Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/06/12

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Subject: [Leica] Re: Price -- M6 Battery Cover
From: Jim Brick <jimbrick@photoaccess.com>
Date: Sat, 12 Jun 1999 03:27:39 -0700

My statement of $20 for either the standard or the slotted BC was from a
phone call that I made to Leica parts, in NJ, this very morning (6/11/99,
9:30AM PST.) I ordered one with a slot. $20.

Jim


At 12:31 PM 6/11/99 -0700, you wrote:
>The battery cover  deal is generating lots of conflicting feedback as to
>do they cost 5 15 or 50 or 75 bucks? I had asserted my local camera
>store here wanted 75. Leica sells 'em for 20? I would love to think my
>local camera store here is more of a rippoff than the average but I
>think that would not be the case. I would love it if someone would call
>their local camera store and ask for the price. On a road trip with 2
>out of 3 thousand miles to go I would have paid a hundred. I just love
>it when those LED's light up. I get sad when they don't. Cross. Why not
>just guess or use a little meter? I had gotten used to swithing lenese
>fast and each one had its own wierd filter on it. Green, Red, Yellow
>Green. I needed my amazing TTL meter. High Tech!
>Mark Rabiner
>Would the price for a Battery Cover on the retail list say: "Whatever
>you can get"?!