Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/09/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The plain fact is that Leica sells to grey market dealers period full stop. The grey market dealers move a lot of product and place big orders so they get big discounts. Factor in that many do not have repair staff or spare parts and their margins are much lower than the official distributor too. John Collier On 2-Sep-06, at 6:37 PM, Philippe Orlent wrote: > > > Op 2-sep-06, om 23:01 heeft Didier Ludwig het volgende geschreven: > >> What I never understand is - how do these dealers get the stuff so >> cheap? I still do not understood how grey market works. Leica says >> this camera left their factory in 2004. So who bought it? > > Neither do I. The only explanation I can think about is that the > Leica to seller prices are mulitplied with a (agreed upon, to > control market prices) high factor to obtain the final consumer > selling price. It might be that grey market sellers just choose to > have lower margins... > The fact that it's a 2004 MP doens't seem strange to me: after all, > what is the ratio between what is produced and what is sold? If > production was lower than demand, I'm sure Leica would be in better > papers nowadays. > So nothing wrong about a body residing in stock for a few years. > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information