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    Has Boston discontinued their RGP trial kits?

    We used to get the small, trial sized kits from Boston for our RGP patients. They had a bit of cleaner and wetting solution, and a new case. But our CL supplier is now telling us they're all gone. Is this nationwide?

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    We just got a resupply of them. The 'Boston Advance Starter Kit' has a new look but same components. We get ours through ABB but I don't recall if we had to purchase them.

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    Quote Originally Posted by merrymaker View Post
    We just got a resupply of them. The 'Boston Advance Starter Kit' has a new look but same components. We get ours through ABB but I don't recall if we had to purchase them.
    OK - weird. They're who we use as well. And we were categorically told they are no longer available. Sounds like its time for a "spirited" call to the rep. Grrr

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    I'm not sure to what degree this applies to Boston, but all the solution 'freebies' for CLs from most every vendor have been draconianly curtailed in the recent past. Offices and clinics were so generous with them to anyone who asked for them (not just first time users,) that it undermined sales of the solution. I've heard it's gotten pretty impossible to exceed the new austere quota.

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    We use Boston Simplus as our cleaning solution and I just received samples in today. We get ours from Diversified, who was just bought by ABB this year.

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