Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/07/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Well maybe, but I must also say that I found Leica UK a delight to deal with (I bought my M8 from a UK dealer) and so I view this as a step backwards. But yes, it is probably more rational to centralise service in Germany. Cheers, Nathan Nathan Wajsman Alicante, Spain http://www.frozenlight.eu http://www.greatpix.eu http://www.nathanfoto.com PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws Blog: http://www.fotocycle.dk/blog YNWA On Jul 19, 2010, at 11:44 PM, Geoff Hopkinson wrote: > Disappointing for UK residents and of course for the MK staff who have been > made redundant. The Mayfair store at least remains as a (now expanding) > portal. I guess at least Germany is relatively close in the global scale > of > things. > This arrangement has long been the case in the Colonies and nearly > everywhere else except for the USA I think. Here its much faster to deal > with Solms direct for most incidents. > > Cheers > Geoff > http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman > > > On 20 July 2010 05:27, A.Lal <alal at poly.edu> wrote: > >> Looks like Leica are downsizing their UK operations: >> >> >> http://www.amateurphotographer.co.uk/news/Leica_to_radically_scale_back_UK_repair_service_news_300039.html >> >> or >> >> http://tinyurl.com/34hld9v >> >> Perhaps the UK market is too small to support a factory repair center? >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >