Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/06/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Frank, have you ever been to a sale at an antique shop? They tend to work the same way as Leica - they up the prices to make the stock sell better. Cheers Douglas On 13.06.2011 15:18, Frank Filippone wrote: > You don't really mean this...... do you? > > For one, the day I buy an M9 for $7K, is the last day I stay married. > > If there were a $3-4-5K M9. I might be tempted. > For a backup camera, a $3-4-5K M9 would also sell like hotcakes. > > If you double the volume, ( using the perverse and inverse of Moore's Law) > the manufacturing cost should halve. > > Frank Filippone > Red735i at earthlink.net > > > A lower retail price isn't going to make enough difference in demand to get > the volume production needed to reduce production cost. > > Doug Herr > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >