I am not sure the rules around internet postings and corporate rights so I’ll be indirect. Today I was at a large membership-based big box store in downtown Vancouver. I was buying the usual 12 packs of things I don’t need. I walked past the pregnancy tests. The store was selling a four pack of pregnancy tests for about $19. I had to take a second look as I thought surely it must be 40, and not four, for that price. No, it was for four. This is very, very expensive. They are available for far less money on-line.

Now, everyone knows someone who will tell you that the cheap urine pregnancy tests didn’t work, or that no urine pregnancy tests (cheap or expensive) worked to detect their pregnancies but for MOST people MOST of the time the less expensive urine pregnancy tests you can buy on-line will be accurate.

I am not trying to undercut store-front merchants but simply trying to put downward pressure on their prices. When I was buying pregnancy tests I bought them from a Canadian-owned, online retailer. I paid about $1 per test. A quick google tonight confirms that there are several such Canadian retailers charging around that same price today.

Full disclosure: I am not pregnant, I do not need pregnancy test strips for personal use and have no plans to be pregnant again.

I am posting this as a public service announcement: please do not spend big dollars on brand name pregnancy test strips as the less expensive test strips almost always work just as well.

Genesis Fertility Centre
Reproductive Endocrinology & Infertility