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Very much depends on the retailer. I use a German based shop named after an optical observing device now for most of the stuff I can't get 2nd hand. Shipping isn't cheap but whatever I've ordered (and that included an f/11 refractor and a dob tracking platform) that was shown as 'in stock' has been at my door here in NZ within 3 weeks, sometimes much faster, without fail. And while the Covid disruption argument is valid and I might just have been lucky, all of the above anecdotal experience has been since the start of the pandemic. I didn't use them before 2020.
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