Hi Jacob,
I am not sure I understand why a spread in pricing indicates illegal
activity.
Wouldn't uniformly high prices indicate something illegal, and very
different
prices just indicate you have a choice of suppliers, qualities etc?!?
And just to mention two more supplier names (again: different brands,
different
prices) for IPTG we never had problems with:
Applichem, current promotion price 155 Euro for 25 g
Roche, promotion starting Aug (according to a Roche sales person) 128 Euro
for 5 g
Best
Clemens
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> Jacob Keller
> Gesendet: Tuesday, July 14, 2009 7:45 PM
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> Betreff: Re: [ccp4bb] Summary IPTG suppliers (mainly Europe)
>
> When there is a greater-than-10-fold range of prices, as here, it seems
> that
> there is unfair business going on. I am no expert on European business
> law,
> but I suspect there might be something illegal here.
>
> Jacob Keller
>
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mark J. van Raaij" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Tuesday, July 14, 2009 11:56 AM
> Subject: [ccp4bb] Summary IPTG suppliers (mainly Europe)
>
>
> Current EU IPTG prices in euros, approximate, without tax, delivery or
> currency exchange fees. Prices are quoted as to my best knowledge, but
> of course may be different when you order at a different time or from
> a different place. I do not claim it is complete.
>
> Apollo Scientific (UK): 5 g 18 euros, 25 g 85 euros
> Biosynth (Switzerland): 10 g 40 euros, 25 g 89 euros, 50 g 160 euros,
> 100 g 286 euros
> ForMedium (UK): 1 g 9 euros, 5 g 28 euros, 10 g 51 euros, 25 g 118
> euros, 100 g 378 euros, 250 g 765 euros
> Melford (UK): 1 g 10 euros, 5 g 31 euros, 10 g 56 euros, 25 g 131
> euros, 50 g 244 euros, 100 g 450 euros
> Nzytech (Portugal): 1 g 28 euros, 5 g 52 euros
> Eurogentec (via Cultek): 1 g 21 euros, 5 g 84 euros
> Qiagen (via Izasa): 5 g 142 euros
> Promega: 50 g 1140 euros, 5 g 181 euros, 1 g 61 euros
> Invitrogen: 1 g, 44 euros
> Sigma-Aldrich: 5 g 250 euros, 10 g 494 euros
>
> Fermentas was also mentioned at 33 pounds for 5 g, but their web does
> not let you see the price unless you register (it also does not
> mention Spain in the shipping list, perhaps it has a distributor here
> I am unaware of).
> It appears UK/Swiss companies are the cheapest, and the UK is in
> Europe, although some people seem to think otherwise. Seriously, for
> us ordering the UK is as easy as ordering from Spain or other European
> countries. I am not sure how easy ordering from Switzerland would be,
> I have never tried...
> All people give good refs of the supplier used (i.e. absence of
> expression problems), except for one person, who only uses Sigma IPTG
> after problems with other sources.
>
> Another supplier mentioned without EU distributors was:
> Gold BioTechnologies: 25 g 99 USD, 100 g 309 USD, 300g 799 USD
>
> Several people mentioned Studiers auto-induction methods, which avoids
> having to use IPTG and gives them better cell density and, in some
> cases, more expression of soluble protein.
>
> Thanks to all for their comments and knowledge of companies I had
> never heard of and did not find with Google,
>
> Mark
>
>
>
>
> Mark J. van Raaij
> Dpto de Bioquímica, Facultad de Farmacia
> Universidad de Santiago
> 15782 Santiago de Compostela
> Spain
> http://web.usc.es/~vanraaij/
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