jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Does making a camera very expensive help to sell more copies? What is going through someone's mind when he sees the $23,000 Leica S2 and thinks, "Yeah, I gotta get me one of them."? The profit margin must be as obscene as the income of someone who would buy one - or two (one for tele and one for wide angle).

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/585106-REG/Leica_10801_S2_SLR_Digital_Camera.html

JR1 Loc: Tavistock, Devon, UK

If I had the money would I buy one, yes just as I would a Maserati Quattroporte, what is expensive to us is pocket money for some, though I would die for the boomerang

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maserati_Quattroporte

http://www.classicdriver.com/uk/magazine/3200.asp?id=15891

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

That's the problem. :cry:

JR1 Loc: Tavistock, Devon, UK

I agree 100 and 10% there was a piece on tv about this twat, when people like me are raising my disabled sons on £120 a week and I don't smoke or drink,

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-22101436

donrosshill Loc: Delaware & Florida

I agree with you. $23,000.00. Where is the Motor, the fenders, the hood, the seats, the GPS, the wheels, the trunk, etc.
What? no lens. Is Leica out of their mind or just suffering from the worlds largest EGO.

For that price it should come with someone to do the photography for me.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

I've seen countless images of India. A man who wastes money on a shirt made of gold in such a country should be fed to the poor.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

You mean it doesn't have GPS?

I wouldn't want to pay that much for a car.

winterrose Loc: Kyneton, Victoria, Australia

1. I recall thirty something years ago the Audi 100 was released here in Aus. for the same price as the locally built Holden small family sedan. Didn't sell...."Why is this imported German car the same price as a Holden?"...."Can't be much good". Audi withdrew it from the market. A year later they re-released the same car with fanfare...at double the price. It sold like hotcakes.
It's strange, this human nature. Audi's expectation was probably that if they sold a better vehicle at the same price surely it would sell, yet in reality the perception was that the Audi must be inferior.
2. Each Bugatti Veyron sold reportedly costs Volkswagen, the parent company, $800,000 but if that is the price of being able to claim as having built the world's most over-the-top car.....
3. There will always be those who want to own the "best" and most expensive anything.
4. If you build the best you can name your price and someone will assuredly pay it.
5. If you have the audacity to put a high price on an object it will automatically attract a perception of possessing quality.

I know I will never personally wish to buy one in order to confirm that maybe it IS the best available and IS worth every penny.

Who knows?

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

"Get what you pay for" is one of the reasons that when stores have coupon sales, there are so many exceptions. Name brand manufacturers don't want their products sold "cheap."

lighthouse Loc: No Fixed Abode

I have never paid that much for a car and probably never will, but I would have a Phase One 645DF with an IQ260 digital back if I could.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

I think I have a spare in the back of my closet. I'll send it to you. :D

lighthouse Loc: No Fixed Abode

Thanks Jerry, that would be much appreciated if you don't have a use for it. I can look after it for you. I'll even offer you a couple of thousand if you want to sell it.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

A couple of thousand? And what am I supposed to do with a couple of thousand dollars? I have everything I could possibly want, so it would just be a nuisance to me. Send me the $500 for postage, and it will go out when I get a chance - someday. :D

winterrose Loc: Kyneton, Victoria, Australia

I wish to advise you that your long lost uncle who went tiger shooting in 1954 has died in Nigeria and left you seventeen million two hundred and ten thousand pounds inheritance. Please send seven hundred thousand dollars for the tea lady's hip replacement operation, outstanding stamp duty, your passport and driver's license immediately or you will miss out on this incredible opportunity.
Send all your bank details and you will also be in the draw for these six fantastic steak knives.

JR1 Loc: Tavistock, Devon, UK

I once worked (volunteer) for OXFAM, I stood ALL day in Staines, Middlesex where I lived, I can tell you that the only people to donate were the elderly British and the young, I became so annoyed as one after another, I will let you guess, made NO donations at all I walked off, yet it was an appeal for the third world

Oh not one donation was made by anyone wearing a suit

On the BBC last week AT LAST a minister stated that we should CUT aid to third world countries until their "rich" started helping their own countries and corruption eliminated.

YES you have my vote