Cheap, new, powerful microcentrifuge

[Sebastian Cocioba]

http://www.southwestscience.com/SCARD12_Microcentrifuge.html

I stumbled upon this gem about forty pages deep in a microcentrifuge google search. It beats the pants off of the eppendorf minispin plus and is less than half the price.

Sebastian S. Cocioba
CEO & Founder
New York Botanics, LLC
Plant Biotech R&D

[Dakota Hamill]

http://www.southwestscience.com/Shaker_Catagories.html

Look at the blue one, they sell it for $4,000

http://www.alibaba.com/product-gs/970043050/Laboratory_incubator_shaker.html

Ali sells it for 800-1000 per unit, and I'm sure you could talk them down to 500.

$3500 +/- import fees is a nice profit, but I don't think I'd support someone trying to #$%* me that hard on chinese imports

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[Dakota Hamill]

Unless that's the wrong one but still, they all look you could get them direct from ali express

[Dakota Hamill]

And by the way I didn't mean to come off as shooting down what you posted, science equipment mark-ups are just insane in general, but I guess that's a problem many of us are trying to solve!

I think my favorite was a $40 pair of "scientific tweezers" from FischerSci 

[Sebastian Cocioba]

I hear you on the crazy mark ups but that centrifuge is still the lowest I've seen any new piece of gear go for that isn't a total piece of crap or a second hand knock off.

Sebastian S. Cocioba
CEO & Founder
New York Botanics, LLC
Plant Biotech R&D

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[SC]

Forgive the digression, but here's my favorite example of overpriced crap being marketed to scientists.  As far as I can tell, these are wooden toothpicks cut in half, at $67 for 2000.  Smartpicks, indeed.

 

http://www.bioexpress.com/divinity-cart/item/252105/LEVGO-smartPicks-trade-Mini-Wooden-Inoculation-Picks/1.html

 

 

[Nathan McCorkle]

Hah, I wonder how many of these companies are in cahoots with some big
university/corporation equipment/consumables purchasing manager...
'I'll buy 10X marked up toothpicks if you give me a kickback'