I was also in Boston the past few days. I did not even think of Leica! I had with me two (very light) M 4/3 cameras in a tiny backpack. The lenses are most important to me. I had no clue that there exists a Leica store in Boston.
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So over the weekend, I was in Boston so I visited the Leica Store in Boston hoping to play with the M10. To my surprise, they do not even have a demo in their store. This is a Leica owned store. Needless to say, I was a bit disappointed. I just don't understand why Leica consistently have the issue with their supply chain when launching a new product. When I used to run managed the supply chain in a previous life, it is a big no no to not have the new product and have a lot of the old product when transitioning. We spent months before the product launch to build up the inventory of the new product while working on reducing inventory of the existing one. Leica seems to do it the other way where they launch a product first, then work on building up inventory of the new product and at the same time dumping the old product at a discount. Not sure what they are achieving with that except for frustrated customers and many speculator profiting from the shortage.
On a another note, the Leica Store in Boston is located in Park Plaza hotel in Boston. In that same building is the M Steinert and Son store. A Steinway dealer. My daughter (8 yrs old) plays piano so she wanted to check it out. Wow, Leica ain't that expensive after all.
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