the large discount retailers. Local Wal-Mart's for example carry a couple of
Canon Models a Nikon model and a Minolta Model, Pentax is represented by IQZooms.
Pentax probably won't put up with Wal-Mart's extortion demands, I mean marketing
requirements. But once again you can't buy what's not available.
At 06:57 PM 12/18/2002 -0500, you wrote:
Nah, I think he bought it because some camera freak buddy said Canon's are the best camera made. Of course, all those TV ads meant that he had already heard of Canon. All I am saying is that the people in Pentaxes marketing department seem to be pretty good engineers <g>.Ciao, Graywolf http://pages.prodigy.net/graywolfphoto ----- Original Message ----- From: "frank theriault" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > My bet is that the vast majority of Rebel users have no idea that all those big > white lenses on the sidelines of NFL football games are C**** lenses. They > probably bought their Rebels because Andre Agassi's mug is on the tube, trying > to tell us that he uses one (yeah, right!). That's ~real~ marketing! <g> > > And, of hundreds of thousands of Rebels that are sold, do you really think that > many are bought because some neophyte was chatting with a member of CDML (if > such a thing exists), who enthusiastically told him to buy one? I have my > doubts. > > Nah, TV ads, magazine ads, promotional deals in the local paper selling the > ubiquitous starter kit with a 28-70 (or whatever) plus strap and camera bag for > $200 - that's what does it, imho. > > But, as always, I could be wrong.
