FWIW - years ago I got frustrated with the lack of Pentax stuff in stores in the Detroit ares.
I called the Pentax district sales guy who handled Detroit. He was located in a suburb N.W. of Chicago. He was well aware of the situation in the Detroit area. Pentax reps couldn't compete with the Nikon/Canon reps. In one large camera shop near my work location, if I wanted a Pentax camera/lense, they'd order it for me after I paid in full for it. If I didn't like it when it arrived they wouldn't give me my money back. The district sales guy offered to help me & over the years as I wanted something Pentax, he'd ship it to me & I could either keep it or ship it back no questions asked. Kenneth Waller http://www.tinyurl.com/272u2f ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bob Sullivan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Pentax Fires USA Sales Staff > Christine, > I don't think Chicago got very good service out of the Pentax Rep. > Helix was terrible on Pentax stuff. Only Central Camera had anything. > Out in the western suburbs, only one independent near Morton Arboretum > had Pentax - PJ's Camera. > I hope Calumet does better now with a new shop in Oak Brook. > Corporate in Bensenville sold me the first K20 in the neighborhood. > Regards, Bob S. > > On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 10:08 PM, Christine Aguila > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> ----- 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.
