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Throw in the fact that these scopes are still nowhere near reasonably collimated from the factory
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I'm sure the secondary can probably be lined up quite well at the factory, but the primary will never be properly collimated by the time it reaches your door, after travelling from Taiwan, to Sydney, to your door.
Collimation can be thrown out just by transporting to a dark site in the back of the car, along with temperature differences etc, I wouldn't be too hard on GS - I'd expect it to be pure luck if the scope arrived at your door collimated, even if Bintel or someone does it in their shop after receiving shipment.
I agree that a startest can be quite beneficial for fine tuning, but I think that there are some collimation problems that just won't show up in a startest. My opinion is to use tools first to get as accurate as they allow, and then finetune/check with a startest.
That's my opinion though.