In the UK, a three month prescription for tadalafil 5mg, 84 tablets once daily, on a private prescription i.e not covered by the NHS, costs £9 or about $12, so the actual cost from the manufacturer is even lower than stated in the article. This would mean that the real $12 cost has been inflated to somewhere around $3000 in the US. Unbelievable!

Amazon doesn't care about product safety. Or counterfeit goods. Nor do they normally care about fake reviews because normally when this is brought to their attention they just say "we're shocked, shocked I tell you!" BUT unfortunately in this case an unsecured database hosted - ironically -by Amazon had rather a lot of smoking guns in public view. And the recent ruling over product safety that came from a faulty hoverboard has unfortunately focussed attention on Amazon both by regulatory authorities but also predatory lawyers. So you can bet Amazon legal took one look at this and realised that for once Amazon better be seen to be doing something. And here we are...