[Leica] [OT] Now that the Olympus C-8080 has been discontinued...

[don.dory at gmail.com (Don Dory)]

Bill,
In the digital age it is in the manufacturers interest to keep the
sales drums rolling on a discontinued or soon to be discontinued
model.  A retailer however would be suicidal to stock a camera as it
ends its shelf life.  The sales price of a older digital P&S drops
faster than a rock on Saturn.

For a good while manufacturers offered price protection and or
buy/backs as they could dump the cameras for a price on a retailer who
thought they could move old product.  Now however, even the big guys
don't especially want the old stuff unless it is very deeply
discounted, say about what the batteries would cost.  So now the
manufacturers are doing a better job of managing product life cycle
inventories.

In the digital age I don't think there is going to be any new old
stock available years later.

Don
don.dory@gmail.com

On 7/13/05, Bill O'Connell <woc2@earthlink.net> wrote:
> Hmm, still listed on their web page:
> 
> http://tinyurl.com/299z6
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:lug-bounces+woc2=earthlink.net@leica-users.org]On Behalf Of Spencer
> Cheng
> Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2005 9:27 PM
> To: Leica Users Group
> Subject: [Leica] [OT] Now that the Olympus C-8080 has been discontinued...
> 
> 
> Hi Everyone,
> 
> I've started looking for a digital P&S for travel purpose. The LUG
> archives suggested that the C-8080 is a good choice for what I want (5
> + megapixels, relatively compact, relatively narrow range zoom,
> relatively fast lens). Unfortunately, Olympus has discontinued C-8080
> and no retailer in Ottawa seems to have any in stock.
> 
> So what are your recommendations for something like the C-8080?
> 
> As this is off topic, please feel free to send me your suggestion in
> private and I will summarize for anyone who is interested.
> 
> Regards,
> Spencer
> 
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