Here! Here! and Ditto, Ditto!

-----Original Message-----
John Ruthroff
Sent: Friday, August 18, 2000 11:38 PM
Subject: Re: [M]: MEADE Non-cooporation-etc


Fine John....you think Meade customer service...or their 'scopes...or
whatever
sucks. That's your opinion and your welcome to it. I do have to wonder why,
if
you find them so objectionable, that your still subscribing to this
newsgroup.
Do you still own your LX200? If so, there must be a reason, eh? After all,
if
it were as horrible an experience as were supposed to believe I'd though
you'd
gotten rid of it by now. But apparently it has enough merits that you still
own it, right? If not, why are your here? Is it really a good reflection
on
Celestron that you've "never had to wait over an hour for a call back..."?
How
many times have you had to call Celestron customer service anyway??? To
make
your statement meaningful, i.e. not just a very infrequent occurance, you
must
have had to call them several times. Are we supposed to take that as a sign
of
Celestron quality...the fact that you've had so many experiences with their
service department???

My point is this...this group is for Meade users. We're here to talk about
the
'scope, about it's quirks and how to get around them and how to have a good
imaging/observing experience with them. Sometimes I'm sure we all scratch
our
heads at why Meade does things the way they do. I'm sure we all scratch our
heads at alot of things we see in everyday life. I sure scratch my head at
posts by people who have nothing but bad to say about Meade, yet they still
own
a Meade 'scope, or even more difficult to imagine, they don't own a Meade
'scope but they put time and effort into trashing Meade on this newsgroup.

John Ruthroff

John Hilliard wrote:

> Ah, Astroviking,
> I own a Celestron N5, ordered a ETX125EC in April of 1999, in September I
> took delivery of the N5 while canceling the ETX. The N5 proved defective
> out of the box, I called the Celestron 800 number on Thursday afternoon,
> they gave me their UPS number to ship mine back to while they put a
> replacement in UPS Blue Lable to me and on Monday I received a brand new
> one.
>
> It took me a year of raising all kinds of noise to get my 12" LX200 fixed
> and it was defective out of the box....electronices shipped in ....scope
> shipped in....scope replaced...that scope replaced...out of 12 months of
> ownership, I was without a scope for four of them.
>
> What was that you were saying about Celestron's Service Department?
> If you call them a real live person answers the phone. If you get the
> tech's voice mail, I have never had to wait over an hour for a call
> back...then they give you their extension number for direct contact.
>
> John
>
> > [Original Message]
> > Date: 8/18/00 4:17:48 PM
> > Subject: Re: [M]: MEADE Non-cooporation-etc
> >
> >
> >
writes:
> > > Hi; Does anyone know if the recent Meade price reductions could be
> > > connected
> > > to difficulties experienced by current owners?
> >
> > Only by current owners of Celestron products ;-)) ..
> >
> > AV
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