Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/12/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]right now the cheapest price for and m8.2 is in uk for me. 5k where as in the us the cheapest gray market is 5.4, may be we should all move to uk On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 4:07 AM, FRANK DERNIE <frank.dernie@btinternet.com>wrote: > I earn Euros and spend pounds so I should not complain but I lost out by > changing my euros to pounds monthly! > Frank > > > --- On Sun, 14/12/08, Nathan Wajsman <photo@frozenlight.eu> wrote: > > > From: Nathan Wajsman <photo@frozenlight.eu> > > Subject: Re: [Leica] Leica Prices to Fall? > > To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org> > > Date: Sunday, 14 December, 2008, 9:36 AM > > Well, at some point it must. Today a pound is worth about > > ? 1.12. A > > year ago it was around ? 1.50. That is a huge change from > > which I > > personally benefit in two ways: I have just bought my M8 > > and a 50mm > > lens from a shop in Scotland, at prices well below those on > > the > > Continent (especially for the M8); and the cost of > > supporting my son > > at the University of Bath has fallen correspondingly. > > > > Surely at some point Leica and the Japanese will have to > > increase UK > > prices. The can only take margin losses for so long. > > > > Nathan > > > > Nathan Wajsman > > Alicante, Spain > > http://www.frozenlight.eu > > http://www.greatpix.eu > > http://www.nathanfoto.com > > > > Books: > > http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/search?search=wajsman&x=0&y=0 > > PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws > > Blog: http://www.fotocycle.dk/blog > > > > > > > > On Dec 14, 2008, at 9:53 AM, FRANK DERNIE wrote: > > > > > The volatility of the currency markets will have a big > > effect here, > > > if the fall of the dollar against the euro is greater > > than any price > > > reduction from the factory it won't happen. The > > pound has fallen so > > > much against the euro I expect imported goods to get > > more expensive > > > here in the UK despite euro price reductions. > > > :-( > > > > > > > > > --- On Sat, 13/12/08, Greg Lorenzo > > <gregj_lorenzo@hotmail.com> wrote: > > > > > >> From: Greg Lorenzo > > <gregj_lorenzo@hotmail.com> > > >> Subject: [Leica] Leica Prices to Fall? > > >> To: "Leica Users Group LUG" > > <lug@leica-users.org> > > >> Date: Saturday, 13 December, 2008, 8:40 PM > > >> The following article suggests that they might. > > >> > > >> see: > > >> > > > http://www.independent.ie/national-news/fastest-price-tumble-in-40-years-set-to-spark-deflation-1572713.html > > >> > > >> On the other hand it might be a good time to stock > > the wet > > >> bar and cigar box. > > >> > > >> Greg Lorenzo > > >> Calgary, Canada > > >> > > >> > > >> > > _________________________________________________________________ > > >> Send e-mail anywhere. No map, no compass. > > >> > > > http://windowslive.com/Explore/hotmail?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_hotmail_acq_anywhere_122008 > > >> _______________________________________________ > > >> Leica Users Group. > > >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug > > for more > > >> information > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Leica Users Group. > > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for > > more information > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more > > information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- ------------------------------------- regards, mehrdad