Selling an Orion Europa - any good sites??

Looking to sell a mint Orion Europa 200mm f4.4

Any good sites/places to sell it and what sort of price would you guys
suggest??

I thought around the £350 - £400 mark???????????????????

100% mint - rarely used with x2 barlow, a 10mm and 25mm lens

Thanks

zorro wrote:

Looking to sell a mint Orion Europa 200mm f4.4 Any good sites/places to sell it and what sort of
price would you guys suggest ? I thought around the £350 - £400 mark ? 100% mint - rarely used
with x2 barlow, a 10mm and 25mm lens
Thanks

http://www.astrobuysell.com/uk/index.php

Gives you the chance to upload your own ad immediately along with one image. I've been using it
since it started and have been very successful with the site.

The other place is UK Astro Ads at : http://www.ukastroads.co.uk/ but the site owner has not been
able to upload the ads as often as he used to. However - I would be happy to stand corrected on the
last point :-) It's also a very good site.....

Best

DH

£400 is a bit optimistic. New the 8" Europa costs £549, but it comes with a
far superior mount, the Vixen GPE. Try £350 and see where you get - you
might have to lower that a bit too (£300?). Anyhow, best of luck. I can
also recommend Astro-Ads UK - it's got a big following.

Richard


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Looking to sell a mint Orion Europa 200mm f4.4

Any good sites/places to sell it and what sort of price would you guys
suggest??

I thought around the £350 - £400 mark???????????????????

100% mint - rarely used with x2 barlow, a 10mm and 25mm lens

Thanks

zorro wrote:
Any good sites/places to sell it

UK Astro-Ads: http://www.ukastroads.co.uk

A few other sites have sprung up -- AFAIK without exception they have
manually troffed users' details from the UK Astro-Ads site in order to
spam them to try to persuade them to use the other site.

Best,
Stephen

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On Fri, 6 Aug 2004 00:10:36 +0100, "Richard Darn"
wrote:


£400 is a bit optimistic. New the 8" Europa costs £549, but it comes with a
far superior mount, the Vixen GPE. Try £350 and see where you get - you
might have to lower that a bit too (£300?). Anyhow, best of luck. I can
also recommend Astro-Ads UK - it's got a big following.

Richard


"zorro" wrote in message
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Looking to sell a mint Orion Europa 200mm f4.4

Any good sites/places to sell it and what sort of price would you guys
suggest??

I thought around the £350 - £400 mark???????????????????

100% mint - rarely used with x2 barlow, a 10mm and 25mm lens

Thanks



Thanks for the help guys

Frankly if i were going to spend that kind of money I would get myself
a good pair of binoculars.

For general astronomy and observation, a beginner would do worse than
to buy a good pair of binoculars.

Bernie

(Bernie) wrote in message . com...
Frankly if I were going to spend that kind of money I would get myself
a good pair of binoculars.

For general astronomy and observation, a beginner would do worse than
to buy a good pair of binoculars.

Bernie

I can't agree with this common recommendation any more. Most of those
who would like to look at the objects in the night sky with their own
eyes. Would like rather more magnification and resolution than that
offered by binoculars.
They have their place for widefield scanning. But even a modest
increase in magnification will show the rings of Saturn, the belts of
Jupiter and the craters of the Moon. All of which are beyond the limit
of visibility in any binoculars with anything but the highest
magnification. Which are themselves often quite unsuitable for
astronomy.

An 8" reflector would be a very nice match to anyone's desire to see
more than pinpoints of light and a few tiny nebulæ in the field of
view. An 8" is small enough to be portable and large enough for most
astronomical purposes.

Binoculars are more easily affordable than telescopes. They can be
added at any time to the observing arsenal. With the model chosen
depending on depth of pocket. Upgrading can take place when further
funds allow.

If I was desperate to see things with my own eyes I'd rather have a
cheap 60mm refractor with standard 1.25" eyepieces. Than the finest
Nitrogen-filled Nikons, Zeiss, Pentax (or whatever). And, if I could
afford any one these, I would still buy a telescope first. :-)

Regards
Chris.B

Bernie wrote:

For general astronomy and observation, a beginner would do
worse than to buy a good pair of binoculars.

Not everyone can afford large, top of the range scopes, but many
beginners _do_ like to use smaller instruments whilst they are
learning how to engage in telescope astronomy. It may not be your
idea of a "decent" scope, however IMO the _serious_ "beginner"
would get far more from learning to use even a relatively limited
instrument such as this, purchased second hand, than spending
£350 on a pair of binoculars.

Surely this defends my case that the youth of today only want to
belong to the "must have" type community.

When I started out in astronomy many years ago, as youths entering the
hobby we were damned lucky to have shoes on our feet let alone a top
of the range telescope.

Astronomers are now like armchair astronomers with little knowledge.
The constant plea is "It's my right to have this or that", don't seem
to understand that you have to get off your butt to get these things.

As to the disdain, placed on my binocular advice, well it's the
rantings of spoiled brats I suppose. Obviously these types had a Mummy
who would get them all their tiny hearts desired. Better to get little
Jimmy an £800 telescope than put up with his tirades and tantrums.

Take my advice or leave it, it's nothing to me. Go ahead and lert
Daddy by his little boy his Celestron $4000 telescope....however
little Johnny will soon be back ranting for more.

Pity to see astronomy going down the road where only the little rich
kids can participate.

Bernie

(Bernie) wrote:

When I started out in astronomy many years ago, as youths entering the
hobby we were damned lucky to have shoes on our feet let alone a top
of the range telescope.

Bernie

Damn right. We lived in a shoe box in the middle of the motorway and
ate gravel. Bring back death by 35 from tooth decay. It's all been
down hill since that bloody Magna Carta.

But seriously I cannot see the point of working your ******** off and
then pretending you are as deprived as previous generations. Could the
the green eyed monster be present here?

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