10mm Delos on the bay

[spaceboy]

TeleVue 10mm Delos Eyepiece.New | eBay

[Pug]

Anyone fancy running a sweepstake on the winning bid?

[spaceboy]

£243

[Pug]

I reckon someone will go bid crazy and end up paying £300!

[cathalferris]

I'll say £288.

[John]

The seller may have got wind of the build issue that is being discussed on Cloudynights I reckon. TV have not reacted very quickly to explaining / sorting it.

It will still probably go for a silly price though, knowing e.bay

[inspectapart]

£295 new at Greenwich so why pay more???

[John]

One on UK AB&S for £230:

U.K. Astronomy Buy & Sell

The seller is a bit of a trader though, IMHO.

[Damo636]

The Ebay Delos will probably go for silly money. There's also a nice one month old 9mm t6 Nagler on Ebay at the minute. It may not have the glam of the Delos but does have an 82* fov and is as sharp as a tack. It should be able to be bought for £150-180. With all the attention on the Delos someone might just get a bargain on the Nagler.

[spaceboy]

I like the 5mm T6 thats on for £170 + P&P Don't mind the fact that it's clearly been dropped from a height.

[Damo636]

I see the Delos went for £220 in the end up. Decent price considering £300 from dealer.

[spaceboy]

Not so decent for the seller though. £22 eBay fees and no doubt another £9+ paypal fees. £189 back from £300.

[Damo636]

That is a poor return on a premium eyepiece. Maybe as John says, the thread on Cloudy Nights where they are discussing the build quality did hurt it somewhat.

[spaceboy]

Yeh it's not good when you hear a new range from Televue is suffering build quality. There reputation goes a long way to selling their eyepieces and they will certainly need to keep that good reputation to help sell the EP's at there new prices. I have to say having recently had chance to try the Sky-watcher Nirvana in my C100ED I would not have chosen a Nagler over that given the difference in price. The Nirvanas really come out of there shell in slower scopes. I have been surprised to see a fair few TV eyepieces for sale on eBay and AB&S recently. I would have thought recent price hikes would have encouraged owners to think twice about letting their TV EP's go as to go with a TV replacement is so much more expensive.

[CGolder]

I have found people are just asking that little bit more for their eyepieces and they are not selling anywhere near as fast, i couldnt persude someone to part with a 13mm ethos for less that £380 the other day.. pretty bad really, many naglers sitting unsold at an increased price of 175 ish.. maybe people are trying to cash in on the price increase for some reason?

[spaceboy]

It's the nature of the beast. You think the same time last year TV had a 20% off sale. Anyone buying back then will have been able to use a premium EP to see if it's for them or not and now there has been a price increase the opportunity has arose to sell at the price they paid for it. No money lost and the use of a premium EP for a year. You may find the 13mm Etho would have been around £380 at TH's old prices minus 20%

[CGolder]

Lets be thankful for market forces then.. if enough people say no to buying at the inflated pices then the price will fall :-)

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[spaceboy]

Not much chance of that the way everyone raves on about TV's. I have seen it mentioned many times on SGL that some people refer to TV eyepieces as an investment and because of this Televues biggest salesman is it's customer.