Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/06/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]New bodies at $3200 seems high to me. I just think the
market has to be really thin at that elevation. The
new 75 is $2700? I have always believed it is simple
economies of scale of spreading total costs over a
smaller number of units which results in a higher per
unit price.
--- Feli <feli2@earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> On Jun 6, 2005, at 9:01 AM, Frank F. Farmer wrote:
>
> > 2) The other thing that I learned was that Leica,
> in it effort to
> > increase the value of its existing inventory, is
> planning another
> > price increase for July 1, 2005. New bodies will
> be over $3,200.00.
> > Just FYI. Is this news? Probably not considering
> how common they've
> > become. My brand spanking new M6TTL was only
> $1,895.00 from B&H
> > barely four years ago.
>
> Raising prices even more is completely insane. About
> 2 years ago new
> bodies were going for
> about $2200-2400. Expensive, but feasible. Now they
> are at $3000,
> completely pricing what is already an expensive
> camera, right out of
> the market. They should take the 42 million Euro
> worth of gear they
> have warehoused and sell it at an aggressive price
> point. They would be
> better off with 20 or 30 million in sales, than just
> sitting on that
> stuff.
>
> feli
>
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