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Old 30-03-2006, 09:07 PM
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[1ponders] (Paul)
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Another option Dennis is to give Matthew at Telescopes and Astronomy a call. If he has the gear he will be reasonably priced.

If you are only after a single item then getting it in Aus may be the go but I found even with transport costs that importing Losmandy gear from OPT is about half to 2/3 the cost of getting it in Aus. Unless it's particularly heavy and large in size.

I bought a dovetail, a set of guiderings and a new "D" saddle. With a mix up in the ordering I ended up with an order coming from Australia and one from OPT The long and the short of it was the Australian order cost me around $630 and the OPT order cost me around $430 + postage and the opt order was here within 10 days and the other order was around two months. And the "D" saddle I got in Aus was the smaller one for the GM8 while the one that came from OPT was the much longer G11 one.

Didn't take much for me to decide where I was going to get my losmandy gear from from now on. I still get stuff here if it is already here and the price difference isn't too much, but if there is a moderate difference - "hello, OPT!"
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