Re: [Leica] Why I'm unsubscribing

["Gary D. Whalen" <whalen@circle.net>]

Walt,

    Maybe you should have read your own message and then you wouldn't have written
it.  Doesn't your message apply to you?

Walter S Delesandri wrote:

> I have a serious point to make....yeah, I know, walt and a serious point?
>
> Often the words "Leica" and "arrogant" or "elitist" are found together....NOT
> just on the LUG, Not just recently...(I've been around Leica a helluva lot
> longer than there has been a LUG, or home computers for that matter!)
>
> It amuses me the way these word "associations" are constantly re-confirmed.
> When I was in sales, the "Leica" folks were more demanding, less patient,
> and were quick to remind us how 'important' their 'time' was...(the M.D. syndrome,
> unless you're in HIS office...)
>
> When in repair, they were always concerned for the "safety" of their camera,
> the "cleanliness" of the place, etc....as if they or their camera was more
> important than the guy paying the same repair bill on an old speed graphic!!
> (BTW, their importance is EXACTLY the same, for those of you wondering)
>
> Now, on the LUG, I get a kick out of seeing these "I'm gonna leave the group
> if you do/don't do this or that!!!!"...."I'm serious, I'm leaving now"""...
> I'm not kidding, I'm outta here"/../..
>
> Let me reconfirm something for all of you.....You're just as important as
> a street person....your little jewel piece of shit camera is just as important
> to the rest of the world as a walkman....wherever you work, you're worth what
> they pay you....unless they can find someone better, cheaper.  The repair to
> your Leica is worth EXACTLY the same amount as the same repair to any other
> camera.  I believe that if I die tomorrow, my wife, kid, a few friends, and
> remaining family will suffer....the LUG? Nah....The school? maybe for a week.
> Leica or Leica dealers or repair? won't even notice......
>
> The moral?.....Rambling about "leaving" the Lug and why is like standing up in
> a restaurant and proclaiming how the service/food/etc is unsatisfactory....
> to several hundred satisfied customers!!!  NO one cares, and you look like a
> damned idiot.....and you reconfirm that Leica folks are arrogant, self centered,
> have an over-amplified sense of self worth, etc..........
>
> If I leave a reflector (I have).....I just sign off......I left one for the
> very same reasons all these whiners state....too much information of little
> interest .... TO ME!!!!...not to the posters, not to the other readers, etc.
> But I'll assure you, the posters didn't and don't care what the hell you're
> interested in or not....
>
> Cheerfully unimportant to most  folks,
> Walt