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Fahim
IMHO Celestron is not strictly to be blamed for the ridiculous pricings put out by the Oz distributor - their fault is that they have made a monumental error in judgement (in the business sense) by choosing the "wrong" corporation to handle their products for them in Australia which Celestron will learn to their detriment when their Oz distributor has a poor sales track record because folks like us would not willingly submit to being "robbed" blind!!
Either this new distributor is totally a "rookie" in this trade or they feel too cosy and comfortable from the fact that they can call their shots here because they have the protection of the restrictive trade clause which prevent dealers like OPT from selling abroad from the USA and therefore we cannot self-import such goods and have no choice
I remember well a sales seminar quite a while ago when the speaker mentioned the demerits of the well-known analogy of getting a 100% of 0 as opposed to the merits of gaining even 1% of something x by the quantity!
Hopefully the Oz distributor wakes up to the fact that we are not glassy-eyed folks after all
My 2cents
Cheers
Bill
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