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Good news.

That is interesting about the price fixing lawsuit Orion filed against Chinese manufactures in 2019. Wonder if that is part of the reason Celestron prices jumped up a couple of years ago

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For years meade were reponsible for price fixing, especially in Europe, buying a meade telescope in the UK was expensive, a direct conversion  from dollars to pounds pushed the prices up astromomically.   We had a local dealer that dropped Meade's prices and Meade dropped them!

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Think it will be hard for Meade to rebuild their reputation in the EU and UK. Meade hardly ever gets a mention now when discussing a new scope purchase on SGL but who knows after a few years ownership by Orion USA things might change. 🤔

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8 minutes ago, johninderby said:

Think it will be hard for Meade to rebuild their reputation in the EU and UK. Meade hardly ever gets a mention now when discussing a new scope purchase on SGL but who knows after a few years ownership by Orion USA things might change. 🤔

I don’t know why but I don’t associate Meade with consistent high quality. I’ve looked through an ETX125 once at Saturn and it gave an excellent image, but I’m not sure I would buy one of their larger scopes. As said, it’s one of those irrational things, no particular basis for it so would like to be proved wrong!

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Meade telescopes were successful with their LX range also with their 5000 triplets their optics were second to none.

I have no sympathy for Meade. I still remember the very biased opinions which BC&F had once when visiting their faringdon showroom in London.

 

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