As long as my E3 isn't a Cosina!!
Warren
On 11/7/07, Winsor Crosby <wincros@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Many years ago a young man I worked with discovered the same thing.
> The Bosch fuel pump in the VW box was much, much cheaper than the same
> item in a MB box. It was also amusing at the time that a VW came
> stock with the rear window defroster "wires", while they were a $600
> option on the MB. Gives a little window of insight into the mark up.
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> Much as I liked my Leica M3, it was hard rationalize the rebadged and
> remetered Minoltas as pricey Leica SLRs.
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> Winsor
> Long Beach, California, USA
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> On / November 7, 2007 CE, at 3:30 PM, Bill Pearce wrote:
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> > Oddly, here it was just the opposite. The "top" local independant
> > was higher
> > in price than just about anything short of air expressing the car to
> > the
> > factory. Being German, he held slavishly to the factory recommended
> > services
> > for each interval or repair. That meant that when you got your oil
> > changed,
> > you also got your seat tracks greased. I knew someone that had the
> > windshield washer pump fail. The MB part was (in the seventies) over
> > $125.
> > The very same part, identical in every way including label, but
> > packed in a
> > VW box? $25! This guy refused to install it, and he knew damn well
> > what was
> > going on.
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