Vivitar 75x/150x Refractor Telescope with Full-Sized Adjustable Tripod - Great Beginner Telescope

hello everyone astronomy can be a wonderful and stimulating hobby but one of the biggest barriers to entry for any novice looking to get into astronomy is buying a telescope telescopes are complicated can be expensive and especially if that novice doesn't know how much they want to get into astronomy they might not want to blow a lot of money on something they're not sure about so because of that here I review three super cheap telescopes all of them below $100 first up is the kids science telescope I bought this from Target for $19 and this is very much a textbook case of you get what you paid for and $19 does not get you much as soon as I took this out of the box the tripod adapter broke off and I had to glue it back on the finder scope does not actually fit onto the mountings and when I actually went to screw this on to the tripod I found out the tripod screw was too long so this doe