Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/07/20

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Subject: [Leica] Leica UK
From: photo at frozenlight.eu (Nathan Wajsman)
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2010 22:30:16 +0200
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Well maybe, but I must also say that I found Leica UK a delight to deal with 
(I bought my M8 from a UK dealer) and so I view this as a step backwards. 
But yes, it is probably more rational to centralise service in Germany.

Cheers,
Nathan

Nathan Wajsman
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On Jul 19, 2010, at 11:44 PM, Geoff Hopkinson wrote:

> Disappointing for UK residents and of course for the MK staff who have been
> made redundant. The Mayfair store at least remains as a (now expanding)
> portal.  I guess at least Germany is relatively close in the global scale 
> of
> things.
> This arrangement has long been the case in the Colonies and nearly
> everywhere else except for the USA I think. Here its much faster to deal
> with Solms direct for most incidents.
> 
> Cheers
> Geoff
> http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman
> 
> 
> On 20 July 2010 05:27, A.Lal <alal at poly.edu> wrote:
> 
>> Looks like Leica are downsizing their UK operations:
>> 
>> 
>> http://www.amateurphotographer.co.uk/news/Leica_to_radically_scale_back_UK_repair_service_news_300039.html
>> 
>> or
>> 
>> http://tinyurl.com/34hld9v
>> 
>> Perhaps the UK market is too small to support  a factory repair center?
>> 
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In reply to: Message from alal at poly.edu (A.Lal) ([Leica] Leica UK)
Message from hopsternew at gmail.com (Geoff Hopkinson) ([Leica] Leica UK)