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11 years 10 months ago #93944 by wbean
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Hey Astro friends!

I'm saving for a new mount for AP at the moment. It's likely that it'll be an NEQ6 Pro Synscan and I was just wondering, taking into account shipping costs and price of the unit itself, where the best place to purchase one would be.

I've trawled the usual online distributors and it seems to me that First Light in the UK offer the best deal . Although I'm still waiting on a quote for shipping.

Has anybody got any other suggestions?

Please and thank you
Will

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11 years 10 months ago #93946 by lunartic_old
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Telescope Express in Germany are a fine company to deal with, and their shipping costs are not high.

With the current poor performance of the Euro against Sterling the cost from First Light will get higher.

Paul

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11 years 10 months ago #93947 by Reggy
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Hi Will,

If you haven't yet, make sure and email Telescope Service for their best price before deciding.
I got 5% off the price of my last order and 30% off the shipping, all I did was email and ask.

Cheers,
Reggy

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11 years 10 months ago #93948 by wbean
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That's fantastic Reggy! I have heard that they are very flexible with their prices.

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11 years 10 months ago #93949 by Reggy
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Very German... lol, say what they mean efficiently and with few words, but sound to deal with ... ;) You order as normal on the site, copy and paste the offer they emailed you into the comments box and they refunded the difference to my paypal account the next day. The main item was not in stock and I had to wait a couple of weeks but they were straight up about it before I ordered. Definatley deal with them again!

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11 years 10 months ago #93952 by Graham
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When you get your best price from Telescope Service you should give Stephen at Ktec Telescopes a call, he is a new Irish dealer now doing Sky-Watcher.

' Ktec Telescopes '

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