Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/01/13

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Subject: [Leica] Re: RF / SLR
From: ken at iisaka.org (Ken Iisaka)
Date: Sat Jan 13 11:17:59 2007
References: <A1C16357-EF9C-4F4E-85C2-D94243AE2A53@mac.com> <C1CD8A04.512F%lug@steveunsworth.co.uk> <3cad89990701121822v971f246kea3973a310aca70f@mail.gmail.com> <1BC23AEA-A729-4645-AD8D-8315303B34EC@shaw.ca> <000601c7372e$72a35ac0$a302a8c0@ted>

On the other hand, thank goodness that there are people who can afford 
(or can't but borrows) to buy Leicas.  Thanks to the sales, the company 
has been able to survive thus far.

I recall a friend who works for Steinway & Sons, who said that their 
biggest competition are the used Steinway pianos, and their survival 
relies on people who buys them as furniture.  The pool of professional 
musicians who buy one is too small for the company to be viable.

Sounds familiar?


Ted Grant wrote:
> Here we go again with this cock a mammy nonsense why people buy Leica 
> because they just want them as jewellery. Bull shit! I suppose there's 
> some morons out there who do that, good on them having that kind of 
> income for toys and fancy bits of baubles. Hey in reality, I  and I 
> bet many of you, wish you had that kind of income for fun things, but 
> then that's me.

Replies: Reply from imagist3 at mac.com (Lottermoser George) ([Leica] Re: RF / SLR)
In reply to: Message from imagist3 at mac.com (Lottermoser George) ([Leica] Re: RF / SLR)
Message from lug at steveunsworth.co.uk (Steve Unsworth) ([Leica] Re: RF / SLR)
Message from jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj) ([Leica] Re: RF / SLR)
Message from jbcollier at shaw.ca (John Collier) ([Leica] Re: RF / SLR)
Message from tedgrant at shaw.ca (Ted Grant) ([Leica] Re: RF / SLR)