Hello and thanks for asking! I have been mostly satisfied with the meter and yet would hesitate to recommend due to my experience with the strips. The first batch worked perfectly and yet now into my second batch, about 1/2 of them don't have the capillary action of the first batch. I also draw glucose levels so I really don't think it's user error. I appreciate all you've done to decrease the cost of the strips and yet if they don't work then it's still prohibitively expensive. I hope that I just got a 'bad' batch and am happy to review again if I have better luck with the other strips that I've already purchased. Thanks for reading! kindly, Kelly Su