Re: Why so many of the Vortex PST up for sale?
To be honest with you I think your view is a little skewed by the very recent influx of 3-4 that just got put up in the last month. It's hard to notice an actual trend in sales unless you have been following the sales of it for a while. Otherwise your just noticing the natural randomness of things. Any store owner can attest to this, where they might sell 1 of the item for days then one day they sell 10.
If you start looking back I think you will be surprised how rare they were on here. Something you should pay close attention to is how fast they 'fly off the shelves' as soon as they are put up. I bought both my vortex 6.5-20 and my PST off here. The viper about a year ago, and I had to look out for weeks until someone put one up and the PST in the last month or two and I was keeping my eye open for months for a FFP 6-24 mil/mil to pop up. Most the one's ever put up are the moa/moa combination, and there's a small er crowd for those it seems, but the mil/mil ones are almost never for sale and usually get sold within 24 hours of getting put up.
If your really trying to get a good picture, look at how many of the PST's have been for sale(and how long they are for sale till they get swooped up) in the last 6 months and compare that to any other brands. There are times when every other for sale thread seems to be a nightforce and they usually sit in there for a while till they are sold.
Noone can confidently say NF's aren't fine optics though, its just they have been selling them for a long time and people like changing up their weapons/optics.
Another thing to look at is how well they retain their value, they sell for 10-20% loss max from brand new, from what I've seen. On the other hand I've seen many other brand scopes selling for 20-40% of new cost, and even less after they have been unable to sell for a while and the poster keeps bumping the price down.
