Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/04/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Few lenses are coming on the market with them though. My guess is the M9 is two years old so coming out of warranty, sell it and buy an M9P (or M8.2 ;-)) to replace it.... john -----Original Message----- Or they tripped on a crack in the sidewalk and their widow has put the camera up for sale to help pay for flowers for the funeral. The M9 has been sold for 2 Years & 7 Month's. Buy now its being sold on the used market as well as the new. That fact that we now see them on the used market at prices lower than new says nothing about its relationship to the inevitable late breaking DSLR'S always coming out. It only means one thing. It means the camera has been out for 2 Years & 7 Month's. The camera is being sold for the same smart through inane reasons it was bought for in the first place. No doubt as being seen here plenty of well healed people bought it because it was a cool prestige item to have at the time and at this point are ready to turn it over for whatever new and cool item is out there. Photo gear or otherwise. Regardless its 5 grand in your Play Pal account to play on the eBay with. For people who have owned the camera for two years with little to show for it that may be too much fun to pass over. > > Indeed, many used M9 is now under $5000 and heading toward low $4000 > if it is "well used." > > To me what this means is that we have reached saturation with people > who want to try the "best camera there is" and that they are finding > rangefinder is just not for them, when a D800 is many thousands cheaper. > Perhaps 2009-2012 would be seen as the peak of Leica M popularity. > > The only thing I care is that may be the pricing for used gear would > finally drop also. > > On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 7:24 AM, Frank Filippone <red735i at earthlink.net>wrote: > >> Amazon is offering the M9 with free shipping, no tax for $6995...AND >> >> >> >> A FREE $2 mp3 Credit. WOW!!! >> >> >> >> I wonder sometimes if someone at the retailer actually thinks about >> this stuff... >> >> >> >> BTW, in stock... >> >> >>