[Leica] Good Article on Print Pricing

[mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)]

Sure did! I just has as part of breakfast  a slice of French Raclette
cheese. I avoid looking at the per once price and just spend the five bucks
on a very nice chunk.
Great even not melted.
Velveeta you just can't have it both ways!
If you melt it it smells like something died in the house.
And it changes form.


On 1/28/13 4:01 AM, "Frank Dernie" <Frank.Dernie at btinternet.com> wrote:

> Hi Mark, I've just got up!
> What I mean is that the internet has let the international community look 
> at
> the prices charged worldwide, as opposed to locally.
> I can only compare the UK with France and the USA, since these are the 
> places
> I have spent a reasonable amount of time, though I could be out of date 
> since
> I haven't been to the US for a couple of years.
> 
> What I noticed years ago that the "accepted" prices varied quite a bit from
> country to country.
> The most notable differences between the USA and UK were the difference
> between art prices, salaries and commodity prices.
> In the USA a painting or photographic print was offered for sale at prices 
> 5
> or 10 times more than would have been seen in the UK.
> Things like cameras and cars were much cheaper in the USA than UK (or 
> France)
> Salaries for similar jobs were much higher in the USA than UK, often more 
> than
> double. Tradesmen charge far more for their services than in the UK. A 
> friend
> of mine who moved to Indianapolis to work in the motor racing industry 
> there
> bought a house in need of modernisation after checking out the prices of 
> the
> bathroom and kitchen fittings and finding them much cheaper than the UK. 
> What
> shocked him, though, was the price quoted by builders to do the work, it 
> was
> at least 4x more than the UK and made the project very expensive.
> French people typically spend 25% of their income on good quality food. In 
> the
> US and UK we eat cheap junk food, in huge portions, which makes us fat...
> And so forth.
> 
> Whilst the salary and food habit differences are unlikely to be much 
> affected
> by the internet making people aware of them, a photographic print, 
> available
> for sale over the internet from anywhere in the world, and available for
> agencies to sell from anywhere in the world, will end up costing what is
> accepted worldwide as the "value" and no longer what is considered
> locally/nationally as the normal price.
> 
> I hope I explained myself a bit better this time!
> 
> cheers,
> Frank Dernie
> 
> On 27 Jan, 2013, at 14:22, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote:
> 
>> Frank I'm not quite absorbing this could you maybe re phrase it maybe its 
>> me
>> I've been up all night time to hit the hay.  ?
>> 
>> 
>> On 1/27/13 8:35 AM, "Frank Dernie" <Frank.Dernie at btinternet.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> There is perhaps a worldwide levelling of prices???
>>> The USA used to have -much- higher prices for art, and much lower prices 
>>> for
>>> consumer durables, like cars and cameras, than here in the UK.
>>> Internet "knowledge" causes these sort of things to equalise.
>>> FD
> 
> 
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