There are several large 8-12" achromats available on ebay from China. Very good pricing, but does anyone have experience with them? Anyone tested them?
Large Chinese achromats
Started by Bill Guinn, 09/10/2009 11:07PM
Posted 09/10/2009 11:07PM
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Posted 09/11/2009 12:56AM
| Edited 09/11/2009 12:57AM
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Bill Guinn said:
There are several large 8-12" achromats available on ebay from China. Very good pricing, but does anyone have experience with them? Anyone tested them?
Bill:
Providing information about another auction service is technically a violation of the Terms of Service, 4.2.2. Still, this thread might be useful to newbie Astromarters, so I'll leave it go for a while, unless the site owner rattles my cage. I see that the lenses you are talking about are being sold by "great eye." This fellow has rightfully of wrongly been accused of fraud in the past. I'd think you would know this since my source is your 2005 thread asking the same questions.
http://www.astromart.com/forums/viewpost.asp?forum_post_id=305529&poll_id=&news_id=&page=
In any case I would say buying through that auction site from out of country involves an extraordinary risk. I wouldn't think of doing it with my money.
If anyone desires to discuss this further they should do so off line. I hardly delete anything here, but I will delete any discussion of any substance about a competitive auction site.
Buyer beware!
Jim
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