Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/11/12

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Subject: RE: [Leica] $40 for a stinking lens cap!
From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
Date: Fri, 12 Nov 1999 10:28:02 -0000
 
> Hey Guys,
> 
> Cap prices for Nikon are every bit as cuckoo.  Here in the 
> good ol' US of A a 
> 52mm genuine Nikon front cap retails for something like $14, 

Compare that to the cost of a Leica cap at, what $35???@@!!!!



> with a dealer 
> cost of  $8 or so.  I can walk into any camera shop in Tokyo, 
> and buy the 
> exact same cap, retail, for the US equivalent of $3.25.  And 
> that's with a 
> lousy exchange rate.  
> 
> 
> Mike Swiek
>