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Message: <blockquote data-quote="bearclawthedonut" data-source="post: 1602018" data-attributes="member: 73224">Laura: Your skepticism was well founded and I was a bit too eager (and trusting) to get an extraordinary deal.FrankD: Is there any way to edit/change this thread's title to: "Pentax PF-65ED A (not an Aii) for $398"???  It's still not a bad deal, but it's no longer a great one.  I do not want others to be deceived as I was.  The original straight 65ED sold at one time (right after the new ii series came out for as little as $350 - according to MSshopper), so $398 for the angled body is not a bad deal, but future potential purchaser's should not be confused by my error.  My bad and certainly not spottingscopes.com's good.  When I talked to them, they "sincerely appoligized", offered a free return call tag and a full refund. However, it is a very nice scope and unless a problem shows up in the next few weeks, I'm going to keep it.  Just got in from looking at four male and one female Wood Ducks on the Tualatin River via Vortex Fury 8x28's.  Very beautiful, but a bit shy.  They got within 60' of us, then saw Sadie (Springer Spaniel) and went back up river.  Sadie likes ducks, baked, roasted, broiled - does not matter to her.I'll have to get a tripod before I can make any critical comments on the PF-65/WO zoom combination; however, the view is huge at 52x.Bearclawthedonut</blockquote>