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cheap Cr/Co/Cu/Ni salts from chinese suppliers?
Hello everyone! Seems like some of you managed to purchase from alibaba or similar websites.
Now, Cr(III)/Co(II)/Cu(II)/Ni(II) salts are very cheap there (ranging from 5 to 12$/kg) and many suppliers put 1kg as minimum quantity for purchase.
Do you know any reliable company out there that is willing to sell to a private, let's say 1 or 2kg each (let's say 6-10kg total)?
I really need NiCl2, CoCl2 and CuCl2 but my local chem supplier sells only Analysis-grade stuff, which I can't afford
 Any useful info? Thanks~
[Edited on 18-6-2014 by valeg96]
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Generally Alibaba doesn't ship 1kg quantities, their minimums are generally 20 foot long cargo containers = a couple hundred metric tons worth. I've
tried contacting a lot of sellers, and maybe I was unlucky but none of them would ship less. You might be able to buy from a buyer, eg. Some factory
buys the 20flc and you can ask for a kg to be billed to you, then you don't even have to pay the couple hundred dollars in shipping the container.
the minimum amount listed in the item as well as the price are usually worth nothing, you actually need to contact them for a quote and minimum to get
the real numbers.
If anyone else had better luck, I would love to know!
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Quote: Originally posted by numos  | | You might be able to buy from a buyer, eg. Some factory buys the 20flc and you can ask for a kg to be billed to you |
Too bad I don't know anyone who buys this stuff. It's awful spending all these money on Analysis-grade chemicals.
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It all just depends on how far you are willing to go example say you have a business and you are with quality control and you need a sample before you
make a 200 kiloton order, I have found that this almost always works but for quantities around 1-5 kg. I order from sellers on alibaba about 2x a
month and it really is acquired talent learning how to pick sellers that are legit, are willing to use Paypal, have a reasonable shipping method and
will sell the quantity you are looking for.
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a day or two ago I was looking on alibaba for the requirements on ordering, business license needed or what. they said you could inquire with the
sellers, and also write something in for the business name implying personal use when you register, but many wont deal with you. I have never had any
of them write back to me yet... any how it had some suggestions there about using aliexpress. http://www.aliexpress.com/ for smaller orders of what is sold on alibaba. the selection is pretty well neutered to a handful of the metals I was
looking for. LOTS of consumer crap like ebay, and the prices were a bit high for the things I wanted, but small amounts of certain things were
available. among the things I was looking for: selenium, mischmetal, rare earths, cobalt, nickel... and a few others. the selenium was available in
a Kg and smaller format for a good price. more than I can drop atm, but soon it shall be mine. I had great trouble finding nickel and cobalt, like
nada( limited time to look), but I did find mischmetal also. trouble is you are looking at a hundred/Kg(with shipping) to WAY more(before shipping)
for some of the grades, which metals are left in and overall purity. thought a pound or Kg of mishmetal would be cheaper ya know, considering how
cheap the ferrocerium fints are. anyhow, see if they have what you are looking for, and I seem to remember I came across a suggestion area, where you
could ask if they would start selling something you didn't see.
the real button to win, could potentially be to find the seller on alibaba, and then ask them to do a small scale sale with you on the AliExpress.com
site. could potentially provide them with a market that they trust and are already apart of. deff worth a try.
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| Quote: Originally posted by Blue Matter | | it really is acquired talent learning how to pick sellers that are legit, are willing to use Paypal, have a reasonable shipping method and will sell
the quantity you are looking for. |
Well, and are you willing to tell us who they are? 
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Also perhaps we could do a collaborative purchase here on science madness? Example: how does 20 cents for a liter of sulfuric acid sound? We could
purchase a metric ton for $200, min order 25 metric tons (around $6000 total with shipping) I wouldn't mind owning a metric ton... If 25 other people
are interested... Shipping might be a problem
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Not interested in a metric ton, but if we could figure out shipping to Texas I'd be happy to purchase a few liters at that price. Maybe more if
shipping doesn't turn out to be a hassle and my parents approve.
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Metric ton is around 1200 liters haha I dont know many people who could store or need that much. For sulfuric acid it is a bad idea to order from
overseas alot can go wrong with shipping best to buy bulk from a supplier in the states.
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Shipping will be a hassle, it arrives at a port, probably long beach which is an hour away from here, then it would have to be driven by truck most
likely, and it is shipped in huge containers each holding a metric ton. (think methylamine from B. Bad) and bottling that is going to be a pain, its
really only worth it if the entire container is purchased. For a few liters it's safer to pay the $10/liter at elemental scientific or duds diesel.
and now that I think of it, at that quantity being shipped to a single residence you'd be more likely to win the lottery than not have authorities
wondering why you have that quantity.
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| Quote: Originally posted by numos |
and now that I think of it, at that quantity being shipped to a single residence you'd be more likely to win the lottery than not have authorities
wondering why you have that quantity. |
Hm, dissolving bodies?
Yeah, that's true. It's probably more trouble than it's worth, even at those prices. The only way that it would be feasible would be if you lived in
the port city that it was brought into and could actually transport it yourself from that point. (Even if you had to make several trips)
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Always wanted to purchase this but never could pull the trigger on it.
http://www.dudadiesel.com/choose_item.php?id=5gsa
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