in the end I am sure they will say it was all a mistake.... after they pay off

Miguel Cocco for President

My Niece in The DR is an Intelectual Property Attorney in the DR. She works with the Major Pharma Companies in going after these guys.

She is really good at it as you can see.

an intellectual property attorney in the DR. you are hallucinating, right?

You would be surprised

Very surprised .. when did the Baboon-Human split occur? ..

an intellectual property attorney in the DR..
there seems to be an aximoron here!!!!

hopefully my viagra order wasn't on one of this trucks.

Many "third-world countries" serve as an outlet for "out-of-date" products from both the EU and the USA pharmacy companies.
These companies sell their outdated products on the black market to the highest bidder, without regard to the effectiveness of the products.
While many of the drugs are still viable for the uses intended in treating teh various maladies, there are still many that are not.
There is a physicians organization that buys a great deal of these products and uses them in third-world countries where there are no equivalents available.
Then there are those who re-label the outdated products that are otherwise useless and ineffective for treatment. It is these latter products that continue to show up in the marketplace.

TB

Old school no hope for you you better go with the pump or the electric tooth brush

Texas Bill, thank you for introducing that issue to the forum. pharmaceuticals are not the only concern here. there are unscrupulous types who ship in containerloads of outdated food products from places such as Miami, after their cohorts have doctored the expiry dates. these dirtbag types have no concern for the safety of the end user, only about making money. can you say Firing Squad?

The Caribbean has always been a dumping ground for out of date merchandise and grey market as well

not to mention prescription drugs and pesticides which the FDA has deemed unsafe for useage in america.

a bottle of brugal and some lambi will do. thanks for the suggestion anyway.
just one question how the heck an electric tooth brush is going to help me stay UP all night?

old school., you will find with time that Goulet has invented many a creative way to debauch and debase himself in that respect. i am sure he has ingenious ways to apply not only electric toothbrushes, but diverse other matter such as barbed wire, sardine cans, leaf blowers, and staple guns, just to think of a few. desperation begets ingenuity, they say.

lol you killing me dread!!!!! so instead of going to the pleasure emporium to shop for goodies
he goes to home depot.

Dumping ground?
Right. the evil US corporations forces the DR to buy the stuff.

yes, old school. so whenever you see him wheeling out an overloaded hand truck from Target or Home Depot, he is not planning to build a shed or an extension to the living room. he has just downloaded " DAISY BANGS SAN DIEGO", and is going home for a big, fun evening.

anthonyc, for a man who claims to have a doctorate, you have got to be the most clueless individual extant. stick to motorsports and leave thinking to those with the capacity to do it!

What a shame.
Again a Domincan fails to take responsibility for their own actions.

anthonyc, i fail to grasp the concept you allude to here. it appears to suggest that when you are ripped off by unscrupulous actors, it is because you did not act responsibly. let me give you an introduction into the world of civilised behavior. a purveyor of a product has a moral duty to sell products which function in the way they are intended. outdated drugs do not do this. pesticides which do more harm than good to the environment fall into the same category. people who have superior knowledge about a product, and is detrimental effects to the end user, are duty bound, if only by morality, to disclose the shortcomings to the purchaser. the fact that the USA and Europe have used the third world as a dumping ground for products it they would not allow their citizens to use speaks volumes about their moral decadence. it does not speak to the issue of irresponsible purchasing. this is not a case of buying contraband, and taking a chance. it is an issue of people acting depravedly

in order to dispose of worthless products in order to make money. these vendors victimise the poorest nations, those plagued with enough problems to begin with. it is a particularly twisted mind that asserts that the blame lies with the buyer, but then again you might very well be a used car salesman!

Dread I have to give this one to Tonyc having transshipped many containers and having attended many conventions where merchandise is being offered to Caribbean and LA and African etc 3 rd world...there is always a more than willing in fact enthusiastic local looking for this same outdated over the hill merchandise...Very seldom is the product shipped to the buyer where he is not aware of the condition...The buyers are prominent local merchants usually.who are looking for the deep dish deal,...Caveat Emptor

Dread are you trying to paint this with the same brush as Bhopal ?

Goulet, i beg to differ. the fact that the sellers are in collusion with the buyers is not the issue. the victims are the end users, people who are far removed from the transaction. the person who seeks to imperil a population by selling harmful merchandise is no better than a drug dealer. the unscrupulous buyers, who seek to make quick cash by buying substandard merchandise, are co-conspirators in this awful cycle. but , ultimately, it is the person who offers the merchandise for sale who is more to blame. one has to make a distinction between the buyer and the end user in this case.

Dread the expiry dates are often arbitrary and vary from state to state on food items....Pharmaceuticals on the other hand have very visible do not use after dates .

very true, Goulet. canned goods, for example, present no real danger to the consumer if the expiry date has passed. the suggestion is that they are " better if consumed before such a date ". medications are a different story, as they lose their efficacy with time, and sometimes are entirely worthless. it takes a particularly depraved person to sell medicine which he knows to be useless. it is not like selling a flat coca cola, or a mouldy Mars bar. in certain cases , it could be a matter of life and death. maybe that is the genesis of the term " merchants of death ". no, maybe not.

and, Goulet, the very visible expiry dates, to which you refer, are being altered by artistic forgers, in the same spirit of rolling back odometers to fool automobile purchasers.

You would know of these things from your car salesman days

yes, but the technology has passed me by. in the good old days, my old buddy Charlie Clocks from Long Island would simply dismantle the analog odometers and recreate the mileage of your choosing. with todays move to digitalia, the process becomes one for the more artful.