I forgot to mention one detail. All these products were in the used equipment
section.
I'm pretty sure no camera manufacturer is going to pay for advertising used
products.
Brian
-----Original Message-----
From: John Hermanson [SMTP:omtech@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, February 08, 1999 12:30 PM
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [OM] OM Used Market...
For dealers to qualify for advertising credit, they often use
pre-planned ad layouts made up by the manufacturer, hence two stores
have very similar ads.
John
PCACala@xxxxxxx wrote:
>
> Brian writes:
>
> > I happened to notice a Genesis ad for OM products and looked at it a while.
> > I then turned the pages and saw an ad for Le Camera.
> > Except for a small difference in prices, Genesis was lower, BUT the
> > offerings were identical!
> > I don't know how many other dealers work like this (perhaps they are
> > actually the same dealer, or same owner with multiple locations),
> > but it is interesting.
>
> They (Le Camera) don't actually have all that stuff in their used stock at any
> one time! I have no first hand info on Genesis.
>
> Gary Reese
> Las Vegas, NV
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