Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/12/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I don't work for Leica, so I'm not sure why the prices are going up...but many people have asked me about what I said. What I did say is that indeed on many Leica products, the prices are going up Jan 1st. While I don't have an answer as to why, I thought about it a little, and these are some other things that went up this year that I also don't REALLY know why they went up: 1) NYC Real Estate Tax -- Up 18%! Biggest one year jump in history. 911? Maybe. 2) stamps - up to 37c, Wasn't the PO braging about a surplus a year ago? 3) gas- regional, but I hear that it went down in the rest of the country 4) UPS - also raising their prices by 3-4% in Jan. = more expensive cameras btw. 5) subway- I hear it will go up this year. Usually tolls go up around the same time I notice. 6) Luigi's leather cases- yep, he is raising the prices 7) B&W development costs at a few local labs (not color though) 8) Pizza !?! 9) some types of memory chips - including CF memory in the past 3 weeks. 10) some Hasselblad, Nikon, Canon, Mamiya, Linhof and photo book prices... I'm sure you all have your own list based on your local economy, but it seems that a lot of prices are going up this year... See you all at the Leica-corral! ;-) cheers, Rich - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html