How much should I sell my telescope for?
Anthony asked:
It’s a DS 2090 telescope, a refractor with 90mm of clear aperture and a focal length of 800mm and the remote is missing so you can’t automatically go to a celestial object. Everything else is there. Also I have never sold or bought anything used so please make some suggestions.
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It’s a DS 2090 telescope, a refractor with 90mm of clear aperture and a focal length of 800mm and the remote is missing so you can’t automatically go to a celestial object. Everything else is there. Also I have never sold or bought anything used so please make some suggestions.
August 27th, 2010 at 3:31 am
500 Michelle
August 29th, 2010 at 11:09 am
Its only worth how much someone is willing to pay…put on craigslist and go for the highest bidder. ballistictx
August 30th, 2010 at 2:56 am
Jeez — you’re the second person on here who has lost the hand control for their telescope. How do you manage to do that? That’s where about 80% of the value of these little goto scopes lies. Without it, you don’t stand a chance of selling it. Try to order a new hand control from Meade. But how on Earth could you lose it? GeoffG
September 1st, 2010 at 7:50 pm
Well, …, I agree with Geoff. Without that hand controller that scope is worthless. Brand new it retails for $299. If you could find the hand controller and the scope worked then maybe $100 + the cost of the controller … after all it is used and it a lower end scope at that. Without the controller $0 because it’s not even usable.
Instead of selling it you might think about donating it to a school or library and take it as a tax write off. digquickly
September 3rd, 2010 at 4:12 pm
Well its not worthless,there’s lots of people looking for a bargain with smaller scopes. True the hand controller is a major part of the scope, but good grief its still useable. I’ve seen 60mm and 70mm scopes without hand controllers for around a hundred dollars or so. so I would think this scope might be worth 120 to 140 dollars roughly. Nick