Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/10/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]If you need assistance in making a purchase, > please have the decency to be willing to pay the merchant for his > expertise... > tom > ...You're absolutely right that anyone taking up a specialty merchant's time has some degree of obligation to buy from that merchant. On the other hand, when one is making a Leica purchase in the $ 1500 to $3500 range, and the discount is the 10-15% you sighted, we're talking about a saving of $150 to $525. That's a lot of money. Enough money for someone to forgo the chit chat and expertise of the local merchant and deal instead with the assembly line sales force at a B&H.....