Why are we seeing so many ziess s3 for sale? Are they not holding up and tracking? Is the glass not that great what would they compare with? Also seems to be a fair amount of zco forsale what’s the deal with so many of them being sold? Maybe someone just spent to much money on an impulse buy as a new shooter and they just don’t want to sit in that much money invested in a scope. I’m looking to upgrade my optics a couple of hunting with longer shots, and some more for dialing shooting long range steel and PRs nrl style shooting.
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Why so many ziess s3 for sale?
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They work just fine. You can’t relate sales to performance as people change their minds as to what they want or something else comes out or one of many other reasons. The S3 are an excellent optic in their price range.
This time of year, it’s just people swapping stuff around between seasons. Sometimes it’s in anticipation of something new to drop at SHOT, or people just being able to resist trying something else.
Great time to find a deal on something. I have a couple, they punch above their price point IMO. I have. Mine track perfectly and the glass is great.
Great time to find a deal on something. I have a couple, they punch above their price point IMO. I have. Mine track perfectly and the glass is great.
It’s part of the natural cycle of “Buy once, cry once, get bored, get curious, repeat.”
-Stan
My new year resolution was to not buy any new chassis or actions this year.
It lasted a week …
It is likely a mix of things, some people buy them on impulse and realize they don’t fit their needs, others are upgrading to newer optics or they just want to free up cash 
Short answer: Kahles 540i.
TLDR answer: Here's what's happening and trust me when i say this because I'm an internet expert. Let's say you can afford to pay $2400 for a scope and you did that two years ago when the S3 released and that scope is now worth $1600 on the exchange. You can upgrade to a $4000 scope this year while spending that same $2.4k bi-annual scope budget if you sell your S3. Obviously this logic fails to consider that the new $4000 scope budget (new cash + sale cash) this year actually cost $4800 with the loss you took by selling your "old" scope. Now imagine your normal $2.4k budget went up this year from two years ago because you got a raise so this year's new cash budget is $3k. You just traded up your S3 for the new Kahles 5-40x and it "only cost" $3k new cash since the $1600 "doesn't count." Paying $3k for a $4500 scope is over 30% off retail price and a great deal right? It's a phantom discount but mentally it's a discount nonetheless and honestly one I use to make myself feel better for spending money I don't need to spend.
The reason a lot of S3 scopes are hitting the market is because they were popular and are sitting on top of the rifles sellers want the new scope on (likely their best rifle). Which would then imply that the S3 is actually a good scope because it was sitting on people's best rifles since 2022-23 when these were released. Buddy has an S3 and I have an S5. Great scopes from Zeiss. If you don't mind running an iPhone 11 when the 16s are out like me, picking up two years agos shiny new scope is the way to go. Get ya an S3 at a real discount, let the early adopters pay to find the bugs in this years new scopes, and in the meantime keep enjoying your Razor Gen 2.
TLDR answer: Here's what's happening and trust me when i say this because I'm an internet expert. Let's say you can afford to pay $2400 for a scope and you did that two years ago when the S3 released and that scope is now worth $1600 on the exchange. You can upgrade to a $4000 scope this year while spending that same $2.4k bi-annual scope budget if you sell your S3. Obviously this logic fails to consider that the new $4000 scope budget (new cash + sale cash) this year actually cost $4800 with the loss you took by selling your "old" scope. Now imagine your normal $2.4k budget went up this year from two years ago because you got a raise so this year's new cash budget is $3k. You just traded up your S3 for the new Kahles 5-40x and it "only cost" $3k new cash since the $1600 "doesn't count." Paying $3k for a $4500 scope is over 30% off retail price and a great deal right? It's a phantom discount but mentally it's a discount nonetheless and honestly one I use to make myself feel better for spending money I don't need to spend.
The reason a lot of S3 scopes are hitting the market is because they were popular and are sitting on top of the rifles sellers want the new scope on (likely their best rifle). Which would then imply that the S3 is actually a good scope because it was sitting on people's best rifles since 2022-23 when these were released. Buddy has an S3 and I have an S5. Great scopes from Zeiss. If you don't mind running an iPhone 11 when the 16s are out like me, picking up two years agos shiny new scope is the way to go. Get ya an S3 at a real discount, let the early adopters pay to find the bugs in this years new scopes, and in the meantime keep enjoying your Razor Gen 2.
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