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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dialyt" data-source="post: 3392312" data-attributes="member: 43009">Actually I bought direct from Amazon.co.uk not a 3rd-party seller on Amazon.co.uk. Which surprised me since Amazon are not supposed to offer open box items as new. I ordered new. It's incredibly sloppy and quite awful. They came from an Amazon warehouse in Europe, Belgium I think. I'm disgusted really but I didn't plan on keeping them anyway. But certainly I wouldn't accept for purchase a specimen that had been opened. Not only opened but well used. They're going back to Amazon and Amazon are paying the return postage cost and refunding my original postage cost.What irritates me about the Conquest HD is that Zeiss used what is basically the same aesthetic design for two different quality ranges. The products need to be differentiated. I would suggest that Zeiss should have retained the Dialyt range as it was, instead of inventing the Conquest range. It's a bit like what Leica should have done, in my opinion, too: kept the genuine Trinovid BN range alongside the new Ultravid but I suppose that, being so good, the Trinovid would have impacted on Ultravid sales.</blockquote>