I bought some diabetes test strips from a seller on Amazon who used "Fulfillment by Amazon." The box on the test strips say "not for sale". I thought since Amazon receives and stores their products, they require products to be legit.
I bought some diabetes test strips from a seller on Amazon who used "Fulfillment by Amazon." The box on the test strips say "not for sale". I thought since Amazon receives and stores their products, they require products to be legit.
They do require items to be legit, but they don't inspect every candy bar's sell-by date for freshness, or send one of every item off to a testing lab to check that it isn't fake.
The requirement is enforced as follows:
1. Someone like you reports the vendor
2. Amazon makes it right with you by refunding your charge
3. Amazon opens a can of whoop-ass on the vendor
That keeps most vendors honest, and weeds out the dishonest ones sooner or later.
The vendor I got it from has 4.8/5 stars with 2640 ratings. That's why I'm surprised at this.
http://www.amazon.com/shops/A2ZU0FA7EO7VI/
Not for sale means it's probably either a physician's sample or came with a meter? If they work, what's the big deal (especially if you saved money on them)
The manufacturer's package say for distribution with government health care program (medicare/medicad) and not for resale.
yeah dont report them unless it doesn't work. Who cares. Maybe they have em laying around, maybe they even get them from a legit source. Im all for sellers. I dont even care if its stolen honestly. I didnt steal it.
I bought some diabetes test strips from a seller on Amazon who used "Fulfillment by Amazon." The box on the test strips say "not for sale". I thought since Amazon receives and stores their products, they require products to be legit.
On test strips specifically, most manufacturers (if not all?) make a specific package just for medicare and medicaid. It's meant for distribution to nursing homes and skilled nursing facilities. It is identical to the retail strips except for a few things - The package part of the NDC is different (something like xxxxx-xxxx-23 instead of xxxxx-xxxx-50) and the package has that little disclaimer about not being for sale.
The seller on amazon likely orders them based on the NDC or UPC which in itself gives no indication they are the medicare/medicaid packages, and possibly does not understand there is a difference. You might want to alert the seller so they can purchase the proper packages. Strange thing is, the cost from the manufacturer is the same for both IIRC (We've had a mixup similar to this in the pharmacy). In our case, neither our software nor our supplier has any indication in the item information that the medicare one is the medicare one.
Unless, of course, the seller snatched them from old people. In which case you should report them to Amazon.