Fanish: Inexpensive Celestron NexStar 8 SE Telescope a Click Away

Ebay is the biggest online auction site in the world. It has a number of sites ranging across the globe from Ebay India, to UK, US, Germany, Canada and a host of others. To use the site in your area you need to sign up for it. You will also need a current credit or debit card, or bank account details if you want to sell on the site. To buy, you will require a Paypal Account available free of charge at http://www.paypal.co.uk . Paypal offers you some protection as a buyer.

Buying is slightly easier. You simply click to buy and make your bid. If it is highest at the end of the auction time which is shown on screen, you win. You will have chances to increase your bid if you wish. Care is needed when bidding though. Make sure that you have read the item description carefully as some of these can be very deceptive. For example, a friend of mine thought she was buying a bottle of Channel No5 that the seller claimed was an unwanted gift. She won it at 30 and was really pleased but what she had not noticed was that it was only a 5ml sample.

There is also a practise called shilling that raises its head from time to time on this site. This is where a seller, or a group known to that seller deliberately inflates the price of an item that is not attracting many bids.

If you are buying something that is expensive look at the seller's feedback and try to contact someone else who has previously dealt with them. Although feedback is provided by buyers and sellers this is not always reliable. There was recently a spate of sellers generating good feedback by selling items at 1p (you have to complete a transaction to leave feedback), in order to bump up their reputation.

Summary: Buying and selling on here can be fun but it is full of potential pitfalls.

I have left some auction prices below for Celestron NexStar 8 SE Telescope and other items you may be interested in.

Click Picture Below to see great prices for Celestron NexStar 8 SE Telescope on Ebay:

Product Details:
Celestron NexStar 8 SE Telescope:

The largest of the NexStar SE family with 78% more light gathering, the NexStar 8 SE will enable you to see deep into the Universe. The distinctive patented fork arm with ergonomically designed integrated hand control cradle gives solid support to Celestron's classic 8-inch optics. The NexStar 8 SE features Schmidt-Cassegrain 8-inch aperture optics with our premium StarBright XLT coatings and a powerful 2032mm focal length and f/10 focal ratio. The NexStar 8 SE has all the same features as Celestron's most advanced computerized GoTo telescopes, including our revolutionary SkyAlign alignment technology, a sky tour feature, a database of over 40000 celestial objects and easy to use hand control. Sturdy computerized altazimuth mount Ultra sturdy steel tripod with accessory tray Star diagonal provides more comfortable viewing position when observing objects that are high in the sky 40,000 object database with 200 user-definable objects and expanded information on over 200 objects SkyAlign allows you to align on any three bright celestial objects, making for a fast and easy alignment process Flash upgradeable hand control software and motor control units for downloading product updates over the Internet Custom database lists of all the most famous deep-sky objects by name and catalog number, the most beautiful double, triple and quadruple stars, variable star, solar systems, objects and asterisms DC Servo motors with encoders on both axes Autoguider port for long exposure astrophotography Double line, 16-character Liquid Crystal Display Hand Control with backlit LED buttons for easy operation of go to features

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