Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/06/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]You never lived in Germany, have you. In the mini series Shaka Zulu, there is a scene where a story is recounted on how to catch monkeys with a gourd. You place something shiny in it for the monkey to grab. The monkey doesn't know that letting go of the object would free it's hand thus saving it from capture. It sure seems like a prescient parable about Leica. Slobodan Dimitrov Studio G-8, AGCC http://sdimitrovphoto.com On Jun 6, 2005, at 9:14 AM, Feli wrote: > > On Jun 6, 2005, at 9:01 AM, Frank F. Farmer wrote: > > >> 2) The other thing that I learned was that Leica, in it effort to >> increase the value of its existing inventory, is planning another >> price increase for July 1, 2005. New bodies will be over >> $3,200.00. Just FYI. Is this news? Probably not considering how >> common they've become. My brand spanking new M6TTL was only >> $1,895.00 from B&H barely four years ago. >> > > Raising prices even more is completely insane. About 2 years ago > new bodies were going for > about $2200-2400. Expensive, but feasible. Now they are at $3000, > completely pricing what is already an expensive camera, right out > of the market. They should take the 42 million Euro worth of gear > they have warehoused and sell it at an aggressive price point. They > would be better off with 20 or 30 million in sales, than just > sitting on that stuff. > > feli > > ________________________________________________________ > feli2@earthlink.net 2 + 2 = 4 > www.elanphotos.com > > > no archive > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >