Ethics opinion, please

[vince13]

Well I think the others on here have been extremely polite to you. You seem to me to only want to cash in on your excess of luck getting more strips than you need. Thinking of GIVING the strips away to those who could really use them doesn't seem to have entered your head. Shame on you !

(OK moderators I expect you to delete these sentiments but I felt someone ought to say it !) 😡

 

[Andy HB]

Bearing in mind that prescriptions are paid through our taxes/national insurance, if they're subsequently sold on ebay one is effectively profiteering at the expense of everyone else.

Not something I would be happy doing.

Giving them away free of charge is one possibility. Not receiving them in the first place is another.

Andy

 

[trophywench]

I'm nowhere near a Moderator on here, but the OP did say why she was asking the question - and that she'd already offered them to the one person she already knew who didn't want em, so let's me a bit flexible can we? I agree with Ellie incidentally, I also believe it's illegal to sell on prescription items, incidentally so you don't want to do that.

It was suggested on 'other DSF' a while ago that the 'reputable' ones for sale on eBay (on the assumption that there is any such thing as reputable in this context) are actually sourced from Third World Countries where the wholesale and retail prices are pegged lower than ours to try and assist the local population. That sounds well and good but who is providing the subsidy for the strips on eBay? It's always us, because our Government give Billions of ???? to these countries .... and ours are commensurately higher I venture to add, to defray the cost to the manufacturers of that discount. If it's of any interest, my pharmacist tols me that the Accu-Test ones are actually made in China and another make at the self-same factory. I'll stop because this is turning into a rant, sorry.

I really can't imagine the strips come from UK pharmacies, that is to say IF they come in the OEM's packaging. Have you ever tried to unstick a pharmacy label off a cardboard box? Stick like s*** to a blanket! LOL

Finally the OP has been given several suggestions of what to do with them - either the charity or another post headed 'Free to a Good Home'.

So let's give em a flipping chance to do the 'right thing', please.

 

[Northerner]

I remember asking the question ages ago about where the ebay strips come from. It seems that a lot are close to their expiry date and therefore sourced from abroad as surplus that cannot be sold/dispensed via pharmacies.

 

[mcmoby69]

its rather unfortunate that many t2's receive test strips without the education to tell them what to do with the results. on the other hand some t2's who could act on the test results dont get enough. the law of sod i suppose!😛

 

[Ellie Jones]

Here you are under the Medicine Act 1968 it's ilegal http://www.nhs.uk/chq/Pages/1325.aspx?CategoryID=73&SubCategoryID=101

I personally feel that people have been polite towards the OP, if anybody feels that showing a polite distain is out of order then I know for one the reply I could gave is very restrained to what my personal opinion actually is..

 

[Steff]

Faith is 100% right in what she says, but I would never have the courage to say it

 

[vince13]

Finally the OP has been given several suggestions of what to do with them - either the charity or another post headed 'Free to a Good Home'. So let's give em a flipping chance to do the 'right thing', please.

I think the problem for me is that the way the original post was worded it was pretty obvious that they wanted to dispose of their over-prescribed strips for money even though they implied they knew how much each pot costs and had in the past bought the extra strips before the "over prescribing" happened - personally at this stage, I would just have not ordered any more but gone through the strips in my cupboard before re-ordering.

Yes, the original poster has now been given ideas for disposing of the strips - but we'll never know will we ?

 

[cherrypie]

I think the problem for me is that the way the original post was worded it was pretty obvious that they wanted to dispose of their over-prescribed strips for money even though they implied they knew how much each pot costs and had in the past bought the extra strips before the "over prescribing" happened - personally at this stage, I would just have not ordered any more but gone through the strips in my cupboard before re-ordering.

Yes, the original poster has now been given ideas for disposing of the strips - but we'll never know will we ?

It takes all sorts Faith.😉I have known people buy from e-bay and they are obviously prescribed in this country as an attempt to pull the chemist label off was not wholly successful.
When you consider all the Type2's who cannot get one strip on prescription and others have a surplus it shows the postcode lottery that exists.
NICE say they are available as part of a structured education programme so what went wrong here? Any Type2 using 12 per day has not learned to use them properly.

 

[hotchop]

12 strips a day is not massive as occasional usage.. not when you consider waking, food, 2 hour, any excersise, snacks or illness......it soon adds up

There is a market on ebay because there is demand, regardless of the reasons and the consequences to the public purse.

If the public purse mattered to even 10 % of the population, there would be little benefit fraud, no exaggerated disability claims, blue badge abuse.. the list goes on and on.

I personally have a big issue with dvd piracy - Eventually, it will kill my organisation, put me out of work and it is known to fund underground crime... yet ppl still buy copies.. Everyone knows its both wrong and illegal.. but they still buy them>>>> its the same sort of thing.

There are many things people do for money that they keep to themselves because they know the reaction or public perception that they will face and I think that the OP may have been a little naieve in asking a group of diabetics when they could have asked a completely different spectrum of people and had a very different response.

If I was skint, I would sell my suprlus on Ebay without hesitation...

If I wasnt skint, I would use my surplus before ordering anymore from the docs.

 

[Robster65]

This thread is now closed.

Rob