Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/03/07

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Subject: [Leica] Re:No M9 in the near future
From: grduprey at mchsi.com (grduprey@mchsi.com)
Date: Fri Mar 7 17:46:21 2008

All the dealers around here had just about sold all there inventory of the 
D200, and had only a few left when the D300 was announced.  So not a big 
deal for them at all.

Gene

-------------- Original message ----------------------
From: Philippe AMARD <philippe.amard@tele2.fr>
>
> Kamikaze Nikon issued the D300 when they still sold the D200 though.
> 
> phx
> 
> 
> Frank Filippone wrote:
> 
> >One of the things you NEVER do is to announce a new, upgraded product when
> >you have inventories of the older product.  It only cannibalizes the old
> >product and forestalls the purchase of the older model, as buyers wait for
> >the new one to become available.  Worse yet, if there is no price hike in
> >the newer model..... it is suicide to do otherwise.
> >
> >There will be, or rather, should not be, no new camera until the 
> >inventories
> >of the M8 go to approximately zero.
> >
> >Frank Filippone
> >red735i@earthlink.net
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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