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[AZ-Observing] Re: Meade

From: <rharshaw2@xxxxxxx>
To: az-observing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 15:36:11 -0700

Darrel, in a sense I agree with you, but in another I have to lay the blame for 
Meade's woes (and Celestron's, etc.) at the feet of the typical American 
consumer. We as a people more and more demand cheaper and cheaper products with 
higher and higher quality and that is possible up to an extent-- but we may 
have reached that limit with mass-produced telescopes. The bottom line becomes 
that a hobbyist whose first concern is the cost of the hobby may in fact be 
doing himself/herself more harm in the long haul (by driving out high quality 
companies that cannot compete on price alone) and leaving us with cheap mass 
sources of just mediocre quality.  It may well be that ours will be the last 
generation to see textbook Airy discs in a telescope. Hoo boy, sigh!

Dick H

---- "Spencer wrote: 

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Either way and not to differ with Mr. Lucas, but the tone of this memo
(and what can be extrapolated from it) does, indeed, give one the
impression that this is more than just a move to appease the analysts on
Wall Street. 

It seems there might be a few "skeletons in the closet" and they're a
bit late in discovering them (or addressing them).   You have to hope
they get it together, though.  If not, the potential loss of a major
player in the industry could mean less competition and higher prices
down the road - of course this is absolutely worst case . . . 

Darrell Spencer

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From: az-observing-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:az-observing-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Stan Gorodenski
Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2007 11:10 AM
To: az-observing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [AZ-Observing] Re: Meade

It is interesting that they do not name the location of the new site, 

only that it is being moved to a lower cost location. Surely, to have 

made this announcement now they must know where they are moving. Sounds 

like another American company relocating outside the country, and they 

do not want to say so at this point. Hopefully it will still be in the 

U.S. I'm guessing North Dakota would be a lot cheaper to manufacture in 

than California.

Stan

Jeff Hopkins wrote:

>More information on Meade at

> 

><https://www.meadeds.com/dealermailings/manufacturing_relocation.pdf>ht
tps://www.meadeds.com/dealermailings/manufacturing_relocation.pdf

> 

>Jeff

>  

> 

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[AZ-Observing] Re: Meade
From: Stan Gorodenski

[AZ-Observing] Re: Meade
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