Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/08/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]So help me understand this... You want my deposit money for 5 weeks, and then I MAY get a product? Well frankly, no. I'll do business with someone who understands things different. Yours in approved dealership and profit, GS >From: Photovilla@aol.com >Reply-To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us >To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us >Subject: [Leica] Leica SM lenses >Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 22:34:55 EDT > ><<Does this mean Leica will take orders and then decide whether it will >actually produce the lens? The 90 mm Summicron M has been promised for >months if not for more than a year and there are very, very few finding >their >way to the dealers.>> > >OK Don, > >Now you have asked the $64,000 question! > >I hope that this is NOT what they are doing and -in all fairness- (from >what >I have heard) this is NOT what they did for 90APO's for R8 Motor drives. > >I would bet that they will only be available in very limited quantities in >the begining and possibly for a while. I base this, not on anything I have >been told, but on the fact that they are being made "primarily for the >Japanese market." > >As a responsible dealer, here is my offering plan sans prices: > >I am ordering two of each of these lenses. I am going to take $150 deposits >from up to two interested parties on each lens to "place" holds on #1 and >#2 >of each. IF I don't receive the lenses by the end of September THEN I will >give the parties the option of having there monies returned. If I get 'em >by >then...then we're all a-ok. > >This plan is only a trial and I guess I will see if it all works out... > >BTW, I have only received one deposit as of tonight, but about 16 >"interested >parties." God bless the net. ;-) > >later, >Rich > _______________________________________________________________ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com