M9 Student Discount Program

[Damaso]

From the LeicaRumors website:

"An update to the Leica Student discount program (US) – the student price for a Leica M9 is $5,246.25! You ca see the complete student price list here and instruction on how to get that discount"

 

[Bill58]

Pretty funny--how can a student anywhere afford one, unless Bill Gates is your dad? What a dumb program. Next will be a homeless person discount?

 

[jke]

When I was teaching, my students always had more money than I did.

 

[david.elliott]

I may have to enroll in a community college for some refresher courses.

ten points!

 

[bostanem]

wow that was the discount that i have been waiting for as a broke graduate student🙂

anyway, great joke 😀

 

[Roger Hicks]

Pretty funny--how can a student anywhere afford one, unless Bill Gates is your dad? What a dumb program. Next will be a homeless person discount?

Dear Bill,

Not as dumb as not trying to hook students!

Cheers,

R.

 

[DGA]

Anyone wants to teach me?
This way we could be a teacher and a student 🙂

 

[Jarle Aasland]

Makes me wonder: Who's paying for these discounts? Surely, Leica can't make a $1750 profit for each M9 they sell? If they do, does that mean we'll see some hefty discounts once initial demand is over? (I won't hold my breath..)

Jarle

 

[sahe69]

Pretty funny--how can a student anywhere afford one, unless Bill Gates is your dad?

😀

That's a bit like giving a discount on running shoes for people older than 80 years 😛

 

[emraphoto]

admittedly i have often found the end of year sell off in the student postings boards an excellent place to find gear/cameras i normally could not afford.

bought my first whole mamiya 7 kit off one for a song

 

[Roger Hicks]

It's cheap advertising. Hook a student at college, and you may have hooked them for life. Sinar was famous/notorious for it.

Cheers,

R.

 

[danvprod]

Ha. I like that they offer the Nocti for a student discount. Hmm fall tuition or f/0.95? Let's go for the fast glass. That is a smart life decision...

Even in grad school I remember the stipends are not that much (~15-20 k a year) you can blow your whole stipend on an M9 + 50mm f/0.95....

Hehehe

 

[Gabriel M.A.]

Is there a student discount for the Nikon full-frame dSLRs as well?

 

[robklurfield]

Enroll at a community college. Get a student ID. Take a photography course.

My wife, who is a school teacher, is studying for a doctorate and my younger kid is in her last year of college. If all that tuition wasn't making us broke, I'd spring for the discount.

BTW, Apple offers student & teacher discounts. Both my and I need new Macs. You can be sure some student and teacher ID's will come into play here.

 

[SolaresLarrave]

Central Camera offers student discounts... but you have to be enrolled in a photography or art program, and be able to show proof of it. Mostly, they offer Mamiya and Hassy gear... or at least that's how it was the last time I checked.

Back in the 90s, I used to teach at the smallest campus of a large Midwestern university system. The cars in the student lot were much better and more luxurious than the ones in the faculty parking area... Convertible Sebrings (recently introduced), high end GM cars and nice Lexus. Faculty cars? A bunch of no-nonsense vehicles, like Dodge Neons, Toyota Corollas, Chevy GEOs, Ford Fiestas, one VW van (belonging to a wannabe hippie) and other assorted low price/low cost cars.

 

[Damaso]

While they might not sell too many M9s this way I can see a student buying some lenses this way...

 

[bean_counter]

18-19 years ago, my wife spent nearly $3k on a PC, printer, etc. as a grad student. She needed it for her doctoral dissertation.

If it is a needed tool, students have access to the $$. I got to help pay off the student loans when we got married - worth it, tho 😛

 

[Benjamin Marks]

I can echo what Francisco says, my wife teaches at a college in the eastern US and her students often drive nicer cars than we do. And it ain't a close call, if you know what I mean.

Ben Marks

 

[nicography]

Too bad I'm not a photography student.
I wish they will offer this for all college students.

 

[Dave Wilkinson]

I think they should give a huge discount to us old pensioners that have been faithful for many years! 😉
Dave🙂