To Good to be True ?

[Saturn%5 (Graeme)]

Title says it all, I wish these prices were real

http://www.telescopegoods.com/

[asimov (John)]

No comment..

[leon]

That is just plain ridiculous, wouldn't touch them with a 40ft pole, so to speak.

Leon

[JB80 (Jarrod)]

Wow, seems legit.

[cybereye (Mario)]

I don't know, A Celestron 11 Inch CPC Schmidt-Cassegrain Telescope Ultimate Bundle for $136.00 seems reasonable!!!

Geez, it's almost worth paying the $136 just to see if you actually get it.... life's a gamble you know...

Cheers,
Mario

[mozzie (Peter)]

you may as well go and burn your money in the yard...
you wouldn't see these products at those prices..

[AndrewJ]

I like the fact that they have a "specials" page

Andrew

[JB80 (Jarrod)]

Contact email is the vacuumcupshop via hotmail, maybe they are off setting the price of scope with the extortionate price on coffee cups.

http://www.vacuumcupshop.com/travel-...-mugs-c-6.html

For any queries regarding the Gift Certificate System, please contact the store by email at admin@admin.com.

[bojan]

Originally Posted by AndrewJ

I like the fact that they have a "specials" page

Andrew

Specials for April 1st.

[blink138 (Pat)]

did anybody see the fine print?
"actual size shown"
pat

[04Stefan07 (Stefan)]

Would not go near this at all!

There is another website a mate showed me where they have really cheap computers. You can get a brand new MacBook Pro Retina for under 1k. So dodgy!

[mithrandir (Andrew)]

Looks dodgy all round, although I've never had as much trouble with Softlayer as some others like The Planet.

whois telescopegoods.com extract:

Registrars.Domain Name ..................... telescopegoods.com
Sponsoring Registrar ............ HICHINA ZHICHENG TECHNOLOGY LTD.
Name Server ..................... dns19.hichina.com dns20.hichina.com
Registrant ID ................... hc024628634-cn
Registrant Name ................. Arnold Joann
Registrant Organization ......... Lebanon Junction
Registrant Address .............. 681 W 63th St
Registrant City ................. YU
Registrant Province/State ....... IL
Registrant Postal Code .......... 60462
Registrant Country Code ......... KH
Registrant Email ................ admin@telescopegoods.com
Administrative ID ............... hichina001-cn
Administrative Name ............. hichina
Administrative Organization ..... HiChina Web Solutions Limited
Administrative Address .......... 3/F., HiChina Mansion No.27 Gulouwai Avenue Dongcheng District
Administrative City ............. Beijing
Administrative Province/State ... Beijing
Administrative Postal Code ...... 100011
Administrative Country Code ..... CN
Administrative Email ............ domainadm@hichina.com

whois 208.43.176.153 (www.telescopegoods.com) extract:

network: Class-Name:network
network: ID:NETBLK-SOFTLAYER.208.43.160.0/19
network: Auth-Area:208.43.160.0/19
network: Network-Name:SOFTLAYER-208.43.160.0
network: IP-Network:208.43.176.152/30
network: IP-Network-Block:208.43.176.152-208.43.176.155
network: Organization;I:Mazentop
network: Street-Address:A4 19 Xinrui Road Baoan Xixiang Hourui
network: City:Shenzhen
network: Postal-Code:518102
network: Country-Code:CN
network: Tech-Contact;I:sysadmins@softlayer.com
network: Abuse-Contact;I:jack@mazentop.com
network: Admin-Contact;I:IPADM258-ARIN
network: Created:2009-11-24 18:06:30
network: Updated:2011-06-05 19:47:19
network: Updated-By:ipadmin@softlayer.com

[mithrandir (Andrew)]

Originally Posted by cybereye

I don't know, A Celestron 11 Inch CPC Schmidt-Cassegrain Telescope Ultimate Bundle for $136.00 seems reasonable!!!

Geez, it's almost worth paying the $136 just to see if you actually get it.... life's a gamble you know...

FSQ-106ED for $420 ?
They claim a shipping weight of 5712g. Tak Europe say the OTA is 7kg. I wonder what bits they leave out. Do they just ship the box?
A bit much of a gamble for me.

[Astro_Bot]

Everything about the products looks wrong: weight, price, model number. The only thing they seem to have got right is matching photo to name (at least for the ones I checked). Maybe they've been taking lessons from the Nigerians?

I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.

[niko]

I so want this to be true!

Though I love how the Meade 5000 series scopes get cheaper the larger the aperture.

The 80mm is $423 but the 127mm is a total bargain at only $273.

[Ric]

I just signed up with a bogus name, address etc.

I then ordered 20 Tak's and they accepted COD.

It looks like Mr Dopy Boofhead of Silly Street, Antartica is going to get a surprise in 1 to 5 days time.

[FlashDrive (Poppy)]

....Why don't we all chip in and buy in ' bulk ' ....then demand a ' discount ' for doing so.

Flash ...!!

[multiweb (Marc)]

Originally Posted by mithrandir

Looks dodgy all round, although I've never had as much trouble with Softlayer as some others like The Planet.

The Planet IS Softlayer. Used to be EV1 before Rackshack in the 90s. The Planet bought EV1, Softlayer bought The Planet. Worst ISP ever IMHO. I used them all in the past. Boxes hacking each other from within the same network even racks.

[Jen]

Originally Posted by Ric;964129[COLOR="black"

[/COLOR]]I just signed up with a bogus name, address etc.

I then ordered 20 Tak's and they accepted COD.

It looks like Mr Dopy Boofhead of Silly Street, Antartica is going to get a surprise in 1 to 5 days time.

Buahahaha you crack me up Mr Dopy Boofhead :lol:

Dam that 10" Meade bundle what a bargin lol

[leon]

I reckon I would be tempted to waste a few dollars and just see what happens,
I would love a couple of Taks.

Leon