I need to know if anyone else out there is as annoyed as I am about the whole 300/400 bp sequencing/OneTouch 2 fiasco?
We were led to believe that we would be able to do 300/400 bp sequencing when we bought a PGM 9 months ago. Now we find out that in order to do 400 bp sequencing we will need to trade in our OneTouch instrument and buy a OneTouch 2 ($5K-$10K depending on when you buy it).
But as if that weren't bad enough ..... Life Technologies released a 300 bp sequencing kit about 2-3 months ago. 300 bp sequencing didn't require a OneTouch 2 so we were able to do it on our OneTouch 1. We bought the kit and started doing the 300 bp sequencing......then......as soon as they announce that a OneTouch 2 is needed for 400 bp sequencing they discontinue the 300 bp sequencing kit. This essentially forces anyone who wants to do longer reads into buying a OneTouch 2.
Seriously am I the only one out there who thinks this is a despicable business practice? Life Technologies should be ashamed of themselves. If we could go back in time 10 months we would absolutely NOT have bought a PGM. Unfortunately we are locked in now and that seems to be Life Technologies business model. Get you so far in that there is no turning back and you have to fork out the extra cash. Nice one.
Thoughts?
We were led to believe that we would be able to do 300/400 bp sequencing when we bought a PGM 9 months ago. Now we find out that in order to do 400 bp sequencing we will need to trade in our OneTouch instrument and buy a OneTouch 2 ($5K-$10K depending on when you buy it).
But as if that weren't bad enough ..... Life Technologies released a 300 bp sequencing kit about 2-3 months ago. 300 bp sequencing didn't require a OneTouch 2 so we were able to do it on our OneTouch 1. We bought the kit and started doing the 300 bp sequencing......then......as soon as they announce that a OneTouch 2 is needed for 400 bp sequencing they discontinue the 300 bp sequencing kit. This essentially forces anyone who wants to do longer reads into buying a OneTouch 2.
Seriously am I the only one out there who thinks this is a despicable business practice? Life Technologies should be ashamed of themselves. If we could go back in time 10 months we would absolutely NOT have bought a PGM. Unfortunately we are locked in now and that seems to be Life Technologies business model. Get you so far in that there is no turning back and you have to fork out the extra cash. Nice one.
Thoughts?
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