Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/03/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Don Any commercial environment that allows non free market pricing will eventually suffer - and it shows in the story of Jessops - Fair Trading Act notwithstanding This is the age of free market enterprise and the world is now one big cyber mall Joseph L / Singapore --- Don Dory <dorysrus@mindspring.com> wrote: > As an addition, I believe that Great Britain has a fair price law > that > lets manufacturers set a minimum price. This is one reason that > prices > in the mother country can be higher than other places. The > exception > would be Mamiya in America. By some quirk in the law, MAC holds > all > rights to sell Mamiya equipment in the U.S. and the prices are much > higher than anywhere else in the world. > > Don > dorysrus@mindsprig.com > > -----Original Message----- > From: lug-bounces+dorysrus=mindspring.com@leica-users.org > [mailto:lug-bounces+dorysrus=mindspring.com@leica-users.org] On > Behalf > Of Nathan Wajsman > Sent: Monday, March 21, 2005 11:31 PM > To: Leica Users Group > Subject: Re: [Leica] What's this all about?? > > To Don's excellent analysis I would only add that while Jessop's is > > quite a large chain, perhaps UK customers have finally woken up to > the > fact that they are being ripped off big time at home and have > started > shopping abroad more for photo gear, just as they already do for > booze > and cigarettes. > > Nathan > > Don Dory wrote: > > Reality time folks. > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more > information >