[Leica] 'Leica Customers Sponsor Digital M'

[bdcolen at earthlink.net (B. D. Colen)]

I should hope you aren't - believing the rumor.

This buy a share - give Leica your money - and if you're really, really,
lucky they'll produce a camera you want in three years shows just how
ridiculous this whole thing has gotten. Isn't the idea that an
innovative company introduces innovative products and customers then
beat a path to their door to buy them, and then the company makes money
and the shareholders make money?

-----Original Message-----
From: lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org
[mailto:lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
David Mason
Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 3:34 PM
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: Re: [Leica] 'Leica Customers Sponsor Digital M'


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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