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Medicines on E-bay
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Is it legal for members of the general public to sell Over-The-Counter medicines on E-Bay?
Surely they are only to be sold by pharmacists? And yet E-Bay has a whole section for OTC medicines...
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Surely they are only to be sold by pharmacists? And yet E-Bay has a whole section for OTC medicines...
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http://pages.ebay.co.uk/help/sell/policies.html#prohibit
So clearly everything that is illegal to sell in the UK, should also be illegal in ebay in the UK. Remember, however, that the terms to describe items for sale are universal throughout the world, which may have different laws on what is for sale.
On another note, the actual content of the OTC section is mainly some spam medication and things that aren't over the counter at all - just things you'd be able to buy from any supermaket.
More info here.
It would be illegal to buy and sell prescription only medications through ebay.
Surely anything over the counter would be illegal too, codiene for example.
I know most of the stuff in that section is just pills for penis growth etc and aren't actually OTC medicines anyway but I was just surprised that E-Bay had organised a section for the sale of OTC medicines.