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There is the option of a carrying out a credit card charge back.
The issue is that I did not have the conversation with the sales person myself. If I had the conversation, I would not think twice about requesting a cc charge back. Although I fully trust my wife, there is the possibility that the sales person mentioned something pertinent regarding imaging and the setup which my wife does not remember (not wanting to put my wife down as she is very intelligent and articulate). The précis of the conversation was that I was starting out in astronomy, my interest would be mainly in imaging - specifically deep sky imaging and that I am reasonably technologically minded and pick things up quickly and therefore require equipment that we set me up for some time.
Given the above basic outline of requirements, I would say that we were sold the wrong equipment. Although I will not mention the company name, I will say that another company - Bintel provided the correct advise to my wife when shopping around. I believe that the reason my wife did not purchase through Bintel was that although their recommendations were sound, the equipment list was longer and probably to someone with absolutely no knowledge of astroimaging (my wife), the advice was more difficult to absorb and process.
In hindsight, the purchase should have been delayed and I should have been involved in the research process. All the same, it was a very thoughtful gift.
On Friday, I had decided to sell the scope. After haveing captured some reasonble shots last night, I am thinking that perhaps I should go down the wedge/basic guidance scope set up. Round and round in circles.
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