I have been looking at getting a medium sized mount. The Losmandy G11 with Gemini or a Celestron CGE.
For Celestron prices it's hard to beat good ol' Lee.
On the CGE mount and CGE telescope packages I guess his hands are tied by the distributor.
CGE Computerised German equatorial mount and tripod:
$5799.00. In the USA its US$3000 - that's about $4385 Australian including air freight. Australians pay
32% extra.
Still the Losmandy suffers similar inflation.
Losmandy G11 with Gemini GOTO at Bin...:
$5,495.00
In the USA its US$3195 - that's again about $4385 Australian including air freight.
Australians pay 25% extra.
I can import the Losmandy direct.
The Celestron is difficult to import because of Celestrons' agreement with the Australian Distributor. I believe the distributor is ExtraVision in Queensland which is some how tied to York Optical. So much for the free trade agreement with the USA.
I hate paying a premium for stuff.