Price of used Q will skydive to sub US $2500

[Ecaton]

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GAS is ok, GOS (o for obsession) isn’t.

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The Leica Q3 is available for pre-order at B&H Photo Video and Adorama

[nicci78]

Time will tell. The Q is not a rare camera though. The most sold Leica in the last 4 years. In the same magnitude as Leica M3 and M6 : data from Leica representatives.

So we can estimate its sales around 200K units. Far more than any digital Leicas. Maybe even more than all digital M combined. 

That's why Leica is really nervous to duplicate this success with a very nice updated Q2. They are now too Q line dependant. 

Edited March 14, 2019 by nicci78

[fotografr]

11 hours ago, ropo54 said:

(The irrational side of my brain does not often discuss these things with the rational side, and vice versa).

Rob

My wife performs that function for me.

[likealot]

2 hours ago, nicci78 said:

 

So we can estimate its sales around 200K units. Far more than any digital Leicas. Maybe even more than all digital M combined. 

 

Precisely the reason why I don't believe the hype that Q1 is being offloaded quickly by owners and that its price will "skydive". People see 50 or even 100 Leica Q for sale and they start to panic "OMG the Leica Q is depreciating fast" thus feeding the internet hype. 🙄 They forget that the number of Leica Q for sale is a very very tiny proportion of the actual number of Leica sold.

Those suffering with GAS or GOS will sell their Q1 cheap so that they can get their hands on a Q2 (although as jaapv says how much they will make use of the extra features remains to be seen). There's some people out there that have listed their Q1 for £1700😱. I mean, if nothing else, that is disrespectful to the Q.

So the price might go down for a short period of time but it certainly aint going to stay that low for that long.

[ropo54]

7 hours ago, prk60091 said:

My 1st thought was not to get the q2 bit with all the hype my GAS is kicking in

Yes, I feel your 'gas' pain. 

 

[jeff_m]

Speaking with dealer he said they have already decided to limit Q trades because of number of inquiries to trade for new model. Will be interesting. Still think Q1 is great camera. 

[Simon]

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I assume you mean nosedive, an antonym of skyrocket, or perhaps you meant noserocket? 😂