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I found a spirit before it was pulled on ebay, emailed the seller, told him/her it would be pulled and here is my email. I made an offer and got a great apap machine, mask (although I still use my activa) carrying case, hose shipped for $300.

Of course it was pulled by ebay.

Maybe you can get your tube massaged

Best Buy, CPAPs-R-Us? Sounds like the big retail chains all want in on the inevitable CPAP gold rush. Say, did you get that blower down at the CPAP Shack? Nah... I got mine at the drive thru window down at McPAP's. I got a super sized value deal with a longer hose and extra mask! I was gonna get one of those twisted French blowers down at Dunkin CPAPs, but they all looked kinda.... stale!

Wonder how Mr. Farrell pressured eBay to pull CPAPs? With the argument that eBay consumers might hurt themselves with off-channel CPAPs? Nah! That couldn't be the same Mr. Farrell that just announced the only way anyone could get hurt by CPAP was by being hit on the head with one...

-SWS wrote:Best Buy, CPAPs-R-Us? Sounds like the big retail chains all want in on the inevitable CPAP gold rush. Say, did you get that blower down at the CPAP Shack? Nah... I got mine at the drive thru window down at McPAP's. I got a super sized value deal with a longer hose and extra mask! I was gonna get one of those twisted French blowers down at Dunkin CPAPs, but they all looked kinda.... stale!

Wonder how Mr. Farrell pressured eBay to pull CPAPs? With the argument that eBay consumers might hurt themselves with off-channel CPAPs? Nah! That couldn't be the same Mr. Farrell that just announced the only way anyone could get hurt by CPAP was by being hit on the head with one...

He did it cuz the DME's complained to Resmed. See with all the low compliance cuz of crummy masks etc, they had to eliminate the evidence...

I doubt the DME complained. The DME are still learning there is an APAP with CFLEX. I think Resmed sees the "20 percent growth of CPAP machines" and are ready to cash in.

The large home health care companies are finally seeing the business opportunites and the money that can be made treating OSA.

I think we should start our own cpap manufacturing company. What do you think?

Anyone got a big garage, some hose, and a vaccum cleaner pump?



Linda

We would make a lot of money And REALLY help a lot of people.

bigcat wrote:We would make a lot of money And REALLY help a lot of people.

And we could provide trial masks to everyone. Then the ones that are returned, we just sterilize them and have others try them out to see what works for them.

We need a catchy name.

Question:

Can we buy cpap's from Canada with a USA scrip?

huh?

Sleeping With The Enemy wrote:I found this article, thought it might be interesting to some, for what its worth...

http://www.hmenews.com/2005.01/depts/news/topstory3.htm

Resmed, we don't need no stinkin Resmed. Their NEW S-8 isn't so small after all. I'll stic with the 420. Small, lightweight, software less $. 420 less $$ also. Its French so its PC. I went to a castle in Warwick, England.
It survived intact thru all the wars because they always changed sides to the winning army during battle. I wonder if the owners were French

Hey wait a minute you guys!

What are we going to do about masks????

Respironics can't make a mask if their life depended on it...

I love my Resmed masks and my AURA

Mikesus wrote:He did it cuz the DME's complained to Resmed.

I'm not normally a conspiracy theorist, but this sounds like "plausible rationale" to me. It might be contrived, true, or just partially true rationale, but it very conveniently removes the onus of Resmed's eBay-pressuring tactics from Resmed. They did it for the DME's. That almost sounds selfless!

Mikesus wrote:See with all the low compliance cuz of crummy masks etc, they had to eliminate the evidence...

That's a plausible sounding motive to me, Mike. Compliance failures are essentially removed from "easy public view" this way. In addition, used CPAP sales generate absolutely no additional revenue for Resmed or any other manufacturer. At best used CPAPs represent past sales to Resmed. If compliance rates are low, and used CPAPs can be had cheaply in abundance, then there will be much revenue foregone from those who sell brand new CPAPs. Remove used CPAP sales from eBay and not one, but two Resmed objectives are very nicely accomplished: 1) Public perception of CPAP's efficacy is no longer compromised, and 2) used CPAP sales (which deny Resmed additional revenue) can no longer compete with new CPAP sales.

As Chrisp always says.... follow the money!

Follow the money $$$$$$$$$$$$$ It NEVER Lies

The money will set you free!!!

Isn't Napster fee based????

Here is a representation of DME's...



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(no offense meant to GWB)