Dear Leica ... How about "kit" pricing for the TL2 ?

[Learner]

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The CL and TL2 are both new cameras...

 

OK, the TL2 is a tad older than the CL, but not by too much if you take into account the TL2's VISO hiccup on launch.

 

Leica kindly offers kit pricing on the CL+18mm and the CL+18–56mm.

 

Wouldn't it only be fair (and smart) to offer TL2 kit pricing with the same two lenses.

 

The buyers' saving on the TL2's kits would be proportionately less than the saving on the CL kits because the CL is a more expensive camera.

 

Surely any offset in profit, would be balanced by the sale of more TL2s and lenses.

 

(No need to manufacture special TL2 kit boxes.)

Edited December 6, 2017 by Learner

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[Learner]

Should be made retroactive to all buyers (first adopters) of the TL2.

[jevidon]

Camera Kit packages usually include a cheaper lens to make the kit price attractive. Leica does not make cheaper lenses. Within each lens grade, they are all the same standard. So in the TL2, the CL and the SL there are no kit grade lenses. In the case of Leica, you get top quality IQ regardless of lens. 

[earleygallery]

Camera Kit packages usually include a cheaper lens to make the kit price attractive. Leica does not make cheaper lenses. Within each lens grade, they are all the same standard. So in the TL2, the CL and the SL there are no kit grade lenses. In the case of Leica, you get top quality IQ regardless of lens. 

 

You seem to have missed the point.

 

Also Leica offered a 'kit' package for M film cameras for some time, which included the 50 Summicron M. I don't think it was a plastic lens 'cheap' version, just a reduced price for buying it as a 'kit'.

 

To the OP, have you tried asking any dealers if they'd offer a deal on a TL2 & lens? They might.

[rchrd]

Yeah, they should offer a kit. They do it with CL...

 

No matter how high quality these lenses are, we all know Leica has a profit margin. Decreasing that margin a bit to tempt people into a camera system will lead to more lens sales overall.