keflex:250 mg
Consumer Price (100 tablets): $157.39
Cost of general active ingredients: $1.88
Percent markup: 8,372%



Lipitor:20 mg
Consumer Price (100 tablets): $272.37
Cost of general active ingredients: $5.80
Percent markup: 4,696%



Norvasc:10 mg
Consumer price (100 tablets): $188.29
Cost of general active ingredients: $0.14
Percent markup: 134,493%

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Paxil:20 mg
Consumer price (100 tablets): $220.27
Cost of general active ingredients: $7.60
Percent markup: 2,898%



Prevacid:30 mg
Consumer price (100 tablets): $44.77
Cost of general active ingredients: $1.01
Percent markup: 34,136%



Prilosec: 20 mg
Consumer price (100 tablets): $360.97
Cost of general active ingredients $0.52
Percent markup: 69,417%



Prozac:20 mg
Consumer price (100 tablets) : $247.47
Cost of general active ingredients: $0.11
Percent markup: 224,973%



Tenormin:50 mg
Consumer price (100 tablets): $104.47
Cost of general active ingredients: $0.13
Percent markup: 80,362%

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Vasotec:10 mg
Consumer price (100 tablets): $102.37
Cost of general active ingredients: $0.20
Percent markup: 51,185%



Xanax:1 mg
Consumer price (100 tablets) : $136.79
Cost of general active ingredients: $0.024
Percent markup: 569,958%







Zocor:40 mg
Consumer price (100 tablets): $350.27
Cost of general active ingredients: $8.63
Percent markup: 4,059%

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Zoloft:50 mgConsumer price: $206.87
Cost of general active ingredients: $1..75
Percent markup: 11,821%





At the end of the report, one of the anchors asked Mr. Wilson whether or not there were any pharmacies that did not adhere to this practice, and he said that Costco consistently charged little over their cost for the generic drugs.


I went to the Costco site, where you can look up any drug, and get its online price. It says that the in-store prices are consistent with the online prices. I was appalled. Just to give you one example from my own experience I had to use the drug Compazine which helps prevent nausea in chemo patients.

I used the generic equivalent, which cost $54.99 for 60 pills at CVS. I checked the price at Costco, and I could have bought 100 pills for $19.89. For 145 of my pain pills, I paid $72.57. I could have got 150 at Costco for $28.08.

I would like to mention, that although Costco is a 'membership' type store, you do NOT have to be a member to buy prescriptions there as it is a federally regulated substance. You just tell them at the door that you wish to use the pharmacy, and they will let you in.