Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/03/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Kit You have long exceeded your self allotted number of LUG responses. Do not join the ranks of those who must have the last word, or I will have to assign the number 767 to you. (Austin is 747).:-) Jerry Kit McChesney | acmefoto wrote: > But how do you know Leica based theirs on his? You don't know that. > > Kit > > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Jim Hedger > Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 6:17 PM > To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > Subject: Re: [Leica] Leicavit, After Market Products, etc. > > I have been reading all the new Leicavit posts and can't keep quiet any > more. I am pissed. Tom is such a heavy supporter of Leica and Leica products > and seemed to have worked with them closer than you or I and here they go > off and knock off his product which he is busting his ass to make at a > realistic price. His rapidwinder is not a copy of their old discontinued > product, it is an original design that fits on a publicly traded > corporations' product, to help "left eyed" shooters and photographers that > need a rapid shooting rate. They already had an electric drive unit why do > they feel they need to jock his product. Oh sure they put a few extra gears > inside and made it shorter, this is in my eyes this is the same as patent > infringement would be if he had chosen to go down the never ending path of > getting his product patented. I really think it is low to do this. CV made a > copy but it is for a camera Tom does not make a product for. I am glad there > are so many used Leica products out there in circulation because of this > "copying" move I will never buy another new Leica Product. Tom and his wife > have been through a lot of personal grief and he truly has put super human > effort into producing his niche market product for us the photographers who > use Leica cameras and he has done it for a fair price. I believe and hope > Leica falls flat on their ass with this overpriced copy of his product and > am sure they will never be clever enough to beat him at his game. > > Rant over, have a good evening or day. > > Jim Hedger > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html