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Originally Posted by Nikolas
It's perfect. These things are built like tanks and perform beautifully. In all my time buying and selling I've never had issues, lucky maybe or just lots of homework.
Also Anthony who ran Bintel in Melbourne is opening up his telescope repair business soon so even if there was an issue it would still be cheaper to sort any issue here than to spend almost $450 more to purchase one locally.
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Most of the time they will be OK. Modern mass market scopes are built to better standards than they are some years ago.
Not everyone has the time to do all the research--we provide the service in helping them get the scope they need.
We expect about a 5-10% failure rate to play safe but even that can be too optimistic. We suddenly found manufacturing fault in a number of Meade scopes this month and if it weren't for the margins we charge we would have been toast because of all the lost time we had to spend fixing them.
Yes, scopes are built well, but manufacturing faults are common--that's what warranties are for. Remember the guy who bought the Esprit? Those things are tanks. Super solid. But not immune to faults.
If you got a local repair place to go--it's to your advantage, but not everyone is so lucky or live close to one.
How are the Melbourne boys doing? I sent a couple of people their emails when they needed repairs in Melbourne but I don't know if they got themselves properly set up yet.