[Leica] 'Leica Customers Sponsor Digital M'

[masonster at gmail.com (David Mason)]

I've got an idea... how about they make a digital M and if its good,
and worth the price I will "buy a share" and they can give me one of
the cameras in return. I know, sounds stupid but what a concept!
Someone told me that this is how Canon and Nikon were producing their
digital cameras... I don't believe the rumor though.


On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 20:31:27 +0000, Peter Dzwig
<pdzwig@summaventures.com> wrote:
> Rick Dykstra wrote:
> > Seems I'm backwards compatible too.  Should be 2006 of course.
> >
> > You buy $1000 of special issue M Digital shares and get a rebate of
> > $1000 upon purchase when it's released.  Takers?
> >
> >
> > On 23/02/2005, at 9:59 PM, Rick Dykstra wrote:
> >
> >> Would you?  If a share offer was announced, with the express purpose
> >> of raising the money to design and introduce a Digital M body by
> >> Photokina 96, would you be in it?  What would you like to see in the
> >> prospectus and design brief?
> >
> >
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> Trouble is we don't have any idea of price, so can't judge the value of 
> our $1k
> against product. As stated it's a loan to them where I get back my cash as 
> value
> but loose out on the interest. You would need to add in three (??) years
> compound interest at a meaningful rate, plus some real incentive to loan 
> them
> the money, ie you've got to make it better for you than simply sticking it 
> in
> the bank. So, if the discount on new kit is say $1250/$1k invested it 
> starts to
> sound more interesting.
> 
> But then would you want to be committed to buying a DMB? What happens if 
> the
> company folds, or fails to meet its delivery date, etc etc...
> 
> Peter Dzwig
> 
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