Well I had planned on making a company to re-sell reagents to the DIY community, but then I realized I'm not that passionate about buying and selling pipette tips and EDTA, plus I have little startup capital. For anyone else though, I think there is a definite market demand for "amateur" science reagents. Not just on DIY, but on sciencemadness and other forums, people constantly ask, "where can I get this?". A few companies have become well known for supplying basic reagents to people, United Nuclear, HMS Beagle, HomeScienceTools (where I got about $150 worth of stuff). There are websites out there that will sell you the reagents.
But anyway, I just formed an LLC 6 days ago, and now I can order as an official company. So if it's worth the filing fee and 5 minutes it takes to fill out an LLC online registration form in your home state, I'd say go for it. I'm in Massachusetts and we have the highest filing fee for an LLC in the country, of $500. I could have bought toooooons of cool stuff if not an OpenPCR machine with that, but instead I needed that just to order basic things. Plus it's $500 a year to keep the LLC. If I'm generating revenue, it's not terrible, but otherwise it's a big fee when most other states are $100 to $200.
-- But I did a pVIB transformation and it was all worth it. It was like holding the night sky in my hand on a petri dish, very cool!
On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 4:43 PM, Ulysses1994XF04 <bensics@comcast.net> wrote:
I've been searching online for places that sell chemical reagents to do biochemistry at home but the major chemical manufacturers that make research-grade reagents (Sigma Aldrich, Fluka, etc) simply won't sell to individuals; they'll only sell to certified labs at universities, companies, etc.
Where can an individual buy things like chromatography-grade silica, ether or pure organic solvents for extractions, pure amino acids, etc?
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