M prices rising!

[dave lackey]

Must be because the economy is improving (yeah, right...😡). But, I have noticed marked increases in M-body prices over the last 12 months!!!!😱 Anyone else notice how much KEH prices have gone up?

Crazy prices now.

 

[---f]

I was thinking the opposite. Prices have been falling here on RFF.

 

[Pickett Wilson]

Yeh, but is anybody paying them? Lots of Leica stuff goes unsold on eBay.

 

[jsrockit]

They seem to be about the same to me. The M8 seems to have gone up a few hundred lately though.

 

[zauhar]

I've been watching on and off for a few months - my sense is that prices are steadily going up, although I have no idea as to whether people actually get what they ask for.

The prices on eBay also seem to have no rhyme or reason. I have only bought from eBay one time, so maybe that is normal and I don't realize it.


Randy

 

[tbarker13]

Seems pretty clear that demand is up. Just look at the used m lens listings at KEH. A couple of years ago, it wasn't uncommon for them to have many pages of lenses. Today, they have 12 lenses listed. And only three of those are 50mm or wider.

Unless KEH is getting out of the Leica M business, that's a pretty solid indicator of a supply shortage - which should push prices higher.

 

[Sonnar Brian]

I went to a camera show yesterday. The word was, prices on lenses were up- especially Leica Mount. Prices on Nikon RF's was down, business slow.

I picked up a Tanack IV-S with a 5cm f2 TANAR in EX or better for $240. That was his best price. I told him he could have given me his second best price and I would have been happy.

 

[Particular]

I think it is mostly an indication of a weak dollar.

 

[Calzone]

Seems pretty clear that demand is up. Just look at the used m lens listings at KEH. A couple of years ago, it wasn't uncommon for them to have many pages of lenses. Today, they have 12 lenses listed. And only three of those are 50mm or wider.

Unless KEH is getting out of the Leica M business, that's a pretty solid indicator of a supply shortage - which should push prices higher.

I agree. Very few Leica bodies and very few Leica lenses available at B&H and Adorama. Slim offerings=higher prices.

Cal

 

[Calzone]

I think it is mostly an indication of a weak dollar.

+1

Smart money buys hard assets that will maintain or have enduring value. Unfortunately people think of Leica as a hard asset.

Cal

 

[Paulbe]

Check out the prices Youxin Ye is getting for his ebay sales. Wow!!
His seller ID is wye7.
Seems prices ARE up...
PaulB

 

[Steve Bellayr]

M lenses way up. M cameras up.

 

[Sonnar Brian]

Well I will say this: the stuff I've been putting in our Classifieds has been flying. I've been "bundling" items to break even on what I paid for them. I got my M9 ordered and paid for, I hope everyone that has been buying is as happy as I am.

 

[MC JC86]

I went to a camera show yesterday. The word was, prices on lenses were up- especially Leica Mount. Prices on Nikon RF's was down, business slow.

I picked up a Tanack IV-S with a 5cm f2 TANAR in EX or better for $240. That was his best price. I told him he could have given me his second best price and I would have been happy.

I almost bought that same camera, but at a different show on Saturday. Must've been the same one though, same exact price. Ended up picking up a IIC for $120 instead.

Prices on RF lenses in general have been "skyrocketing" lately.. 4/3 has made the amount of available bodies the lenses will mate to greatly increase. I suspect that if M bodies go up, it is a result of this; more people are buying the lenses so they are also picking up the corresponding 35mm bodies to play with.

 

[Vickko]

Yep, M prices are up. Except of course on stuff I want to sell (joke).

And stock is way down, I've never seen the "shelves" at keh.com so bare.

I figure it is because of the M9

Vick

 

[wjlapier]

In one month an ala carte M7 configured the way I wanted it went up ~$700.

 

[regularchickens]

When I went to Kurland Photo to look at 35s recently, they told me that Leica hasn't been able to meet demand for new lenses lately, and so the supply of used lenses has dried up as a result. Can anyone confirm this?

 

[jan normandale]

I've been surprised at the prices for Hasselblad bodies and lenses. Definitely up there too.

 

[biakalt]

price raised up over here too (UK) - due to tax. interestingly thou, ive noticed a slight decrease in the used lens market.

 

[bwcolor]

Up, or down, isn't it a matter of currency valuation/devaluation?