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John Camp
10-24-2006, 13:11
We should have a pool on the M8 release date. Prize to be debated.

I'd be in for Nov. 8.

JC
Nachkebia
10-24-2006, 13:16
How about a topic night dreams about M8`s? :D :D
johnbuckley
10-24-2006, 13:32
Are you counting the release date as the day that Leica ships it? If so, I'll take Novmber 9th, and therefore can box you in on the late side.

If you are counting the release as the day the first jubilant poster says, "I Bought One Today!", I will say November 20th.
Roger Willco
10-24-2006, 16:08
I say October 31 - a halloween treat!

Rog
Gabriel M.A.
10-24-2006, 16:20
"Release pool". That sounded nasty, for a second.

I say it's Nov. 11th. What do I win?
Leicabug
10-24-2006, 16:25
Friday. Nov. 3 .
Honus
10-24-2006, 16:37
I'm in for Thursday, November 16.
egpj
10-24-2006, 17:06
January 10, 2007
RJames
10-24-2006, 21:08
We could have a winner... Jim
Etienne
10-24-2006, 21:57
Not before November 22nd perhaps even later according to my dealer.:bang:

rgds,

Etienne
ClaremontPhoto
10-24-2006, 22:34
Is there an 'M8 Recall / Firmware Upgrade Pool' thread around here?

Is there a 'First M8 Sold on eBay Pool'?
Mark Norton
10-25-2006, 00:58
I phoned round a couple of dealers and Leica UK and the collective view is that they Just Don't Know. They also give the distinct impression they are bored with bring asked.

Leica's position is still "end of November" but that is pretty undefined and shipping them out of Solms on November 30 doesn't put them in the shops on 1 December. It will be a long time before they start making an M8 which isn't pre-sold. In the UK, the M8 is "said" to back-ordered to April or May next year.

In the car world, it's commonplace for cars with long lead times to be available immediately if you are prepared to pay a premium. Rolex make a watch - the Daytona - which is back-ordered for 5 years (last time I checked) but you can get one today for a premium of about 70%.
MarcoS
10-25-2006, 01:18
Rolex make a watch - the Daytona - which is back-ordered for 5 years (last time I checked) but you can get one today for a premium of about 70%.

Does it mean that if I can't get the M8 at the first batch, I'd have only two options:

1. Wait until mid 2007 :eek:

2. Pay more than the list price and get it the day after

?

Well, how much more exactly ?... :D
Jim Watts
10-25-2006, 02:41
In the car world, it's commonplace for cars with long lead times to be available immediately if you are prepared to pay a premium. Rolex make a watch - the Daytona - which is back-ordered for 5 years (last time I checked) but you can get one today for a premium of about 70%.

Damm. Looks like I should have pre ordered an M8 afterall instead of waiting for others to identify the problems.

That way I could have sold for a premium of £2K on the first day and repurchased mid 2007. £3K - £2K = an M8 for £1K. Cheaper than my R-D1;)
IGMeanwell
10-25-2006, 02:51
put me in for Dec. 18th

in time for christmas
rxmd
10-25-2006, 02:52
Are you counting the release date as the day that Leica ships it? If so, I'll take Novmber 9th
Very symbolic date for Germans:

- proclamation of the Weimar Republic in 1918
- Hitler's first coup d'êtat attempt in 1923
- Reichskristallnacht in 1938
- fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 (that was an amazing day!)
- shipment of the Leica M8 in 2007^H6

Philipp
gloec
10-25-2006, 08:40
Not before January 2007 according to Leica's distributor in Greece...
Gid
10-25-2006, 09:14
December 2nd 2006. First appearance on *bay, December 4th 2006 :D
Gabriel M.A.
10-25-2006, 17:02
December 2nd 2006. First appearance on *bay, December 4th 2006 :D
There actually was an auction item on ePrey for an M8 last week. You can only find "It" on ePrey, no matter what dimension of this Universe ;)
gogopix
10-27-2006, 13:57
i have it on pretty good authority that it will be november 14th...

...but they didn't say which year,
Nachkebia
10-27-2006, 14:34
October 28. Dubai....
jaapv
10-27-2006, 15:33
"Release pool". That sounded nasty, for a second.

I say it's Nov. 11th. What do I win?

A place in the waiting list?
Roger Willco
10-31-2006, 09:30
I say October 31 - a halloween treat!

Rog

I guess I win the release pool!

Rog
Leicabug
11-02-2006, 07:53
I think I win the release pool, at least in US.
Nov. 3 is the date that US Leica dealers receive and sell their first allocations of M8 to the public.
No, I am not looking for a free M8 as a prize but a privilage to be 5 grand poorer one on Nov.3!
Roger Willco
11-08-2006, 16:18
I say October 31 - a halloween treat!

Rog


Maybe that should have read "halloween trick"

:(

Rog