Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/11/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 20:20 -0800 29/11/98, Donal Philby wrote: [ . . . ] >You can buy an air compressor, a hose, a nail gun and drive a whole >bunch of nails. But mostly a simple hammer is the elegant tool for the >job. > >donal [ . . . ] 1 / A-N-Y market is cyclical. 2 / If anything, Leica markets most definitely are luxury items. And the asian markets just about vanished, but the consumers' INTENT TO BUY are simply waiting more favorable conditions in general, over there, which are FAR worse than conveyed by North American media . 3 / It is NOT a sign of doom and gloom that a model or series world sales perform lower than expected for a time. It simply means sales are lower for now. There are qualified managers and sales reps whose job it is to contend with such situations in an intelligent responsible way. 4 / Rejoice ! It may mean there's a sale or manufacturer rebate program ahead for Leica R series customers. It could last only one week ! It could last only one day ! 5 / Try and not freak out on what is a truly normal business vagary : that's life, on the other side of the sales counter. It only gets many to become more aware that a reputable, responsible supplier or dealer, over and above darn gimmicks and special deals, also is a human being and that there is real merit to building a no-fake one-on-one interpersonal relationship that survives the credit card approval ! All told, it's item 4 / that i prefer ! ;+>) Andre Jean Quintal