warranty and proof of purchase (shipped a c8 frmo USA)
if you buy my almost new Meade 8" UHTC SCT with a fine focuser throw in, you save another $500.shoelevy wrote:haha...eh pls la....take my example...my ota costs 1600SGD in total whereas buy from AStrosci will cost 2480SGD exclusive of GST. i already saved aobut 600-700 dollars. that is "discount"enough already.
what's more warranty is still valid according to an e-mail i sent to them.
yeah, didn't you see the buy and sell section?shoelevy wrote:u mean u r selling your meade?
In the first place, I never understand why you guys wanna buy new from US. You could have save a bit more buying from Astromart. From my experience, some of the used scopes are better because the previous owner upgraded it with bob knobs, fine focuser, and may even have a few accessories thrown in. My experience tells me that those with good ratings are mostly honest....if they say their optics are excellent, you can be pretty sure you are getting a guranteed keeper.
When buy new from US, some dealers may try to offload those that are not so good in optical quality simply because they know it will be an hassle for you to send it back. Furthermore they know that people outside US are not so good in evaluating optics compared to the US amateurs where they have star parties week in and out.
The astromart scopes are far cheaper, better, more accessories thrown in, and basically with a guranteed quality.
But now that you have a new scope, make good use of it but next time, you should really source from Astromart first.
All Celestrons and Meade SCTs are the same.....except for their focuser and the Celestrons SCTs are a bit lighter.shoelevy wrote:aniwae...i was looking for a new tele to fit my celestron mount so i didn't wanna risk it by ordering another brand incase it didn't fit my mount and i didn't wanna go thru the hassle of buying adaptors
The rest like dimension and mounting options are the same.
But the UHTC is somewhat better than the Starbright coatings which Celestron admits.
see ah...having sth new has a stronger kick than sth 2nd hand ya?...it's like having a new car got more kick than sae a 3mth old car get my pt?
haha
secondly ya la...astromart people are trustworthy but there's alwaes sth that makes u feel uncomfortable when buying from someone who's not an authorised dealer overseas....but this is really personal preference
3rdly, celestron has launched a new starbright coating. according to the graph on it's homepage it's actually better than meade UHTC
and lastly...I PM U BUT U NEVER REPLY LOR!....i think i was one of the first few to PM u about your meade sct but u didn't reply
btw, your meade sct is fork mounted or GEM mounted?
and could u sell me your dew sheild pls?
haha
secondly ya la...astromart people are trustworthy but there's alwaes sth that makes u feel uncomfortable when buying from someone who's not an authorised dealer overseas....but this is really personal preference
3rdly, celestron has launched a new starbright coating. according to the graph on it's homepage it's actually better than meade UHTC
and lastly...I PM U BUT U NEVER REPLY LOR!....i think i was one of the first few to PM u about your meade sct but u didn't reply
btw, your meade sct is fork mounted or GEM mounted?
and could u sell me your dew sheild pls?
You got PM me?? Oops......pai seh, didn't see leh....shoelevy wrote:see ah...having sth new has a stronger kick than sth 2nd hand ya?...it's like having a new car got more kick than sae a 3mth old car get my pt?
haha
secondly ya la...astromart people are trustworthy but there's alwaes sth that makes u feel uncomfortable when buying from someone who's not an authorised dealer overseas....but this is really personal preference
3rdly, celestron has launched a new starbright coating. according to the graph on it's homepage it's actually better than meade UHTC
and lastly...I PM U BUT U NEVER REPLY LOR!....i think i was one of the first few to PM u about your meade sct but u didn't reply
btw, your meade sct is fork mounted or GEM mounted?
and could u sell me your dew sheild pls?
The new starbright coatings is the new XLT coatings. Actually they don't call it Starbright anymore...just XLT.