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Subject: [Leica] Leica Japan stories
From: richard at imagecraft.com (Richard Man)
Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2011 10:12:10 -0700
References: <6242E867-94EF-4992-8CC1-B42C43E74CBB@yahoo.co.uk>

I have been in Japan 3 times. The likely response, if I were to guess based
on my experience, is that they would apologize profusely and scratch the
back of their heads trying to explain why you can't see it. I would think
that this particular experience is unusual rather than the norm.

On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 8:40 AM, Peter Cheyne <geordiepete211 at 
yahoo.co.uk>wrote:

> W.R, I think I would have done the same as you, just on instinct.
>
> Many Japanese people have been wonderfully warm and kind to me in my nine
> years here, but no amount of cultural politeness can mask the cool,
> unfriendly types one meets here or anywhere else.  I suppose your salesman
> thought he was being funny.  He lost a sale though.
>
> To add a bit of context, in Japan, a Leica store is like a barrel for
> shooting fish.  The local customers pay prices higher than anywhere else in
> the world, so the salesmen are probably used to foreigners looking, then
> asking to handle items they won't buy because they will buy it cheaper in
> their home country.  The hired sales staff might not know their prices are
> inflated, and mikght just think foreigners are a waste of their time and
> sales energy.  Still, no excuse for rudeness!
>
> Cheers,
>
>
> Peter
>
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