On 6 Feb 2004 at 8:54, William Robb wrote: > From the sounds of it, a reasonable price is one where > Pentax makes no money on the product, thereby ensuring > that they don't recover the R&D costs, therby ensuring > that they don't bother to make another one, since the > customer base is a bunch of cheapos who won't make it > worth their while.
Local retailers can deliver a Chinese made mains power drill for AU$19 (under US$15) and make profit for the manufacturer, shipping firm, importer/customs clearance firm, distributors and themselves. The *ist D is made in the Philippines (as cheap as China) and you don't think they'd still be covering all their manufacturing and development costs and making a killing selling it for less than US$1000? Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.ozemail.com.au/~distudio/publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998
