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I can buy an electric wheelchair at Walmart for $750. What is the issue?
by TechWorld01 2y ago
I can buy an electric wheelchair at Walmart for $750. What is the issue?
- mcmcmc 2y agoYou can also buy pharmaceuticals at Walmart. What is your argument?
- happyopossum 2y agoThat's a powered scooter, not an electric wheelchair. They may look the same to a layperson, but they're not - one is highly regulated and has a lot of people making a lot of money off them, the other is a scooter.
- deadeye 2y agoSome of these wheelchairs are 75k. They're custom made to your body size for maximum comfort and the features are customized to your disability. These aren't off the shelf mobility products. Each one is assembled to specification.
- alistairSH 2y agoAs the sibling comments noted, we're talking about bespoke wheelchairs for people with severe mobility disability (MS, ALS, etc). Things like Stephen Hawking's chair.
- Fricken 2y agoStill, they shouldn't cost more than a high end Ebike.
- alistairSH 2y agoI don’t know what the median/average price is for these, only the range. Bit, a high end e-bike is $12-$15k. Which also seems ridiculous to me. And I’m a cyclist with several nice bikes (none of which were more than $7k).
- mikestew 2y agoAnd I’m a cyclist with several nice bikes (nine of which were more than $7k). "Nine", or did you mean "none"? I'm just checking if it was a typo, or if I should be jealous. :-)
- alistairSH 2y agoNone. Only 4 in the basement that belong to me right now. 4 more as the wife’s.
- sokoloff 2y agoAnything custom will cost more than a similar complexity mass-produced item.
- JumpCrisscross 2y agoOooh, I missed this distinction.