On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 05:07:07PM -0400, Adam Maas scripsit: > Or Pentax Canada has no understanding of the concept of comparison > shopping. As nice as the Pentax bodies are, who's going to pay $775 > for a FA 35/2 or the same price for a 17-70, let alone $800 for an > AF540FGZ. Right now Pentax is the unarguable value loser in Canada > despite the fact that the body prices are finally where they belong.
Last year, I phoned Pentax Canada to ask about the apparent continued availability of the A* 400/2.8 on their website. Turns out that, yes, it *is* still available, in the sense that they can get you one from Japan, but it was also going for 13 kCAD. (Which was the currency-converted value of its original introductory list price.) So the idea that whoever is setting those prices just doesn't believe in the possibility of internet arbitrage does seem well-supported. (The other possibility is that they're a serious pessimist about the loonie.) -- Graydon -- 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.
