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Old 30-11-2010, 01:43 PM
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Originally Posted by h0ughy View Post
well its the AUS dollar price that is of real interest as the CGEpro is upwards of 9K , which given the exchange rate, freight and taxes import duty, middlemen ,and then shop profit puts it into a no buy range for many. they have seen the uptake of the eq6 - wonder if they will price to suit the "emerging" market
I'm hoping (I'm sure we all are!) that it will be cheaper than the celestron equivalent, on par with the current skywatcher pricing in Australia:

Australia
celestron CGEM - AU$2500
skywatcher EQ6 - AU$1550

USA
celestron CGEM - US$1400
atlas EQG (EQ6 rebranded) - US$1250
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