I've read about these scopes in here a few times and the feeling was generally positive. I went to their site but found that there seems to be no local rep/disty in Montreal, or in Canada for that matter. The email I fired off two days ago has gone unanswered and my Mandarin is rusty so I hesitate to call, esp. if they answer in Cantonese, won't I be embarrassed. :) So how did the folks in here get to buy the scope? Did you get a return policy? I don't like buying big new things unseen, you know?
Rigol scopes
Apr 27, 2007
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Hmm..... I had trouble finding a dealer here in the US. I was able to find exactly two of them:
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is where I bought mine (Anna Flores was the rep)
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Kieth Simpson was real nice, but I had alread talked with Anna from TEST. Both offered a right of return for at least 10 days (or was it 30?).
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is their "North American" sight, but it seems a bit out of touch.
I had good luck via e-mail with snipped-for-privacy@rigol.com and snipped-for-privacy@rigol.com. Not so good luck with snipped-for-privacy@rigol.com which is where your request probably went. I had trouble finding a vendor for some reason, but their support line rocks.
I hear you on the sight-unseen thing. I was real hesitant to spend that kind of money, but with the input from David and the fact that Rigol builds the Chinese HP scopes, I went for it. So far, I'm really happy with it. I never used any other DSO before so be sure to keep that in mind, but I did do allot of research before chosing Rigol. So far, I still don't think I screwed up by not buying a Tek for twice the money. ;-)
Everytime Rigol pops up on here... I read... It's probably going to be my next piece of test equipment.. I'm too poor to get something more US'ish... D from BC
There's always EBay. A client of mine netted a Tek 2465 there for under $400. Not because of budget issues but because they don't make'em like that anymore and they urgently needed a "real" scope.
Regards, Joerg
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