Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/05/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]- -----Original Message----- From: Alfred Breull <puma@hannover.sgh-net.de> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Date: Tuesday, May 19, 1998 4:55 PM Subject: [Leica] Discount for LUGers - not with me ><< I'll bet that with a group this size, with the > purchasing power it appears to have and the Leicaolism many of the members > clearly have, something could be worked out. >> > > >There are at least 3 reasons, which are so important >to me, that I will not participate in the fantasied >type of deal: > >1. As many Europeans I'm not used to buy from catalogues, >and I will not do it in future. I want to touch and feel >a certain piece of equipment, and if it's that, then it's >that an no other. And, I agree to pay for the dealer's >service. > >2. I feel it a little cheap to press the dealer of your >trust for a few bucks when you spend several hundreds or >thousands at the same time. > >3. Take into account all the M6, R8, and lens complaints >during the last few months - just within the LUG. I think, >no dealer (and specially not the dealer of your trust, or >a LUG or LHSA friend) deserves such a fate. > >Alf > > >-------------------------------------------------- > >Alfred Breull >http://members.aol.com/abreull/index.htm > Alf makes a very good point, especially no. 3. Would any dealer subject himself to such a group as this, and if he did, the complaints would probably drive him out of the business, if not his senses. We seem at times to be a rather voracious and vocal group. I have been in a retail business and I don't know if I would want several hundred customers such as we, Just a thought...