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Subject: Re: [Leica] Comments on a BD Colen statement & PMA
From: "Steve LeHuray" <steve@streetphoto.net>
Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2003 11:53:06 -0400

B.D. Colen lashes out at Leica, again:

> No hands on experience Sal - I'm basing it on the comparative number of
> working parts, and the materials that Tom uses - and the utterly
> ludicrous difference in price. I don't care if each unit is personally
> autographed by Herr Cohen himself - at twice the price of a Tom A.
> Rapidwinder that particular Leica offering is joke, and a rather sick
> one at that. :-)
>

B.D., you seem to know so little about business.

Leica has to pay for:

Salaries for thousands of employees
Health care for thousands of employees
Factories to pay for and maintain
R&D to pay for
Advertising/marketing to pay for
Has to produce hundreds (if not thousands) of units of product everyday

Tom Abranshom has to pay for:

1, maybe 2 salaries
Health care for 1, maybe 2
A small rental unit in a industrial park
No R&D to pay for
No advertising/marketing to pay for
Daily out put is maybe 1 unit per day

Is there something I am missing here? Is there something you are missing
here?

sl

> -----Original Message-----

> On Behalf Of Sal DiMarco,Jr.
>
>     BD, you wrote ..."with it's not-as-well-made at  twice-the-price
> version of Tom A's Rapidwinder."
>     My question is what hands on experience do you have with the new
> Leicavit M or the previous Leicavit MP to make such a statement?
>
>     For those of you who have never been to a PMA, please understand it
> is a selling show for DEALERS. PMA stands for Photo Marketing
> Association. Unlike Photo East in New York which is aimed at
> photographers. Happy Snaps, Sal
>
>
> Sal DiMarco, Jr.
> Philadelphia, PA
> Web Site: http://members.fcc.net/sal.dimarcojr
> 
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