Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/07/13

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Subject: [Leica] M8 discount in Europe - somethings up!
From: octabod at gmail.com (Luis Miguel Castañeda Navas)
Date: Sun Jul 13 01:14:56 2008
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On 13/07/2008, at 9:04, mehrdad wrote:

> I say cheap dollars cuz, coworkers from Europe come here all the time
> and everything is about 40%+ off for them and when we go there
> everything is double
>
> On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 5:44 PM, Frank Filippone <red735i@earthlink.net 
> > wrote:
>> Mehrdad........  you know better.... money is money.  The only way to
>> compare different currencies is to convert them to the same base
>> currency....
>>
>> 800 Euros is a LOT more than 500 USD.  Like double plus.

You're right, let's take this example with prices of bhphoto and a  
well-know dealer here in Spain [casanova] with today's exchange rates

USA  $5495 => 3445.48 ?
ESP   4795 ? - 800? (rebate) => 3995?

so 549? ($876,35) euros cheaper in the US *before* having any rebate  
there.
As Frank said, money is money and in this case, a lot of it, so is  
pointless comparing the rebates.


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