Jager Posted September 22, 2009 Share #1 Posted September 22, 2009 Advertisement (gone after registration) Well, based upon the sparse number of US forum members who report having received their M9's, it appears that those early rumors of only a handful of models making it across the pond in the first shipment seems to perhaps have been borne out. Maybe there were really only twenty. Patience may be a virtue. But I plainly suck at it. I must log on here twenty times a day - and the first thing I scan for are the threads on M9 availability. Hoping against hope that a bunch more have arrived. When I called my local dealer last night for an update, the girl there told me she overheard the owner talking to the Leica rep earlier and 'it wasn't pretty'. I'm thinking this might be the German version of waterboarding. Anyway, I'm sure I'm not alone in saying I appreciate it when folks here post up when and where they receive their cameras. Helps to know that they're trickling out... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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35mmSummicron Posted September 22, 2009 Share #2 Posted September 22, 2009 I think at the very least Leica has learned from the M8 and is at least attempting to deliver cameras faster than before. To put things into perspective, I am from Toronto, Canada. There are few Leica dealers here compared to years ago. When Leica announced the M8 at Photokina 2006, I pre-ordered from two different dealers. I waited over 6 months, got fed up and ended up ordering a camera (thanks to quick notices from this forum) from Photo Village in NYC, and FedEx'ed the camera to me. A month or two later and STILL Toronto dealers didn't have any in stock..... I am waiting on an M9 now. Dealer said Sept 18th, now its 30th....... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sean_reid Posted September 22, 2009 Share #3 Posted September 22, 2009 The dealers I've spoken with would *love* to have M9s in stock but we're basically looking at a very small factory in Solms that just started M9 production recently and which can only produce a fixed number of these cameras a day. It's definitely not an artificial scarcity as dealers and Leica, I'm quite sure, want to sell as many M9s as they can. But I've been through each stage of that assembly line in person and can attest that there's a great deal of work done by hand. It's not like one can crank up the speed on a bunch of automatic assembly machines. So, best to set modest expectations as to how many cameras will go out to dealers each week. I know that's not the happiest news but I think it is realistic. Cheers, Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fotomiguel Posted September 22, 2009 Share #4 Posted September 22, 2009 For me the problem is that the dealer has no good information about the shipment. Leica should give them a aprox date. With the M8 and lenses happened the same. Every time I call my dealer, he tells me "we are waiting cameras for the next week". If he told me the exact date even when it was longer, I would wait patiently. I'm getting ill. I can't sleep well. "Come on, Miguel! keep calm. I'll get it next week! I think this is going to be hard. At least I have my dear M8 with me. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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