Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/06/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The alleged infusion of capital is to come from the sale of stock...Makes sense - after having your stock price drop through the floor, have your survival depend upon selling $25 million worth of new stock - but first raise your prices so that investors can see they are buying into a company that thinks it can stay afloat by selling rangefinder film cameras essentially unchanged since 1954 for $3200 a pop! Good sound business model. On 6/6/05 1:33 PM, "Der Eiserne Reiter" <ferider@yahoo.com> wrote: > Funnily enough, the monkey story was also told by German author Wilhelm > Busch. > > Does anybody have a guess what the new dealership agreements will look > like ? > Also, why did the relationship with Panasonic not work out ? > Where will the money for the capital increase come from ? > > Just a few thoughts ... > > Roland. > > --- Feli <feli2@earthlink.net> wrote: > >> On Jun 6, 2005, at 9:21 AM, Slobodan Dimitrov wrote: >> >>> 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 >> >> Actually I grew up in Germany. I lived there for almost half my life, >> so I am intimately familiar with the idiosyncrasies of the culture. >> >> Raising prices is a stupid idea, but it's not an entirely unexpected >> move. >> ;-) >> >> 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 >> > > > FeRider (R.) > > > > __________________________________ > Discover Yahoo! > Use Yahoo! to plan a weekend, have fun online and more. Check it out! > http://discover.yahoo.com/ > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information