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

[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]

Subject: [Leica] 75 'cron & Leica's inventory revaluation
From: bdcolen at comcast.net (B. D. Colen)
Date: Mon Jun 6 12:09:47 2005

I don't know about you, Feli, but I hardly call the addition of a TLR meter
and a few other twitches 'dramatic.' The M7 is an M3 with metering. ;-)
Which isn't bad - the M3 was a great manual rangefinder.


On 6/6/05 2:56 PM, "Feli" <feli2@earthlink.net> wrote:

> It's not so much that they haven't changed dramatically since 1954,
> it's that they
> are priced almost twice as high as they should be!
> ;-)
> 
> feli
> 
> On Jun 6, 2005, at 10:58 AM, B. D. Colen wrote:
> 
>> The alleged infusion of capital is to come from the sale of
>> stock...Makes
>> sense - after having your stock price drop through the floor, have your
>> survival depend upon selling $25 million worth of new stock - but first
>> raise your prices so that investors can see they are buying into a
>> company
>> that thinks it can stay afloat by selling rangefinder film cameras
>> essentially unchanged since 1954 for $3200 a pop! Good sound business
>> model.
> ________________________________________________________
> feli2@earthlink.net        2 + 2 = 4         www.elanphotos.com
> 
> 
> no archive
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Leica Users Group.
> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information



Replies: Reply from feli2 at earthlink.net (Feli) ([Leica] 75 'cron & Leica's inventory revaluation)
In reply to: Message from feli2 at earthlink.net (Feli) ([Leica] 75 'cron & Leica's inventory revaluation)