Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/05/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]But as modern sales go though the M9 is a for sure success. And the M9.1 will sell even better. And shoot even better. And its time that stopped resting on their laurels and crank it out. Mark -------------------- Mark William Rabiner > From: Marty Deveney <benedenia at gmail.com> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 10:49:07 +0930 > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] Selling like Hotcakes....? > > 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 outdated in about couple years 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 >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Leica Users Group. >>>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> ?------------------------------------- >>> ?regards, mehrdad >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information