Here is the place to talk about all those equipment(Telescope, Mounts, Eyepieces, etc...) you have. Not sure which scope/eyepiece is best for you? Trash it out here!
I'm assuming you are all joking, right?
In today's market, unless you already have good stuff and no hurry, its unforgiveable for a company to put any of their customers on a waiting list that stretches more than a year.
It may be true for televue, tmb back then but nowadays, those chinese OEM companies are really narrowing the gap and developing at a much faster pace then the establised ones. they don't need to meet the same standards, just close to it and at a fraction of the price would have wiped out a big market share of the incumbents...unless they thinkselling one really solid scope will cover in place of selling many more cheaper ones...
Just a thought. I'm not one of those who are patient to go into the queue...I'm grumbling when I wait more than 5 min in the Mac queue!
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Airconvent wrote:I'm assuming you are all joking, right?
In today's market, unless you already have good stuff and no hurry, its unforgiveable for a company to put any of their customers on a waiting list that stretches more than a year.
It may be true for televue, tmb back then but nowadays, those chinese OEM companies are really narrowing the gap and developing at a much faster pace then the establised ones. they don't need to meet the same standards, just close to it and at a fraction of the price would have wiped out a big market share of the incumbents...unless they thinkselling one really solid scope will cover in place of selling many more cheaper ones...
Just a thought. I'm not one of those who are patient to go into the queue...I'm grumbling when I wait more than 5 min in the Mac queue!
Tell this is to AP. It will be miraculous if you can ever get a new AP scope without waiting for at least a year.
It may be true for televue, tmb back then but nowadays, those chinese OEM companies are really narrowing the gap and developing at a much faster pace then the establised ones. they don't need to meet the same standards, just close to it and at a fraction of the price would have wiped out a big market share of the incumbents...unless they thinkselling one really solid scope will cover in place of selling many more cheaper ones...
That's why now they'll (Astro-physics) only produce large and high end APO scope.
Have a nice day.
Yang Weixing "The universe is composed mainly of hydrogen and ignorance."
Such companies need to charge a very high premium to make up for the loss of volume. I wonder how long they will last with such a policy unless they have lots of regular scopes to sell and such "special" items are a separate indulgence to create some excitement....
The Boldly Go Where No Meade Has Gone Before Captain, RSS Enterprise NCC1701R United Federation of the Planets
"The universe is composed mainly of hydrogen and ignorance."