Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/11/28

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Leica's Development and Management
From: Eric Welch <ewelch@ponyexpress.net>
Date: Sat, 28 Nov 1998 22:32:39 -0600

> which shows R sales
>falling by 37% compared to the same six months last year, 

As Mark Twain says, "There are lies, damn lies and statistics."

Of course there is going to be a drop in R sales. The R8 was in its second
year, so the initial flurry of buying them is over (which was not surprise
to Leica according to the report) and there were lots of people telling
people not to buy R8s because some of the cameras had QC problems. Couple
that with the crash in Asia, and guess what?

Go figure.
- -- 

Eric Welch
St. Joseph, MO
http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch

Men say they know many things; but lo! they have taken wings
The arts and sciences, and a thousand appliances
The wind that blows is all that any body knows.  
  -Thoreau