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Very true Silvie, they do have good optics in a lot of their scopes. I posted my experiences so that others might not get duded on the items I was duded on, not to trash all Meade gear. I think that in this day and age we need to really scope out any purchases we intend to make because there are so many defective products in the market place. It's one reason I like to hold things in my hand before I spend, so I can check them out for myself. I didn't do this with my Meade purchases because they were spur of the moment ones and I guess I still had a sort of "blind trust" in the Meade brand. Something a lot of us are prone to do I guess. But, having been burnt, twice now! I wouldn't go back again at all.
The root of the problem is inflation of the money supply, which has pushed prices up 5 fold or more over the last 20 years. Hi quality telescopes can still be bought but they will cost us $20 or $30 thousand dollars, yet Meade scopes, and Celestron scopes, are the same price or cheaper than they were 20 years ago. They are manufacturing to a price point, and when you think about that for a moment it's obvious why there are problems. The trick I think is to just minimize the problems.
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