10 year old eq6 pro mount worth it?

[steppenwolf]

I think £250 - £300 is way too low personally despite its age, mounts don't actually get that much use after all and there task is not an onerous one but I do agree that £680 is too much. £500 seems about right but then I sold my 8 year old (at the time I sold it) black EQ6 with Synscan upgrade for £600, however, it was in absolute mint condition and came with original boxes.

[spillage]

I think that 600-650 for one of these is reasonable if in good working condition. After all what really can go wrong. 

[Erla]

With regards to delivery: if you buy new, FIrst Light Optics do deliver to EU countries, I bought several items from them, including NEQ6. The delivery cost something like £35, which I think is really cheap considering it was delivered in less than a week  to Lithuania by DHL. 

 If you buy used, of course you have to trust the seller and there's collection/delivery issue. In my case I use a small specialised delivery service - they specialise in logistics from door to door specifically on U.K./Lithuania destination, they can collect or you can get stuff posted to their Eastern European food shop in London and they bring it over. You could check if there's Croatian equivalent, there are some Croatian food shops in London, you could try them. For me it works out much cheaper. I think I paid something like 300 euros for a full van load of stuff once. 

[Petar b]

If I'm going to buy used equipment I probably won't buy from any country that is't Croatia because I want to see if the mount works before I buy it.  

[LightBucket]

3 hours ago, brantuk said:

Imho - £250-£300 would be more than enough for a ten year old EQ6. I think your seller is expecting a bit too much. £680 will get you a very good second hand modern up to date model, under two years old, in good working order, and near perfect condition (no more than the odd nick here or there mostly on the weights), with minimal internal wear.

So my advice is wait patiently for a more up to date model to be advertised - or save a bit more and buy brand new. Hth

It's an EQ6 pro not just an EQ6, so it's worth more that that...!

[Erla]

Are you sure you need belt upgrade straight away? If you do it to a new mount you'll void the warranty, so it kind of defeats the purpose of buying new one. It's nice to have peace of mind for couple of years, though. 

 I suspect Croatia has smaller used mount market than U.K. , so you have less to choose from. Maybe that's why the price is high-ish. But the same is true to seller - he has less people to sell it to. If you are doing belt mod, the condition of some internal components, such as gears, is not important, you would be changing them anyway. 

Offer the seller 550 euro and see where it gets you  

[brantuk]

3 hours ago, LightBucket said:

It's an EQ6 pro not just an EQ6, so it's worth more that that...!

Fair comment - and the others above too. But I did say it was just my opinion - I wouldn't pay £680 for a ten year old mount when a brand new one can be had for circa £900 and a more recent s/h one for £650'ish. It doesn't make sense to me even if the ten year old one seems to be mint condition.

[m.tweedy]

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[Peter Drew]

9 hours ago, brantuk said:

Imho - £250-£300 would be more than enough for a ten year old EQ6. I think your seller is expecting a bit too much. £680 will get you a very good second hand modern up to date model, under two years old, in good working order, and near perfect condition (no more than the odd nick here or there mostly on the weights), with minimal internal wear.

So my advice is wait patiently for a more up to date model to be advertised - or save a bit more and buy brand new. Hth

From the photo the mount appears to be the EQ6 Pro, not the earlier standard EQ6 which was not GOTO.  Still somewhat overpriced comparedto others available. 

[emyliano2000]

I bought an old black eq6 upgraded to pro and paid £650 for it last November. The mount was well taken care of and it was in a very good condition. Well pleased with it. I sent it for a Gen2 hypertune upgrade to make the most of it and got it back today. 

Emil

[TareqPhoto]

Save and buy new and you never look back, i can't talk about myself, but i had no budget this year and i also started new recently and still didn't test my mount, but i never stop myself to buy a new mount, don't tell me that i am lucky or rich, i don't have a job, but budget came, couldn't save more so i sacrificed, is the mount brand new any better? maybe not, but this just sh... up my mind about new vs. used all the way.

[Petar b]

Why would I buy a new one wen this one is in almost in perfect mint condition and there are no difference on the inside (I think). With the money I save I could buy a better scope, camera etc. I agree with others that the price is a bit too high and I would try to get the mount for as low as possible.

[spillage]

The only thing I have purchased new so far are leads. All my gear is second hand and I am more than please with all of it. If I could afford to I would love to spend thousands as I am sure most would but until that day comes.

[LightBucket]

1 hour ago, Petar b said:

Why would I buy a new one wen this one is in almost in perfect mint condition and there are no difference on the inside (I think). With the money I save I could buy a better scope, camera etc. I agree with others that the price is a bit too high and I would try to get the mount for as low as possible.

Absolutely, get the price down a bit, forget buying a new one, what you said is spot on....

[brantuk]

10 hours ago, Petar b said:

Why would I buy a new one wen this one is in almost in perfect mint condition and there are no difference on the inside (I think).

The point is that the current price of the ten year old one (£680) is too close to the cost of a brand new one to make it worth taking the risk. With a new one you get a guarantee and good after sales service for only a couple of hundred more - with the right supplier you get complete peace of mind. Whereas you get no guarantees with second hand stuff and no supplier to help with post sales problems.

It may appear mint - but without taking it to bits you really have no idea of the amount of internal wear and tear over ten years - for all you know it may be on it's last legs and due to fail imminently - despite the exterior appearance of perfection. Or it may go on for another ten years with no problem. If it's never been opened nor used then that would be a different matter - but I don't think that's the case here.

If it was circa 2yrs old - then £600 to £650 would be a good punt. Over 5yrs old I wouldn't pay more than half retail price - ten years a fair bit less - but then I would never be looking for a ten year old mount. Ultimately it's all down to what you want, how well you can negotiate, and what you're happy with - my comments are guidelines only. But if you want to spend around £680 - you can get a much newer mount for that. Good luck.

 

[m.tweedy]

On 16/07/2017 at 08:29, brantuk said:

The point is that the current price of the ten year old one (£680) is too close to the cost of a brand new one to make it worth taking the risk. With a new one you get a guarantee and good after sales service for only a couple of hundred more - with the right supplier you get complete peace of mind. Whereas you get no guarantees with second hand stuff and no supplier to help with post sales problems.

It may appear mint - but without taking it to bits you really have no idea of the amount of internal wear and tear over ten years - for all you know it may be on it's last legs and due to fail imminently - despite the exterior appearance of perfection. Or it may go on for another ten years with no problem. If it's never been opened nor used then that would be a different matter - but I don't think that's the case here.

If it was circa 2yrs old - then £600 to £650 would be a good punt. Over 5yrs old I wouldn't pay more than half retail price - ten years a fair bit less - but then I would never be looking for a ten year old mount. Ultimately it's all down to what you want, how well you can negotiate, and what you're happy with - my comments are guidelines only. But if you want to spend around £680 - you can get a much newer mount for that. Good luck.

 

Sound advice

[Petar b]

So I should buy the mount if I only get the price under 500gbp.

[LightBucket]

10 hours ago, Petar b said:

So I should buy the mount if I only get the price under 500gbp.

To me that would be fair, under £500