Ethos price announced

vhuang168 · Post by **vhuang168** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 3:49 am

The price for the Ethos is US$620 according to Anacortes.

List price is $799.

http://www.buytelescopes.com/product.asp?pid=12446

Vincent

Post by **weixing** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 10:05 am

Hi,
So hommel guess the price correctly.

Have a nice day.

Post by **acc** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 10:16 am

Congrats to Hommel who had an exact guess!

Pls PM me to arrange for collection of your prize

Interestingly, only 2 persons estimated a higher price while the vast majority under-estimated. See guesses here:

http://www.singastro.org/viewtopic.php?t=4840&start=70

Post by **acc** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 9:27 pm

Anyway, Televue has certainly made it very easy for me to come to a decision on whether to buy one: NO WAY!! US$620 for an ep is just too much!

hommel · Post by **hommel** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 9:31 pm

acc wrote:Congrats to Hommel who had an exact guess! Pls PM me to arrange for collection of your prize Interestingly, only 2 persons estimated a higher price while the vast majority under-estimated. See guesses here:

http://www.singastro.org/viewtopic.php?t=4840&start=70

Hi wow.. I got it right!

Thanks for offering the prize acc, i need the compass cum level and was hoping i'll win

So the Ethos is available for sale now?

hommel · Post by **hommel** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 9:33 pm

Just check the link, i think its still not in stock yet.

rlow · Post by **rlow** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 10:35 pm

Anyway, Televue has certainly made it very easy for me to come to a decision on whether to buy one: NO WAY!! US$620 for an ep is just too much!

Agreed. Though I have not upgraded my Pentax 14XL yet, I will not pay 620USD even though I had expected and guessed it quite close...

Afterall, for that price, one can almost buy 3 new 14XWs!

And I am comfortable enough with the 70 deg AFOV, good eye-relief and optical quality of the XWs.

ariefm71 · Post by **ariefm71** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 11:06 pm

Tachyon will buy it! pls let us know if the 24% additional fov from my ~200USD 14mm series 4000 UWA is worth it or not

Canopus Lim · Post by **Canopus Lim** » Thu Sep 06, 2007 12:17 am

Wow about the same price as the 31 Nagler. Tooooo expensive.

But it is not 1000 usd as guessed by Tachyon. S$1000 maybe ha.
The price is still more than a 13T6 + 16T5 Naglers.

Tachyon · Post by **Tachyon** » Thu Sep 06, 2007 4:41 am

Hmm... according to OPT, the list price for the Ethos is USD775, selling price USD620. And the five most expensive EPs they currently available are:

1. Televue 31mm Nagler Type 5 - USD 640

2. Televue 26mm Nagler Type 5 - USD 600

3. Televue 41mm Panoptic - USD 500

4. Pentax 30mm XW - USD 499

5. Pentax 40mm XW - USD 499

I knew TV will charge a premium for it, but I didn't guess it will be that high a premium. Anyway, am deciding if I should buy it now or wait for NEAF?