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Like Meade are any better with their pricing, why support Meade? It would be totally unfair to single out just the one manufacturer.
And yes, I think it is down to the manufacturers more so than anyone else. There wouldn't be a shipping embargo otherwise.
The main problem is that there aren't any moderately priced alternatives that can match up otherwise wouldn't we all have them?
They have the market cornered in certain areas and while the retailers in general do as best a job as they can in keeping the prices down is there any effort from the retailers being made to secure lower prices from the manufacturers?
Are they grouping together and saying we are losing business because of these high prices?
Are they calling for cheaper alternatives?
Maybe it needs to come from the dealers because neither Meade or Celestron care about the end users opinions but I'm not sure even they are interested in that. We are now getting UK dealers not even wanting to ship to the EU like they used to despite having no real reason not to beyond warranty and too much hard work. Oh well all the better for the Germans I suppose.
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