Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/12/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> > 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. - -- Eric Welch Carlsbad, CA Zen Buddist to hot dog vendor: Make me one with everything.