Washington Post reports that people are selling medical devices on EBay. Well now that is great. And these aren’t just bearded guys in West Virginia whose girlfriends have finished with their breast pump.
Among the more visible online marketers is ClearMedical Inc. of Bellevue, Wash., one of the five largest reprocessors in the United States. In a three-month experiment last year, the company said, it operated an eBay virtual “storefront,” selling reused single-use medical devices that it considers “non-invasive” because they do not enter the bloodstream when used on patients. That includes pulse oximeter sensors, which measure oxygen in the blood, and compression sleeves, which increase circulation. (One bidder offered $450 for a set of compression sleeves; ClearMedical said that was about a 30 percent discount off the original price.)
[thanks Alta Charo]