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Originally Posted by Barrykgerdes
You would need to be mad to buy from the USA at that price when you can get one in Australia for $1450 delivered. from an advertiser on IIS "Telescopes direct".
I supect that the item is being cleared to make way for a new line.
Barry
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I think you must be mixing it up with a different scope. The 8se is $2,399 from Telescopes Direct, not $1,450.
I really want an 8se, and I am genuinely outraged that the MSRP is $1,199 in the USA and $5,199 in Australia. Somebody ought to be imprisoned over this. We have a free trade agreement, so I'm not sure how Celestron can get away with their policy of not allowing retailers to ship outside of their area.
We are being blatantly ripped off here folks, don't try to soften it up. I'm not saying that it is necessarily anybody in Australia who is at fault; I'm sure the stores here are only passing on the ridiculously high prices that they are charged by the manufacterer, but Celestron should be hanged.