[HUG ] Re: SV: Re: Dollar fall kills Hasselblad? (and Leica?)

Quoting Q.G. de Bakker, who wrote on Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 07:23:38PM +0200 ..
> Tom Just Olsen wrote:
> >The point is the falling dollar.  A camera that cost ? 3,000 back in 2002 
> >would cost 3,000 US$ back then.  Today ? 3,000 is more like 4,850 US$ 
> >today.  Add then that you have to increase the price because of fewer 
> >units sold - like the Leica M8, and the camera producer will have to 
> >charge more than 5,000 US$.  And so on...
> 
> Only in countries where they insist on trading in US$. And tose are, 
> uhm..., the US.
> But a CFV back still costs the same as it did a year ago in the US, doesn't 
> it?
> 
> In other countries, the strong Euro means prices could go down.
> But they don't: companies rather put that extra profit in their own pocket 
> than give it to us. That's what their reason for being is after all, to 
> generate profits.
> So we, poor Europeans are the ones who are robbed, paying more than we 
> should.
> 
> And that that is true is demonstrated by (among other things) the "fly to 
> the US and save a buck" shopping sprees.
> (Another thing that shows how we are fleeced is what we pay at the pump 
> when filing up our cars. Oil prices have sky rocketed, true. In US$. But 
> set the increase in oil price along the increase in Euro vs Dollar value, 
> and lo and behold: oil hasn't gotten much more expensive at all. But you 
> wouldn't say by what gas prices at the pump have been doing.)
> 
> The result is that quite a few companies achieved astronomical profits last 

Or, for that matter, our beloved government's tax department..

Wilko

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