Re: Pentax K-r Walmart?

2011-11-25 Thread steve harley
on 2011-11-24 15:33 John Sessoms wrote Quick check just now shows you can order either the K-5 with kit lens for $1449.95 or K-5 body only for $1449.95 (that ain't a typo on my part). whereas K-5 body is currently $1200 at pentaxwebstore.com (kit is $1350) ... -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List

Re: Pentax K-r Walmart?

2011-11-25 Thread P. J. Alling
On 11/25/2011 2:42 PM, steve harley wrote: on 2011-11-24 15:33 John Sessoms wrote Quick check just now shows you can order either the K-5 with kit lens for $1449.95 or K-5 body only for $1449.95 (that ain't a typo on my part). whereas K-5 body is currently $1200 at pentaxwebstore.com (kit is

Re: Pentax K-r Walmart?

2011-11-24 Thread P. J. Alling
The fact that it's an exclusive deal and only on Walmart.com not in stores worries me. You don't see exclusive deals required of Nikon and Canon to get their entry level DSLRs into Walmart /stores/. On 11/23/2011 3:21 PM, Christine Nielsen wrote: Pentax announced today on fb: The K-r digital

Re: Pentax K-r Walmart?

2011-11-24 Thread P. J. Alling
Interesting thought. But Pentaximaging, (Pentax USA), just with the last month or so removed the K-x and K-7 from their web sites a current products, and those products were out of production quite some time ago. If Pentax is trying to get get rid of excess stock of K-r cameras I would have

RE: Pentax K-r Walmart?

2011-11-24 Thread John Sessoms
From: Christine Nielsen Pentax announced today on fb: The K-r digital SLR will be available soon exclusively on walmart.com in limited edition pink, purple, blue, green, yellow, navy, metallic brown, gold and silver. Interesting. At first glance, I thought maybe a promising step towards

Pentax K-r Walmart?

2011-11-23 Thread Christine Nielsen
Pentax announced today on fb: The K-r digital SLR will be available soon exclusively on walmart.com in limited edition pink, purple, blue, green, yellow, navy, metallic brown, gold and silver. Interesting. At first glance, I thought maybe a promising step towards getting Pentax stock into

Re: Pentax K-r Walmart?

2011-11-23 Thread Paul Ewins
According to rumours* the K-r has been discontinued so this may be run-out stock. There hasn't been any official announcement, but if you are trying to get rid of stocks of the old model before introducing a new one that is probably the safest way. *well, okay, the rumours were on the

Re: Pentax K-r Walmart?

2011-11-23 Thread Darren Addy
Pentax products, including the K-r and K-5 have been available on walmart.com for a long time. Not the same as being in the local Walmart stores, particular at the prices they listed. Darren Addy Kearney, Nebraska -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net