Well I 'pulled the trigger' on the used DA* 60-250 f4, collecting it from a branch of a camera chain store in my city. The reason for not choosing to receive it by post is that the post man has a habit of dropping parcels over my 6 foot high gates onto concrete bricks then leaving a 'parcel at side of house, thanks' note.
Several lenses were delivered this way before!
The camera store is going to ask "what are Pentax" when I arrive on Monday to collect.
Looking forward to 'hopefully' using stellar optics in this focal length for the first time, before I was using A70-210 f4, K135 f3.5, M200 f4, M50 f1.4 and M35-70 f2.8-f3.5 (which was actually the best one but weighs 0.5kg).
However the best of the older boys never matched the HD DA15 or HD DA 20-40 Limiteds.