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Cheaper to buy telescopes from US?
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I've just ordered a Meade LX90 from a UK company (arrives tomorrow - can't wait!) but I noticed that I'm paying almost twice the price of the same scope bought in a US store. Obviously I would have needed to pay expensive shipping costs if buying from the US but for a more expensive scope this might be worth doing. Does anyone have any experience of ordering scopes directly from the US? Thanks, a href="http://www.andygrove.ws"Andy Grove/a |
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"ag73" wrote in message oups.com... Hi, I've just ordered a Meade LX90 from a UK company (arrives tomorrow - can't wait!) but I noticed that I'm paying almost twice the price of the same scope bought in a US store. Obviously I would have needed to pay expensive shipping costs if buying from the US but for a more expensive scope this might be worth doing. Does anyone have any experience of ordering scopes directly from the US? Thanks, a href="http://www.andygrove.ws"Andy Grove/a There have been thousands of threads about this in the past. Your costs will be higher than you think. US price, + shipping (remember you will want an insured service, and good packing as well), + duty (on both the price and shipping), + VAT (again on everything so far) + 'customs clearance' fees etc.. Even with all this, there is a significant saving, especially on Meade stuff, _but_ you will then find that the US dealers won't ship to the UK (this is part of their 'agreement' with Meade), and you also have to remember that your warranty on a US purchase will be to Meade in the US. This makes any problems very expensive... Most of the better scope manufacturers (AP, RC etc.), have no problems supplying to the UK, but also will often have UK agents, whose 'mark-up' is less exorbitant... Best Wishes |
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ag73 wrote:
Hi, I've just ordered a Meade LX90 from a UK company (arrives tomorrow - can't wait!) but I noticed that I'm paying almost twice the price of the same scope bought in a US store. Obviously I would have needed to pay expensive shipping costs if buying from the US but for a more expensive scope this might be worth doing. Does anyone have any experience of ordering scopes directly from the US? Thanks, a href="http://www.andygrove.ws"Andy Grove/a Sign the petition at http://gopetition.com/online/6474.html to try to reduce the prices of Meade 'scopes in the EU. Cheers, John http://physics.open.ac.uk/~jdtanner |
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"ag73" wrote in message
oups.com... Hi, I've just ordered a Meade LX90 from a UK company (arrives tomorrow - can't wait!) but I noticed that I'm paying almost twice the price of the same scope bought in a US store. Obviously I would have needed to pay expensive shipping costs if buying from the US but for a more expensive scope this might be worth doing. Does anyone have any experience of ordering scopes directly from the US? Before going down this route I'd advise reviewing recent mailings on a dedicated "Meade" group, and deciding for yourself whether their quality control is good enough for you to purchase from anywhere other than locally in the UK. -- M Stewart Milton Keynes, UK http://www.megalith.freeserve.co.uk/oddimage.htm |
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"Roger Hamlett" wrote in message ... "ag73" wrote in message oups.com... Hi, I've just ordered a Meade LX90 from a UK company (arrives tomorrow - can't wait!) but I noticed that I'm paying almost twice the price of the same scope bought in a US store. Obviously I would have needed to pay expensive shipping costs if buying from the US but for a more expensive scope this might be worth doing. Does anyone have any experience of ordering scopes directly from the US? Thanks, a href="http://www.andygrove.ws"Andy Grove/a There have been thousands of threads about this in the past. Your costs will be higher than you think. US price, + shipping (remember you will want an insured service, and good packing as well), + duty (on both the price and shipping), + VAT (again on everything so far) + 'customs clearance' fees etc.. Even with all this, there is a significant saving, especially on Meade stuff, _but_ you will then find that the US dealers won't ship to the UK (this is part of their 'agreement' with Meade), and you also have to remember that your warranty on a US purchase will be to Meade in the US. This makes any problems very expensive... Most of the better scope manufacturers (AP, RC etc.), have no problems supplying to the UK, but also will often have UK agents, whose 'mark-up' is less exorbitant... Best Wishes This is interesting. I live in the USA, and because of what you have just written, I have pretty well decided that when I buy my second scope, it won't be from Meade. Yes, I am stubborn, but this seems rather unfair to those in the UK, and I'm not going to encourage it by supporting them. I'm not going to buy a Ford vehicle either anymore because of their stupidity, but that is another issue. I would also like to commend this newsgroup, because I have looked at others in times past, and those that like to discuss more involved issues of astonomy, physics, and such, tend to be snobbish. But here I see a good mix where very experienced amateurs, and those well educated in the related sciences post, yet when a newbie posts here, he or she is helped rather than told that this newsgroup isn't the place for them. God bless you all. Bill. |
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