Tinribs Posted November 22, 2009 Share #1 Posted November 22, 2009 Advertisement (gone after registration) I had resigned myself to waiting until the middle of 2010 before M9's became available off the shelf in the UK, and thus worth ordering. However, browsing suppliers web sites on Tuesday 17/10, I noticed on Wilkinson of Preston's site that a grey one was listed as being in stock. Assuming that this was an error, I telephoned them just to check, and discovered that the info. was correct. Need less to say I ordered it at once, at about 16:25, and had it in my hot, sweaty little hands by 15:00 on Thursday 19/10 . Now all I need is some relief from the present Cumbrian weather so that it can be put through its paces! Has anyone else managed to obtain one so quickly after placing an order? Tinribs The old man who remembers degrees Scheiner Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advertisement Posted November 22, 2009 Posted November 22, 2009 Hi Tinribs, Take a look here Is This a Record?. I'm sure you'll find what you were looking for!
Overgaard Posted November 22, 2009 Share #2 Posted November 22, 2009 That's a great story. You make me want to buy one more Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
adli Posted November 22, 2009 Share #3 Posted November 22, 2009 On their website they claim to have a black M9 in stock also. However, when I called them, it was already sold, the website was just not updated yet... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
microview Posted November 22, 2009 Share #4 Posted November 22, 2009 Thanks for reference: hadn't come across the name before... keen prices on lenses too! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Hart Posted November 22, 2009 Share #5 Posted November 22, 2009 I know Wilkinsons well - they are a very good outfit. I was in there yesterday getting other stuff, and the manager told me that he had given a big cheese at Leica a piece of his mind about poor supplies of the M9, and in no time at all 4 bodies landed in the store. Needless to say they had all been snapped up. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Overgaard Posted November 22, 2009 Share #6 Posted November 22, 2009 I know Wilkinsons well - they are a very good outfit. I was in there yesterday getting other stuff, and the manager told me that he had given a big cheese at Leica a piece of his mind about poor supplies of the M9, and in no time at all 4 bodies landed in the store. Needless to say they had all been snapped up. I know this is an ideom, but do you have any idea how hard it is to find definitions for such "given a big cheese at Leica a piece of his mind" Here's what Babelfish would get out of it: "taking into consideration a big cheese in Leica a piece of his brain" So he told someone important at Leica what he felt about it all. And it worked. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
adli Posted November 22, 2009 Share #7 Posted November 22, 2009 Advertisement (gone after registration) Definition of "The big cheese" from: The Big Cheese : The origins of your favorite food idioms - CHOW "The big cheese. It’s got nothing to do with a dairy product. According to Sir Henry Yule’s 1886 Hobson-Jobson: The Anglo-Indian Dictionary, the expression derives from the Persian or Hindi word chiz, meaning quite simply a thing. Yule explains that Anglo-Indians might say something like “Lauren’s sister is the real chiz.” Brits living in India adopted the term, converting chiz into something more English. The idiom hit American shores in the 20th century. Americans seem to have a habit of putting big before nouns to convey wealth and power—the big enchilada, the big kahuna, the Big Apple. The first recorded examples of the big cheese being used to describe a person of important status began appearing in print around 1910." Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
enboe Posted November 22, 2009 Share #8 Posted November 22, 2009 Used by myself at Cooter's Dallas, another forum member at Colonial Orlando, and I bet one more at Schiller's St. Louis. The small dealers seem to be a viable source of non-wait-listed M9's. Happy hunting. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
scott kirkpatrick Posted November 22, 2009 Share #9 Posted November 22, 2009 I think there are several contestants for the order time record, each of whom walked into a small shop, saw a lonely M9 sitting on a shelf, and walked out with it. There was one report in NYC recently. scott Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cold_Viking Posted November 22, 2009 Share #10 Posted November 22, 2009 I found one on the shelf in a camera store in San Francisco two weeks ago and bought it on the spot. Total transaction time was less then five minutes. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tinribs Posted November 22, 2009 Author Share #11 Posted November 22, 2009 I take my hat off to you, and cede any claim to the record. Tinribs Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cold_Viking Posted November 22, 2009 Share #12 Posted November 22, 2009 I take my hat off to you, and cede any claim to the record. Tinribs haha. I have a strange feeling though that I used up all my luck for a while Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baptiste Posted November 22, 2009 Share #13 Posted November 22, 2009 Damn, while I'm on the lists of the official Leica shop in Paris: 20th on the grey line, 40th on the black line Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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