Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/07/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Ken, Thanks for clarifying Lemon's status. I've been in there more than once when one of the staff told a customer that their Leica product was parallel-imported (they said "heiko unyu" i/o "choku unyu"), but I looked closely at one of their ads today and they do say that they import Leica directly from Leica/Solms. You'd think the staff would make that distinction, as authorized definitely sounds better than gray market! And I guess I was off a bit on the prices. I haven't been looking for new bodies lately, and I guess the 180,000 yen price was more than a few months ago. Thanks and Regards, PB On Mon, 06 Jul 1998 07:29:34 +0900, Ken Iisaka <kiisaka@ms.com> wrote: >Lemon Camera is actually not a grey market dealer of Leica products. It >is one of the two official importers in Japan. It earned this >honourable status a few years ago, and it has Leica/Leitz-trained >technicians with a full repair shop. =20 >BTW, the last time I checked, the price at Lemon was 210,000 JPY (1500 >USD) for the normal version, and 250,000 JPY (1800 USD) for the HM >version. Paul C. Brodek Kobe, Japan pcb@iac.co.jp