A UK-based customer reports receiving a significant discount on their £180,000 Illumina NextSeq 2000 purchase, attributing it to their established history with the company and an equipment trade-in.

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        "excerpt": "We have both systems. Based in the UK.\n\n AVITI: £235k + £90k upgrade to the 24 NextSeq2000: £180k I think both of these had equipment trade-in discounts, though. We got a bigger discount from Illumina as they are a more established company and we have a history with them. Element are still fairly new, so got next to no discount.\n\n AVITI High Output 2x150bp: £1,500 per flow cell 1Bn read pairs on A",
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        "excerpt": "Also worth add to your assessment in that scale:\nMGI T1+ - the only Illumina flow cell cheaper than a T1+ is the 25B, but you don’t have to wait a month to fill the T1+\nGenemind - Q50 chemistry!\nYou are in a happy place having choice!",
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    "post_text": "Hi guys, I'm trying to get a rough idea of what these platforms actually cost in practice for a fairly large human WGS project.\n\nFor anyone who has recently bought or gotten a quote for an Element AVITI or Illumina NextSeq 2000:\n\nroughly how much was the instrument?\n\nwhat region/country was the quote from?\n\nwas that list price or a negotiated price?\n\nroughly how much are the reagents per run / per human genome? I’m looking at a project with around 2,000 samples.\n\nI’ve seen quite different numbers online, so I'm mainly interested in actual quotes/purchase prices rather than MSRP.\n\nEven a rough range would be really helpful. Thanks a lot!",
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