Yea, it's a hit or miss thing.Airconvent wrote:That C8 set is a very good price. I would love to get it minus the GP mount. Pity I don't read Japanese plus the shipping to Singapore would have been quite high.Grievous wrote:PSA: Japanese 2nd hand market for telescopes are crazy! Found some gems below if anyone's interested.
buyee.jp is a forwarder site not unlike 65daigou.
I, myself got this at 44200 yen: http://buyee.jp/item/yahoo/auction/r120112209
Item price: 40,000 yen
Buyee service price: 4000 yen
Payment fee: 200yen
For the shipping fees: 16,418 yen
International Shipping Fee: 14,200 yen
Shipping Insurance Fee:50 yen
Domestic Shipping Fee: 2,168 yen (within Japan to forwarder)
Total cost in yen: 60,618 yen
In SGD: 693.42 SGD
For an early 70s OT 8" in original footlocker (and thrill of its unknown state)?
Priceless.
The C8 should arrive this week. But without a mount, I don't think I can do a star test yet.
Or you should get this: http://buyee.jp/item/yahoo/auction/f144949270/lang/en .