Celestron repair times

I have now owned The Advanced Series C8-SGT scope for little over 1,5 years
It has been repaired twice. First it took 3 months (luckily it was summer time, when it's almost impossible to do any reasonable observing here in Finland) and now it's been almost 3 months again.
Is this normal or is it just that we live in 'peripheria' ?
It is very hard to tolerate these kind of repair times.

Tapio,
My own experiences have been positive. Turn around time of less than two weeks. But, I live about 120 miles from the factory. UPS was used to ship both ways.

I'd guess it's your location. I'm cross country and found the turn around to be approx 3 weeks.