Location
- 171 LSA
- Berkeley, CA
- 94720-3200
Hours
- 8:00am-4:45pm Mon-Fri
Contact
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- Phone
- 510-643-8998 or 510-643-9508
- Fax
- 510-643-5589
About the Storeroom
Serving the entire UC Berkeley campus, we carry an extensive selection of chemicals, enzymes, labware, and office supplies. Our mission is to provide the lowest possible prices on frequently used items.
We carry a large variety of items from select vendors, many of whom offer us special pricing and discounts, including free shipping, which we pass on to our valued customers.
We can place special orders for items we do not stock from any of our vendors.
We are a self-serve facility open to UC Berkeley customers from all departments. Click here to apply for a storeroom account.
Please visit our other storeroom located in 1 Barker Hall. LSA storeroom accounts can also be used there.
Announcements
BFS is Down--We Are Not!
Many of you know that BFS, the financial backbone of BearBuy, is not working right now.
We'd like to remind you that the storeroom is still open and placing orders. We work independently of BearBuy.
It's in exactly this sort of emergency that we shine. We can place an order for anything you need, even if it's not in our catalog.
Please bear in mind that while we do get discounts from our regular vendors, you will likely pay our markup of 14% on anything from vendors not on this list.
(1/6/16)
Holiday Hours
The MCB Storerooms will close Wednesday November 25th at 3pm and reopen on November 30th at 8am.
We will also close Wednesday December 23rd at 3:00pm and will reopen on Monday January 4th at 8am. The cut-off for special orders placed through the storerooms will be 5pm Wednesday December 16th.
(11/17/15)
IDT Oligos
Last year, we started a new relationship with IDT, and yesterday we realized we'd never quite gotten around to announcing it.
We have discounts on oligos from IDT, and a "portal" account through them, making us more or less the official way to order IDT on campus.
Regular, desalted, 25nmol-scale sequences will run you $0.15/base pair, including our markup, and they're offering us free next-day delivery.
Sign up by clicking this link! You'll need your lab's Customer ID.
(4/22/15)
storeroom markup update
Our markup rate is now 14%. This is still quite low compared to other recharge units in the UC system.
To make our prices easier to compare, we've removed the tax from the prices on our website. Please keep in mind that you will pay the same tax through any other source.
(5/12/14)
MCB storeroom website prices no longer include tax
After years of explaining to customers that the prices on our website include tax, we've decided to end this practice. So if you were used to adding tax to others' prices to compare to our prices, you now no longer need to do that.
The price you see on the websites now no longer includes tax, making it more comparable to prices you see elsewhere. The prices will include our markup.
(4/23/14)
16 GB Flash Drives
are now $12.99! It looks like flash technology has finally crossed the $1/Gb threshold--with room to spare. Get yours today!
(Updated 7/9/13)
Rainin Pipet-Lite XLS--extremely cheap.
Rainin has recently discontinued its Pipet-Lite series, and replaced it with Pipet-Lite XLS.
They're still giving us an awesome deal, though. These will cost $226.20 here--roughly half off the original price!
As always, our prices include tax.
(7/16/12)
New Lower Prices!
Our markup rate, the amount that we charge on every order, has been lowered for the first time in years!
It's dropped from 14% to 9%, barely more than the tax rate.
We have worked so hard to lower our prices. This is a huge deal for us, and there will be more about this in the coming weeks.
But for now, just keep in mind that everything you order from us or pick up in the store is 5% cheaper than it used to be!
(6/14/12)
Save on Shipping
We get free shipping from all of our regular vendors. Notably, this includes Invitrogen, Qiagen, Agilent, and Sigma-Aldrich. So if you order through us, you save the shipping costs as well. This means that if your order is less than $600, it's worth checking with us to find out your total cost.
Deciding on the right way to order something can be a complicated process--but we try to make it easier for you. If you would like to know how much something would cost through us, and it's not in our inventory (search above), or is marked as a special order, please don't hesitate to contact us (information below), and we'll find out for you.
(Updated 10/1/10)
Dry Ice
Dry Ice is now for sale in the Barker and LSA Storerooms at $1.62 a scoop!
(Updated 10/19/11)
ONLINE ORDERING!!!
Now you can order online with the new online order form, which makes it so that, when you want to order something, instead of having to fill out a Word document, and then attach that to an email, you can just order it online. Also, our website looks better now we think. All props and complaints go to Dylan Ogden (who is freaking awesome).
(5/13/10)
Fermentas FastDigest Enzymes
Normal enzymatic digestion takes around 20 minutes. These FastDigest enzymes work in just 5 minutes! Don't you want to digest DNA faster?! Why not?! Anyway, we have them, and now you know we have them. Have a nice day.
(7/18/09)
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