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Originally Posted by DRCORTEX
It's $100 more than the Guan Sheng sold by Andrews, but I've been told it has better eyepieces, and includes a collimation and scope check by Bintel before delivery.
The guys at Bintel are very helpfull, and the after sales service I would receive from them could be the make and break of whether I have an enjoyable experience, or quickly throw the scope into the back of my garage 
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$100 well spent if only for the back up service. The only reason i went andrews was that it was $125 cheaper again to get it to tassie!!!
Eyepieces will be roughly the same i would think, the series 500, bintel and gs versions are all good starting points and will work well. In a few years time, you will work towards starting to get a specialist eyepieces!!
The collimation before hand is great, but hopefully they can help show you how they do it. A few bumps on the way home and the collimation will be out anyway.
Well done, welcome to the extraordinary 10" dobbers club. Find orion, put your 25mm or 30mm or even 12mm and sit back and lap it up.
The other jaw dropper is saturn, hang around for say 1am and you will see a pinkish star, well that is saturn. Put your smallest eyepiece in ie 12mm or 9mm and check it out!!!