"Demand" has become a faint "whisper." Jack
--- On Wed, 3/11/09, Bruce Dayton <bkday...@daytonphoto.com> wrote: > From: Bruce Dayton <bkday...@daytonphoto.com> > Subject: Re: DA*60-250 > To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <pdml@pdml.net> > Date: Wednesday, March 11, 2009, 10:14 AM > No, what they are doing is ensuring that they have inventory > to sell, > by decreasing demand. > > -- > Best regards, > Bruce > > > Wednesday, March 11, 2009, 9:40:49 AM, you wrote: > > JM> On Mar 11, 2009, at 06:17 , Frits Wüthrich wrote: > > >> Apparently Pentax increased the prices with 15% > lately. This is in > >> line with other price increases from the Japanese > industry to > >> compensate for the lower demand because of the > current economy. > > JM> Brilliant marketing strategy. > > JM> The economy tanks - people can't afford as much > discretionary spending > JM> - so let's raise our prices so fewer products > will sell. > > > JM> Joseph McAllister > JM> Pentaxian > > JM> http://gallery.me.com/jomac > JM> http://web.me.com/jomac/show.me/Blog/Blog.html > > > JM> -- > JM> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > JM> PDML@pdml.net > JM> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > JM> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link > directly above and follow the directions. > > > > > -- > 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. -- 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.
