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Originally Posted by gregbradley
Very true but I believe there has been a lot of production on the latest 92mm F6 Stowaway.
Greg.
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Apparently they have been contacting people on their list with their second production run of this beast. CN has a number of threads devoted to it, with people saying things like "I put my name down at 7pm EST on April 6th" (or whatever), and others "But I put mine down at 6.58pm..."
It is a fascinating marketing strategy, with even AP themselves calling people who are notified "The lucky ones" (translation: "How lucky are you that you get to give us $US3500 for a 92mm scope!"...), and people being prepared to wait for years. It is a good gig if you can do it!!! As for their 130GTX: you can't even put your name on their list. I think they have put all production on halt while they wind up the Stowaway production. So it is used or nothing.
WRT to the comments about Takahashi: I guess it is a bit like Harley Davidson bikes: "If you have to ask "why", then you just don't get it!"
Mind you, with a listed price of $A21,160 at Claude's, vs $8280 for the TOA 130NS (which BTW is also quite a bit cheaper than the listed price of $US6900 for the AP130GTX) you would have to be a
very keen AP'er to fork out the extra $13000! - and have a very difficult time convincing the finance department why!
In fact I suspect that is a major reason why the FSQ 130ED is finishing up.
- Dean