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From: "Jeff Gortatowsky" <indanapt@No-Spam>
To: "The Astronomy Connection" <sf-bay-tac@No-Spam>
Sent: Saturday, October 29, 2005 5:04 PM
Subject: Re: [TAC] Instead of spending $100K on an 8" Finder...
> Suffice to say there are many items in this world priced far beyond their
> 'worth' to 99.9% of the world's population. There are works of 'art' I'd
> not pay $10 for much less $100k. But if money was no object, I see no
> reason why I, were I collector of rare and fine finderscopes, would not
> buy Herb's scope. If I had a $100k to plop on a finderscope, I'd wager I
> also had the ware-with-all (or is that where-with-all? or wear-with-all?)
> to pony up to have my pilot fly me there to inspect it, and fly Roland
> there to certify it's authenticity, and a buy the land for the
> observatory, and pay the contractor to build it. Well, you get the point.
>
> I must say, even in writing, every word out of his hands rubs me the wrong
> way. I have never ever met him, but his ego , bravado, and rudeness seems
> boundless and has for years. However you can not really know via an
> electronic format. I suppose some think that of me. ;)
>
Herb seems to me to be an independent minded free wheeling sort of guy. I
have done business with him on more than one occasion and never had any
problems at all. In fact I dare say that they sort of went out of their way
to find me a scarce accessory for my FCT76 and found what may be the last
existing original Tak focal reducer made for it.
I am still amazed that Astromart is free to the average user. He gets high
marks in my book for providing a number of these services to the
astro-community and whether or not he makes money off it is of no concern to
me.
Received on Sat Oct 29 21:52:45 2005