Better living through chemistry
The other day as I walked from Jones to Mango I picked up a few hawkers. They were selling Viagra, Cialis, Rolex, etc. I had actually bought some Viagra and Cialis in Manila a few months ago and it seemed legit and worked ok. These were in sealed boxes and looked real enough. They wanted PSP 1, 500 per box, to which I laughed. In Manila I had negotiated 6 boxes for a thousand. Eventually he was still chasing me at 5 boxes for PHP1, 000. Why not? He handed me the boxes, I handed him the pesos. Then he showed me that he had a sealed plastic bottle that said Cialis Tadalafil tadalafiili. I opened and read the insert, it said 50mg, which I had not seen before and the pills looked legit. The price was right so I bought.
Later I sat at a bench and opened the boxes to check. Dumb am I. Even though I have never had a problem before in Manila, I should have checked inside first. Sure enough some of the Viagra, though blue diamond shaped, did not look real. It had Chinese writing on the aluminum backing and, instead of saying Pfizer on one side and VGR100 on the other, the pills just say "VAG" on both. My guess is that the boxes were real, and they had bough cheaper generic pills and glued the boxes shut. And as for the Cialis, one box was missing two pills. Latter in the day I cornered the guy and he replaced the missing Cialis and gave me another box of what looks like real Viagra.
Anyone seen these "VAG" pills or 50mg Cialis before? Does it work? I am guessing it is Chinese generic, but could be talcum powder (or worse?)