Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/06/07

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Reason for new Rebates
From: dci@aa.net (Don Chatterton)
Date: Sun, 7 Jun 1998 18:16:38 -0800

Tom:

You asked:

>Are R8 sales that bad ;-)?  BTW, what are the other two
>overpriced items?
>
>Leica would have been better off, in the beginning,
>to concentrate on getting "reliability" into their R8;
>now, they have had two price drops ( upsetting their
>initial customers ) & will probably introduce a higher
>priced R8.2 with nothing more than the "bug" fixes!
>
>Tom D.

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R8's are NOT bad., lenses were priced above the US market.

Prices will fall as exchange rates continue to spred.

First ones had a few bugs...but so did first R4's, M6's and R7's.

Don