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Article: Frenzied bidding for diet pills ahead of law change
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- Sunday Star-Times
- Article date:
- March 30, 2008
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DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES are frantically stocking up on diet pills
laced with the about-to-be-banned party-pill drug BZP, engaging in
online bidding wars for bulk deals and even buying half-used
bottles.
Yesterday one woman on auction site Zillion had bid $285 for six
bottles of Slimfast Triple Action Formula, which becomes an illegal
drug on Tuesday because of the 60mg of BZP in each pill. Other
auctions for varying amounts of the pills were also under way.
One full bottle and one half-used bottle went for $120 during the
week, after two women placed eight bids in the final two minutes. A
full bottle, containing 30 pills, used to retail for about $40.
Some forward- thinking women had earlier ...
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