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End of an era

Jay Drew All Messages By This Member #7820 ? Whaaaaat?
Lee P. All Messages By This Member #7821 开云体育 If I only had a spare $20K lying around toggle quoted message Show quoted text On Dec 30, 2024, at 5:08 PM, Jay Drew via <mirrormaker@...> wrote: ? Whaaaaat?
Jerry T All Messages By This Member #7822 Yes, very sad.? The lack of any formal announcement after the closing of their U.S. offices and complete staff layoffs always implied they wanted to sell off as much stock as possible at full price, especially up to the Christmas holiday season.? With that done, sales likely have lessened to the point the only remaining option is to sell off the remaining stock via auction.? Until the layoffs, I was seriously comparing Meade's SCTs with Celestron's attempting to ascertain which way to go for something of much longer FL than my Esprit. So sorry to see them go.
R. M. "Max" Maxwell All Messages By This Member #7823 I'd be interested in going in on a binocular lot of say 7x50 or so.? I would want one, so 1/4 of the overall cost of a lot of 4, say. I'm not an equipment guy, like so many other club members, so I would leave it to youse to select the equipment lot/s to bid on. Anyone else? Maybe some of our newer members need a start-up tool? toggle quoted message Show quoted text On Mon, Dec 30, 2024 at 5:25?PM Jerry T via <jerry=[email protected]> wrote: Yes, very sad.? The lack of any formal announcement after the closing of their U.S. offices and complete staff layoffs always implied they wanted to sell off as much stock as possible at full price, especially up to the Christmas holiday season.? With that done, sales likely have lessened to the point the only remaining option is to sell off the remaining stock via auction.? Until the layoffs, I was seriously comparing Meade's SCTs with Celestron's attempting to ascertain which way to go for something of much longer FL than my Esprit. So sorry to see them go. -- ~/) ~ (\?~ (\?~ ~ (\?~/) ~/)/) (\?~ Fair Winds, Clear Skies, Calm Seas, Max R. M. Maxwell 860-389-0777
Mark Strollo All Messages By This Member #7824 Pick up in California.? Should be a flood of these items showing up at west coast star parties.? Mark toggle quoted message Show quoted text On Mon, Dec 30, 2024 at 5:08 PM, Jay Drew via groups.io <mirrormaker@...> wrote: ? Whaaaaat?
R. M. "Max" Maxwell All Messages By This Member #7825 Oh . . . toggle quoted message Show quoted text On Mon, Dec 30, 2024 at 5:46?PM Mark Strollo via <mark=[email protected]> wrote: Pick up in California.? Should be a flood of these items showing up at west coast star parties.? Mark On Mon, Dec 30, 2024 at 5:08 PM, Jay Drew via <mirrormaker@...> wrote: ? Whaaaaat? -- ~/) ~ (\?~ (\?~ ~ (\?~/) ~/)/) (\?~ Fair Winds, Clear Skies, Calm Seas, Max R. M. Maxwell 860-389-0777
Alan Sheiness All Messages By This Member #7826 And plane tickets and packer shippers and a tolerance for missing parts with no recourse to anyone.? I suppose if you lived nearby it could be worth picking through it all but it’s an online bid so it’s sight unseen and anything you actually wanted could be bid out already. ? And very poorly documented goods. Generic descriptions; what looks to me like some stuff is reboxed goods. Maybe someone else’s equipment (repairs; etc) mixed in but unidentified? (Has anyone heard of anyone getting contacted to get their repairs back? Or did Meade carefully clear that all out in advance?) As unmanaged in liquidation as they were as a going concern. Caveat emptor.? ? -- ? ? Alan Sheiness Trail 53 Observatory, Lyme CT

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