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Comment by londons_explore | Hacker News Reader

In most places you can at least get back the court fees (which are typically a few hundred bucks).

Unfortunately sometimes you can't get back the court fees, and in situations like that, rather than spending $3000 on some new medical gear and battling insurance I would be very tempted to go to eBay, buy it 2nd hand from someone for $150, and just use that. Better time/effort/money/result tradeoff IMO.

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eBay is pretty good at enforcing their policy banning sales of medical equipment requiring a prescription. They yank any listing for a CPAP very quickly.

Took me literally 30 seconds to find one:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/404778680293

They even have a category for "Medical equipment > ventilators". If they do have such a policy, they enforce it very poorly.

I guess it varies by country. In the US they pull CPAP listings very quickly.

Policy: https://www.ebay.com/help/policies/prohibited-restricted-ite...

A lot of stuff is over the counter now so why aren't cpaps and other durable (overpriced) medical equipment?

I don't want to get back just my court fees. If I could have it, heads would roll, but in lieu of that, I will take severe personal penalties to all those involved. Their tunes will change really frakking quick if the consequence is being put out on the street (or worse) for frakking around with people's medical coverage.

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