MASSIVE MEADE / ORION / CORONADO AUCTION!!! Is this your chance to score a deal of a lifetime???
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- Опубліковано 5 лют 2025
- Hey guys, thanks to @paulmurphy9358 for commenting on my last video letting me know that this is going on!
The entire remaining inventory of MEADE / ORION / CORONADO is being auctioned off Jan 6th-9th. There is a ton of stuff there!!! All sold in the Bay Area in California and looks like must be picked up there! Check the fees as they look pretty substantial... I'm not associated with this auction in any way, just passing on the info!
Link to auction site: www.bidspotter...
Hope you guys that are in the area can score some amazing deals!!!
PS: Very sad to see these company's go;(
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I assume many of the big telescope stores will scoop up most of the big lots of scopes, eyepieces, mounts and accessories. The rest will be bought by resellers and flippers to sell on AstroMart, CloudyNights and eBay. Us little guys won't have much of a chance.
That's pretty much what I expect to happen. The big issue here is that between the buyer fee and sales tax your already at 28% in fees. So even when the auction looks cheap, it's really not that cheap....
Hi Vlad, good name, was my brother's and now my oldest son's. I'm a big collector of high end scopes, have a large early Celestron collection and then some modern scopes like Meade 20" RCX on Max Mount, Takahashi 12", OGS 14.5" RC etc. I saw the Meade/Orion dissolvement some time ago when it was first hinted. I was actually attempting to purchase the IP and equipment as I have done that a few times with some other business that I have....high end plastics manufacturing, extrusion, and industrial 3D printing. I have BidSpotter account and was going participate in auction if it came down to it but from what I heard, I believe Agena Astro was the purchaser. I belive they also bout OPT (Oceanside Photo) some time ago.
- Lev A
Wow, sounds like you have some awesome gear!
I have already registered and have a U-Haul rental on standby. It's a seven hour drive from my house, but I'd never forgive myself if I didn't at least try to score some merch.
Good plan! I wish I was only 7hrs away. I'm about 11hrs so really unless I'm buying a couple pallets of scopes this is just too far of a drive.
I just hope they aren’t auctioning off people’s personal telescopes, that were sent in for repair!
Of course they will. It’s in their possession right now. They’re not gonna need it and since they owe hundreds of millions everything’s for sale the people who have sent their telescopes in to be repaired unfortunately it happens.
In Canada, I also put telescopes on consignment to a telescope store and then they went bankrupt. Of course I lost everything too. You just have to carry on with Life. It’s not the end of the world.
Wow, that's a major bummer Joe! Sorry for the loss...
Anything inside when the door is locked stays, had it happened to me with high end audio equipment.
Thanks for sharing. I’ve heard about this already and I’ve looked at the website as I sit in the other post. I’m pretty sure the big manufacturers or stores in the USA are probably gonna go there and bid on the majority of stuff which makes sense.
I wonder if all these products will still be at a retail value or would they put them at a more discount price to just sell a lot?
Hey Joe, yeah I agree that major resellers will buy most of this stuff. I'm surprised Agena or someone major did not buy the entire stock!
@ well I’m thinking probably the entire stock would be hundreds of thousands, which would put any retailer really tight or wouldn’t be able to do it
Remember the bidding starts pretty much at $50. I’m assuming that’s American for each lot but there’s no knowing how high you could go per lot.
@JoeJaguar I'm assuming that it won't be that cheap. Part of the issue is that there is also a 28% fee(including tax) on top of the bid. So even when the big will look like a good deal, it's not all that good.
@ yeah I probably would put in bins if they would ship it to you, but that would be a lot more work so since it’s so far away from me and in the USA, I’ll let the people there go for it and probably most likely the businesses will be the highest bitters on most stuff anyway, but we’ll see what happens
I wanna see if the prices though is gonna be like a ultra sale price to just sell a lot or they still gonna be the same retail price and they’re just gonna hold onto them even if it takes years so they can make up their profit. Let’s see what happens.
One buyer took it all, any bids submitted were nullified by the auctioneer, but they didn't disclose who bought it (Chinese?) nor did the auction house disclose the selling price.
Yeah, I honestly figured that a big fish would take it all.
Vlad are you giving us a hint of a future vid concerning large Vixen Binos?
Lol, I have had those for a little bit and very nice units(5"). Was not rally planning a video around them but I guess I can put something together;)
@@AVTAstro I think that would make a good video. Not a lot of big binos on UA-cam. You said. they are 5 inch?
Yes it's a BT-125 so 125mm.
2:04 more than likely the individual items are items that were sent in for REPAIRS, not returns. These are to be AVOIDED IMHO.
That's a good point, they may be the ones in for repair. May be good project scopes but anything should really be assumed to be broken in some way.
@ I feel horrible for the owners of those repair scopes! What a nightmare for them.
Vlad I have a question for you. I wanna buy a refractor just for DSOs, at a maximum 900 mm length and under 8 kg (I have a Twilight and a Svbony SV225 mount). Which one do you think would be better (just for DSOs) the Explore Scientific 127/825 mm f6.5 achromat or Svbony 122 mm APO ? Thank you and Happy New Year !
Between the two I'd easily choose the APO. Happy new years!
If anyone has bought a Coronado 60 double stack solar telescope from the auction, you can contact me for the full set of Coronado eyepieces and Barlow in their case that goes with the telescope. The telescope that I sent Meade in May 2024 for repair that they never returned to me worth about $4K. My property that was stolen from me by them. Because if personal property sent in for repair and not returned and auctioned equates to theft!
I hope that someone will step up with your scope!!!
Lots of stuff coming to ebay in a few months
Yeah I'm sure that a lot of this will end up on eBay especially if not bought by non astronomy people.
If I had an astronomical equipment company I would go to court to stop this dumping! This has the potential to be harmful to the industry in my view. This is a huge inventory of quality equipment flooding the market at low price! I have no experience in this only as a consumer but it does not seem healthy to me.
In I was a major astro company I would be going in there with a couple of simis and buying all this stock...
mabey everyone should stop yapping about it on the internet so big companies and people with alot of money go and buy everything
Lol, the thing is that I'm surprised one of the larger astro resellers has not done this already. I'm sure if someone showed up with cash and some semi's they would sell all that stuff as a lot in a heartbeat.
Deal of a lifetime? Nah. Shipping is expensive for auctions like this, if offered at all. For that reason, anyone local to the auction site can walk away with some great deals on odds & end pieces. I expect to see some misc eyepieces and motorized mounts go for little or nothing.
Shipping is not an option, so yes only local pickup. As I said in the video, I'm not expecting people picking up pallets of stuff for $50... LOL.
@@AVTAstro To me a "Deal of a Lifetime" would simply be picking up that 12" Richey-Chretien Astrograph for $300. That's ain't gonna happen.