Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/10/27

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Subject: [Leica] A Sobering Story from the Photo Expo
From: dennis.leicam6 at gmail.com (Dennis Kushner)
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 19:40:09 -0400
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When I get there tomorrow, I'll ask for a ton for my favorite charitable
donation..... me!   :D
I'll find out if B&H bought 5K of it.

Dennis


On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 7:16 PM, David Freedman <dpfreedman at 
gmail.com>wrote:

> Unless he repeated that story multiple times today, I might have been
> standing right next to you because I heard it too!
>
> Dave F.
>
> On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 7:02 PM, Jim Shulman <jshulman at judgecrater.com
> >wrote:
>
> > At the Fuji booth, I suggested they stop calling it Fujifilm if they keep
> > insisting on discontinuing Fuji films.
> >
> > One rep said he sympathized with me, but noted, ?When I started with Fuji
> > in
> > the 1990s I had a territory of four states, with annual film sales of
> > $18Million.  Today my territory is ten states, and my total film sales
> last
> > year were $5800.?  He then went on to note that Fuji had to throw out a
> ton
> > of film recently that simply wasn?t finding a market.
> >
> >
> >
> > Can?t fight that logic!
> >
> >
> >
> > Jim Shulman
> >
> > Wynnewood, PA
> >
> > Who still caged a comp roll of Neopan Acros 100 from the kind Fuji folks.
> >
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In reply to: Message from jshulman at judgecrater.com (Jim Shulman) ([Leica] A Sobering Story from the Photo Expo)
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