CVS called me "why did you transfer your Rx?"

[tinky1966]

Ah Ha! Very good point!

Thank you so much!

[kookoo]

Originally Posted by wisewallet

I think you can transfer the Adderall. Just bring an empty bottle from a different pharmacy, and the paper Rx from the shrink in. I think it will count. worked for me if I remember correctly.

You can not "refill" Adderall, it is a controlled substance, same as narcotics, you have to have a new hand written script every month, by law.

I fill it every month for my DS and always manage to come up with a New Script Q. Luckily, in AZ they have been putting them in the paper (4 a week, per flyer) for several weeks.

We are a medicated (large) family, I have about $300 in gift cards currently......

[sablouwho]

Not sure about other areas, but where I live it seems that "new" Rx coupons are much harder to find than "transfer" ones.

Whether a coupon is accepted if it says "transfer" when it is a "new" prescription or vice versa really seems to depend on the person who checks you out at the pharmacy, seems to be a YMMV situation. I have had two different people in the same exact pharmacy deal with the same kind of situation differently--one accepted "transfer" Q on a brand new prescription whereas the other person (on a different day/different trip) told me that I couldn't use the coupon because it was a "new" prescription and the coupon said "transfer."

Originally Posted by kookoo

You can not "refill" Adderall, it is a controlled substance, same as narcotics, you have to have a new hand written script every month, by law.

So, for someone the situation kookoo has described, but cannot get their hands on a "new" coupon, it still might be worth trying to do. (I.e. take your old bottle from pharmacy A with you, and present it to pharmacy B along with the new prescription, and see if they will honor a transfer coupon.) It seems that some pharmacies (like the CVS in my area) will accept a coupon regardless of whether it says "new" or "transfer" because they want to keep the pharmacy business and not loose it to a competitor.

Seems like this is a highly variable situation and it is hard to predict in advance what will happen. I always go into the pharmacy hoping for the best, yet realizing I might be told "no".

[sablouwho]

It seems that I use up my Rx gift cards more quickly at the grocery store, and that my CVS gift cards seem to last much longer.

I have to get some refills and even though I know that CVS will probably accept coupons even though the prescriptions were already filled at CVS last month, I am planning to take them to the grocery store because I have run out of GC $ at my grocery store whereas I still have two GC's from CVS which still have enough $ on them.

Sometimes I wonder how long these promotions will last. KWIM?

[cashio5smama]

Originally Posted by ksteven

SD said she emailed about getting gc for transfered and was told it was not allowed in MO, however, my friend down the street said she got one. they live across town from each other. anyone know about MO?

I live near Springfield and we get coupons all the time for Dillons(Kroger) and CVS for $20 and $25 GC's I have RX that are written monthly and I get a GC with each one.

[Berkley69]

I know I'm finding this thread a little late, I was doing a search and this came up. I want that phone call! I just transferred a(n) rx yesterday from CVS to RiteAid ($20 gc) but I'd rather have CVS' $25, plus I shop at CVS more often...... well I'll wait and see...

[marunyan]

Originally Posted by kierra57

Can I get a giftcard at CVS when I go to get refills? I assume you can only get the $25 giftcard when you TRANSFER only. Anyone tried?

I haven;t done this but a friend--that got me started here--says they do it for her. She just shows them the Q and then they are happy she has stayed!

[nikarphar]

Kroger is getting really strict about these gift card offers. I have been turned down 2 times with a cvs coupon saying they were fake.well I'll never go back to kroger that's for it!

[angelaira]

My son is on ADHD meds, and so when I get his prescription, I take it to one pharmacy, and tell them to keep it for me, then I transfer it to another one without ever filling it at the first one, and this counts as a transferred prescription and I have gotten the gift card this way every time. My stores are Longs, Walgreens, Target, and Rite Aid that I have done this between, and it is Longs that had the "transferred prescription" wording. I think Walgreens is next, but my son got switched to Medical from Healthy Families this month, and I am pretty sure they won't honor it for Medical patients, so I might be out of luck, but maybe this will help someone!!
When I drop off at Rite Aid to transfer to Longs, I just tell them to hold the prescription and not fill, the lady was laughing at what I was doing, I told her it was so I could get the gift card from Longs, she did it with no problem at all!

[aclowers]

Originally Posted by nikarphar

Kroger is getting really strict about these gift card offers. I have been turned down 2 times with a cvs coupon saying they were fake.well I'll never go back to kroger that's for it!

Oh please, I hope you don't write off the whole store just because of a strict pharmacy. I had trouble, with them as well and just don't use their pharmacy. They would send me coupons for $60 if I transferred my rx's but whenever I tried they would come up with some excuse. I figure it's their loss.

But, I go Krogering a lot and most of my staff is pretty nice. The day manager is great and has no problem with my coupons or my entertainment.com book that I use constantly at his store. With their $10/10 deals and BOGO matched up with coupons, oh honey. You can make a killing. Now, they have a campain going where every time you use their coupon they will donate to a clean water campain for others. Sometimes they will have amazing compaigns that will actually pay you for shopping there.

Hopefully, I misunderstood and you are just banning the pharmacy, cause wow there's a whole lota Kroger out there, just waiting to be explored.