[NHCOLL-L:2008] Source for Le Parfait captive lid jars

[Alexandra M. Snyder]

I use Le Parfait captive lid jars (1, 2 and 3 liter sizes), extensively, 
for our collection of fishes.  My current wholesale vendor,  Bormioli Rocco 
Glass Company, NYC has informed me that I can no longer purchase Le Parfait 
jars (the French captive lid jar), at wholesale cost, from them.  They 
claim that the "government prevents them, as a wholeseller, from selling 
their products to an enterprise that does not in turn sell the jars." 
That is,  we are not a retailer.  All of this comes after purchasing jars 
from them since 1998...and my previous vendor in San Francisco sold me the 
same jars, at cost, without any such problems...too bad he got out of the 
business.

I am looking for another vendor to sell me these jars, at cost.  So far all 
the sources I have found are kitchenware retailers who charge double for 
these jars.  For example, the 3 liter Le Parfait jar, wholesale, cost me 
$4.30 each and I can only find it for almost $10 dollars each through these 
other sources.  On an average, we purchase 240 of this size Le Parfait jar 
per year (used primarily as a collecting jar in the field and as a vial jar 
in the collection archives).  We also use 1 and 2 liter Le Parfait 
jars...probably all together, about 800 to 1000 jars of this kind are 
purchased.

Would appreciate any leads on wholesale sources of the jars.  Also, has 
anyone else been told that they cannot purchase jars (or any other 
equipment) wholesale because they are not a retail enterprise?  If this is 
true, and wholesalers are enforcing this, I know that my collection's 
budget will suffer greatly.


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Alexandra M. Snyder, Collection Manager
Division of Fishes   MSC03 2020
Museum of Southwestern Biology
University of New Mexico
Albuquerque NM 87131 USA
Ph 505.277.6005  Fax 505.277.3218
amsnyder at unm.edu
http://msb-fish.unm.edu