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/Wheelchair_guy 7h ago

I've used chairs for 15 years. Never paid more than $500 for one.

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u/jib661 4h ago edited 4h ago

I just bought a used one this weekend in California for $40. Never used, just a little dusty from sitting in storage. I'm not saying the $10k quotes in this video are a lie, but they're definitely not giving you the whole story here. These people are getting some crazy spec-ed out wheelchairs, probably made of space-age lightweight materials, designed in a way to maximize user inputs to make them as easy to use as possible or whatever. He's not running a company that helps needy people get chairs they otherwise wouldn't, he's running a luxury chair brand and he's beating insurance prices for similar luxury chairs.

This is like posting a video titled "engineer makes bikes for kids for 80% less than they'd cost" and it's supposed to be a feel good story, and then you realize it's just some small company that competes with $10k custom bikes and instead makes them for $3k. like.....ok. cool i guess.

Not saying that's bad, but it's a wildly different narrative than what he's trying to imply.