Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/03/15

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Subject: [Leica] Should Leica sell direct to customers?
From: schroter at optonline.net (schroter@optonline.net)
Date: Tue Mar 15 08:37:22 2005
 
At several thousand dollars a pop?

----- Original Message -----
From: "John W. Heintz" <heintz@ucalgary.ca>
Date: Tuesday, March 15, 2005 4:33 am
Subject: Re: [Leica] Should Leica sell direct to customers?

> 
> On 14 Mar 2005, at 20:17, schroter@optonline.net wrote:
> 
> > Really, while it's a global village, high volume products, are 
> good 
> > candidates for sale.  Boutique products aren't that amenable to 
> > Internet sales.  Yes, to me, Leica is a boutique product.  Can 
> you 
> > imagine Hermes scavefs selling over the internet?  All it's 
> mystique 
> > would vanish in a nano-second!!
> > AGS
> 
> Nothing is a more 'boutique' product than bow ties, yet Beau Ties 
> Ltd. 
> is very successful. Check it out.
> 
> http://www.beautiesltd.com/
> 
> j
> 
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