Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/11/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Geoff, You may well be right, but just one thing - in my experience, I have learnt never believe what any company tells me 100%, or believe them that it is the complete picture - they will ONLY tell you what they want you to know, and more often than not they are also economical with the truth (I am not implying falsehood, mind you - just not the whole truth). This experience is born out of dealing with companies from all around the world on a daily basis for 35 odd years. YMMV. Cheers Jayanand On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 2:34 PM, Geoff Hopkinson <hopsternew at gmail.com>wrote: > As far as I recall Leica has regularly reviewed their prices every year for > ages and we have always seen those incremental rises. Paying more for > premium goods hurts of course but I understand existing orders are not > affected. I guess the side effect is increasing value for what you have. > I did the exercise with a calculator. The average price increase is not > quite 7%. I don't know inflation or material or labour or distributions > costs or development costs or market price differences or any of those > factors. I don't think that 7% is very surprising though. I dare say that > Leica Camera is not the only premium brand to see annual price reviews but > the web discussions seem to be full of theories on gouging and company > explosions etc etc etc. > > > Cheers > Geoff > > *Lighting- eyes- action* > http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman > > > > On 18 November 2011 18:40, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com> > wrote: > > > They have raised PE money from Blackstone mainly to 'expand', i.e.open > > Leica stores, in Emerfing Markets, mainly China for the time being. This > is > > why prices are going up in my view - Blackstone wants to maximise profits > > in the short to medium term so that exit would not be an issue - so to > this > > end they are starting to price the product, not at what can sustain sales > > over a long period, but at what the market can bear right now. As for the > > long term implications, as Keynes pointed out long ago, in the long term > we > > are all dead.(-: > > Cheers > > Jayanand > > > > On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 12:38 AM, dnygr <dnygr at cshore.com> wrote: > > > > > When companies start to raise their prices outrageously higher, it > > > sometimes reflects that the end is near. What one is seeing is a > milking > > of > > > a cash cow and lasts until the cow is dry. Then the company folds. That > > > business model does not seem to fit Leica, but.... > > > Is there any truth to the rumor that Leica is going to follow Apple's > > > model and start openign "Leica Stores?" > > > Cheers, > > > Doug > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > 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 >