Another Online Telescope Scam Shop -- C2 Optics Centre

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Another Online Telescope Scam Shop -- C2 Optics Centre

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Received a PM from someone asking about my comments regarding this online shop.

C2 Optics Centre
http://www.c2-optics.com

After a quick check through its contents, I can conclude that it is indeed a scam shop:

(1) Prices similar to US online shops but in Singapore dollars.
(2) Free worldwide shipping. Seriously?? LOL. :)
(3) Online for less than 1 year.

Come on C2 Optics, put in more effort to scam next time. You guys are a disgrace to your own scamming industry! :)

If anyone stay around Woodlands or Jakarta, do check out their "official" store front (according to their website ) and do some CSI work for fun:

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C2 Optics Centre [SG]
Blk 768 Woodlands Ave 6 #01-19, SG
Singapore 730768.

C2 Optics Centre [ID]
1rd A8-10 Boulevard
Kelapa Gading, Jakarta Utara
DKI Jakarta, ID 14240

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This reminds me I am still waiting for my $400 million-dollar shipment of Televue NP127 from Active Core Pte Ltd --> viewtopic.php?f=1&t=9839

Too bad a quick check reveals Active Core is not so active any more ("This account has been suspended"). :)
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I used to go there for makan when I worked in Woodlands number of years ago, don't remember seeing any telescope shop there. Maybe they just turn up recently, well if we go to GCC for event, can check out very easily, not too far from GCC. Or maybe the optics centre is not telescope optics but spectacles optics, haha.
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GCC! Haha. Was stumped for 1 second what it is. :) Let me suggest one more... AO@GCC :)

Yea. Should go check out that shop sometime. Maybe it is a miniature modelling shop selling 1/72 versions of the listed telescopes. Super grab-n-go. :P
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ok that is woodlands mart ... later i shall go check out . 4min away from my house .
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Clifford60 wrote:I used to go there for makan when I worked in Woodlands number of years ago, don't remember seeing any telescope shop there. Maybe they just turn up recently, well if we go to GCC for event, can check out very easily, not too far from GCC. Or maybe the optics centre is not telescope optics but spectacles optics, haha.
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thank you jm for the effort

JM, did you ask them if the sell telescope or someone is using their address for scam as the website indicate their address as the business address. If it is a scam and they are not involved, then they better report to the police.
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Shoik! I will go and buy NP127is tomorrow haha
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I was in the area and decided to drop by Peninsula Plaza to check out staroptics' listed office address. Instead I find some other company there instead.
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Thanks for checking it out Mariner. Unless they are saving cost to share premises with someone else, it looks like very suspicious. Did you ask the other company ? Maybe there are really sharing office.
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Mariner wrote:I was in the area and decided to drop by Peninsula Plaza to check out staroptics' listed office address. Instead I find some other company there instead.
What does Staroptics in Peninsula Plaza got to do with C2 Optics Centre in Woodlands?
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