What an Idiot ... Read This Link

[FlashDrive]

You'd have to be a " brick short of a load " to try and sell your scope with this story .... but .... someone wants it.

Unbelievable. . . .!!!! :lol:

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/STEALTH-SPY-YOUR-NEIGHBOURS-TELESCOPE-/250874789964?pt=AU_Movies_Movies_TV _Shows&hash=item3a694d804c

Flash :screwy:

[asimov]

My SCT is heaps better for that...

JOKING!

Yeah, someone will buy it no doubt.

[Omaroo]

What a great blurb! LOL!! Love it! :)

[Steffen]

LOL, this may be the only way of making a crappy scope like this look interesting :D

Cheers
Steffen.

[Nightshift]

:rofl:You have to be kidding, hang on, BRB, still laughing. This guy is brilliant, I love it, and seriously the only astronomer that hasnt swung his/her scope to matters terestrial must surely only own a large dob. I would hire this guy in a heartbeat as a salesman, honesty, detail, credability, creative, I'll stop before I say integrity though. I cant believe he didnt say it has been used to view a moon or two.

Thanks for bringing this one to my attention, brightened my day.

Oh, I think he is asking too much though.

Cheers, Dennis.

[Barrykgerdes]

Hi

I would most certainly expect that there are more people buying telescopes to spy on neighbours etc., than for astronomical reasons.
He just wants to reach a large market with a cheap telescope that would not be much good for astronomy in any case.

Barry

[strongmanmike]

Gold :thumbsup:

[Rob_K]

Dang, Ah gotta get me one o' them there telioscopes. :nerd:

Cheers -

[jenchris]

He'll get it rammed where the sun don't shine if he's not careful...

[TrevorW]

The sad thing is someone may actually buy it , then who would be the bigger idiot

[bkm2304]

The scope has had some hyperenergetic photons through its lensworks by the description - hence it can't stand up on its three legs - textbook case of lenticular exhaustion with eyepiece steaming complications. At least he didn't barlow it .....:astron:

[FlashDrive]

The Scope couldn't handle it anymore and fell over....!!!! :rofl:

I wonder what he was doing ... :P while watching all off this ... !! :D

[OICURMT]

Technically, it's a BoobTube...

[Osirisra]

Bahahhahaaaa! LOL..classic

[mishku]

Hahahahaha!!

[kinetic]

Wot...no Uranus joke...?

[Octane]

It's worth bidding on, if only for the description. :P

H

[leon]

Yea pretty sad really, the poor person buying it probably is not well educated in scopes and really believes the ranting of this idiot.

I feel sorry for the buyer actually, who will be very disappointed.

Leon

[NewinWA]

Ha-ha

what else can i say really :)

[AstralTraveller]

Surely that depends on the neighbours? :P I believe I'd be disappointed perving at my neighbours even with an AP. :rolleyes:

[leon]

David I meant the buyer would be disappointed with the scope as a tool for observing, not really about the neighbors.
I think if you were using this scope to perv on the neighbors, you in yourself would be a disappointment

Leon

[Sarge]

I agree Leon. It is sad to think someone will buy it because of the blurb. :(

Another lost astronomer or is that astrologer. :rofl::rofl:

Rod
:D:D

[RB]

ok !

:)

[Rick Petrie]

Now that's a 'lesson' on how to sell your scope. Great read!!!???:lol:
Now, I wonder what our Martian neighbours are up to???:P

[OICURMT]

BWahahahaha.... apologies then... that lasted like.... 30 seconds...

OIC!

[Ric]

:rofl::rofl::rofl:

That's a classic, good to see that the little old lady's house down the street was saved.

[Waxing_Gibbous]

Heck!
I DO spy on the neighbours!
Well.
Not so much spy as 'check-out' now and then.
Most own guns and all drink, so it pays to be on top of things.

[leon]

That's probably necessary at times, ;) but your not checking which one drops their dacks first, are you. :shrug:

Leon :thumbsup:

[hotspur]

Yes,that's for sure.Be the first time there has been a link to such a scope of this calibre on IIS,We have all gone to read and have a good laugh,as many other people have-but without the interesting text,would have as many people looked??-The seller might not be as stupid as we think-clever marketing,and what a chuckle!!!

[Omaroo]

Thanks you Chris - yes, precisely. You've got to find his campaign story as nothing more than a bit of good old-fashioned fun. The guy's having a laugh with the rest of us as he types - you can picture it. :) Of course the scope is junk - he knows it, and he knows that you know it. :lol:

Besides - the bid is up to $60 now... :)

[TrevorW]

Deliverance ;)

[astronut]

My neighbourhood is boring..:(:(

[Barrykgerdes]

It all gets down to my first post.
A good marketing ploy to sell a bit of junk.

A little bit off topic but the first telescope I made when at school 60 years ago was about that size and after I looked at jupiters moons I never used it for astronomy again. It was great for looking at the "sights" around the neighbour hood during the rest of its life.

Barry