Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/03/06

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Subject: [Leica] Re:No M9 in the near future
From: leicachris at worldnet.att.net (Christopher Williams)
Date: Thu Mar 6 21:32:16 2008
References: <47D0758A.8020402@wanadoo.nl><007701c88003$a234b6c0$0302a8c0@MacPhisto> <00f301c88012$acd58460$06808d20$@net>
 
Come on, Nikon and Canon do it ALL the time. But then again they are larger 
companies and can afford it.

Chris


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Frank Filippone" 
Subject: RE: [Leica] Re:No M9 in the near future


> One of the things you NEVER do is to announce a new, upgraded product when
> you have inventories of the older product.  It only cannibalizes the old
> product and forestalls the purchase of the older model, as buyers wait for
> the new one to become available.  Worse yet, if there is no price hike in
> the newer model..... it is suicide to do otherwise.
> 
> There will be, or rather, should not be, no new camera until the 
> inventories
> of the M8 go to approximately zero.
> 
> Frank Filippone
> red735i@earthlink.net
Replies: Reply from red735i at earthlink.net (Frank Filippone) ([Leica] Re:No M9 in the near future)
Reply from mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner) ([Leica] Re:No M9 in the near future)
 In reply to: Message from michiel.fokkema at wanadoo.nl (Michiel Fokkema) ([Leica] No M9 in the near future)
Message from leicachris at worldnet.att.net (Christopher Williams) ([Leica] Re:No M9 in the near future)
Message from red735i at earthlink.net (Frank Filippone) ([Leica] Re:No M9 in the near future)