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I recently got a new distributorship for from a medical supply manufacturer.
I don’t know what their prices were pre-pan/demic, but
HOLY SHIT MEDICAL SUPPLIES ARE SO FUCKIN GCHEAP OH MY GOD WHAT IS WRONG WITH THIS COUNTRY I’M LOSING MYFIUCKING SHIT!!!
*tries to calm down*
I always wondered how I was able to order some of the medical supplies we sell so cheaply when the companies I ordered from weren’t manufacturers themselves. Now I know. It’s because they were already charging SO MUCH MORE than they were paying and it was still super cheap on my end.
Like seriously I hated medical shit in this country already but this just
Okay I gotta calm down.
Insurance companies, pharmaceutical companies, and medical resale companies need to burn to the ground.
I don’t even order in super huge bulk amounts and yet ammonia inhalants (smelling salts -- tattoo artists and piercers use them when we have customers pass out during a procedure) are $3 my cost when buying from the manufacturer.
The same amount of caps from the wholesale supplier I used to buy from was $30 and that’s not even close to what the retail value is.
Oh and I can buy my parents super nice sturdy shiny fancy brand new medical-grade canes for $13 each.
Yes you read that right. Something that will cost the average consumer hundreds of dollars when they walk into a medical supply store to buy and a hospital will charge even more for will cost me only $13 (I’d still have to pay tax of course).
Don’t even get me started on the wheelchairs, hospital beds, and other assistive devices.
I just submitted a small-ish order to the company and the estimate in my head (because it took forever to get a price sheet from them) was $9,000 to $10,000.
My total is $2900 with shipping included.
Oh and I’ve never had more difficulty setting up with, getting info out of, and communicating with a company before setting up with this medical manufacturer. It took months and was super frustrating. But I’m persistent and patient.
Even though I wanna sell my shop and never go into retail again, there’s a part of me that wants to open a medical supply store to the public and charge NORMAL retail markups, which is 40% over cost (40% over cost covers your overhead/bills and also gives you enough money to live on if you run a retail store).
Selling at 40% over cost I’d have to beat customers off with a stick at night just to close the place!
I had this same reaction when I found out how much jewelry actually costs too. That was a completely separate rant.
I don’t know what their prices were pre-pan/demic, but
HOLY SHIT MEDICAL SUPPLIES ARE SO FUCKIN GCHEAP OH MY GOD WHAT IS WRONG WITH THIS COUNTRY I’M LOSING MYFIUCKING SHIT!!!
*tries to calm down*
I always wondered how I was able to order some of the medical supplies we sell so cheaply when the companies I ordered from weren’t manufacturers themselves. Now I know. It’s because they were already charging SO MUCH MORE than they were paying and it was still super cheap on my end.
Like seriously I hated medical shit in this country already but this just
Okay I gotta calm down.
Insurance companies, pharmaceutical companies, and medical resale companies need to burn to the ground.
I don’t even order in super huge bulk amounts and yet ammonia inhalants (smelling salts -- tattoo artists and piercers use them when we have customers pass out during a procedure) are $3 my cost when buying from the manufacturer.
The same amount of caps from the wholesale supplier I used to buy from was $30 and that’s not even close to what the retail value is.
Oh and I can buy my parents super nice sturdy shiny fancy brand new medical-grade canes for $13 each.
Yes you read that right. Something that will cost the average consumer hundreds of dollars when they walk into a medical supply store to buy and a hospital will charge even more for will cost me only $13 (I’d still have to pay tax of course).
Don’t even get me started on the wheelchairs, hospital beds, and other assistive devices.
I just submitted a small-ish order to the company and the estimate in my head (because it took forever to get a price sheet from them) was $9,000 to $10,000.
My total is $2900 with shipping included.
Oh and I’ve never had more difficulty setting up with, getting info out of, and communicating with a company before setting up with this medical manufacturer. It took months and was super frustrating. But I’m persistent and patient.
Even though I wanna sell my shop and never go into retail again, there’s a part of me that wants to open a medical supply store to the public and charge NORMAL retail markups, which is 40% over cost (40% over cost covers your overhead/bills and also gives you enough money to live on if you run a retail store).
Selling at 40% over cost I’d have to beat customers off with a stick at night just to close the place!
I had this same reaction when I found out how much jewelry actually costs too. That was a completely separate rant.