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Originally Posted by TechnoViking
Well I asked the question, on the Celestron Facebook page.
I will be very intrested to see the reply, im sure they will just delete it. lol
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Good luck with that James. If may more people complained directly to Celestron, maybe they would then listen. But Australia simply isn't a large market for them.
I am a prolific write and have written many letters to Celestron and in the end, they neither gave a satisfactory explanation, or the explanation assumed I am gullible and would accept such an unsubstantiated and indifferent answer, or simply they didn't answer my emails. Perhaps they thought that ignoring me I might go away. Well, I did!
I simply do not buy any more Celestron gear. I love my current Celestron, which I have had for 8 years (and paid much more than todays prices), and was thinking of upgrading to a larger size, but decided, because of their pricing practices, to go in a different direction.
I doubt you will see prices within a couple of grand of the US, as there are factors other than price gouging that affect "all" prices in Australia and the primary reason is the high wages paid in Australia (which was shown recently in an ABC News article as being the major factor affecting business...see earlier thread), which employers have to recover somehow.
I know I am well paid, for a part-time job, and I certainly wouldn't want my pay to drop to the level of those in the US for the exact same job . We are an expensive place to do business.
I wouldn't want to be in retail these days, its tough.