200p dob Plymouth

[kirsty]

Why are things always too far away from me when im after one lol, maybe a bargain for someone in that area

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[peteftm]

You could try asking the seller to box it up and send a courrier there

I got lucky , i bought mine second hand from a guy 20 miles away

[estwing]

i drove to norwich for mine,well worth it and plymouth is only 4hrs from stoke

[Mike73]

Yep come on down!

Pick the scope up and then you could try it out at a nice dark site.

[ismangil]

Ask the seller if he's going somewhere anyway, meet in the middle.

I got my scope this way, seller went to within one hour of me.

Perry

[Boyd_CygnusX1]

Very tempted by this but it's a long old drive.

[Naemeth]

Far too far for me, it's literally the other side of the country.

[Black Knight]

It is a bit of a bargain isn't it? Hmmmm ....

[JamesF]

Depends how much value you put on your time and how much the fuel would cost, I guess. A four hour drive each way could easily be £50 in fuel alone, for example.

James

[kirsty]

Depends how much value you put on your time and how much the fuel would cost, I guess. A four hour drive each way could easily be £50 in fuel alone, for example.

James

Mine is roughly a 500 mile round trip, thats why i cant collect or i would of snatched it up

[JamesF]

And there's another on ebay that's somewhere near Torquay, too, afair. Oddly, whenever there's something that interests me it always seems to be in Scotland

James

[brucen]

Decided to give it a go. Thinking of how to tell my wife whilst waiting to hear back!!

[Katen]

If only it were two inches bigger I'd be there in a shot! Good Luck.

[ismangil]

Depends how much value you put on your time and how much the fuel would cost, I guess. A four hour drive each way could easily be £50 in fuel alone, for example.

James

Your car is good... Mine will be full tank or £70 nowadays...

Perry

[JamesF]

It was a rather "finger in the air" calculation.

For the sake of argument let's work on the basis that a four-hour drive each way would probably come out at around 400 to 450 miles, allowing for a combination of motorway and non-motorway driving. I don't have any real trouble getting over 50mpg (claimed by the trip computer) out of our turbo-diseasel Focus given a bit of motorway driving, so say about 8.5 gallons of fuel.

Now comes the tricky part I don't actually know what diesel costs at the moment. I mostly work from home and rarely need to drive, so only put fuel in a car once every few months. I'm guessing about £1.40 per litre.

I reckon that works out at around £54.

James

[ismangil]

Ah yeah diesel, good point :-)

Perry