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From: janet dow <jldow@unity.ncsu.edu>
Date: Thu Jan 17 2008 - 15:41:56 EST
Wow-
Thanks to everyone who answered my question-I have ordered some from
BD and they appear on the website to be exactly the same ones.

I also found them on Fisher's website but BD had them for about $100
less.

thanks again to everyone

This email group totally rocks!!!!

Janet
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Janet Dow
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Flow Cytometry and Cell Sorting  Facility
North Carolina State College of Veterinary Medicine
4700 Hillsborough Street
Room C-309
Raleigh, NC 27606
(919)513-6443
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rwintle
Advanced Member

Canada
4965 Posts    Posted - May 26 2004 :  3:46:07 PM
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Fisher Scientific.
1. overpriced in general
2. useless sales rep
3. sales rep in point 2 leaves/is fired/whatever, is replaced by a new
rep who works for Fisher for about a month before deciding it's a
terrible company and goes to work for Beckman instead
4. no word from Fisher - who is our rep?
5. find out, months later, that we are assigned an "inside rep" in
another city, i.e. nobody can be arsed to come and see us
6. absolutely inflexible on pricing of products that they have
exclusive distribution of, i.e. Millipore filters and stuff
7. annoying credit department - every other supplier we use will
provide a credit reference to help us set up a new account with
another supplier... Fisher won't.
Bah humbug. If I wasn't locked into ordering the #$*%& Millipore stuff
from them, I wouldn't order *anything* from them.
Grrrr.
Edited by - rwintle on May 26 2004 3:46:26 PM
Biorunner
Senior Member

United States
119 Posts    Posted - June 01 2004 :  9:52:01 PM
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rwintle - we have had the same problem with sales reps coming & going.
with as much business as we give them, it is tedious having to explain
our needs to a new person every other month or so!

rwintle
Advanced Member

Canada
4965 Posts    Posted - June 02 2004 :  10:22:59 AM
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Good (? well, maybe not...) to hear. Is yours a Fisher-specific
problem, or general across a number of different suppliers?
quote:
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rwintle - we have had the same problem with sales reps coming & going.
with as much business as we give them, it is tedious having to explain
our needs to a new person every other month or so!
________________________________________
"Before I compose a piece, I walk around it several times, accompanied
by myself." - Erik Satie

Biorunner
Senior Member

United States
119 Posts    Posted - June 15 2004 :  7:50:55 PM
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quote:
________________________________________

Good (? well, maybe not...) to hear. Is yours a Fisher-specific
problem, or general across a number of different suppliers?
quote:
________________________________________

rwintle - we have had the same problem with sales reps coming & going.
with as much business as we give them, it is tedious having to explain
our needs to a new person every other month or so!
________________________________________
"Before I compose a piece, I walk around it several times, accompanied
by myself." - Erik Satie
________________________________________
Fisher seems to be the only company we have problems with. Other
companies that we frequently contact (like Bio-Rad) have remained
consistent with their reps. - they even know me by name! But, Fisher
seems to have a fast turn-over of reps. I'm not sure if they lose
employees frequently, or just re-assign them.

ericmckmom
Member