Chummie Premium re-visited.

We thought that we should re-visit the Chummie Premium bedwetting alarm. This alarm, which Chummie has very abundantly touted from their very beginning as a business, has been the basis of most of our blog entries relating to Chummie and Theos Medical Systems. We have very adequately pointed out how the newer Chummie Elite is a severe flop. The Chummie Premium and the Chummie Elite have both been overhyped and overpriced in our opinion, and promoted through deceptive practices that Theos Medical Systems has indulged in since they started their business in the U.S. These practices are adequately detailed in this blog since the time this blog was started in May, 2013. As we have examined statistics for the Chummie Elite in some detail, we thought that we should analyze the Chummie Premium in much the same way, as statistics speak for themselves.

We have very adequately delved into the possible improprieties of the relationship between Amazon and Chummie, the last blog entry of which is dated March 29, 2015. Please read that, if you are not aware of this troublesome relationship.

Consider the current rankings on Amazon.com of Theos's Chummie Premium. Its current performance on Amazon can be identified by the "Amazon Best Sellers Rank" in "Health and Personal Care," a rank that Amazon determines as per current sales. The numbers reproduced below were obtained from Amazon.com at 9:05 a.m. Pacific Time on April 20, 2015. 

Chummie Premium: TC300B (Blue) Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #22,532 in Health & Personal Care
                                 TC300P (Pink) Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #70,991 in Health & Personal Care
                                                                           Average Rank: #46,762

These are very low and poor ranks, whether you consider the best in the group, or the average. It would be appropriate to point out that before August, 2014, when Theos's abuses at Amazon.com started receiving considerable public exposure, the Chummie Premium usually had a rank below 5,000 and the second position on the "bedwetting alarm" Amazon.com page. Although, based on our knowledge and observations, we do not believe that Amazon did appropriate due diligence in deciding to "sell" the Chummie alarms, we can certainly understand why the good ranking and all of the false hype that Theos generated may have allowed some Theos well-wisher at Amazon to accept the Chummie products to be "sold" directly by Amazon. The Chummie Premium, in our minds, is a very poor value for any buyer and we are unable to understand why Amazon is even playing with this item (see the above performance statistics from Amazon.com). We wonder how long it will take Amazon to realize that they should stop "selling" the Chummie Premium with their poor acceptance by the public and the negative exposure that accompanies them. And all the special privileges extended by Amazon to Chummie, and lowering its absurdly high price by $20 on very brief occasions do not appear to be halting this disfavor. Perhaps potential customers have woken up to the fact that Chummie's alarms are not the most convenient to use and involve significant recurring expenditures for supplies. So a Chummie customer gets whacked at the original purchase, and continues to get whacked for supplies to keep the item usable.

Detailed statistics about the Chummie Premium and Elite in recent times can be found at

Chummie Fraud on Amazon Reviews :

We have excerpted from the last site above:

To get a true and thorough comparison of Chummie Alarms versus their competition, visit
UrineAlarms.com   
and compare all the detailed features and prices for both
Wired Alarms   and   Wireless Alarms  . 
You can then knowledgeably decide what is "Premium" about the Chummie Premium!

Why is the Chummie Premium performing so very poorly on eBay? Only about 1 unit per month compared to about 40 per month for the DryBuddyEZ and over 20 per month for the WetStop3? We can only attribute this to Theos/Chummie not having reviews to manipulate (as they have abundantly done on Amazon). Consequently, buyers look at the facts for this alarm, and conclude that it does not command any "Premium" for its features or price!


Footnote: Very soon after this blog entry was posted, on the same day, a Chummie Premium was sold on eBay.  Would anyone care to guess who the buyer might be?