Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/03/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The recent 35-70/2.8 zoom scandal in fact boils down to three words: GOODWILL, GREED and GRANDIOSITY. But it is so intriguing that so many of you got mixed up in the thread. J Collier: GOODWILL misinterpreted as stumbling block, but in fact only a stumbling block to the realisation of someone else's greed. How nice a guy to have in the LUG who did this not for his own materialistic gain! E Lowi: Simple GREED. Who wanted to strike the iron when it’s still hot, and got himself burned. J Yao: (1) GRANDIOSITY. No doubt he is a very rich man: just think even if Leica sold him the zoom at the original price of USD1.5k, cash upfront for 1000 lenses would be USD1.5M. But WHAT IF Leica really agreed to his terms? Yao is a gray-market seller. Would it be fair to all the authorized Leica agents in the whole world? No man with a sound mind will believe that he would keep all 1000 lenses. Did he ever say he would sell it to fellow LUGgers with a non-profit-making margin? Yes, he needn’t do that. But then, you understand...... There is no problem with profit-making. It’s only his grandiose overtones that made one feel uncomfortable: remember he said in the past nearly any product will come by should he increase the offer? This time his monetary might could not get Leica to yield, and thus his frustration and constant whining and denigratoty remarks to Solms thereafter. (2) GREED. At the time when he had not got this zoom, I sympathized with his Leicaholic crave, because as he said he "still missed one tool in his toolbox." But when he’s got more than a dozen of it, and still wants more, you understand.......... just simple user or gray market seller? Simon’s Cameras: GREED if they sold the lense to someone who offered more. But what if they sold to the final buyer at the same price? Just procedural mistake? Amanda Baker _______________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.ca address at http://mail.yahoo.ca