Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/12/17

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Subject: [Leica] Re: Bag
From: Jeff Moore <jbm@oven.com>
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 19:19:47 -0500

1999-12-17-14:10:52 Johnny Deadman:
> Buying the Domke 803 is not unlike buying a leica in the first place. You
> hand over an enormous wad of cash for something that looks like nothing,

Enormous wad of cash?  Domkes are dead cheap -- especially in a world
which contains Billinghams.  The 802, to which I've been addicted for
lo these many years, is $US60 at B&H (admittedly more than the
$45 I think I paid for my first one), and the 803 is $78.  Or does
some sort of horrific markup happen on the way across the Atlantic?

H'mm, I wonder if it works the other way around -- the Billingham
Hadley is $160 here.  How much in the UK?

(For reference, today's Wall Street Journal puts the Pound at about
$1.61.  Or are people actually using that funny Euro thing?  It's
almost exactly the same as the US Dollar.)

 -Jeff Moore <jbm@oven.com>