Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/10/29

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Subject: RE: [Leica] LOCAL STORES
From: "B. D. Colen" <BDColen@earthlink.net>
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 16:24:50 -0500

 If you need assistance in making a purchase,
> please have the decency to be willing to pay the merchant for his
> expertise...
> tom
>
...You're absolutely right that anyone taking up a specialty merchant's time
has some degree of obligation to buy from that merchant. On the other hand,
when one is making a Leica purchase in the $ 1500 to $3500 range, and the
discount is the 10-15% you sighted, we're talking about a saving of $150 to
$525. That's a lot of money. Enough money for someone to forgo the chit chat
and expertise of the local merchant and deal instead with the assembly line
sales force at a B&H.....