# For @Sam
**URL:** https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/for-sam/1544
**Category:** C/GM
**Tags:** dexcom, ebay
**Created:** [August 9, 2017, 1:17am UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/for-sam/1544 "2017-08-09T01:17:26Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@docslotnick](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/docslotnick)
#### Post date: [August 9, 2017, 1:17am UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/for-sam/1544/1 "2017-08-09T01:17:26Z")
For @Sam and all of you other nefarious Unlimiteds, I thought that this was most interesting.
[http://www.ebay.com/itm/Dexcom-G5-Receiver-plus-free-bonus-9-sensor-kits-and-1-G5-transmitter-/253085490592?hash=item3aed121da0:g:kQkAAOSwGrFZiiYK](http://www.ebay.com/itm/Dexcom-G5-Receiver-plus-free-bonus-9-sensor-kits-and-1-G5-transmitter-/253085490592?hash=item3aed121da0:g:kQkAAOSwGrFZiiYK)
Bidding just started đ
Just to be clear, this is not my listing. I have no financial or other interest in this listing.
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### Author:  [@Sam](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Sam)
#### Post date: [August 9, 2017, 1:20am UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/for-sam/1544/2 "2017-08-09T01:20:18Z")
Now that may actually require a prescription since it includes the sensors⌠the Dexcom says that a âDexcom systemâ requires a prescription. A receiver alone does not constitute the âsystemâ as such to require a prescription in my thinking. Hope Iâm not treading on thin ice and about to get banned again.
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### Author:  [@CatLady](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/CatLady)
#### Post date: [August 9, 2017, 2:33am UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/for-sam/1544/3 "2017-08-09T02:33:39Z")
Haha, weâd have to ban all of ourselves!
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### Author:  [@Boerenkool](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Boerenkool)
#### Post date: [August 9, 2017, 10:44am UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/for-sam/1544/4 "2017-08-09T10:44:04Z")
In my opinion CGMs shouldnât require a prescription at all. It isnât some kind of dangerous drug that will do tremendous harm if used without medical supervision. A similar product, the Freestyle Libre doesnât require prescription in the EU and that works fine.
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### Author:  [@kenrick](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/kenrick)
#### Post date: [August 9, 2017, 10:43pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/for-sam/1544/5 "2017-08-09T22:43:50Z")
Iâm with you, itâs kind of like requiring a prescription to buy a phone or computer.
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### Author:  [@Michel](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Michel)
#### Post date: [August 10, 2017, 4:48pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/for-sam/1544/6 "2017-08-10T16:48:13Z")
Hmmm - it appears it may have been removed?
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### Author:  [@docslotnick](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/docslotnick)
#### Post date: [August 10, 2017, 4:57pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/for-sam/1544/7 "2017-08-10T16:57:34Z")
> [@Michel](#):
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> Hmmm - it appears it may have been removed?
Looks like eBay got wind of it.
Same thing happened to me when I sold my G4 stuff (for a very low price) on eBay. But they didnât remove my item before it sold. The item sold in about 20 minutes.
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### Author:  [@Aaron](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Aaron)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2017, 9:10pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/for-sam/1544/8 "2017-08-12T21:10:47Z")
As a Canadian, I got my Dexcom without a prescription. The whole Sam banning thing confused me as I didnât realize that in the US you need a prescription for a Dexcom.
As a question - can you buy a blood glucose meter in the US without a precription or just the CGM?
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### Author:  [@Sam](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Sam)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2017, 9:21pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/for-sam/1544/9 "2017-08-12T21:21:31Z")
Confused me too. That wasnât the real reason he banned me I donât think, although I wouldnât really know because nary a word was said to me. But I do know he harbored a grudge for a long time toward me because I dared to suggest that things like modern diets and social trends such as sedentary occupations becoming more common were associated with increasing diabetes prevalence. That and I had told him it wasnât appropriate for him to continually tell everyone to stop taking statins that their doctors had prescribed themâŚ
You donât need a prescription to purchase a bg meter or strips with your own money, but you need a prescription in order to bill either to your insuranceâ that was the last thing I said before he booted me: that my understanding was that Dexcom was the same dealâ only need a script in order to bill it to insurance. Obviously that wasnât that obnoxious of a thing to say to justify being banned for life-- so Iâm not sure if he misrepresented the exchange to the other moderators or what happened; the few Iâve been able to contact refused to discuss it with me.
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### Author:  [@Michel](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Michel)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2017, 7:37pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/for-sam/1544/10 "2017-08-13T19:37:58Z")
13 posts were split to a new topic: [More off-topic discussions about tuD](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/more-off-topic-discussions-about-tud/1575)
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### Author:  [@Michel](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Michel)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2017, 7:38pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/for-sam/1544/11 "2017-08-13T19:38:41Z")
Off-topic posts moved to the lounge.
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### Author:  [@Thomas](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Thomas)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2017, 7:38pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/for-sam/1544/12 "2017-08-13T19:38:57Z")
Which I assume is only for the co-founders?
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### Author:  [@Michel](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Michel)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2017, 7:40pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/for-sam/1544/13 "2017-08-13T19:40:14Z")
Level 3s. You are almost there đ
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### Author:  [@Eric](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Eric)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2017, 10:09pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/for-sam/1544/14 "2017-08-13T22:09:53Z")
What is the requirement for level 3?
IMHO, Thomas has earned his stripes - 115 hearts, 215 posts created, 3600 posts read.
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### Author:  [@Michel](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Michel)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2017, 1:43am UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/for-sam/1544/15 "2017-08-14T01:43:50Z")
Itâs an automatic formula managed by the software for every member.
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### Author:  [@Eric](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Eric)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2017, 1:55am UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/for-sam/1544/16 "2017-08-14T01:55:54Z")
> [@Michel](#):
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> Itâs an automatic formula managed by the software for every member.
Yes, I understand it is automated, but what is the requirement? Is it simply length of time being a member?
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### Author:  [@Michel](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Michel)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2017, 2:02am UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/for-sam/1544/17 "2017-08-14T02:02:55Z")
It has multiple components. Itâs not a priority to spend time working on the formula to change it right now, too many competing priorities.
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### Author:  [@Eric](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Eric)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2017, 2:08am UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/for-sam/1544/18 "2017-08-14T02:08:36Z")
> [@Michel](#):
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> Itâs not a priority to spend time working on the formula to change it right now
I wasnât asking anyone to change it, I just wanted to know the requirementsâŚ
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### Author:  [@Sam](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Sam)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2017, 2:23am UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/for-sam/1544/19 "2017-08-14T02:23:00Z")
Itâs listed somewhere⌠I donât remember where Iâve seen it⌠has to do with how many threads youâve read, created, replied to, been replied to etc etc like Michel said itâs a rather complex formula⌠maybe it was when I was researching discourse.
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### Author:  [@Thomas](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Thomas)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2017, 2:26am UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/for-sam/1544/20 "2017-08-14T02:26:06Z")
lol - I will post the standard requirements. I probably have not shared the love enough yet.
Feel free to move this over to the lounge also. If you donât want this public. No stress.
Eric - appreciate the thumbs up.
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