Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/06/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> Maybe I'm wrong but I seem to remember that not all that long ago, > official Leica dealers,at least in the US, wouldn't be caught dead > selling grey market Leica gear. It would seem reasonable to expect that > Leica USA would frown on any of their dealers peddling grey market along > side the Passport stuff. At some point ( maybe after Herr Cohn assumed > the helm at Solms?) grey market started showing up everywhere. Don > Chatterton, Tamarkin, etc. all have grey as well as Passport. This has > to be with the consent of Leica and may well have been seen as a > strategy to boost flagging sales. It simply makes it a buyers choice: > save a few bucks and you pay for repairs or buy official and get the > good warranty. This change in policy has to have boosted sales overall. > > Mike Gardner > Yes. I have wondered about that, Leica dealers selling grey and passport, but, I see some Nikon dealers, for example, also do that. sl