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Capitalism: Leica is increasing prices, as rich guys became too rich
  • Vitaliy_KiselevVitaliy_Kiselev

    On May 1, 2018 Leica is increasing prices on a range of products by an average of about 5%. Affected products include most M bodies (film and digital), nearly all M lenses, the black Q, TL2, S (Typ 007), many S lenses and a few other items (66 in total). To quote Leica “this revision is necessary due to the current exchange rates and the increase in raw materials and production costs.” This does make sense, as every year about this time we tend to see some increases, designed to reflect the ever-rising costs involved with manufacturing hand-built products from exotic, expensive materials.

    https://www.reddotforum.com/content/2018/04/leica-prices-increasing-on-may-1st/

    Of course, cost of manufacturing has nothing to do with it.

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  • IronFilmIronFilm

    Why not just natural inflation?!

  • Vitaliy_KiselevVitaliy_Kiselev

    @IronFilm

    Well, because of margins, and because we can look at statistics and just prove our point.

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