Thats just it.........the conquests are rather rare still on the used market,they also have an unusual mark-up with most scope sites(Bear Basin/SWFA/D&R/Cabelas)selling them for a fair amount more than you can buy one from a lot of these same sellers on E-Bay.I' ve been buying the 3.5x10x44 conquests for $425-440 on E-Bay from authorized Zeiss NA dealers( with FULL lifetime warranty) while they are bringing $550-595 most other places.This makes it easy to sell one used and get your money back I suppose, but against an inflated retail market.For the untold number of Leupolds out there, they still bring the closest to going retail $(80-90%) and sell fast everytime I sell one.They don' t seem to have this double pricing structure that Zeiss has.Almost like Zeiss is letting them dump a % of new scopes at lower prices thru places like E-Bay to get a lot of them out on the market quickly.Nothing wrong with this but it creates a confusing pricing structure for potential new buyers.Winks Sporting goods is an authorized Zeiss outlet for NA but he and D&R(also authorized) sell brand new factory sealed scopes on E-Bay for MUCH less than the going current retail US prices.Might be different up in Canada where you have quite a different scope pricing structure than we do on US made scopes, but thats how its working down here and why I made my statement about Leupold still having the top resale value. I do agree with Randy however, that given some more time to get a larger share of the market, coupled with word getting out slowly on these forums and by word of mouth and experience that the Conquests are better in the majority of fields of comparison (not just brightness and clarity)that they have the attributes to make them the best scope in their class and most popular by far.All it takes is just ONE look! Latest scuttlebutt is that they are equal to or better optically than the more expensive S&B scopes in some Euro tests.

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