[Leica] where oh where is the DMR?

[dlridings at gmail.com (Daniel Ridings)]

20% sounds like a _lot_. That's what we were marking things up with
when I worked at a camera store in St. Louis (Jerfferson Camera Shop)
in the seventies. I have a feeling the profit margin isn't as much
now-a-days, but who knows.

20% isn't much at all if you have to tie up money in inventory for a
long time. You need to have an M7 in stock when the customer comes,
but the customers don't come in every day, so the turn-over is slow.
You can lose your 20% margin in a hurry. If the profit margin is even
less than 20% ... well, you better start looking for another business
to run or a way to keep things just touching down on the shelves
over-night.

Daniel

On 6/30/05, Stephen York <York915@msn.com> wrote:
> Do you mean the profit margin?  I just purchased a Leica rangefinder at 
> dealer costs from a store which was liquidating it's Leica inventory, and 
> it was about $500 less than the price for the  same item  from a store 
> like B&H.  And Tony Rose (www.popflash.com) is always selling his stuff at 
> a couple hundred dollars less than everyone else, and he's still making a 
> profit.  So I figure that the "normal" retailers are making about a 20% 
> profit on Leica items. This would be consistent with the price of the 
> camera and lens which I purchased at this fire sale.
>