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

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Konica Prices vs. Leica Prices
From: "Eric Welch" <ewelch@neteze.com>
Date: Mon, 06 Dec 1999 01:03:42 -0800

> 
> End or REALITY 101....for now.

You are way off in your accounting. Theses are hand assembled cameras - the
final assembly anyway. So the employee is going to cost more than the
numbers you give. Then there's the QC folks, and the designers, and the
tools they have to replace to keep the line going, and marketing, and sales
force, and the rent and overhead, and they make fewer than 10,000 a year.
Remember, the German workforce is way more expensive than in the U.S.

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Eric Welch
Carlsbad, CA

Zen Buddist to hot dog vendor: Make me one with everything.