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

 
   Last time I checked, the Canadian Looney was not pegged to the US dollar. 

   J


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-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Just Olsen <tjols@xxxxxxxxx>

Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 21:48:46 
To:<hasselblad@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [HUG ] SV: Re: SV: Re: Dollar fall kills Hasselblad?  (and Leica?)




> 
> Only in countries where they insist on trading in US$. And tose are, uhm..., 
> the US.

- And countries with currencies pegged to the US$.  Like China, Singapore, 
Thailand, Canada half of South America - and so on.


> But a CFV back still costs the same as it did a year ago in the US, doesn't 
> it?

- If so, Hasselblad is selling it with a 30% loss compared to 18 months ago.
 
> In other countries, the strong Euro means prices could go down.

They do.  See my earlier post.  My newly bought 1Ds III is the cheapest of the 
three large Canon D-SLR's I have bought: 

1Ds (2003) NOK 52.000
1Ds II (2006) NOK 48.000
1Ds III (2008) NOK 45.000 - could have saved an additional few thousand NOK by 
waiting another week or two.

> But they don't: companies rather put that extra profit in their own pocket 
> than give it to us. 

- No they don't.  

> So we, poor Europeans are the ones who are robbed, paying more than we 
> should.

- There is no reason to cry yourself to sleep over the 'poor European'.  They 
have never been richer compared to other peoples.  - Particularly after cost of 
kids education, health care, pension etc. Very much thanks to strong 
currencies. - Etc.


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