Leica M9 in stock at Amazon (regular price)

10 Comments

1. Eric Pepin
   Posted August 11, 2010 at 10:21 pm | Permalink

   and there still there, atleast 4 out of the 5, surprise.

   • LR admin
     Posted August 11, 2010 at 10:33 pm | Permalink

     Yes,I think the long waiting lists for the M9 are over. This is actually a good news, because it will force Leica to release something new at Photokina.

2. John
   Posted August 12, 2010 at 3:53 am | Permalink

   If only I had the $$$…

3. T Bishop
   Posted August 12, 2010 at 10:26 am | Permalink

   Regular price at about $8,500? The ‘regular’ price is about $7000.

   • LR admin
     Posted August 12, 2010 at 10:31 am | Permalink

     The “regular priced” M9 are all gone – they were available for few hours only. They were sold by Amazon.

4. Bruce
   Posted August 12, 2010 at 12:15 pm | Permalink

   What a joke Leica. Worlds biggest online retailer gets 5 units to sell.

5. John
   Posted August 12, 2010 at 10:31 pm | Permalink

   If it wasn’t this rare the price wouldn’t be holding up that well. Its nowhere near being a joke.

6. David
   Posted August 13, 2010 at 4:31 pm | Permalink

   I never buy any large-ticket item from Amazon because as a resident in Los Angeles, California, I would have to pay a 9.75% tax; no thank you. In any event Amazon may be a large online retailer, it is certainly by no means a camera-specialty retailer, so I don’t find it surprising or a joke that Amazon had only 5 to sell this month. Adorama has a huge pre-order waiting list so you rarely see them shown as “in-stock.” BH Photo doesn’t take pre-orders but they do send out notice e-mails to customers who requests them, and hence it’s a fast game there too . . . There are, however, 15 M9s for sale on eBay at this moment, some of which sell for about $7,700, which is the same amount you would otherwise pay if you were to buy from Amazon and if you live in a high state-sales-tax state. So if you would have bought it from Amazon and you are a California (or NY, etc.) resident, then you should just go for it on eBay.

   • Eric Pepin
     Posted August 14, 2010 at 11:13 pm | Permalink

     I never understand why people complain about paying taxes……… Your supposed to pay taxes on all purchuses by the way,you just need to declare them yourself, or in my case pay for customs when i order from the states.

     • David
       Posted August 15, 2010 at 6:03 am | Permalink

       Eric:

       Taxes is a controversial subject. the State of California has one of the highest state income and sales taxes of all 50 stated in the U.S., and is home of some of the wealthiest people in the U.S. Yet, the State of California has one of the worst budget crises of any state. If you purchase goods from the Internet that does not charge sales tax (U.S. Congress has deliberately delayed the legislation of taxing inter-state commerce via the Internet), WHY would you choose to purchase the goods from an in-state form to pay a 9.75% tax? (it is true that technically you should report it under personal usery tax provisions under the California Tax Code anytime you purchase something from an out of state retailer that does not charge tax; but California does not enforce that law). The answer is: you would not, if you are an economically rational unit. To suggest otherwise and to disguise your “sense of duty” to pay taxes under any notion of patriotism is a misplaced virtue, I assure you. I am not against the notion of tax in itself, but that notion does not abut against economic rationality. If you feel otherwise, then please by all means move to the State of California, and help fund our defunct state budget.