Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/03/27

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Leica in Canada
From: Dan Cardish <dcardish@microtec.net>
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 11:14:06 -0500

Yes, I was told Gerry Smith remains with Kindermann.  The person I spoke to
told me that there would be new accounts at Kindermann at the start of
April, but he wasn't specific.  He may have been referring to Rollei and
Cosina.

Dan C.

At 12:28 AM 27-03-00 -0700, John Collier wrote:
>Dan,
>
>Does that include Gerry Smith? If L-K did not get ANY of Kindermann's repair
>staff that is a serious blow to the new distributor. It makes grey market
>very attractive as I would only want Gerry working on or supervising the
>repair of my cameras and lenses. Kindermann has also picked up Rollei and
>Cosina (Voigtlander) screw mount cameras and lenses (both did not have any
>Canadian distributor). As was previously stated L-K only has Leica on a
>trial basis for a year. Interesting Leica times in Canada!
>
>John Collier
>
>> From: Dan Cardish
>> 
>> For those living in Canada, you may be interested to know that while
>> Kindermann will no longer be the Leica distributers in Canada, they will
>> still own their parts inventory, and retain their repair staff.  So for non
>> warranty work it will still be possible to have Leica's serviced at
>> Kindermann.
>> 
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