RCOS Stimulates - big scopes 20% off

[turbo_pascale]

Just saw this......

http://www.rcopticalsystems.com/stimulus.html

You'd be pretty cut up if you just took possession of one recently!

[saturn c]

pretty cool ! u getting 1?

[Gama]

Just goes to show how much profit there is in just one sale.
Drop 20 % and still make a few bucks. Wonder how much is really made..

Theo.

[troypiggo]

Cool. The 24" just dropped to within my price range...

[Alchemy]

bit of competition in the market, (GSO) i suspect they are not of the same quality but there is a cheaper alternative at last, and so down they go,

[Zaps]

Agreed. At the end of the day, it doesn't really matter how "superior" your product is if almost nobody can afford the asking price, especially when there are now affordable alternatives.

[TrevorW]

I'm off to the bank to re-mortgage the house

Cheers

[turbo_pascale]

Nahhhh, just dreaming for now. It's on the cards one day. I've got to pay back some massive loans that funded my divorce settlement first!

Turbo

[dpastern]

Oh, I guarantee you they're probably making at least a 150-200% markup. Very good scopes, vastly overpriced. People are silly enough to pay silly prices in todays world I'm afraid.

I agree that the GSO RC's offer exceptional value for money.

Dave

[rat156]

Yeah, when they charge you US$650 for a wooden box, you can tell there's a bit of margin on everything... for that money I'd want something better than a shipping crate.

Cheers
Stuart

[turbo_pascale]

Come on Stu,

Someone has to carefully bubble wrap it as well as put it in the box. :P
That's got to cost something!

Turbo

[TrevorW]

I would have thought packing it for safe shipment especailly for such an expensive piece of delicate equipment would be an extra

[Alchemy]

china is the sleeping giant for these products, they like japan started off with low end products and as time goes by they get better and better. one to watch thats for sure. whats the chineese 10 inch GSO rcos priced compared to the US version?

[Gama]

At least with my CDK, the crate came for free.
Support was overnight (Timezones), all questions an issues answered.
Get to talk directly with designers and builders of the telescope, etc.


Theo

[dpastern]

Theo - no, you didn't get the crate for free, it will have been factored into the pricing, I guarantee it. The support etc is a bonus. That's why I'm really considering my next mount in 3-5 years being an AstroPhysiks one.

Dave

[marki]

Well if you are going to buy it new better order it now that way you might get it before you are dead and buried:P.

Mark

[dpastern]

hahaha Mark, I'm not ready (financially) to commit to it yet. I'll wait until I have the money before ordering it, and then put it away in a term deposit until it's ready etc.

Dave

[marki]

I have no doubt that it would be worth the wait Dave, it just depends on how patient you are :). Me I want it now:D.

Mark

[ausastronomer]

Interesting to note that all the optics apart from the 12.5" scope are now being made by Aries Instruments in Ukraine.

All optics for these scopes were historically done by Paul Jones at Star Instruments of Flagstaff Arizona

Cheers,
John B

[dpastern]

That's very interesting news. Very. I've heard of Aries Instruments before too, pretty sure I have their website bookmarked somewhere, they're producing RC optics for most of the European RC makers it seems. I wonder if there's a drop in quality.

Dave

[DavidU]

Now they are so cheap I should get two !:rofl:

[Paul Haese]

I see this as a good thing, more affordable for upper end instruments, but I reckon they will drop a bit more yet. Maybe another 10-15K on each scope and then they are truly competitive.

I suspect this is more to do with the massive down turn in the US as opposed to other market equipment on offer.

All good for the buyers, maybe not for those who just purchased in the last 6 months, but that is unfortunately the way things fall.

[Gama]

Considering you pay the same price if you picked it up yourself, i'd say either for free, or you got scammed a little extra for nothing.
I'd say Free.

But of course everything is forseen when they priced it, stands to reason. But to add an additional charge for crating on top of the scope price, is a real mood changer.


Theo

[Zaps]

Aries Optical's key man is Valery Deryuzhin, who posted here at IIS as "Vader" not so long ago, in the GSO RC thread which was locked. He was trashing Chinese made RC optics. I can't imagine why, can you? ;)