All I'll say is, if I had the money back I wasted on cheap scopes over my lifetime, I could have bought a couple of Leupolds and still been using them.
That's learning a lesson the expensive way.
I'm very disappointed in what some of the major big-name scope manufacturers put out to get in the "cheap" scope niche, personally. Bushnell, Tasco and Weaver both got a bad rep with me from the quality of their low-end stuff.
Leupold and Nikon at least make a "cheap" scope that they don't need to feel embarassed about putting their name on. I always thought that was a smarter strategy, long-term.
I would have had better luck with a toilet paper tube and 2 toothpicks than the last cheap Tasco I tried. 
