Tom C wrote:
You can't sell cameras if they aren't available to sell. A potential
buyer will be easily swayed to another brand if the product is not
available.
That bodes ill, not well, as with less than 10% of the DSLR market,
Pentax really can't afford to lose sales. If Pentax can see a camera is
selling well and the volume of that model in the supply chain is
shrinking, some foresight dictates that they ramp up to keep the supply
constant. A customer purchasing another brand, will likely send more
business the non-Pentax direction in the way of lens purchases.
I question why I don't see a single Pentax DSLR at my local Best Buy,
Circuit City, CompUSA, and Costco. Nikons, Canons, and even Minolta
abound. I don't think it's because they sold out.
Tom C.
I was in three locations of our major retailer (UK) this past weekend.
Bizzarely, the only ~Pentax thing in all of them (apart from Optios) was
the Sigma 28-80/2.4
From: Godfrey DiGiorgi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net
To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net
Subject: Re: Pentax Pre PMA announcment.
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 22:06:47 -0800
On Feb 15, 2006, at 7:45 PM, Shel Belinkoff wrote:
I think the DS and DS2 are great cameras. I bought one. Now, after
being
out less than a year, the DS2 has become scarce as hen's teeth.
That is
~frustrating~ especially since I don't know if the camera has been
discontinued, if there's just a slowdown in delivery, or what. Even
the
sites listed on the Pentax web site don't have the DS2 - lots of DL's
though.
That just means that it's selling well and vendors are having
difficulty keeping them in stock. Sales personnel at the local
dealer, although they sell Nikon and Canon far more than any other
brands, tells me that the shop has had no problems selling *ist DS/DL/
DS2 bodies and Pentax lenses. There are no longer *any* used Pentax
lenses of any note in stock.
To me, that sound like Pentax is doing well. We all know they don't
have the kind of production capability that Nikon or Canon do, so
some unevenness in availability of units is to be expected. Even
Canon and Nikon buyers occasionally can't get a particular thing they
want instantly.
Godfrey
