The Bushnell Elites have never sold well from what I've seen. Didn't Bushnell just stop making them ? I suspect they made that offer to get people to try them. Doesn't look like it worked. That's too bad. They were very good, reliable scopes.
The only way to test a scope properly is to mount it on a rifle and try it for a while in the field. You can do that with a binocular and still return it w/o things like ring marks. You can rarely do that with a scope. E
