Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/05/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]And...Todd has been a gentleman concerning sales to users! Slobodan Dimitrov Studio G-8, Angels Gate Cultural Center http://sdimitrovphoto.com On May 27, 2006, at 4:31 PM, Marc James Small wrote: > At 07:03 PM 5/27/06 -0400, Don Dory wrote: >> Zeiss Ikon essentially did the same thing when they shut down. I >> don't know >> what gives with insiders, they don't think their brand is >> valuable? Any >> repair center would have paid to ship the stuff to them, a place >> like Ritz >> or several other major etailers would love to have the whole >> shebang of >> stuff. Fortunes have been made with collections of parts. One of >> our local >> repair centers made a blooming outrageous amount of money when >> they cornered >> the battery door market for A series Canons, until someone knocked >> the part >> off and undersold them. > > > In the US, the Zeiss Ikon Voigtl?nder parts inventory was sold off at > fire-sale prices in 1973 to any repair shops wanting stuff. In the > end, > Wolf Umbach of Z-V Service bought the rest. The camera inventory > was all > sold to Cambridge Camera (!), who still occasionally list a NIB > Contaflex > or Icarex or the like. > > The Canadian ZIV inventory went through a similar process but the > nubbins > were sold off to a collector who tired to sell the lot to a few of > us Zeiss > types at a price we regarded as ludicrous. > > The Canadian horde of Rolliflex parts were purchased by Todd > Belcher when > their Canadian agency ws closed down a few years back. > > Marc > > msmall@aya.yale.edu > Cha robh b?s fir gun ghr?s fir! > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information