Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/02/04

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Subject: Re: Changing Leica Market
From: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
Date: Tue, 04 Feb 1997 12:28:32 -0500

At 08:01 AM 2/4/97 -0800, Stephen Gandy wrote:

>its strange how the Leica market changes, and is different in not only
>differenet countries, but also different parts of the US.
>
>On the West Coast, only IIIGs, truly mint screw mount bodies, and rare
>screw mounts are selling quickly.  the rest of the screw mount market is
>dead and going down compared to prices six months ago.  
>
>personally I set little store (damn, what a great pun) in published
>store price lists, I only care about the prices I am getting over the
>table at shows.


An excellent point, Stephen!  The thread-mount market still seems booming on
the East Coast, at least at the last several shows I've attended.  But maybe
it's due to dry up here, too.

Marc

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