Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/03/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]David,A lot of that has to do with economics. With the internet, most reasonable people buy fairly expensive items online mostly to save sales tax. With Chicago hitting 10.25% a thousand dollar purchase becomes over $1100 if bought locally. As it is no longer economic to keep exotic items on display you won't find the good stuff in most places which further drives business to online protocols. Another driving factor is Big Box stores. They stock the 50 most popular items at very good prices but have no interest in stocking or carrying anything else. The little dealer can not get anywhere close to the same acquisition cost and can not live on the proceeds from the long tail of things folks like us want. Last, with the substantial demise of consumer processing the small dealer has no choice but to change business's of disappear entirely. The big but of this is that unless a consumer item hits quickly they will be only cult items known to the very few. An example is the iPhone versus some of the similar phones out there. Even saddled with windows the Glofiish line deserves more mention than it gets. On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 11:19 AM, David Rodgers <drodgers@casefarms.com> wrote: > Len > > Maybe it's just me, but figuring out if certain equipment makes sense to > buy seems to be a lot more difficult today that it used to be. Local > dealers seem to be fewer and farther between. That could be part of the > problem. Options are more complex (you need an interpreter to tell you > what all the letters on lens descriptions mean). Photographic styles > seem to be more varied, meaning one person's photographic panacea may be > another person's boat anchor. Plus things are changing so rapidly. It's > a quagmire! Or like I said, perhaps things have always been this way and > it's just me. I'm very much a hands on buyer and I don't think there's a > dealer of consequential equipment within 200 miles of where I live now. > > DaveR > > -----Original Message----- > From: Leonard Taupier [mailto:len-1@comcast.net] > Sent: Saturday, March 08, 2008 2:53 PM > To: Leica Users Group > Subject: Re: [Leica] Re:News CV 35/1.4 M-mount lens now Nikon Digital RF > > Hi Gene, > > Loyalty to your local shop is a great thing, but it might be time to > change. My local dealer is not very large but he has just about > everything in stock except for the still current AIS lenses and the > new 24-70mm zoom. He has in stock the super teles as well as the > 200-400mm zoom, 200/2.0 tele and the lenses you mention. Funny thing, > he has a hard time keeping the 18-200 zoom in stock. > > Look around. Good luck. > Len > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- Don don.dory@gmail.com