Guy is selling a scope. Rather than just assuming the buyer will know or can look up the specifics of the instrument being sold, they feel the need to move into "used car salesman mode" with florid descriptions of the product, coupled to too muchinformation to actually sell the thing quickly. The pista resistance is when you check them out and find out they have a very similar type but different scope which they've kept because they found it to be better than what they are flogging. Luckily,
On Tuesday, March 14, 2023 at 7:42:57 PM UTC-4, RichA wrote:information to actually sell the thing quickly. The pista resistance is when you check them out and find out they have a very similar type but different scope which they've kept because they found it to be better than what they are flogging. Luckily,
Guy is selling a scope. Rather than just assuming the buyer will know or can look up the specifics of the instrument being sold, they feel the need to move into "used car salesman mode" with florid descriptions of the product, coupled to too much
It's a good idea to be leery of most used telescopes that are advertised so widely. The best stuff is either kept, given to family or sold to close friends, and never gets advertised.
Cars are like that too.
The used market is now awash in second-tier small refractors being put up by people
who found out astrophotography actually requires an effort.
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