Comments on: Scientific shopping

By: Anne

Anne — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 21:49:47 +0000

We use AKSci, their prices are ridiculously cheap (when compared to aldrich). Strem is great for some organometallic catalyts.

By: Yaska

Yaska — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 13:31:36 +0000

Sigma ends up being more convenient most of the time. More over, you can always try haggle a little especially if you buy frequently or have the volume. This become especially true when buying oligos or even peptides from them…

By: Noel

Noel — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 03:45:10 +0000

My department also gets free shipping (usually gets here in 2 days) from S-A. Yay for midwest!

By: Sean

Sean — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 18:19:03 +0000

I actually spent a number of months looking for great suppliers related to crystallography. The short story is that I ended up bringing them together into one location. Currently, we have a small selection of chemicals that would apply to most chemists, but for what we do carry:

Sigma TCEP: 10g they charge 403, we charge 95.
http://store.p212121.com/products/TCEP-25-g.html
Sigma DTT: 5g 194.50, we charge 35.
Adrocs DTT: 50g 763.80, we are at 89.
http://store.p212121.com/products/DTT-100-g.html

I didn’t see these reducing agents being carried by Strem for a comparison. Anyway, I don’t want to spam an infomercial here, but my point is that many department stores aren’t charging 4-5x as competitors for essentially the same product.

By: Chemjobber

Chemjobber — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:20:38 +0000

Close in proximity and enough sales, I guess.

By: around the corner and down the hall

around the corner and down the hall — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:08:45 +0000

How in the he!! do you get free shipping from Aldrich?!?!? I usually find that they are not only more expensive on a chemical basis, they seem to have worked out a price gouging deal with FedEx/UPS on shipping prices…

By: Chemjobber

Chemjobber — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 11:49:00 +0000

I think Strem is awesome; if only all suppliers were like them (but faster!)

By: mitch

mitch — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 04:37:35 +0000

It is funny how the ads get targeted to the individual. The majority of the ads for me are Google’s Nexus One and get your PhD online.

By: Noel

Noel — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 04:19:15 +0000

If you can live with the fact that you will eventually get your starting material, maybe, someday, then Strem is pretty great (bottom line–they don’t sell you green tetrakis).*

* http://carbontet.blogspot.com/2007/10/tetrakis-talk.html