[mic_m (Michael)]

Originally Posted by DJ N

Should be very interesting to see the prices once they are "officially" announced in Australia. I noticed on some of the UK sites, the price premium of the goto version is only a couple of hundred pounds over the stock standard dob.

I suppose the other dilemma would be whether the price premium of the 14 over the 12 would be worth the extra aperture!! As a comparison, the Orion xx14 is $1000 more than the xx12, which is around 50%..........

While there is great variability in the price of astronomy equipment in Australia, I assume that this is due to the fact that stock is acquired at differing AUD conversion rates. I would hope that because the AUD is strong we would enjoy favourable and comparable prices to what are being offered overseas – there should be no reason to expect anything different for newly acquired stock.

The information on the pricing of the XX14i and the XX12i appears to be incorrect; the XX12i is US$1300 and the XX14i is US$1800, a US$500 difference, or a 38% (1800-1300/1300) increase between the two models. The price of the 12” SW collapsible is currently A$1199 at Andrews, so assuming that prices hold and that the Sky-Watcher pricing scales similarly to the Orion one might expect the price of the 14” SW to be around A$1654 (1199x1.38). If it is a well designed scope I think that would be a fair price.