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Subject: [Leica] Leica Prices to Fall?
From: frank.dernie at btinternet.com (FRANK DERNIE)
Date: Sun Dec 14 04:07:19 2008

I earn Euros and spend pounds so I should not complain but I lost out by 
changing my euros to pounds monthly!
Frank


--- On Sun, 14/12/08, Nathan Wajsman <photo@frozenlight.eu> wrote:

> From: Nathan Wajsman <photo@frozenlight.eu>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Leica Prices to Fall?
> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org>
> Date: Sunday, 14 December, 2008, 9:36 AM
> Well, at some point it must. Today a pound is worth about
> ? 1.12. A  
> year ago it was around ? 1.50. That is a huge change from
> which I  
> personally benefit in two ways: I have just bought my M8
> and a 50mm  
> lens from a shop in Scotland, at prices well below those on
> the  
> Continent (especially for the M8); and the cost of
> supporting my son  
> at the University of Bath has fallen correspondingly.
> 
> Surely at some point Leica and the Japanese will have to
> increase UK  
> prices. The can only take margin losses for so long.
> 
> Nathan
> 
> Nathan Wajsman
> Alicante, Spain
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> 
> On Dec 14, 2008, at 9:53 AM, FRANK DERNIE wrote:
> 
> > The volatility of the currency markets will have a big
> effect here,  
> > if the fall of the dollar against the euro is greater
> than any price  
> > reduction from the factory it won't happen. The
> pound has fallen so  
> > much against the euro I expect imported goods to get
> more expensive  
> > here in the UK despite euro price reductions.
> > :-(
> >
> >
> > --- On Sat, 13/12/08, Greg Lorenzo
> <gregj_lorenzo@hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> From: Greg Lorenzo
> <gregj_lorenzo@hotmail.com>
> >> Subject: [Leica] Leica Prices to Fall?
> >> To: "Leica Users Group LUG"
> <lug@leica-users.org>
> >> Date: Saturday, 13 December, 2008, 8:40 PM
> >> The following article suggests that they might.
> >>
> >> see:
> >>
> http://www.independent.ie/national-news/fastest-price-tumble-in-40-years-set-to-spark-deflation-1572713.html
> >>
> >> On the other hand it might be a good time to stock
> the wet
> >> bar and cigar box.
> >>
> >> Greg Lorenzo
> >> Calgary, Canada
> >>
> >>
> >>
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