[Leica] Leica Solms LUG LHSA Buyout

[summicron at bellsouth.net (Frank F. Farmer)]

Considering that a new MP/M7 is almost $3K, I'm thinking Hermes want a 
chunk for the whole company - probably even more than they charge for a 
Birkin Bag!  ; - )

Frank

On Feb 17, 2005, at 11:44 AM, mak@teleport.com wrote:

> Marc James Small and other Lawyers out there...could LHSA/LUG buy 
> Leica? What would it take?
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Frank Filippone <red735i@earthlink.net>
> Sent: Feb 17, 2005 9:36 AM
> To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
> Subject: RE: [Leica] Leica Solms reports 50% loss what does this mean?
>
> Yes and no.  Deep doo-doo, yes; unhappy stockholders, yes; for sale, ? 
> soon
> to be no more, kinda, not in its present form.  Something must change.
>
> Hermes must have lost patience, or is losing patience.
>
> Thought... a LUG buyout of Leica.  If we were successful.....
>
> Marketing would be listening to the various forums to supply it with 
> and
> respond to customer inputs,
> Worldwide Passport warranty service with Passport warrantees 
> avbailable WW
> and serviced WW, no exceptions,
> I could have an MP with a rational rewind knob, at rational prices 
> instead
> of gouged prices,
> Ted could have a Leica digital R body yesterday,
> Seth could have unlimited special editions in teeny tiny quantities,
> Doug could have the Canon bodies that Ted no longer needs,
> We could all have a digital M by contracting Cosina to do the deed.
> Nikon and Canon mount R Leica lenses would be available tomorrow, AF to
> follow,
> No more Null series bodies or other wacko ideas of past glory, that 
> lose
> money,
>
> Others?
>
>
> Frank Filippone
> red735i@earthlink.net
>
>
>
>  He said that a salesman at Keeble-Shuchat told him Leica was on the 
> "block"
> soon to be no more...Does this financial announcement from Solms 
> validate
> that comment?
>
>
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