answer:That sounds odd, all right. Those strips – and testers – are sold over the counter in American pharmacies. I know, because I bought a tester and a couple of boxes of the test strips at a CVS for one of our people who was working overseas. He couldn’t get the product (or maybe he or his wife – she is a nurse – didn’t trust the quality of what was available locally) in Indonesia, so he asked me to pick it up for him when I traveled to the jobsite. Apparently he had high glucose readings, and his wife wanted to monitor his blood sugar, hence the request. Since the testers and strips are hawked “for free” in American television commercials, I expect that you’re correct: people are getting the testers and strips (and maybe some of them are actual medical need, but sacrificed for cash), and just offering them for resale in some place where they’re not so readily available… maybe Indonesia, in fact. Or, since the things are “apparently free” to the recipients, it’s just simple arbitrage here in the USA. They can be resold to always undercut a “legitimate” price in drug stores.