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A fair bit has happened since my last post about OPT, but briefly:
OPT has attempted to compromise with Celestron in my case (offshore). Celestron are willing to let me ship the electronic pier (under a non warrany situation) rather than ship the whole mount to them, as Celestron are not 100% sure of my diagnosis of the problem. Well I had a hand in the diagnosis but it was with the help of certain parties on the CN forum that we got a definite answer to the problem.
I could have arranged this long ago with Celestron had I been in a position to do so or indeed WANTED TO. & not to mention the fact that I would have gone with the best solution post Celestron new policy: Get the board from the Australian distributor for $499 WITHOUT sending my pier in.
I will not compromise with Celestron in this fashion nor will I accept any terms dictated to me. It's the replacement board for the USD quoted price before the new policy came into effect, or nothing. I'll quite happily settle for nothing & continue to use the EQ6 that I purchased 18 months ago to replace this Celestron mount. Something was telling me (yes, 18 months ago) that something was going to go drastically wrong regarding this mount. I hate being right sometimes..
Anyway, thank you to the guys at OPT for doing what they could but unfortunately, given my position I will not be sending my pier anywhere, let alone to Celestron USA.
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