Were I live that would be a regular price if you don't use insurance. But from what you describe, it's a scam. You need a lab, you need equipment, you need to be certified. However, there's a lot you can do with POCT nowadays. Point of care testing-devices are basically everything you can do directly without a lab: from test kits to magic boxes that tell you quite a lot with a few ml of blood. But individual POC tests are usually more expensive than lab tests and less accuarte. So I don't think it would make any sense to run a business with that and trying to compete with hospital labs.
this post was submitted on 05 Jun 2026
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I can buy a drug testing kit from the pharmacy for like $5-$10. They're right next to the pregnancy tests.
I'll test your drugs for free!
test results were inconclusive. please provide additional samples.
~~to run drug tests you need six figure range machine (when new), maybe 5 euro worth of plastic (spe column, eppendorfs, pipette tips), couple ml of acetonitrile and maybe 5-7 min of machine time on average. it can run 24/7 and if you find anything you can do more detailed analysis. bro's not earning shit, he's paying down the machines (and maintenance)~~
e: no way i'm nerd-sniped this easily. you can get hplc-ms for 90ish grand, add milliq water purification system, solvent recycling system, lots of fridges, a couple of laptops and company server and various other equipment and we're probably in 200k range, excluding lab building itself. then you'll need, say, $5 of consumables per sample ($2 per spe cartridge), so we're talking about $40 revenue minus material costs. wages: you'll need something about four people to run this thing at full tilt, two lab workers, one (?) clerk, half time driver and half time it guy, if you pay everyone 15k/mo then you need to go through 100ish samples just to pay wages not counting rent utilities and debts. but you can probably run 200 per day per machine, 300 if pushing it, so the main constraint will be logistics. because most of lab is in place then adding another hplc/ms will be only 90k. 300 samples per day print 9k per day, if you can get these samples. that's probably why he's expanding
It just seems like he tests it like a cop tests drugs. He sticks some do hicky in it and which ever colors light up or whatever he compares to a clip board and there you go.
what kinda drug tests are we talking about here? i'm talking about the kind where you send piss sample and then get result, or in fact hundreds of results. you need to make sure all your paperwork is complete and lab is certified and so on because someone might say that results are legally invalid
the process is a bit more involved, samples need tracking and monitoring and storage and preparation, and if it's like you describe then guy's sketchy and won't survive audit
I swear to god OP must be a malfunctioning bot or something with all these posts, or possibly a psyop to see how many posts it takes to make the general public go insane from reading them.
They are describing piss tests in the OP but then they reply as if they're talking about testing the drugs themselves (and that this guy supposedly took him in the secure back lab and showed them how the drugs are tested with a 'doohickey'??). It's absolute absurdity.
i mean technically it's possible, you can show someone lab i guess there's nothing extremely dangerous, not sure how it works legally, but the process is rather boring and we're talking about a place that stores literal tons of piss why would you go there
Last bunch of posts all have like four to seven minutes gaps between them wtf