Sad , but I would personally still buy a celestron off Andrews and save $100's if not $1000's , licenced celestron dealers have to sell their product at the prices dictated by Celestron and we all know its a rip off here when you look what other ( USA ) countries pay for their gear !!!
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On the warrenty thingy Celestron aint the best to deal with anyway as they don't want to know us down here below the equator at the best they wont answer any corrispondence from us anyway .
All we get is the old chestnut ,,," Send it back " you try sending say a CGE14 back to the USA from here or NZ , almost cheeper to buy a new one , I know this personally as my old club in NZ ( Northland astro society ) had no end of problems with a brand new GGE14's mount and they refused to allow us to send only the mount back , send the WHOLE!!! scope back to the USA or we wont deal with it .....
,,, In the end it was cheaper for us to buy a brand new 'Losmandy Titan' from Bintel for the OTA ,,, YEA ??? great after sales service alright after spending over 10K from a licenced Celestron dealer .
ps. that dog of the mount is now sitting in a store room gathering dust !
You GO!! Andrews , I am and will continue to be a loyal customer , ( same with Bintel ) .
Brian.
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