Re: [DIYbio] miniPCR is live on kickstarter

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/minipcr/minipcr-a-dna-discovery-system-for-everyone

has adjusted international shipping rates (no longer using paddle boat...) based on supporters feedback.

cheers

s

On Sunday, November 2, 2014 7:27:57 PM UTC-5, Dakota wrote:

I think it's a very polished looking product that rivals openPCR as a "cottage industry" type hand-made biotech goods company.  You can of course acquire a cheaper thermal cycler off ebay with the chance that it works, but that machine will probably weigh 20 lbs + and be bulky as heck and not have a heated lid.  

I do wish there were more than 8 wells for the price, but besides that I think this is a great example of a company that is trying to build a functional, and most importantly, highly mobile machine.  It's advantage (in my mind)  is that it is incredibly small and I could fit it in my pocket.

I think if we want to have comparable biotech hardware for better prices we need to support companies like this to give them the cash-flow to hopefully build even better equipment.   Or at the very least, I suppose this is the place to make comments on what specifications you'd like to see.

Sebastian, I never knew it couldn't hold 4-12C?  22C is really the lowest?  

That aside, perhaps if enough money is raised these types of changes could come into play, now, or in the next iteration.  

As far as the international shipping goes, is $200 a typo?  I've sent things 100x as big to Thailand for 25% the cost.

On Sun, Nov 2, 2014 at 6:53 PM, Alex Murer [Open Biolab Graz Austria] <alex.m...@gmail.com> wrote:

I don't want to seem rude either, but you obviously don't have much of an idea of biotech business. Even at that "high" price they won't make any serious money, simply because the market is way too small.




Am Freitag, 31. Oktober 2014 19:56:26 UTC+1 schrieb Sebastian:

The obviously have to ship it by paddle-boat. Seems super reasonable if that's the method in question...

I don't want to seem rude but that price point is ridiculous. Not just int'l shipping but the device itself. I STILL have yet to hear of any passable justification for the device being so damn expensive for what it is...or what its not. I wouldn't even be able to do an overnight ligation since it can't get colder that ~22C. I'd pay $250 retail. Maximum.

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

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From: Andy Chen
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Subject: [DIYbio] miniPCR is live on kickstarter

$200 for international shipping....? Seriously?

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