Friday, November 04, 2011
Celestron says no again
Spent 25 minutes on hold to be told by some Celestron meat puppet that I am not allowed to buy parts for my broken telescope because I'm Canadian.
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Contact Gary Stephey at this site.
Turned out he was just as useless.
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