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Individual Ordering from Companies.

Blarg! - 6-2-2013 at 07:31

Alright guys, Im new to this. As an individual regular joe-schmo person, what do I have to do in order to be able to buy chemicals from a company like sigma aaldrich?

Mailinmypocket - 6-2-2013 at 07:54

Quote: Originally posted by Blarg!  
Alright guys, Im new to this. As an individual regular joe-schmo person, what do I have to do in order to be able to buy chemicals from a company like sigma aaldrich?


This has been answered many, many times before but- you can't. Not as a regular "joe-schmo" anyways. You need to find a third party supplier who is able to obtain these reagents for you, or find a company that caters to hobbyists.

Blarg! - 6-2-2013 at 07:55

Ive looked at many of these threads about finding those chemicals but this particular one isnt sold by any of the ones I found from here. THAT is why I have resorted to this.

hissingnoise - 6-2-2013 at 08:07

Well then, resort to this?


Mailinmypocket - 6-2-2013 at 08:10

Alternatively, you could try asking in this thread...

http://www.sciencemadness.org/talk/viewthread.php?tid=22971

Blarg! - 6-2-2013 at 08:20

Well hissingnoise, can i order those euro chemicals if I am in the US?

Thank you mailinmypocket but Ephesian has already sold his sodium borohydride

hissingnoise - 6-2-2013 at 08:24

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Well hissingnoise, can i order those euro chemicals if I am in the US?

Dunno! Check it out, anyway?


Mailinmypocket - 6-2-2013 at 08:32

Quote: Originally posted by Blarg!  
Well hissingnoise, can i order those euro chemicals if I am in the US?

Thank you mailinmypocket but Ephesian has already sold his sodium borohydride


I believe he may be able to obtain more, as one of his posts he mentions supplies are limitless... I'm assuming you asked him and aren't just basing yourself on the stock lists?

Blarg! - 6-2-2013 at 08:35

Yes he told me through u2u that it was already sold, plus he says hes selling it all so i doubt he has more laying around

Hissingnoise, they do not offer the ability to ship to the US

hissingnoise - 6-2-2013 at 09:06

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Hissingnoise, they do not offer the ability to ship to the US

Guess it's just another casualty of your country's terminal fixation on banning as much drug-shit as possible!


Blarg! - 6-2-2013 at 09:15

No. Im not dealing with that shit. Im doing what I want regardless. It is wrong that certain people, chemists in this case, must lose their freedoms just because they are too small a part of the democratic society to protect themselves and keep that from happening.

Time for some civil disobedience, motherfucker.

elementcollector1 - 6-2-2013 at 09:18

Elemental Scientific LLC
United Nuclear
Metallium
HMS-Beagle

All of these will sell to individuals.

zed - 6-2-2013 at 13:17

NaBH4? It isn't impossible to make. Alternately, do a little research in this section. Photographers may use the product to recover silver from their developing solutions. A similar product is used in water purification.

Chemical suppliers are relatively unfriendly to small buyers, always have been. A small business or a small college, would fit in to that small buyer category.

If you appeared to represent a legit buyer, interested in buying a train-load full of product X, the company would shower you with fancy gift hookers and secret illegal kickbacks. As it is, your miniscule purchase doesn't interest them.