On Mar 1, 2:32*am, Too_Many_Tools wrote:
On Feb 24, 5:01*am, wrote:





On Feb 24, 1:07*am, Too_Many_Tools wrote:

On Feb 23, 5:24*am, wrote:

On Feb 21, 3:29*am, Too_Many_Tools wrote:

On Feb 19, 5:55*am, wrote:

On Feb 19, 4:46*am, Martin Brown
wrote:

On 19/02/2011 07:48, Too_Many_Tools wrote:

On Feb 18, 7:59 am, *wrote:
On 03/02/2011 08:54, Too_Many_Tools wrote:

I had one mother discuss her experiences on CN where she sought advice
as to which scope to buy for her son...what a train wreck..

The advice of serveral CNers was to spend several thousand dollars on
a scope...anything else was deemed inferior.

That's easy: A Skywatcher 150P.

I've read your other replies, so don't bother saying I have
not given a 100% correct reply when I indeed have.
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Got a link to a US vendor and price?

You could always set up shop and import them from directly from China if
you really believe there is a huge untapped market available. I think
you will lose your shirt if you do.

I will grant you that there isn't that much in the under $200 category
that is worth buying new in the USA but there is some. HandsonOptics
conveniently allow a search on price range - some are OTAs only.

http://handsonoptics.com/index.php?m...earch_result&k...

There are a couple of get what you pay for scopes there under $200.

Almost every product in the world is "[you] get what you pay for."

Here is a $100 scope with excellent reviews:

http://www.telescope.com/control/tel...elescopes/orio...

It is an upgraded version of one of my first scopes. *It has better
eyepieces and focuser than mine did, yet costs about half as much
after adjusting for inflation.

Now the Skywatcher might be a good deal at $400, the question arises,
would one be better off with a larger, cheaper 8-inch Dob, or even
better off by saving up an additional $150 or so and buying an 10-inch
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In this discussion, you have $200 to spend...not any more.

This reminds me of how Bush turned a $100 billion surplus that he got
from Clinton into a 1.3 trillion deficit that he gave to Obama along
with a crashed economy.

Obama spent $700 billion on "stimulus" that intelligent people (ie,
conservatives) knew would fail.

He even wasted several $billion on the Cars-for-Clunkers fiasco.

Obama wants to spend $53 billion on a rail system that few people will
use or be able to use.

If you have $200 to spend, you don't buy $400 scopes.

Obviously not, only the government can spend more than it steals, er,
takes in. *However, the $200 number you gave was an AVERAGE. *Have
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LOL...have an eight year old explain to you how every dollar Obama has
spent has kept this Country

in a

*a deeper recession

that Obama wishes

upon us.

I was just reading several discussions where conservatives

(probably not conservatives)

*are whining
about higher taxes...because the Obama money the local governments
were using is running out. Of course they don't want to cut any
services.

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It was conservatives.

They still haven't paid the bills they ran up under George "I'm on
vacation" Bush.

It would be great if Zerobama and the Dems would go on vacation for
the next 22 months, and let the Republicans try to salvage something
out of the mess that the Dems have created.