Re: [DIYbio] Re: Tips for the new guy

On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 4:36 PM, John Griessen <john@industromatic.com> wrote:
> Well since they already traveled over big seas, we assume yes.
>

When the trans-asian railway is finally working right, shipping to
Ireland from China should be significantly cheaper than it currently
is. (current too many different rail gauges currently cause a major
PITA, thus most goods travel from China to the west by boat)

> I searched out Mac's likely source and they make all kinds of standard lab
> gear.
> Makes me think my aim to combine standard operations with automation
> is right, and the only thing that will compete against Chinese suppliers
> "for a while", and then innovate again or die, open-hardware-business-wise.
>

AliBaba or AliExpress have lots of pipette suppliers, but Mac and
others will be able to out-compete because they know English quite
well. I've dealt with several companies on the Alis, and English
competency is far below what I expected for the tech sector. They've
even had problems understanding that multiple orders could be combined
in one shipping box, to save them shipping, and minimizing order
completion time.

Just because something is ISO9001 doesn't mean they can communicate
with you, and doesn't mean they do much Quality Control or
characterization Even if they do QC and have "professional" item
characterization (i.e. data sheet), it's definitely not the same as
what you get from most of the well-established USA/EU companies. For
pipettes this might not be a big deal, but what about the purity of
that lab reagent?

--
-Nathan

--
-- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups DIYbio group. To post to this group, send email to diybio@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to diybio+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at https://groups.google.com/d/forum/diybio?hl=en
Learn more at www.diybio.org
---
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "DIYbio" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to diybio+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com.
To post to this group, send email to diybio@googlegroups.com.
Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/diybio?hl=en.
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.