$500 M8 rebate

[abenner]

In case anyone cares:

http://us.leica-camera.com/news/news/1/5837.html

$500 mail-in rebate on a new M8, add another $300 with a new lens.

 

[yanidel]

It is €800 in Europe if you trade-in a camera (basically whichever one, it is is price rebate).

 

[pphuang]

Interesting - usually rebates and price reductions occur when a new model near. We'll see...

 

[yanidel]

Interesting - usually rebates and price reductions occur when a new model near. We'll see...

You might be right, the promotions ends Aug 31st. Just before the big event ...

 

[Highway 61]

It is €800 in Europe if you trade-in a camera (basically whichever one, it is is price rebate).

I don't think they would take back a Zenit EM or a FED-2 and allow you to benefit of the €800 rebate, though.

😉

Option 3 is that they leave the digital behind and the new model is a film M9 with AF and matrix metering.

😛

 

[gdi]

Interesting - usually rebates and price reductions occur when a new model near. We'll see...

But in the case of Leica a sign that an item is being replaced could well mean the price triples and a wooden cigar box sweetens the deal! :bang:

 

[yanidel]

I don't think they would take back a Zenit EM or a FED-2 and allow you to benefit of the €800 rebate, though.

😉

I am sure you could get it even with a Lomo.😉 Manufacturers don't like to just cut prices, they prefer to package, promote or any other sales techniques. Eventually, dealers will have a few customers turning in a D80's and make a few bucks reselling them, it is worth trying. But they won't let you go with your €4000 euros because of a €100 difference in trade-in value.

 

[ClaremontPhoto]

If I wanted an M8 I'd take a 35mm disposable with me for the trade in.

Leica want to shift product...

 

[Bill Blackwell]

You might be right, the promotions ends Aug 31st. Just before the big event ...

Actually, it ends Sep. 30.

 

[Avotius]

this could be where leica announces there R10 digital then disappears as a company after they find out no ones uses R cameras.

 

[yanidel]

Actually, it ends Sep. 30.

Not in France, Leica website says Aug. 30th.

 

[Bill Blackwell]

Not in France, Leica website says Aug. 30th.

Okay, you got me...

Since the original post was in reference to Leica rebates in the North American markets, how would anyone have had a clue you were suddenly jumping to what's happening in France?

 

[yanidel]

Okay, you got me...

Since the original post was in reference to Leica rebates in the North American markets, how would anyone have had a clue you were suddenly jumping to what's happening in France?

Post #2. it all got a bit mixed up 😉

 

[Ben Z]

Maybe there's a new model coming, we'll just have to wait and see. But this $500 rebate doesn't even get the M8 back to what it cost in the beginning. Compare that to the Canon 5D, which is slated for replacement soon. It was $3300 in the beginning, but $1800 now. I would be very surprised if a $500 rebate on the M8 now really spurs sales all that much.

 

[35mmdelux]

they better kick something back for the IR filter, no?

 

[35mmdelux]

Just read (actually saw on YouTube) that Leica is making 1,000 M8s' per month and 500 MP/M7s'. Don't know if 12,000 M8/year is a good or bad sales number.

Here's the link to the YouTube video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mwrlb4_tL0&NR=1

Jim B.

actually 12K is consistent with historical M production numbers. - and for a camera (M8) with so many issues its a pretty good production rate. I am surprised that MP/M7 production is so low and the amount appears suspect to me because Leica seldom provides current production rates.

 

[sevres_babylone]

I wonder if any of the Japanese folks arrive with a surprise in the Digital RF camp @ Photokina.

Dave, you know in your heart that the DRF with the D700 sensor is just a matter of time.
(Someone's gotta keep the Nikon DRF dream/rumour going, and I'll gladly volunteer.)

 

[dcsang]

Dave, you know in your heart that the DRF with the D700 sensor is just a matter of time.
(Someone's gotta keep the Nikon DRF dream/rumour going, and I'll gladly volunteer.)

Well.. either that, but the DRF would have to be a branded Nikon in that case, or Sony decides to sell someone their FF sensor (that someone being either Cosina Voigtlander/Zeiss and/or Leica.. but I don't really know the corporate size of CV/Zeiss over Leica - Leica's pretty diminutive per se)

Dave