Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/02/23

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Subject: Re: [Leica] La Maison du Leica
From: Tarek Charara <tarek.charara@wanadoo.fr>
Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2002 13:33:24 +0100

le 22.02.2002 23:04, Nathan Wajsman à wajsman@webshuttle.ch a écrit :

> Hi Steve,
> 
> Good question--I suspect it has  to do with insufficient competition and
> historical reasons. What I find truly amazing is that in this day and age,
> with
> a common market and now even a single currency, people in France are willing
> to
> pay French prices when they can save hundreds of € on a major purchase like a
> Leica outfit by buying in Germany. Maybe it is partly because a lower
> percentage of France's population is online than in other advanced countries,
> and partly due to the fact that most sites in Germany are in German only
> (sometimes also in English).
> 
> Nathan

Plus the french are generally scared when it comes to doing online
business...

Tarek

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