Jack, Last September 14th, the Italian press release for the K10D reported that sales were planned to start late October/early November. I'm rather sure there are some English sources also stating that. Sales start usually means the shipping of early stocks from Japan to importers. Of course, a few days are needed for worldwide delivery, and then a few more days are needed to send early stocks to stores, so I expected (and still do) to see the camera actually land on the market around Nov. 8-10.
Despite that, some stores put a date of their own on K10D availability (usually around mid-October), just to get orders I think. Pentax never said mid-October. Then, a Japanese Pentax press release said the K10D has been delayed one month for the Japanese home market. Then, I've been told by Pentax importers for Italy that the launch date remained unchanged for worldwide markets, the delay for Japan being only intended for feeding more cameras worldwide. Even so, the first delivery will be around half the quantity the international importers have required. That's just because of the huge quantity of pre-orders the interest for the K10D had raised. So I understand that Pentax has simply been caught by suprise by the unexpectedly high amount of instant orders such an interesting camera (at a vey interesting price) has produced. In other words, they have put a wrong price on it :-) Around 1,200-1,300 $ body only, the camera could also dry the early supplies, and Pentax could just properly cope with launch. Since they decided for under 1,000 $, the result is immediate shortage. Or at least this is how I understand things are going. Dario ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jack Davis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <pdml@pdml.net> Sent: Saturday, October 21, 2006 6:52 PM Subject: Re: Delay? What delay? > Dario, > Not that I have any basis to doubt your information, but how do you > know these things? > Home country not being 'served' first..for example. > Does "scheduled to be on sale" mean immediate shipment thereafter in > the US? > > Thanks, > > Jack > > --- Dario Bonazza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I keep hearing of a supposed delay on the delivery of the K10D. I >> cannot >> understand this delay thing. >> AFAIK, the situation is the following: >> >> 1 - The K10D was scheduled to be on sale worldwide (including Japan) >> in late >> October/early November. >> >> 2 - Then Pentax realized there was a huge demand fot the K10D, so >> they >> decided to delay the availability of the K10D IN JAPAN ONLY, just to >> feed >> more cameras worldwide. >> >> 3 - The K10D is still scheduled to be on sale worldwide (excluding >> Japan) in >> late October/early November. >> >> So, why do some folks here continue spreading the news of a delay for >> the >> K10D? The K10D delay only affects Japan, in order to give us more >> cameras on >> the same planned date! >> >> Am I missing anything? >> >> Dario >> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> PDML@pdml.net >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
