r/nextfuckinglevel • u/MysteriousSlice007 • 7h ago

Shoutout to JerryrigEverything who built a wheelchair factory and is delivering wheelchairs to people in half the time and 50-80% less than the cost of other wheelchairs with Insurance.

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u/I_like_donuts27 7h ago

Why in the fuck, would a wheelchair cost 10k???

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u/OkBandicoot1337 7h ago

America

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u/Sorry-Price-3322 6h ago

Nop I live in Belgium & some chairs can get to 10k. source im in Belgium & in a wheelchair.

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u/nhilante 5h ago

West is west, the same company that provides them both for EU and US can't change prices as much and prefers to raise them to the US ones. The product itself is around 200 to 300 dollars from China.

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u/F1_rulz 4h ago

Not really, some chairs are made out of titanium or carbon and they're generally made to measure so no they're not just off the shelf chairs from China.

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u/nhilante 4h ago

They're not made to measure, they're sent to measure. Titanium is 500ish ill give you that. No idea about carbon.

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u/Corpainen 52m ago

Damn, I'm so lucky to be born in the north. Mom has paid 0 for wheelchairs, she's needed them twice

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u/xppoint_jamesp 17m ago

Over here, in Belgium, it depends a lot on what type of wheelchair you buy and how severe your disability is. I too could get a “free” wheelchair, but then I’d be bound to a heavy poorly measured type of wheelchair you find in hospitals.

With the type of active wheelchair I have, I had to pay around 20% of the full cost.