Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/10/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Why should this be the case? Australia is such an advanced country. XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX Dan, Advanced maybe, but very small market. No-one can service or repair an R8 for example. Even if you buy it here, you have to ship it to Germany for repair. Spare parts are not brought out to Australia in "abundance", so any model which goes out of date will become really obsolete within a year or two, for example Howard Cummer has been able to keep his CLE going in Hong Kong, but I had to give up on mine 5 years ago. Ted's book should be on the way, but it cost half as much again to send it, and it will take 3 months to get here. Yes it is a small world, but Australia is a far flung and small market. Not that this should be seen as a complaint. Isolation also has its advantages, and we are a very lucky nation in more important ways, the isolation only making the "natives" more resourceful. cheers Alastair Firkin http://users.netconnect.com.au/~firkin/AGFhmpg.html