home and change your model designation charging a higher price. Unless your name is Microsoft
that is, and even then you can't fool everyone.
At 12:59 PM 1/31/04, you wrote:
Actually, it probably only means they are clearing out the models without the firmware factory installed upgrade. Wonder if the one with the upgrade is going to be called an *istDn (doesn't that make for unreadable alphabet soup)?
The other price drops? Well, it is a very competitive market.
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Joseph Tainter wrote:Is this good news -- i.e., that the *ist D has sold well and Pentax is clearing out inventory to make way for a new, higher-spec model?
Or bad news -- that it hasn't sold well enough, in part because it hasn't been priced competitively?
Simultaneous price drops on other gear make one wonder.
Joe
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