Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/07/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 04:42 PM 7/5/00 -0400, you wrote: >Are you a Brit? No; central Florida. >I lived in the U.K. for many years and observed that so-called "value for >money" was necessarily very high on the list of consumer priorities there. >I think we Americans have been spoiled by our relatively high disposable >incomes. Yes, could be that's where it comes from. I've certainly never heard of anyone dumping product at unreasonably low prices on the UK market to gain market share. > For instance, their critiques of readers' photos are often brutal...even cruel. I've seen that too...not to say that the entry wasn't truly poor in more than one case. One thing I do give PP and AP; they're not hesitant to publish opinions, sometimes very strongly, which is something not often seen in American photo mags. John Hicks jbh@magicnet.net