----- Original Message ----- From: "Walter Hamler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Mark, you and others make some good points. However, I have talked to > our local "full service" camera/hobby store and they told some pretty > dreary stories about how the Pentax rep would rarely visit their store > or do much of any communicating. Eventually the store owners just > dropped Pentax from the line. They lament that they would love to > carry Pentax but it's hard to do meaningful business with a voice on > the other end of a phone or via cryptic emails. A few months ago, while talking to the manager at Calumet Photo near Cherry & Division sts in Chicago, I learned the Pentax Rep for this store used to be based in a nearby suburb of Chg, but the new rep (at that time) was based out of New York. Perhaps a harbinger of what we now know. Cheers, Christine -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.