Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/12/18

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Horrific markup, was: Bag
From: Bernard <5521.g23@g23.relcom.ru>
Date: Sat, 18 Dec 1999 14:23:19 +0300

Lucien wrote:

> Jeff Moore wrote:
>
> > Enormous wad of cash?  Domkes are dead cheap -- especially in a
> world
> > which contains Billinghams.  The 802, to which I've been addicted
> for
> > lo these many years, is $US60 at B&H (admittedly more than the
> > $45 I think I paid for my first one), and the 803 is $78.  Or does
> > some sort of horrific markup happen on the way across the Atlantic?
>
> F-803 is $140 here in Belgium (and 3 months of waiting).

I paid $170, not to mention the additional $30 for the insert of which
you have to buy at least one..... I was very surprised that it would be
such a lot more than B&H, but now I know that I got ripped of for being
European; not individually.

Bernard