Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/06/06

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Subject: [Leica] 75 'cron & Leica's inventory revaluation
From: feli2 at earthlink.net (Feli)
Date: Mon Jun 6 10:14:03 2005
References: <20050606160113.CSWD4468.ibm61aec.bellsouth.net@mail.bellsouth.net> <7ca5723e7aeb2eeb4b61711e7294c50c@earthlink.net> <48652013-8B21-4073-8F53-747651328B54@charter.net>

On Jun 6, 2005, at 9:21 AM, Slobodan Dimitrov wrote:

> You never lived in Germany, have you. In the mini series Shaka Zulu, 
> there is a scene where a story is recounted on how to catch monkeys 
> with a gourd. You place something shiny in it for the monkey to grab. 
> The monkey doesn't know that letting go of the object would free it's 
> hand thus saving it from capture. It sure seems like a prescient 
> parable about Leica.
> Slobodan Dimitrov

Actually I grew up in Germany. I lived there for almost half my life, 
so I am intimately familiar with the idiosyncrasies of the culture.

Raising prices is a stupid idea, but it's not an entirely unexpected 
move.
;-)

feli
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