Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/06/03

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Subject: [Leica] Re:Leica MDa pricing question.
From: msmall at aya.yale.edu (Marc James Small)
Date: Fri Jun 3 17:30:42 2005
References: <42A0A7A3.1050505@kollarfoto.com>

At 02:25 PM 6/3/05 -0500, Christopher Williams wrote:
>$300 is a low price, even for seldom used MDa's. I used to have 3 M1's. I
>kept one to use with the CV 15mm and sold the other 2 on *bay for $650 each.
>Both were CLA'd.
>
>Are the Japanese still buying allot of Leica on *bay? I have not sold allot
>lately, but when it was Leica for sale, it almost always went to Japan or S.
>Korea.

Hmm.   Your experience is a bit different from mine.  Since 1996, I have
been BUYING from the Japanese and selling to the US or European market.
The Japanese economy is really in the pits and the old rules of the 1980's
have flipped over.

Marc

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In reply to: Message from matt at kollarfoto.com (Matt Kollasch) ([Leica] Leica MDa pricing question.)
Message from leicachris at worldnet.att.net (Christopher Williams) ([Leica] Re:Leica MDa pricing question.)