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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Many places will give you gift cards, donating plasma also has the effect of reducing pfas in your blood (allegedly) and you get real money.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Interesting. I've only ever donated whole blood to the Red Cross, and they explicitly said they don't do any kind of reimbursement when I asked. But that was a decade ago while I was donating plasma and needed the extra money and couldn't take not being able to do ate for a few months.

[–] QuikxSpec 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Oneblood offers jncentives to get more people to donate. Not much but about $200 per year + donation themed clothing, blankets, towels locally. Platelets get about $250. These numbers are getting lower each year

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

You can get paid way more for plasma, the places where I live take hours though so it may not be worth it. I just donate whole blood and Oneblood gives me gift cards and swag, the double walled water bottles last time were surprisingly good quality, and probably lined with pfas.