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EGAN Medical Opens Sales Booth at Bonanza

EGAN Medical to Develop Selling Profile at eBay Alternative

EGAN Medical has opened a sales booth at third party site Bonanza, EGAN's first venture involving third-party brokers and/or marketplaces since the company made the decision to discontinue selling on eBay due to treacherous (and criminal) behavior on behalf of eBay company PayPal and/or PayPal employees.

Bonanza is a relatively young, upstart third-party marketplace similar in some ways to eBay and Amazon. After careful consideration of a number of websites and third-party marketplaces, it was determined that Bonanza was primed and ready for the entry of a company like EGAN Medical into the marketplace.

EGAN will retain its primary brand identity by operating under the Bonanza username EganMedical. Many of the products EGAN plans to make available for purchase through it's Bonanza sales booth will be similar and/or the same as our featured on the EGAN Medical website. However, in much the same way that EGAN utilized eBay as a resource for selling odd items and other products that for whatever reason were deemed unsuitable to become permanent installations or long-term additions to the EGAN Medical product catalog. While the plan is to maintain some element of surprise for those customers who do check out the EGAN Medical Bonanza sales booth, one safe bet is that the product offerings will be fairly heavy on compression stockings and maternity care products such as the Mini Cradle, a back & belly support for women who are pregnant, and the younger, scaled-down cousin of the Prenatal Cradle and Best Cradle.

There are three primary components to a sale sales presence at Bonanza: 1) A selling profile; 2) A sales booth; and 3) The actual product pages themselves.

EGAN Medical's selling profile at Bonanza can be located here: http://www.bonanza.com/users/8869689/profile.

The practicality of the URLs for the sellers' respective sales booths appear to make more sense then do the URLs for the user profiles. For one thing, they contain the username of the Bonanza seller in addition to a directory for booths, Bonanza's rough equivalent to what eBay calls an "eBay Store". EGAN's booth is located at the following address: http://www.bonanza.com/booths/EganMedical.

Finally, there are the actual product pages. While EGAN has as of the time of this writing only created a single product page, the development of a robust presence within the burgeoning marketplace is in the works.

Not surprisingly, EGAN's first product addition to the company's new Bonanza sales booth falls within the category of maternity belts and supports, a challenging category under which to sell within third-party marketplaces due to the decision sellers must make to categorize their products in either the 'Medical/Mobility/Disability' category under the 'Braces and Supports' subcategory, or list the products under the 'Fashion/Attire' umbrella category, "Maternity" subcategory and typically "Other" third-level category. The first EGAN Medical 

The following images describe the Mini Cradle in just enough detail to give prospective buyers sufficient information to make a purchase decision without over-burdening them with details.

Above is an image of a pregnant women wearing a Mini Cradle maternity belt, produced by the makers of the patented Prenatal Cradle.

Finally, the two images directly above contain a brief product description, a list of features and a list of the medical conditions for which the product is indicated to help treat.

EGAN Medical Now Offers Full Site Translations

EGAN Medical Now Offers Full Site Translations

EGAN Medical Equipment & Supply has announced today the debut of the companies brand-new language translation widget, a small box affixed atop the EGAN Medical Supply (online) store's product categories which enables customers and other website visitors the ability to translate the original English language content into any one of 43 other languages spoken around the world, 44 including English.

EGAN Medical CEO Peter Egan said in a news release that his company's international customer base continues to grow at a surprising clip, with sales coming in from literally all corners of the globe (at least the part that's inhabited). From Canada to China to Russia, France, Ireland, Denmark, Germany, Japan, India, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, just to name a few, there is no place on earth where EGAN doesn't have at least one customer - at least in terms of inhabited continents. 

As for individual countries, EGAN's CEO estimates his company had shipped products to no less than 40 different countries, and possibly as many as 50-55.

The move is designed to improve upon conversion rates among visitors to the EganMedical.com website who hail from outside the U.S. and Canada, EGAN's two strongholds in North America.

For more on this development, please visit the official EGAN Medical company blog.

Checkout Once Again Working Properly

EGAN Medical Apologizes for Downtime Involving Order Processing System

EGAN Medical Equipment and Supply is pleased to announce that the company's order processing system upgrades are complete and customers can once again checkout securely at their convenience.

EGAN Medical Supply & Maternity Care

EGAN Medical has apologized to customers who had attempted to make purchases between the afternoon of April 10 through the afternoon of April 15.

As a result of across-the-board upgrades involving the EGAN Medical order processing, shopping cart and merchant services software, some customers who had attempted to make purchases during this time-period were unable to complete checkout.

EGAN has announced that the system is once again fully-operational, and that customers who had attempted to complete purchases while the order processing system was temporarily down may do so at any point the remainder of the week. Anyone whose order was delayed by two days or more will receive a free shipping upgrade, and all customers who were inconvenienced by the temporary downtime will be receiving a free gift in addition to their order.

For a more detailed explanation of the situation and the reasons underlying the need for EGAN to upgrade from PayPal, EGAN Medical's former merchant services provider whose penchant for disrupting customer relations and obstructing EGAN's relationships with its customer base ultimately cost it the company's business, to Authorize.net, the world's premiere secure e-commerce services provider, please visit the company's official blog at eganmedicalequipment.com.

Maternity Belts and Birthdays

Maternity Belts and Birthdays

A Letter from EGAN Medical CEO Peter Egan

Every year on December 27 and 28, I spend considerable time replying to messages and thanking people. The reason is that my birthday is on the 26th. Literally several hundred people will leave birthday wishes on my timeline before the day is over.

This year, the first such wish came in around the 23rd of December. It was from Mr. Darrell Seeeing, co-owner of It's You Babe, LLC.

To all my friends unfamiliar with Mr. Seering, he and wife Christine are the owners of Its You Babe, LLC, maker of the world's finest Maternity Belts and Vulvar Varicosities Supports. the products were designed and patented by Mrs. Seering, the first of which inspired by a desire to help Darrell's sister be relieved of intense pain associated with her pregnancy.

The original product was the Prenatal Cradle, however the line quickly expanded to include such items as the Mini Cradle (maternity belt), Best Cradle (adjustable Prenatal Cradle), Hip Brace, V2 Supporter (for Vulvar Varicosities), Prenatal Cradle Plus V2 and Hip Brace Plus V2.

Much like my mother (Pamela Egan)'s articles were so innovative, topics she wrote about 7 and 8 years ago are still being plagiarized and republished by newspapers, famous media "doctors" and no-name bloggers alike; the It's You Babe line of #maternity products is the standard all other maternity belts, belly bands, pregnancy cradles, hip braces, trochanter belts and compressive undergarments for treating Vulvar Varicosities aspire to replicate. Many try, as of yet none have succeeded.

If you are pregnant, know someone who is pregnant, work for or operate an #OBGYN clinic or anyone else potentially interested in these products, the entire It's You Babe line can be purchased directly by consumers and physicians' offices alike right from the EGAN Medical website.

To become a fan of EGAN Medical and It's You Babe please visit http://www.facebook.com/eganmedical and http://Facebook.com/itsyoubabe, respectively.

Getty-Up Sticks On Sale (Black Friday Special)

Black Friday Sale: Getty-Up Stick Now Just $48 (Free Shipping to US)

The fascinating and innovative personal mobility aid known as the Getty-Up Stick (aka: "Apollo Cane) is now on-sale at EGAN Medical Equipment. The dual-handled cane with a built-in LED flashlight is now just $48.00 (regular price = $69.95), and ships free to the continental United States!

Black Friday Sale: Big Savings on Getty-Up Stick / Apollo Cane at EGAN Medical

The Getty-Up Stick / Apollo Cane a popular mobility device that can be described as a dual-handled walking cane with built-in LED flashlight has seen its price substantially reduced in a Black Friday special available now until further notice.

To learn more about this incredible personal mobility aid, please visit the official blog at PamelaEgan.com.

EGAN Medical Equipment & Supply Launches New Blog

EGAN Medical Equipment & Supply Launches New Blog

EGAN Medical Equipment and Supply has launched a brand-new blog in addition to the numerous blogs to which the SE Louisiana and Coastal Mississippi-based online medical equipment and supply dealer has published news and product-related updates in recent years.

The blog is hosted by EGAN Medical, which marks a notable breach in tradition as EGAN has long published blogs to a variety of sites and blogging platforms, however the common theme between the various blogs to which EGAN has published over the course of the company's post-brick-and-mortar existence is that they've all involved websites owned or controlled by a company other than EGAN Medical Equipment itself.

The company is billing the new blog as "official", a term that has been loosely thrown around from time-to-time in the other blogs bearing the EGAN Medical Equipment & Supply name or some variation thereof.

Most likely, the new blog, which can be found at http://eganmedicalequipment(dot)com/, will be used for official company news and announcements while the the others such as this blog, the EGAN Wordpress blog and the Egan Tumblr blog will be used for lighthearted applications such as exclusive coupons, deals and news not necessarily directly related to the company.

EGAN Medical Equipment to Offer Discount Coupons to Facebook Fans

 

Aug. 25, 2013 - GULFPORT, Miss. -- Customers to Receive Big Savings by “Liking” EGAN Medical on Facebook

Would you like to receive an exclusive coupon code or discount valid toward any purchase from EGAN Medical Equipment & Supply^® available only to those Egan Medical Facebook fans who have "Liked" the company's official Facebook page?

We thought so. That's why we've created a special coupon code exclusively for use by individuals who have "Liked" the official EGAN Medical Facebook page.

By "Liking" the EGAN Medical Facebook page (the official one), you will gain access to a coupon code that will automatically deduct 7.5% off of any order placed at EganMedical com of any size, quantity or dollar-amount.

With the exceptions outlined below, this offer may be applied toward any purchase of virtually any item in the store. This includes but is not limited to traditional durable and home medical equipment products, medical supplies, incontinence supplies, vitamins and nutritional supplements, personal and hygienic aides such as the Long Reach Comfort Wipe (link: eganmedical_com/Long-Reach-Comfort-Wipe-p/ms-c...), and of course EGAN Medical's comprehensive line of pregnancy/maternity care products including the patented V2 Supporter (link: http://www.eganmedical_com/V2-Supporter-p/ormt-v2s.htm), which is made in the USA by a cutting-edge manufacturer of prenatal compression and support undergarments.

*** Coupon Code for EGAN Medical Facebook Fans: "FBDISCOUNT75"  ***

Enter code as shown, only without quotation marks.

Official EGAN Healthcare Facebook Page URL: http://www.facebook.com/eganhealthcare

Some caveats apply:

1.) Offer valid only to residents of the United States, Canada and any other country to which USPS will ship ages 18 and older.

2.) Offer not valid on products whose manufacturers require that all retailers adhere to MAP pricing (Manufacturer Advertised Pricing). Since we already charge only the bare minimum allowable to sell these items legitimately, we cannot sell them for a penny less without breaching a contract with the manufacturer, who could refuse to sell to us were we to do so. MAP products include any products manufactured by Douglas Laboratories, and may include those made by other manufacturers in the future. While some of our existing vendors do have MAP policies in place, the items governed by the MAP guidelines are not currently available for purchase at EganMedical.com. Please check with us if the code won't work when entered. We'll let you know promptly if its a matter of MAP compliance or some other technical glitch which can be fixed or worked around.

3.) Purchases made using the special discount code will be cross-referenced to ensure that the name listed on either the billing or shipping address matches the name of at least one person who has “Liked” the official EGAN Medical Facebook business page. If no match is found, the order will be updated to “pending” status, and an invoice for the amount saved will be emailed to the address listed at checkout. Item(s) purchased will not ship until either the invoice amount has been paid, or the customer has clarified why the name on the order does not match any of those on EGAN Medical’s list of Facebook “fans” (people who have “Liked” the official business page.

4.) Discount code MAY NOT be used in conjunction with any other discounts, coupons or promotional offers in which products are made available for purchase for less than regular price; nor may the code be used in conjunction with any offer involving free or discounted shipping. The exceptions are those products for which free shipping is offered to all customers with no need for a special discount or code necessary to redeem the free shipping offer. The Facebook discount may be applied toward these products provided they are not governed by a manufacturer's MAP pricing schedule.

5.) Customers MAY NOT "Like" the page, place their respective orders and then "unlike" the page once the order has been placed. Doing so will preclude customers from any and all future promotions. Additionally, if caught, a surcharge will apply to any future orders placed at EganMedical.com or any EGAN Medical partners or affiliates. The surcharge amount is --- you guessed it --- 7.5%. Since EGAN already has the world's lowest prices on the overwhelming majority of the products we carry, chances are any given customer will require what we're selling at more than one point in their life. Therefore, if considering pulling the 'bait n' switch', we recommend thinking long and hard about doing so. The deal is that by taking advantage of the offer, you're committing to being a fan of EGAN Medical on Facebook for life.

For the record, there are no legal ramifications for 'unliking' the page. The only consequences for doing so after making a purchase using the code in order to receive a discount are those lawfully imposed by EGAN Medical Equipment, Inc., its partners and its affiliates. That said, we believe that to be sufficient incentive to encourage ethical behavior by those who require encouragement in order to behave ethically, which we like to think constitutes a very small percentage of our (generally speaking) wonderful customer base.

Note: EGAN Medical already offers customers a 'social store' through its Facebook page. Customers who do their shopping via the EGAN Medical Facebook Social Store receive an automatic 5% discount on their respective purchases. This offer is valid only when the purchase is completed via the EganMedical.com website, and may not be used in conjunction with any savings resulting from shopping at the company's social store.

EGAN Medical Employees Earn Extra Paid Day Off

EGAN Medical Employees Earn Extra Paid Day Off!

By: EGAN Medical Management Team

EGAN Medical Equipment & Supply employees have been working extra-hard since our recent opening of our Long Beach, Mississippi distribution center to compliment our Covington, Louisiana office.

As a gesture of gratitude for all they've done for EGAN Medical, management has declared an early start to the July 4 holiday, offering all EGAN employees the choice of taking off Wednesday July 3 in addition to Thursday July 4. July 3 will count as a paid work day for any/all employees who decide to get an early start to their Independence Day celebrations.

Happy Independence Day from EGAN Medical

As a result of this, email and phone support may be unavailable from the close of business Tuesday July 2 until the opening of business Friday July 5. If you are unable to get a response during this time period, don't panic. Management will be doing its best during this time to respond to as many emails as possible, however we may not be able to reply to all emails sent after the close of business Tuesday until Friday morning.

EGAN Medical wishes all customers and employees a happy, safe and fulfilling Independence Day, and we look forward to the mid-week celebration of freedom, as well as to rejoining our fellow colleagues on Friday in resuming our normal business hours. All orders placed Wednesday and Thursday will ship Friday.

Thanks to all EGAN employees and customers for making us the company we are today! Happy Independence Day and a sincere thanks from the entire EGAN Medical family to all who serve or have ever served!

Help EGAN Medical Equipment, MDA Cure ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis)

A Letter and Call-to-Action From EGAN Medical CEO Peter Egan

By: EGAN Medical CEO Peter Egan
First, I'd like to take this opportunity to thank all of our loyal customers for your unwavering support since we launched as a shoestring start-up in January of 2011. It is because of you that I have the privilege of writing this letter today.

The reason I am writing this blog today is because effective this coming Thursday, May 20, 2013 at 12:00 noon, I am going to jail. According to my arresting officers with the Muscular Dystrophy Association, my crime is having a big heart, and to that I plead no contest.

Steve Gleason Blocks the Punt that Breathed Life Back into New Orleans

For the second consecutive year, EGAN Medical will be participating in the MDA's annual "Covington Lock-Up" event, in which local CEO's from in and around the Covington, Louisiana area are "arrested", and must "post bail" in order to regain their freedom. Of course, I'm not REALLY being arrested, but the bail money that is raised is earmarked for research to "Strike-Out ALS". By that, of course the MDA is referring to research geared toward finding a cure for this debilitating illness that has touched me on a very personal level when I learned of former New Orleans Saint Steve Gleason's diagnosis of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, or ALS.
** DONATE HERE: Help EGAN Medical CEO Post Bail for ALS **
I know the impact Steve Gleason had on me personally. I lost everything during Hurricane Katrina. I lost my uninsured home, my business, and an approximately $5 million contract with the Planet Beach Corporation scheduled to be signed the day the levees broke.
When he (Gleason) blocked that punt versus the Atlanta Falcons in the first game to be played inside the now-dubbed Mercedes Benz Superdome following Katrina, in an instant, a million people whose lives had been turned upside down were given hope for the first time in over a year. We (New Orleanians) hate the Falcons, which made it all-the-more significant. For the first time in a year-plus we had something to be proud of.
Hearing that man state during an interview in the days leading up to this season's Super Bowl (during which we provided a piece of medical equipment for a guest of Mr. Gleason who also suffers from ALS) that the worst part about ALS is "having to have someone else wash my genitals" broke my heart and literally brought me to tears as the press corps was chuckling.
That man did so much for so many. To see a man my age dying, and rapidly at that -- someone who helped me muster the strength to pick myself up by the bootstraps and stop feeling sorry for myself -- really tugs at my heartstrings.
While I have yet to replicate the business success I experienced pre-Katrina when e-commerce was in its earliest of phases and I was one of a select few who had mastered the craft that early on in its development, I am happy; and more importantly God has provided for me that which I need and much of what I want.
ALS is a terrible disease, and its one for which I have a personal incentive to do my part to help find a cure.
I certainly expect nothing from anyone, but every dollar counts, and if you've been blessed to be in a position to help whatever the extent, it is greatly appreciated - not only by me but more importantly by all those less fortunate than ourselves who actually have to die painful deaths in which their bodies deteriorate until they can no longer function.
EGAN Medical is not in this for publicity. We're overwhelmed amidst a move and really aren't in the best position to be pursuing fundraising opportunities aside from for-profit endeavors. That said, this cause is so important that I feel compelled to do everything within my power as well as that of my company to help the Muscular Dystrophy Association do all it can to find a cure for the disease sooner rather than later.
As an aside, EGAN Medical was privileged to have had the opportunity to deliver a sliding transfer bench to Easter Seals of Louisiana, who was working to accommodate a Super Bowl guest of Mr. Gleason earlier this year with the Super Bowl in New Orleans. The guest also suffers from ALS, and we were honored to be able to provide it with same-day delivery, charging only that which we paid for the item (we regularly donate to Easter Seals, and this was a particularly high-end item that at the time we were not able to outright donate).
Thankfully, we've grown considerably since then, and are in a far better position now to make large donations, hence our commitment to match all donations by anyone outside the company dollar-for-dollar (up to $1,000). We're eager to contribute as much as we can, and we'll need your help in order to do so.
It matters not if your budget affords you the ability to donate $1 or $100, every dollar counts, and every dollar up to $1,000 will be matched by EGAN Medical Equipment, Inc.
Please carefully consider my plea, and if you've been blessed with the wherewithal to help cure this dreadful disease, please reach into your pocketbook and donate whatever amount your budget allows.
While we certainly have no expectations on an individual basis, but we are hoping to raise at least $1,000 within the next three days, so time is of the essence.
If you are in a position to give, you have my utmost assurances that we'll match dollar-for-dollar your donation, and it could not possibly go to a better cause than helping ensure that one day (preferably sooner rather than later), good men like Steve Gleason and all others suffering from this terrible and terminal illness will have hope that their diagnosis may not necessarily mean an imminent, painful and cruel death --- a death that claims the lives of young and old alike without discrimination.
Again, no expectations, but much gratitude for anything that anyone reading this can afford to do.
Sincerely and Best Regards,
Peter Egan

EGAN Medical Equipment, INC
President, CEO
To donate and help find a cure for ALS, please visit the following URL: (http://)www2.mda.org/site/TR?px=1795931&fr_id=5921&pg=personal

EGAN Medical Meets It's You Babe --- In Person

EGAN Medical CEO Has Dinner With It's You Babe Founders at Dickie Brennan's in New Orleans

On Saturday, May 04, 2013, Peter Egan and Katherine Henderson of EGAN Medical had the honor and privilege of hosting Chris and Darrell Seering of It's You Babe, LLC for a dinner at Dickie Brennan's Steakhouse in downtown New Orleans.

And an honor it was indeed. In Peter's 31 years, he recanted the following day, he'd met very few individuals much less couples in possession of the combination of class, kindness, friendliness, intellect and wit.

Katherine and Peter couldn't help but discuss on the drive back to Long Beach their shared impression that they had a fair amount in common with the Seerings, and wouldn't be altogether shocked if they were to bear a striking resemblance to the Seerings 20 years from now, provided the good Lord helps keep the two of them together for that long.

If they (Katie and Peter) are lucky, they'll be in a position similar to Chris and Darrell 20 years from now (and not just from the standpoint of business).

They are a couple that are very much along the lines of what Peter and Katie aspire to become over time.

Peter was very clear that he really enjoyed the opportunity to chat with them for a few hours. There was so much to talk about on so many levels, some related to business, some not. 

From Left: Katherine Henderson, Chris Seering, Darrell Seering and Peter Egan

It was one of those meetings where although you're meeting someone for the first time, it feels like you've known them for years and are merely catching up. 

They were exactly as he (Peter) envisioned them, and he said afterward that could not have been any more impressed with the two of them, their intellect as individuals and as a couple, and the manner in which they present themselves.

After spending just a few short hours with these upstanding entrepreneurs, it is easy to see how they manage to produce the world's premiere maternity support, not to mention the world's premiere compression therapy garment indicated for vulvar varicosities (a product called the V2 Supporter).

The maternity support is known as the Prenatal Cradle, and there is also an adjustable version (linked to in previous paragraph) called the Best Cradle.
 
All-in-all, it was a pleasure and honor to have been given the opportunity to host such an admirable couple for a dinner at one of the city (and world's) finest dining establishments. Everyone in the EGAN Medical family was thrilled that Katie and Peter not only got to meet Mr. and Mrs. Seering, but take them to dinner in a city known for its cuisine. Even those who did not attend were excited for Peter and Katie.

After spending a few hours with them, Peter said he understood why his initial 'gut instinct' telling him to invest into the It's You Babe line of products was so powerful that he acted upon it with almost no data to support the decision. Obviously, it's worked out well so far, and should that change at any point it certainly won't be for lack of effort.

EGAN Medical Celebrates First-Ever Sale to Pakistan

EGAN Medical Celebrates First-Ever Mid-East Sale

Egan Medical is celebrating its first-ever sale to a customer outside of North America and Europe today. The sale involved the purchase of a Best Cradle (adjustable Prenatal Cradle) maternity support to a customer in of all places Pakistan.

While not listed on the list of ship-to countries, EGAN Medical has long held a quiet policy of shipping anywhere in the world if an individual customer from any given country were to send an email requesting a shipping quote to that individual's respective locale.

Well, a gentleman from Pakistan did just that, and EGAN Medical replied with a shipping quote which surprised both parties in terms of the price. No, it wasn't shockingly high, but rather the opposite. The shipment cost just over $12 U.S. dollars, a figure which both parties found to be quite reasonable all things considered.

About a week after the gentleman requested the shipping quote, an order came through with a shipping destination in Pakistan.

The sale is notable within the annals of EGAN Medical firsts in that it was not just the company's first-ever sale to a Pakistani customer, it was EGAN's first-ever sale to a customer located anywhere but the United States, Canada, Ireland, United Kingdom, France, Spain, Italy, Greece or Portugal. Prior to the shipment to Pakistan, EGAN had not experienced a sale beyond the reaches of North America and Western Europe. (Article Continued Below Image)

As for the product purchased, one could not be faulted for wondering what type of product is so rare and important that buying it from someone halfway around the world is worthwhile and justified. Well, apparently the Best Cradle (Adjustable Prenatal Cradle), which is manufactured by a Michigan-based company called It's You Babe, LLC, is that important. The Best Cradle provides support to virtually every spot on a woman's body that experiences pain as a direct result of being pregnant. It is more comprehensive than a traditional maternity belt in the design, and as a result can help relieve pain all over the body as opposed to merely the abdominal region and back.

The Best Cradle was apparently important enough to one gentleman that he went well out of his way to find out if a company was willing to ship to his country-of-origin, request a shipping quote, then purchase it from halfway across the globe so that his daughter would be as comfortable as possible during her pregnancy.

Vitamin D Supplementation: Its Role in Ending Autism

Vitamin D Supplementation's Role in Ending Autism

Given the mounting research demonstrating a link between Autism and vitamin D deficiency in the mother during pregnancy and possibly also in the child during his or her first months on earth, how can we help the day when Autistic children are no more arrive sooner rather than later? We have the best vitamin D supplements in the world, and would be willing to defer profit (if we can figure out how to do so sustainably --- OR --- work with someone who already does know how to function sustainably without the end-goal being profit) if we can do our part to help end Autism.

On a personal note, one of our employees' relatives was diagnosed as a child with Autism. Years of therapy and whatever other treatments he now can interact socially at a normal level, and supports himself as --- of all things --- a radio broadcaster for an NPR-affiliated talk radio station in Texas.

Wonderful strides have already been made, and if the experts determine that vitamin D supplementation in low-income and underprivileged moms coupled with the education thereof for those who can afford to buy their own supplements, we are open to any and all ideas on how we can help to see to it that Autism becomes a condition of the past sooner rather than later.

Happy Mardi Gras from EGAN Medical!

EGAN Medical Equipment & Supply would like to extend our best wishes to all celebrating Mardi Gras this carnival season!

As much as we'd like to be in the Big Easy enjoying the parades, marching bands and adult beverages, EGAN Medical will be open-for-business Mardi Gras day (Fat Tuesday, February 12, 2013). Our customer service representatives will be available during normal business hours for all of Mardi Gras day and most of Ash Wednesday. We will be permitting staff to take off for one hour tomorrow (Wednesday, February 13, 2013) to observe Ash Wednesday traditions for those staff who wish to do so.

However, we do not anticipate everyone leaving simultaneously, and all orders for both Tuesday the 12th and Wednesday the 13th will ship on-time, as scheduled as though these were normal business days for the Gulf South region.Once again, EGAN Medical would like to wish all of our customers and employees a happy, safe and fulfilling Mardi Gras 2013. 

Orders will be shipping from our Mississippi distribution center near Gulfport and Biloxi due to USPS Post Office closures in and around the New Orleans area including but not limited to St. Tammany Parish on Tuesday, February 12.

Telemergency Manufacturer Vanishes Mysteriously

Telemergency Manufacturer Disappears Without a Trace

The maker of the wildly popular EGAN Medical product Telemergency 750C Emergency Alert System has vanished without a trace, and nobody seems to have any knowledge of their whereabouts or the reason they have apparently gone out of business. 

In fact, it's the truly bizarre circumstances surrounding this company's disappearance that make this case so interesting and so intriguing as to dedicate precious time that could be spend in hundreds of more productive ways to sit down and blog about it.

The owner of the company is/was a man named Elliot Baum. It's possible that Mr. Baum died, and as a result Telemergency ceased to exist. However, going strictly off of the volume of sales that EGAN Medical Equipment did involving Telemergency 700 and 700C units during the 2012 calendar year, it does not appear that the firm was experiencing any financial difficulties. The product was in high-demand, and made up a considerable percentage of our sales for the 2012 calendar year.

The most recent obituary I was able to find for an Elliot Baum was dated 2007, and the company appeared to be showing indications of life and a desire for growth (based on various media reports) as recently as mid-2012. Therefore, it is doubtful that the Elliot Baum who died in 2007 is the same man listed as CEO of Telemergency Systems, and still listed as the registrant of both domain names associated with the company (telemergency300.com and telemergencysystems.com). All phone numbers associated with both Telemergency as well as a separate corporation also listing Mr. Baum as CEO are now listed as non-working numbers.

While the homepage of Telemergency300 still resolves, the links no longer work, leading to 404 error pages instead, and no means of contact, sales or ordering are accessible via the lone page still resolving when entered into the URL bar.

TelemergencySystems.com resolves to a Network Solutions administrative control panel. 

shop or to cease to exist as a business entity. Neither we nor any of the half-dozen or so other retailers whom have contacted us seeking the same information received so much as a phone call or email from Telemergency notifying us of an intention to cease all business operations as of a specific (or even a tentative) date. We were given no time to prepare for this, and in most cases there were issues with orders as a result (customers ordering an item they believe to merely be on backorder but which is actually no longer available anywhere except from those individuals selling them used on eBay --- and even they are few and far between.Furthermore, the company issued no notice whatsoever of any plan to close up

The manner in which Telemegency just disappeared is eerily reminiscent of a novel I once read (and the far more recent motion picture version). The book and movie: Atlas Shrugged.

If in fact the motive underlying Telemergency's sudden disappearance from the marketplace did constitute and act of one of the men who makes the world go-round 'going John Galt', then at the very least Mr. Baum could have seen to it that the question of "Who is John Galt?" could have (and should have) been published at the former-company's web domains in place of a once-functional website index page and a NetSol admin page.

I can respect such a motive for the closing down of a company, as well as doing so in such a peculiar manner; as the amount of money being confiscated from those remaining few who still produce it constitutes insufficient motivation to invest the time, effort and energy into performing all of the hard work that goes along with the pursuit of what was once known as "The American Dream".

This author admittedly feels a bit like the character of Dagny Taggart from the novel when she wonders aloud why so many great men seem to be disappearing without a trace. That said, this author's own personal preference would have been to go out in more the style of Ellis Wyatt's character upon his exit from the private sector still trading in U.S. currency. For anyone unfamiliar with the story, read it or buy the audio book and either read or hear the story for yourselves. I won't give any more detail as I wouldn't want to deprive anyone of the most enlightening literary experience in the history of earth.

In any case, Telemergency is no longer conducting business, so needless to say the product will no longer be available at EGAN Medical. Egan Medical will however allow the page to remain online (orders will not be processed if attempted) in the event we find a suitable replacement, at which point we will either redirect the Telemergency Emergency Alert System page to the replacement product, or at the very least link to it from the page.

EGAN Medical is deeply saddened and disappointed to learn of this development, and will be working diligently in the meantime to find a suitable replacement product for our valued customers which hopefully will serve all the needs of the Telemergency without the recurring fees associated with most similar products.

If anyone reading this knows any details regarding the sudden disappearance of Mr. Elliot Baum and/or his companies and products, please use the comment form below and we will contact you at the email address entered into the comment form for more details.

The Telemergency 700 and 750C are what's known as "Emergency Alert Systems". The products consisted of a phone-type device that was programmable with custom phone numbers which allowed elderly, frail and disabled persons to place a phone call to the person of their choosing with the simple push of a button. The device also included a pendant worn around the neck which when activated by either the push of a button or the breaking of the chord (designed to detach during a fall) would automatically notify authorities of the accident and send for help while the individual may not be in a position to move about physically.

EGAN Medical Daily Online Newspaper Debutes

EGAN Medical Targets Alabama News Readers Online with New Ad Campaign

EGAN Medical to Target Alabama Residents

EGAN Medical has decided to try an experiment involving online classifieds published in the online versions of legitimate print media publications. To begin with, EGAN published a basic ad for the award-winning Prenatal Cradle maternity support at AL.com, the primary news website geotargeted to the state of Alabama, a state in which EGAN Medical executive director Peter Egan coincidentally resided and attended journalism school for the better part of two years.

EGAN, upon learning of its inclusion in Health Tech's 2012 Top Healthcare and Medical companies list, created a number of classified advertisements promoting individual medical equipment, nutritional or orthopedic products. These product listings can be accessed from the company's main listing page, which is located at the following uniform resource locator (URL): http://www.jazdhealthcare.com/healthtech/company/EGAN-Medical-Equipment-and-Supply.htm?supplierId=20014334

Fingertip-style pulse oximeters, ankle walker boots and vitamin D3 supplements were among the products listed at the EGAN Medical page at Health Tech's JazdHealthcare site.

This isn't the first time EGAN has experimented with online newspaper classified ads. The company tried a brief stint with NOLA (dot com), the Times Picayune's online affiliate website. Out of principle, EGAN withdrew these advertisements once the Times Picayune announced that the paper would cease to exist as a daily publication, opting instead for three print days per week - a schedule to which EGAN Medical firmly objects.

If the current ventures show promise, EGAN may be inclined to expand upon the idea of third-party classified niche advertising on the websites of established newspapers.

EGAN Medical Achieves PowerSeller Status on eBay!

EGAN Medical: eBay's Newest PowerSeller!

EGAN Medical is proud to announce that the online medical equipment, supply and supplement retailer from the Gulf South has reached an important milestone in the company's growth and development. The EGAN Medical eBay Store and corresponding seller account (eBay user "egan-medical-supply"), the official eBay presence of EGAN Medical Equipment, LLC, has achieved PowerSeller status within the eBay marketplace!

For those unfamiliar with eBay selling, in their (eBay's) own words:

"eBay awards PowerSellers and Top Rated sellers with the highest levels of benefits to recognize and reward those sellers who consistently provide excellent customer service."

The benefits associated with being a PowerSeller include everything from discounted shipping rates (on shipments originating from eBay sales), to superior customer support, to better seller protection and even health insurance-related benefits.

EGAN Medical: eBay's Newest PowerSeller!

EGAN Medical Equipment is extremely proud of this achievement, and would like to extend the company's deepest, most heartfelt thanks to all of our customers - eBay and EganMedical.com alike - for providing us the opportunity to prove ourselves a worthy competitor within the marketplace, and a company that irrefutably brings something new of value to the table between EGAN's top name-brand products, discount pricing, ultra-fast shipping and remarkable customer service. For that, we thank you, our customers!

January will mark the two-year anniversary of the founding of EGAN Medical in its current form and under its current ownership, and all of us here at EGAN would like to wish all of our customers and suppliers a very merry Christmas, happy holiday season and joyous new year! Thank you for making the past two years such a remarkable success. Here's to the next two and then two more after that!

Nutrition: DIM (Diindolylmethane) Supplements Now at EGAN

Nutrition: DIM (Diindolylmethane) Supplements Now at EGAN Wellness

The DIM supplements that have become an extremely popular item at the supplement and nutrition shop at Pam Egan's EGAN Wellness on W 21st Ave in Covington are now available for purchase online by customers anywhere in the United States (and much of the world) in the Vitamins and Supplements section at PamelaEgan.com.

DIM is a supplement rapidly growing in popularity in light of increasing amounts of research showing it to help promote healthy hormone hormone metabolism. DIM, or diindolylmethane is also believed to help stimulate natural detoxification enzymes which in turn help cleanse the body of toxins. 

This particular formula of DIM supplement, Douglas Laboratories' #201208, is more than just a diindolylmethane supplement, as it contains the following ingredients:

● MERIVA® Curcumin Phytosome 125 mg
● Green Tea Extract (Leaf) 200 mg
● BioResponse DIM® Complex 125 mg
● Wasabia Japonica (Rhizome) 50 mg

EGAN Wellness DIM Enhanced diindolylmethane supplements #201208 (plus Curcumin, Green Tea and wasabia Japonica) are available for purchase at at the links supplied above.