Yep. And it would not generate a new sale here. I would go somewhere
else for my replacement camera even with the loss of a few lenses.
Winsor
Long Beach, California, USA
On / January 27, 2008 CE, at 4:28 PM, Andrew Fildes wrote:
> Yes but if you mount a fragile component on to a major critical
> component and only sell them as a spare part as a complete module at
> half the price of a new camera, someone's going to say $600 plus $300
> labour? I'll just get a new one for $1100." Basically you've ramped
> up the cost of a $25 part into a new sale. I think we saw this
> problem with the flexible circuit in the OM4 - replaceable but hardly
> worth it.
> It's the rough equivalent of finding that your car's water pump or
> oil pump has failed, being told that it's an integral part of the
> engine block (welded to it) and so you'll have to replace the whole
> engine.
> Andrew Fildes
> afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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