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When you buy from OPT and get to the shipping quote, choose "contact us for other options" and you will find it gets a lot cheaper. I have often paid 50 odd bucks for shipping then had the parcel turn up with a $19.00 postage sticker on it so obviously there is money to be made from the unwary. But as Kev said even with high shipping costs it is often better buying OS then locally. For example I bought a set of astronomik 50mm LRGB type II CCD filters from OPT. They cost $499.00 US + $50.00US for SH. At the time the conversion was about $630.00 US. A local stockist was charging $975.00 AU at the time for exactly the same product and I see they have now significantly reduced their price. Now with the money I saved I had OPT chuck in a pentex XW 14 mm with the order ($700 + AU locally), go figure that one out.
Mark
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