What do you pay for IP packets?
 

A recent post suggested an IPer had found better prices on eBay than through a clinic. So I checked them out and they are much more than what I pay. Made me wonder if I'm just getting a good deal.

My clinic charges $4.25 per packet (sold individually) or $28 for a box. A 6 pack of ready made drinks is $25.50. I'm in Connecticut. (I do pay sales tax on top of these prices.)

For me, compared with buying lunch at work every day and eating out a couple of times a week, I'm actually saving money! Saving money while losing pounds and inches ---- what more could a girl ask for?

What are others paying? Please post if you care to share. Please include where you're from, too.

$5 per packet regardless of the number purchased in Northern California, Bay Area

$4-$5 dollars per packet/drink (sold individually) in Louisiana

$4.00 per packet in Canada. $4.75 for the RTD proteins. No deal if we buy a box vs an individual.

$4.00 per pack in Saskatchewan, Canada. No deal for box.

$4.00 per packet/$28 per box on most items, $4.50 per package of the yummy orange wafers and $5.00 for RTD in Worcester, Mass.

$4 for packets and $5 for RTD.

I pay $29.30 per box of 7 packets. That includes tax. Not sure about RTD, I haven't bought them in eons! Not a fan LOL
I'm in BC

Florida - 4.45 per packet and 4.65 per rtd, but I get a 10% discount on top of that for being a Nurse.

My coach has raised prices twice in the year I've been there.
She has moved locations twice, as well.

Last time I was at the clinic, prices went up. The box/individual packet price was always the same. Now she is charging more for individual packets than boxes and the boxes of wafers cost more than other boxes.

When I started one-year ago, boxes at my clinic were 28 & individual packets were $4.

I could buy the RTD for 4/packet or "box price" was 6/28, so I guess those were more.

Now everything is over 30. I didn't commit the prices to memory b/c I decided to fire my coach. The support in 3FC-IP is way more helpful than the clinic ever was so I decided to stop paying for support I wasn't getting.

I am in mass and these are the prices I pay, but I was told they are going up .50 cents per packet.

I have to buy a weeks worth of product each week or you can not stay in the program, is that true for all of you?

Hmm, no, I haven't been told of that.
How much do you pay for weigh-in visits?


For food I pay $30 a box in San Francisco.

Also in CT i pay 4$ per package, and 28$ per box

4 per packet 5 for RTD's. We can order per item. We had to sign an agreement to purchase 1 weeks worth of food each week. Also in CT.

$3.00 that is a good price!! We do not pay for a weigh in but you have to buy at least a weeks worth every weigh in. It is a little stinky as I like a few alternatives!!

$4.20/packet or bar, $28 for a box, and $29.50 for case of 6 RTD

4.25/packet at my clinic and a freebie if I pre-order through email... no agreement to sign for a minimum order. I know I asked about alternatives and they do not recommend it but don't really prohibit you or kick you out.

In North Texas, $28/box, $30 for choc/van RTD. No individual packets.

In Anchorage, Alaska its 29.00 a box and the ready to drink smoothies are 31.00-36.00 for a pack.

$4 per packet, $5 for RTD ( also RTE pudding)
Can buy per packet, no minimum per week
Coach knows I do a combo of IP and alternatives and she is fine with that.
San Antonio Texas!

Nope, not at my location. There are weeks where I don't buy anything. Some weeks I buy lots. Just depends.

I usually buy 4 boxes/week, because I like to change it up, and I don't know what i'm going to feel like LOL

So this week, for example, I have enough food. I will go WI, and not buy anything.

I'm not working right now though, and my coach knows that, and she is fine with it.

I'm in CT and pay $46 including tax for 21 packets/RTDs.
I get special pricing because my mom works for the doctor who owns the clinic. Everyone else pays double.

$ 4.25 for each packet and the RTD stuff is more .. but I don't use that because it's not GF. Do Not have to buy a box...they sell individual envelopes so I can keep a variety stocked at a more reasonable weekly price.

I buy about 15/$4.25 packets a week. My coach knows we travel a lot and there is more eating out (OP choices of course..) away from home.

EDIT:
No charge for the coaching as long as I am buying IP products. Like mentioned...I don't buy 21 packets a week...but it's enough it's not questioned. However, the expectation to purchase doesn't leave room for purchasing alternatives. They do suggest using their maintenance program after reaching goal...so I'll see what that entails, and can see me ordering alternatives at some point.

I haven't bought IP food at a clinic or off clinic in many, many, many months. It's just way too much money. Because of the cost and my horrible coach, I think I dropped my clinic after about two or three months into the plan, went alternatives and never looked back. The saving was incredible - couldn't be denied.

Anyway - when I was buying from the clinic, the boxes were $28 a piece - before tax.

My coach doesn't make me buy packets or boxes, but then again, I have at least 30 packets on hand...depends on what I feel like eating. I had a talk with her today about maintenance and she encouraged me to go once a week for WI and to use the time to discuss staying on target. She did mention that I don't have to buy any food/packets.
So I guess she is not bad.

The price of the packets ticks me off because it's SO MUCH HIGHER than comparable products from other brands. For example, you can't tell me that there are two totally different manufacturers making "Pickle Zippers" yet the Proti-diet version are just $12 per box from Nashua vs. the $29 a box my clinic charges. My guess is that many of the foods were eating are the exact same in other brands (not all obviously) because I doubt there are a lot of different factories producing this stuff. It actually wouldn't be that hard to find out.

I understand that we get coaching and monitoring in the deal but I'd rather pay for that service (my coach is great) than the super-overpriced food packets. This diet COULD be a lot less expensive but there's a lot of money to be made off of us.

We live in Washington state, we pay $4.50 a packet. This is very spendy.

NJ-28 bucks a box, no option for individuals. We don't pay for weigh-in or coaching.

I pay 30 dollars even for a box, 4.25 per individual packet. This is a super over priced program. That is a lot of money for a few bites of food! However, I have decided to stick with it because I like more of the IP foods than the alternatives, especially the puddings, and because I need the accountability of a weigh in.

Alberta - 27.99 for boxes. No individual packs, though if I say I'm interested in trying something they'll give me a packet to 'test'.

No paying for the weigh-ins.

My clinic is in Seattle, and we don't have a minimum/we're not pressured to buy food. No fee for weekly weigh-in and meeting with coach. Single packets ate $4.50, boxes are $30.

If we refer someone to IP and they sign up, we get a free box of food (of our choice) as a thank-you.