Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/05/15

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Subject: [Leica] Selling like Hotcakes....?
From: rcmphoto at yahoo.com (R. Clayton McKee)
Date: Sun, 15 May 2011 05:56:20 -0700 (PDT)
 
--- On Sun, 5/15/11, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> wrote:

> But what is the big deal? I guess
> some stores are unloading excess inventory. There is no
> "shortage" of M9s anymore, if there ever was--you can walk
> into any Leica dealer in Europe and pick up one.


It's not really excess inventory, even; it's just another marketing channel. 
 eBay's not so much the cosmic tag sale auction site any more - it's mostly 
just a wider reach for the online catalog sales stores, junk shops, and 
mail-order houses...


R. Clayton McKee
PhotoJournalist
from somewhere just south of somewhere else...
In reply to: Message from photo at frozenlight.eu (Nathan Wajsman) ([Leica] Selling like Hotcakes....?)