saw this deal advertised on TV and confirmed at Seller's website
Accu Chek Active Blood Glucose Testing Meter Kit
$4.99 Online Store may be same proce In store as well(No Test Strips Included) (P&H Extra)
SRP $39.00 Save $34.01
Product Code: EP61251
First post so please be gentle!
They are usually free anyway. No deal. It is the strips that you have to pay top dollar.
where do they giveaway this brand for free? would have save dme $70.00 i paid to get it for my wife :(
This brand gives 100% rebate all the time. It's the strips that they make their money from.
See previous deals - regularly free or almost free on various models after cashback, but expensive consumables (but those can be fairly cheap by joining Diabeties orgs, Pension/HCC - ask at the Chemists)
http://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/71255
http://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/61884
http://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/43898
http://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/43092
http://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/33189
etc
Might be worth mentioning that the packet of test strips the product requires to function is nearly $50. So unless you really need this product for health reasons it's probably not worth buying just for the medicine cabinet.
For those needing the strips - seems significantly cheaper than many other sites:
http://www.diabetesvic.org.au/shop?page=shop.browse&category…
Probably need to qualify for C'th govt's:
"National Diabetes Services Scheme (NDSS)"
Just to members?
Just to folks in Vic.?
Excellent Prices $15.20 (Chem Wearhouse $49.53), each for 100 tests.
(haven't checked S+H)
Include S+H i price?
Vic wins my respect again! :-)
in nsw, if ur doctor signs ur ndss form for membership, u get strips for <$16 from any chemist participating in ndss scheme.
NDSS is available through all states (national, after all..) and is free to join for people diagnosed with diabetes who have a Medicare card. http://www.ndss.com.au/en/Register/ So prices are nothing new, you can get it anywhere you find a pharmacy registered to provide NDSS items. :)
Chemist warehouse received these for free but they still want to ripe you off for a few dollars.
what a crime! a business trying to make money!
They are using the Inkjet Printer Business Model with these units. Cheap to buy, expensive to run.
Then someone needs to make after market strips.
If the quality of aftermarket/generic or refill ink is anything to go by, we'd see alot of deaths if they did
They are actually cheap to buy, and cheap to run, but in the expend of tax payer funded scheme to provide highly subsided strips.
PS. The "Active" is not actually a good machine, need more blood, old model and bucky . Much better to buy an expensive one, and get 100% cashback.
Bought 1 because it's a bargain! Better hit the sugar so I can get diabetes quicker.
You would wish you had never wished for it!
You sometimes get these for free (after rebate)
This is better IMO as you do not wait eons for the rebate.