How do I avoid getting scammed or shortchanged when buying lab equipment in India?"

These are the mistakes of other people, from which we managed to learn a lot:
Mistake 1: Pursuing prestige. Thermo Fisher, Agilent, Mettler Toledo, and Eppendorf produce brilliant centrifuges of excellent performance. Nevertheless, if you are working in a college lab, a diagnostic lab, or a pharmacy QC lab, and your work is not at the forefront of science, be prepared that the customer service for such a high-end instrument may not be available in your country. The service desk for centrifuges, which are usually imported, will respond to your call several months later. Meanwhile, you have to work with a local machine that meets all the requirements and has the ISO/CE certificates.
Mistake 2: Not asking about the post-sales policy. Surprisingly, this situation is the most common one in our practice. Actually, it is not a mistake but a miracle before buying laboratory equipment. The first thing you need to do when you select a supplier is ask them to reserve the spare parts for the equipment you want to purchase. Secondly, inquire if the supplier provides onsite calibration of the instrument. A service technician’s work is expensive, and it is not worth spending a week waiting for him to change rotors.
Mistake 3: Judging the glass by its appearance. This tip is helpful when you are talking with glassware suppliers. A certificate of analysis (COA) should confirm that the produced glass has been properly subjected to thermal treatments, for example, annealing, to remove defects that weaken the glass, such as cracks. A few minutes spent on studying the COA will save you a year and a half of returning the glass to the supplier.
Mistake 4: Applying the research lab’s purchasing policy to the school. Unfortunately, this case is also quite common. A school lab is not as good as a research station, so the purchasing policy should be different in principle. If you are going to buy the equipment for the school lab once in five years, ask the supplier to allocate universal solutions for you. Ask the supplier to reserve the equipment that will meet the requirements of a physics, chemistry, biology, and geology teacher. It would be even better if you find such a supplier that unifies all the four segments, as it will be much more cost-effective than three separate suppliers for three separate instruments, each of which will have to perform only 1/4 of the work.
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