Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/12/02

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Subject: [Leica] Re: R8: new lower German price and 5 yr guarante
From: "Roger Beamon" <roger@beamon.org>
Date: Thu, 2 Dec 1999 09:04:25 -0700

Interesting! If you take off the 16% VAT, it's about 300 USD less 
than the current U.S. price including the 5 year Passport warranty.

On 2 Dec 99, Christer Almqvist wrote, at least in part:

> Leica has a new advert in German papers to-day announcing a new
> lower R8 price of just under DMark 4,000 (was DMark 4,558) including
> 16% added value tax. (One Dmark is approx 50 cents). The gurarantee
> is now five years, and there is also an offer of DMark 119,58 for 36
> months including 4.99% annual interest. It seems they are getting
> more market orientated than was the case earlier.

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Roger
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