[Leica] New Tri-Elmar Price

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

The new owners are trying out pricing power.  The M8 caused the supplies of
existing lenses to dry up.  Most dealers had almost no M mount lenses in
stock either new or new old stock.  If I was a capitalist business owner I
would try raising prices.  If the new price doesn't work then offer a rebate
to bring the price down some.  One of the problems of being an old fogey is
we remember earlier prices; but the newer humans don't remember 5 penny
chocolate bars or $100 DR Summicrons.  If it takes almost $200 to fill up a
car in Hong Kong then a $5000 investment in a durable good isn't
unreasonable.

On 8/5/07, Douglas Nygren <dnygr@cshore.com> wrote:
>
> I heard the other day that the price of new Tri-Elmar, you know, the
> one that has all those wonderful wide angle lenses in it, is going up
> significantly. At more than $3500 it seemed pricey. Above $5,000 it
> makes the 15mm Zeiss look more appealing. Have any you heard the same
> rumor? What I heard was that a 35% price increase is occurring.
>
> Doug
>
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