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Subject: Re: [DCHAS-L] Cost of liquid helium
Date: Monday, August 24, 2015 2:39:53 PM
Author: Andy Stice <andy.stice**At_Symbol_Here**MAIL.IC.EDU> 		Next by Date:
Subject: Re: [DCHAS-L] Cost of liquid helium
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2015 11:48:13 -0700
Author: Lorna Hughes

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From: David Roberts <droberts**At_Symbol_Here**DEPAUW.EDU>
Subject: Re: [DCHAS-L] Cost of liquid helium
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2015 14:48:11 -0400
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My 60L price on helium is $900. I may also pay a large delivery fee (it's sent to us fed-ex), then we pay $1.50 or so per day to have the tank - but we are typically done in less than a week - so overall is not over $1000.

We use airgas as our vendor, and that's our Univ. quoted price. I don't know if we get to tag on Lilly's shoulders or not. We are very small, with a small budget, so our quote might be out of some sort of Indiana consortium or something, I'm not sure.

Just FYI - about 2 years ago it was in the $650 range - so I thought it went up considerably. Guess not ;)

Good luck

Dave


> On Aug 24, 2015, at 2:39 PM, Andy Stice wrote:
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> Hello Phillip,
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> On June 9 2015 I paid $1871.45 for 60L of liq He. I also paid an additional $258 for dewar rental.
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> Andy Stice
> Laboratory Manager
> Depts. of Biology & Chemistry
> Illinois College
>
> On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 1:06 PM, Trimmer, Philip wrote:
> Hello. I am hoping for a reality check. What are you all paying for 60 liters of liquid helium? I thought prices were to begin falling a couple years ago. Ours just went to $2300.
>
> Am I being scammed?
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> --
> Andrew L. Stice
> Laboratory Manager
> Depts. of Biology & Chemistry
> Illinois College
> 1101 W. College Ave.
> Jacksonville, IL 62650
> 217-245-3375
> andy.stice**At_Symbol_Here**ic.edu

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