Antibody Marketplace – Life Research

• Life Research is expanding it’s marketing to attract researchers to the marketplace.
• Researchers have access to our Find service or can browse products by category.
• We offer a global marketplace, however if required we can manage sales only in specific regions.
• We endeavour to provide a world class online ordering platform with the following:
• payment by credit card or by invoice: wire transfer with 30 day payment terms. 
• Multiple currencies: US dollars, GB pounds, Euros, Japanese Yen, Canadian dollars and Australian dollars.  No conversion fees charged to researchers.
• suppliers can choose their preferred base currency and we manage the currency risk.
• we list your products at your recommended retail price and convert to other currencies without adding an additional margin.
• When an order is received it is forwarded to the supplier for fulfilment: 
• you confirm the order and provide shipping details. 
• you then ship the order directly to the end customer.

Online marketplaces like AbeBooks.com let an Australian buyer easily find an 18th century copy of the Iliad of Homer from Butler Rare Books in the UK… a rare product, from a specialist in a transaction that would never have occurred prior to online marketplaces.  Lower prices also result from efficient transactions.

The near infinite ability of antibodies to recognise antigens and their broad research application has resulted in a diverse supplier community ranging from research groups to global biotech giants.  The breadth and depth of the supplier community has made it difficult from researchers and suppliers to connect resulting in the majority of sales being made through a small number of major suppliers who resell the products of the small companies under their own brand.  We believe that the research community benefits from the direct relationship offered by a marketplace for the following reasons:

• straightforward communications to resolve technical challenges – Talk to the people who actually produced the product.
• confidence in the quality of the product: who made the product, how was it produced and what batch it came from? – With monoclonals researchers complain that one batch worked and then next didn’t.
• Price efficiency: the supplier is setting the price and not providing large discounts to distributors and OEM resellers – Regularly small suppliers set fair prices that are doubled by resellers who distribute under another brand name.
• Delivery efficiency, the product is shipped direct from the supplier to the researcher – often rare products are shipped from one place to another before arriving at the customers location adding cost and time.