Trident Reagent

[Lp1977]

I'm sorry but with all the bashing that's going with reagents I have to say your right it sucks but

I don't know how they can say they will have supplies on the 24th of April when Neptune has not made an official statement saying they are back to distributing products.

Most of the larger retailers have stock that was shipped pre lock down. There releasing limited supplies per Neptune.

 

[robbyg]

I'm sorry but with all the bashing that's going with reagents I have to say your right it sucks but

Most of the larger retailers have stock that was shipped pre lock down. There releasing limited supplies per Neptune.

I understood that to mean that they would not sell any one customer more than a two month supply. I find it hard to believe that they could dictate that they spread out the sales over several months. I guess we shall see soon as they say they will have stock in today.

 

[goggs29]

Im about to run out..

put it on manual test mode and test once a day

 

[Perthegallon]

put it on manual test mode and test once a day

Is that possible????

 

[UCF Alum]

I spoke with Neptune this week. They sent all their stock out weeks ago and are not producing any right now. I’m going to have a $600 brick here in the next month or so.
Change your testing to the daily minimum to conserve your stock.

 

[goggs29]

Is that possible????

yes it has a section for manual or automatic test

 

[goggs29]

yes it has a section for manual or automatic test

 

[Perthegallon]

Does that make my regents go bad though?

 

[goggs29]

im under the impression that keeps it in manual mode

 

[goggs29]

i would imagine eventually but this is desperate times lol

 

[Perthegallon]

i would imagine eventually but this is desperate times lol

I love how companies are still selling them

 

[Perthegallon]

i would imagine eventually but this is desperate times lol

The Neptune’s trident

 

[Hydrored]

I just picked up a 2 month at my LFS today, Neptune shipped them a batch on Tuesday.

 

[goggs29]

they still sold cars in the gas shortages in the 80s. id rather have it and wait for reagents than have to wait for both.

 

[robbyg]

Do you need reagents? let me know

No I don't but a lot of guys here do seem to need them.
Did you personally ration your stock for just such a situation?

 

[Amado]

Well no matter what Neptune product your looking for its out of stock.
Has been heading this way for a while.
This is the problem with manufacturing things out of the country.
Yes it comes at a cheaper price tag but this is the flip side of the coin.
Neptune could bring 100% of the manufacturing here to the USA.
But the billion dollars it would take would be passed down to us.

The EPA regulations on injection molding processes alone and the equipment to contain all the bad stuff would be thousands if not millions of dollars alone.

But it is what it is.
China is over and done, the last straw was drawn and we the people are not going to be buying things made in China.

Do you know what the number one question is on Amazon products currently?

Is this made in China?

We know why the question is asked, and now products will not be bought.

not buying products from China is not realistic. Everything is made in China because it’s cost less to Make. USA is not a developing country. Nobody in America is going to work a 12hrs a day job soldering
Microchips into a board. The phone you are using was made in China. The people that wrote the code for this website are not American. We live in a different world it’s a world economy. So companies like Neptune are competing on world market not just in the USA. That person that is working 12hr shifts in China can’t afford to by the product they are making.

 

[ca1ore]

That is a notion that has been baked into peoples heads. I should know, I have dealing in this area from before China was even a player. Yes the wages and costs are a lot cheaper in China but those savings are most times not passed onto you. Back in the old days most companies had much lower double digit profit margins. What manufacturing in China has allowed is triple digit profits on most Items.

Aside from the fact that you cannot actually have triple digit profit margins, I fundamentally disagree. There certainly may be some examples where companies have taken labor savings directly to the bottom line, but there are plenty of examples where manufactures have used labor arbitrage to offset cost increases in other elements of COGS to hold off price increases.

Sorry for the off topic ....

 

[robbyg]

Aside from the fact that you cannot actually have triple digit profit margins, I fundamentally disagree. There certainly may be some examples where companies have taken labor savings directly to the bottom line, but there are plenty of examples where manufactures have used labor arbitrage to offset cost increases in other elements of COGS to hold off price increases.

Sorry for the off topic ....

Yes your right, I meant triple digit markups.

 

[45ZoaGarden]

put it on manual test mode and test once a day

That does not work. You’ll end up using expired reagents. The alk bottles have a shelf life of 1 month when opened. The ca and mg bottles have a shelf life of 2 months when opened. This means that you’ll run into tests with wacky values. Not good.

 

[45ZoaGarden]

You can’t? Fish stores grow corals. Something that literally costs nothing to do. Then frags and sells them. That’s one heck of a profit margin

Aside from the fact that you cannot actually have triple digit profit margins, I fundamentally disagree. There certainly may be some examples where companies have taken labor savings directly to the bottom line, but there are plenty of examples where manufactures have used labor arbitrage to offset cost increases in other elements of COGS to hold off price increases.

Sorry for the off topic ....