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Subject: [Leica] Selling like Hotcakes....?
From: benedenia at gmail.com (Marty Deveney)
Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 10:49:07 +0930
References: <01b801cc12fd$58fb45b0$0af1d110$@earthlink.net> <BANLkTik5UDJuseRj4boaJ3Vc95MAEAZzgQ@mail.gmail.com> <BANLkTimeJPkM+Np_g_5=H=qfwfrJhQJZLQ@mail.gmail.com>

Leica made about 220,000 M3s.

Marty

On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 10:44 AM, Geoff Hopkinson <hopsternew at gmail.com> 
wrote:
> The Titaniums were only a one off with just 500 made. Apparently a handful
> of that handful are still available at dealers or a few get get traded
> around after the initial purchase up by (presumably) collectors or for
> anticipated profit.
>
> Something like 20,000 plus normal M9's sold so far to people that most
> likely just want to use them and they have only just caught up with demand
> now. The best selling M for a long time if not ever. I don't know about
> M3,2,4 numbers in the 50's 60's etc but Leica Camera have sold nearly twice
> as many M9's as M7, MP and M8 combined annually (12-13,000) while the M8 
> was
> in production.
>
> Cheers
> Geoff
>
> *Life's not black and white, except at both ends*
> http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman
>
>
>
> On 16 May 2011 10:34, mehrdad <msadat at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> i would buy one for about 6~7k for the body only and no more. leica will
>> have a tough time in this economy selling limited digital cameras that go
>> outdated in about couple years
>>
>> On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 5:41 AM, Frank Filippone <red735i at earthlink.net
>> >wrote:
>>
>> > In less than 1 minute, I found 8 Leica M9 Titanium camera outfits for
>> sale
>> > on EBay.
>> > All new, all with price tags that are certainly out of my range.
>> >
>> > Purely amazing....
>> >
>> > EBay.. your all purpose camera store.
>> >
>> >
>> > Frank Filippone
>> > Red735i at earthlink.net
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
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>>
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>> ?-------------------------------------
>> ?regards, mehrdad
>>
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Replies: Reply from mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner) ([Leica] Selling like Hotcakes....?)
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