Bob W wrote: > Helps to have some good products. Available. Before I went > looking for a little p&s digital camera on Saturday I checked > some specs. I would very much like to have looked at the > Pentax Optio 33LF. I could have bought one from Amazon, but I > wanted to be able to play with several cameras before I chose > which to buy, so I went to all the camera shops and a few of > the electronics shops in Central London. None of them had > this camera available. They were swamped by Nikons, and > that's what I bought.
It's like the *ist D all over again. I have never figured out the Pentax marketing strategy. With all the competition out there, you would have thought that advertising and products in shops readily available was a must do. Getting an *ist D when they first came out involved putting an order in and hoping you would get one, cash deposit down, unseen - and that from buyers who continually saw the launch date postponed. This is fine for a limited production run of a supercar but commercial suicide for a digital SLR. How many folk here got bored of waiting and went elsewhere for their digital needs - and this from a Pentax list!! Malcolm
