Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/05/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 07:03 PM 5/27/06 -0400, Don Dory wrote: >Zeiss Ikon essentially did the same thing when they shut down. I don't know >what gives with insiders, they don't think their brand is valuable? Any >repair center would have paid to ship the stuff to them, a place like Ritz >or several other major etailers would love to have the whole shebang of >stuff. Fortunes have been made with collections of parts. One of our local >repair centers made a blooming outrageous amount of money when they cornered >the battery door market for A series Canons, until someone knocked the part >off and undersold them. In the US, the Zeiss Ikon Voigtl?nder parts inventory was sold off at fire-sale prices in 1973 to any repair shops wanting stuff. In the end, Wolf Umbach of Z-V Service bought the rest. The camera inventory was all sold to Cambridge Camera (!), who still occasionally list a NIB Contaflex or Icarex or the like. The Canadian ZIV inventory went through a similar process but the nubbins were sold off to a collector who tired to sell the lot to a few of us Zeiss types at a price we regarded as ludicrous. The Canadian horde of Rolliflex parts were purchased by Todd Belcher when their Canadian agency ws closed down a few years back. Marc msmall@aya.yale.edu Cha robh b?s fir gun ghr?s fir!