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LEICA is Up For Sale?

FroKnowsPhoto Photography Podcasts

Jared Polin

Visual Arts, Arts

4.4831 Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2017

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Jared Polin, Fronos Photo.com. And this is your photo newsfix extra. Yep, the extra is where I take the photo newsfix stories and I go a little deeper as deep as I can in the extra part. And that's why you are listening to this audio podcast. And if you haven't subscribed to the Frontos Photo Audio Podcasts, please do so right here, wherever you're listening to podcasts, wherever podcasts are available.

0:27.4

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0:29.7

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0:35.4

So the first news story that I want to talk about is that Amazon messed up in terms of pricing when they came out and listed the new Sony 16 to 35

0:44.7

F2.8 Gmaster lens. Now when this lens was announced, it was $2,198, which is pretty darn expensive for a 16 to 352.8. You would think it would be in the

0:59.2

$1,500, $1,600 range, but not $2,200 for that piece of glass. You know, look at it. We've got

1:08.0

11 to 24 from Canon is anywhere between 2,7003,000 and then we have something

1:15.9

like the Nikon 14 to 24 which is much wider well not much wider than the 16 to 35 and I didn't

1:23.7

look up the price of that but I think it's's around two grand for that bad boy at this point.

1:28.0

So maybe 2198 isn't that bad.

1:30.6

I don't think it's that good.

1:32.3

But here's the mistake.

1:34.2

For eight days after the announcement and the pre-sale, Amazon had the wrong price up.

1:40.1

They had $1,198, which is a $500 difference between the $21.98.

1:45.6

Let me do my math.

1:46.4

Let me double check this.

1:48.7

$2198 minus $1698 divided by $22, carry the $7.3.

1:54.6

Yep, $500 difference.

1:56.5

So would they honor it?

1:58.9

And that was the big question is would Amazon honor this? Because in the past,

2:02.9

when, say, Sony tried to sell a camera for the wrong price by accident, they ended up canceling

2:09.3

people's orders, which is there right? I don't think that if you get the price wrong, you should

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