Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/03/08

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Subject: RE: [Leica] LeicaKit, Cigars ... (Jerry) After MarketProducts, etc.
From: "Kit McChesney | acmefoto" <kitmc@acmefoto.com>
Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2003 09:25:17 -0700

Daniel et al--

Are y'all talking 'bout me here? I hope not! I would hate to think that you
thought I had a mean streak!

What's a red pepper?

Kit

- -----Original Message-----
From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Daniel
Ridings
Sent: Saturday, March 08, 2003 12:33 AM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: Re: [Leica] LeicaKit, Cigars ... (Jerry) After MarketProducts,
etc.


Jerry, it was a joke. I teased her about her mean streak a while back. She
"snarled" back at me :)

At 09:21 07.03.2003 -0800, you wrote:
>Daniel
>
>Really, she does not have any mean streak at all.  She
>comes over as a sensitive caring person.  I can understand
>why someone's threshold of irritability can be exceeded by
>the prodding of some of our group.
>
>It may be hard to believe, but even my high threshold of equanimity
>has been breached by some of our testy types :-)
>
>Jerry
>
>Daniel Ridings wrote:
>
> > It's that mean streak she has Jerry. I'm actually getting 3 red peppars
on
> > her now (in Eudora, that I installed yesterday ... please let me know if
> > HTML crap is resulting from it).
> >
> > I'll be back in Sweden next week and I'll get some prices for you ...
> >
> > Daniel
> >
> > At 19:19 06.03.2003 -0800, you wrote:
> > >Kit
> > >
> > >You have long exceeded your self allotted number of LUG
> > >responses.
> > >
> > >Do not join the ranks of those who must have the last word,
> > >or I will have to assign the number 767 to you.  (Austin is
> > >747).:-)
> > >
> > >Jerry
> > >
> > >Kit McChesney | acmefoto wrote:
> > >
> > > > But how do you know Leica based theirs on his? You don't know that.
> > > >
> > > > Kit
> > > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> > > > [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Jim
Hedger
> > > > Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 6:17 PM
> > > > To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> > > > Subject: Re: [Leica] Leicavit, After Market Products, etc.
> > > >
> > > > I have been reading all the new Leicavit posts and can't keep quiet
any
> > > > more. I am pissed. Tom is such a heavy supporter of Leica and Leica
> > > products
> > > > and seemed to have worked with them closer than you or I and here
> they go
> > > > off and knock off his product which he is busting his ass to make at
a
> > > > realistic price. His rapidwinder is not a copy of their old
> discontinued
> > > > product, it is an original design that fits on a publicly traded
> > > > corporations' product, to help "left eyed" shooters and
> photographers that
> > > > need a rapid shooting rate. They already had an electric drive unit
> why do
> > > > they feel they need to jock his product. Oh sure they put a few
> extra gears
> > > > inside and made it shorter, this is in my eyes this is the same as
> patent
> > > > infringement would be if he had chosen to go down the never ending
> path of
> > > > getting his product patented. I really think it is low to do this.
CV
> > > made a
> > > > copy but it is for a camera Tom does not make a product for. I am
glad
> > > there
> > > > are so many used Leica products out there in circulation because of
> this
> > > > "copying" move I will never buy another new Leica Product. Tom and
> his wife
> > > > have been through a lot of personal grief and he truly has put
> super human
> > > > effort into producing his niche market product for us the
> photographers who
> > > > use Leica cameras and he has done it for a fair price. I believe
> and hope
> > > > Leica falls flat on their ass with this overpriced copy of his
> product and
> > > > am sure they will never be clever enough to beat him at his game.
> > > >
> > > > Rant over, have a good evening or day.
> > > >
> > > > Jim Hedger
> > > >
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