Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/05/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> I wasn't surprised to see > several M3s for sale at $2000 for the LN and $2400 for the unused in red box. > Too many of them have been made for them to become collectibles The problem isn't that there were a lot of them, but the fact that people want MINT versions of them. There aren't that many in the U.S. Japanese collectors have snatched them up. You can find user M3s for reasonable prices. It's the MINT ones that are expensive. And technically, none of them are new because only Leica can sell them new, or a dealer who has had it on their shelf this long for sale. If someone bought it, and put it in a safe deposit box unopened, that's still not considered new. ======= Eric Welch St. Joseph, MO http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch