look what i saw at Cash converters

[mr bruess]

look what i saw at Cash converters
A saxon 8 inch dobson telescope.for $400

[swannies1983 (Dan)]

Seller probably got $100 for it.

[omegacrux (David)]

I see they have it on the mount wrong , they won't be of much assistance .

David

[tlgerdes (Trevor)]

Originally Posted by omegacrux

I see they have it on the mount wrong , they won't be of much assistance .

David

That, or they did know what they are doing and did it that way to keep dust off the mirror.

[mr bruess]

I saw this telescope at another cash converters store in Blacktown NSW.
it was near the end of 2012 and was eventually sold.
It is a celestron celstar 8 inch sct.
It had basic clestron plossl eyepieces and was in good condition.
i think the asking price was around $1000.
It had a fork mount on a tripod.
It was bought from bintel sydney because there was a sticker on the side.

[Pinwheel (Doug)]

Desperate people are really taken advantage of at Cash Convertors. Your lucky to get 5% of face value selling but the buyer pays about 80% of the retail price. Cash Converters make an absolute killing.

[LewisM]

I went to CC once with a 60mm Tasco refractor - a mint, boxed 1970's one. I asked $250. They offered $30. Got in the car and left. Sold it through the old Trading Post newspaper for what I wanted.

My father erroneously bought a used HP (yeah, I know, right?) laptop from CC. He paid $350. He brought it around to me because it was acting up. I told him the CPU fan was cactus (which it was). He took it back, and they claimed, "No, it's working. We'll give you $250 credit towards another in our shop" - in other words, we'll charge you $100 for our rubbish. Seeing I was with him, I snorted, called them a bunch of impolite names and drove my father 2km to the local computer shop. Was GIVEN a used CPU fan/heatsink bar FREE.

[brian nordstrom (As avatar)]

When I left Darwin a couple of months ago I had some stuff left over and took it to CC to sell , I did not expect much but they offered $35 for it all about 1/2 a ute load , ( jug , microwave , vacume etc ) ,,,, I did what Lewis did and then took it around the corner to Vinnies and donated it to them , at least someone will benefit from that gear ,,, not CC ! .

On a side note I see they are getting stung to the tune of $30 million thru over charging interest on small loans , up to %60 in some cases ,,, bloody leaches praying on the poor ,, good job KAMA has got them .. .
Brian.

[FlashDrive (Poppy)]

Legalized Thievery I call it.
I have ' browsed ' in their shops to kill some time and the way they ' rip ' people off is shocking.....I ask myself ...' how do you sleep at night '

Absolute Rogues.

Flash.....

[Barrykgerdes]

I see a few have already discovered that they are just standard pawn shops (often called fences).

I had a friend who had some astro gear stolen. He had serial numbers and found some of it in a CC shop. They told him he could have it back if he paid the price. The police could not do anything. It seems there is a standard waver that people fill in and sign when they sell gear to them that states that they own it etc. that protects these "fences" from being prosecuted.

Barry

[deanm (Dean)]

I've always refer to CC as 'Crime Converters' - because a significant component of their business activity appears to be on-selling the proceeds of petty crime, especially break-and-enters.

I remember reading a press article on how they have a national policy for dealing with jewellery and the like: gems gets traded-in in one State, then moved interstate so as to preclude victims of robberies encountering their thieved sparklies at the local CC outlets!

Outrageous!

Dean

[mr bruess]

i was searching through my file archives and found some more pictures of cash converters telescope