Warning Zeiss Scopes: Warranty

[PredatorSlayer]

You're paying for the privilege of owning a product with their name on it. And that's all you're paying for.

Glass quality - not overall scope reliability, just high quality glass. They leverage their reputation with binos and spotters to sell expensive aiming devices. S&B is the exception - I am thinking more along the lines of Swaro and Zeiss scopes.

 

[elkguide]

Welcome to the forum. Great introduction. Hope to see you again soon.

 

[Formidilosus]

You just made my point. What are you paying for when you pay premium prices on the majority of European scope?

Majority of European scopes? You get excellent image quality and name. But I didn’t say anything positive about the majority of European scopes- I singled out S&B because you wrote it initially. S&B is very different than Zeiss, Swarovski, Leica, etc.
S&B what you get is in general: very solid and durable scopes, that also have excellent to world class image quality, and a product that is designed to last several decades. That’s all I was trying to get across.