Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/01/11

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Subject: [Leica] Leica sales
From: hopsternew at gmail.com (Geoff Hopkinson)
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 07:55:23 +1000
References: <000001ccd09f$1a3ca020$4eb5e060$@chiaroscuro.co.nz>

Solms is up to something north of 35,000 M9's so far!
Lens production doubled and they want to double it again. That will STILL
only be about 120 lenses a day and that would include the S series.

Cheers
Geoff

*Die besten W?nsche*
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On 12 January 2012 06:25, John McMaster <john at chiaroscuro.co.nz> wrote:

> I dropped my M9 and lenses off to the NZ importer yesterday, doubt I will
> see them again until March :-(
>
> NZ has a population of less than 4.5M and the vast majority are not well
> off
> (or worse) so I was somewhat surprised when I asked roughly how many M9's
> had been sold here to be told "well over 300"! One dealer alone has sold
> over 100, that is rather more than I expected....
>
> He also said that the total number of lens backorders at the factory is
> about 35,000..... How many do they produce a day again ;-)
>
> john
>
>
>
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Replies: Reply from red735i at earthlink.net (Frank Filippone) ([Leica] Leica sales)
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