Y'all want to know what's really fucked up? This is likely someone buying unused strips from the family of recently deceased diabetics, and they're probably reselling them on Facebook market place, etc.
Fucking hell (assuming it's real)
this post was submitted on 07 Nov 2025
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Oh for... no, it's not. Diabetic test strips are subsidized under medicare, and diabetics are given a great deal more of them than they can reasonably use in a month. Because cash benefits are largely unheard of in the US, those (sealed) strips have become a form of pseudocurrency (the sealed strips can then be resold to medical device suppliers or black-marketed to any number of places) and goes unregulated because even the cops think it's dumb to prosecute, so it lowkey flourishes provided nobody makes a big enough deal about it. Disabled people get some cash to help out, other disabled people get reduced cost medical supplies, some skeezy chick in a honda accord makes a cut as the middleman.
Wow. 🤯
That too, definitely.
Could be, that somehow feels less predatory than people who actively need them selling them to cover other expenses. I'll post the un-edited one if you want to call and ask. I didn't want to give these vultures any free publicity though.
The other angle is that they're enticing junkies to steal grandma's test strips, and only get pennies on the dollar for them anyway.
Not to be funny, but this has been a thing for years, like at least a decade years, but probably longer too.
I'm sure it has, it was news to me when I saw it though. Still messed up imo.
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I get way more CPAP supplies than makes sense from my insurance. I have thought about selling the surplus but I also think about holding onto it in case we lose our insurance. But cash right now sounds good.
Solid Armand Hammer album.
The text looks AI generated especially the text on the white sign.
I can assure you these are real signs
I've seen these signs in large cities and rural areas alike. I guess I've become numb to what I assumed was a black market in medical supplies.
Are others in the U.S. not seeing these signs or are the doubters outside the U.S.?
Can confirm, I just spent 15mins driving behind a beat-up minivan with this message in full coverage vinyl lettering on their back window.
It's just the look some phones give images when extremely zoomed in. Think it's just a sharpening effect applied to an image that would otherwise be a bit blurry.
Yeah, some background processing. I didn't tweak it except to take the number out.
Totally agree. Probably just some heavy AI image processing.
Just wicked zoomed in, taken on a Samsung A52 5g.
This is maybe because they have small amounts of gold in them. It's not enough to be worth the work of getting it out most likely, but it is tempting to some.