Re: REAL Americans will buy Meade, NOT Celestron

Buy Meade and tell Celestron/Synta management that is our decision until we
are guaranteed that all Celestron production will continue at the Torrance
facility.

Bubba


"RichA" <none@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Sure it's a flame, but it's based on cold, jobless fact.
> The fairy tale is over. The B.S. David versus Goliath
> (Celestron versus Meade) fantasy is put to rest.
> Now it's Wing Po Ling versus Joe America and buyers will
> have to make a decision, as to who they will support.
> The only good thing coming out of this will be that the
> crybabies who lamented Celestron's business incompetence
> as being due to Meade will FINALLY have to shut up!
> Meade, for now, is still mfg'ing the big scopes in
> California, as odd as that sounds. So, IMO, if any of you
> profess any interest at all in the American worker, you'll
> buy the Meades. At this point, you have no incentive whatsoever
> to buy Celestron since pricing for both scopes is virtually
> identical. If, at some point, Celestron scopes drop in price
> due to their "migration" of production to RED China, then you'll
> (like all Walmart shoppers) have a good reason to buy from the
> Chinese. Until then, anyone who buys a Celestron must still be
> labouring under the delusion that they are "fighting for the
> underdog." Well, the underdog just turned traitor, so what
> is it going to be, Americans?
> -Rich


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