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Originally Posted by asimov
Apon writing the distributor in obtaining a board, the price was to be $499AUD but the distributor was not going to provide the board, & to approach my nearest authorized Celestron dealer.
In the end, it was going to cost me close to 1KAUD to get a replacement board.
Thanks.
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I do servicing, on gear from the US, UK, china, NZ etc and get parts/assemblies from all those places, through a variety of (official) channels.
The kind of mark ups you describe for spares is certainly not unusual for non-mass produced equipment, especially from the US.
Its complicated, and difficult to justify when you see the end user cost, but there are many reasons for the way spare are priced, you are not really paying for the part itself, the raw cost is likely to be less than $20, even for a whole loaded PCB.
It might look like a rip off, but you wont get anyware complaining, I get this "problem" dumped on me all the time, its common.