Batteries!

Seriously_Sax1989

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• Mar 18, 2014

• #1

Hello hoping this is a simple enough question but does anyone know where I can get batteries for my blood test meter?
I use the freestyle optium meter which I believe is from Abbot, so I know the easiest thing would be to write to them however I had a letter from them saying that they no longer provided batteries so I'm a bit stuck on where to get them!

Any help would be greatly appreciated thanks, Laura


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Indiana91

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• Mar 18, 2014

• #2

I got mine from pound land

Indiana x


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iHs

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• Mar 18, 2014

• #3

The batteries you need are the circular CR2032 ones. Cheap to buy online or from the snops like the poundland, 99p , Wilkinsons, WHS dtc

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CollieBoy

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• Mar 18, 2014

• #4

From what I've heard it's not that the manufacturers have stopped supplying batteries, but the Royal mail are refusing to carry batteries on their own , only with the meters!

 

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))Denise((

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• Mar 19, 2014

• #5

Batteries cannot be sent by post individually, but if they are in their manufacturers original cardboard and and plastic packaging they can be. Loads for sale on Ebay and for your meter, I would get a well known make.

This is the Royal Mail guidance http://www.royalmail.com/personal/help-and-support/Tell-me-about-Prohibited-Goods


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Tinkle

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• Mar 19, 2014

• #6

Yep the pound shop/ 99p store or where I live there are lots of independent shops filled with random things (often with bowls full of fruit and veg for a £1 out the front). They sell them cheap cheap too! X


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Seriously_Sax1989

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• Mar 21, 2014

• #7

Lol thanks all! Loving the idea that you can go into the shops full of random stuff to find them, Tinkle your comment made me smile, the bit about the batteries and bowls full of fruit haha!


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noblehead

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• Mar 22, 2014

• #8

Try Amazon also, very cheap for batteries and free delivery on most items