Nice excuses, if only they were true. But the fact of the matter is that Pentax is in trouble - getting your products to market would be one of the essential prerequisites of a properly functioning company.
A. On 18/8/04 4:55 am, "Gonz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well it seems that maybe part of the problem is that people may no > longer be going to their local camera shop and shop online instead. The > prices are better and availability + selection has been better. But > having found those four 16-45DA just sitting on shelves in my local > camera shop makes me speculate that there are many other shops out their > with similar goodies just waiting to be found and purchased. It could > be that Pentax made an initial shipment of these lenses to both shops > like these and to the major internet houses and underestimated the > demand. Of course the internet houses sold their stock real quick, > while all those shops may still have them. Now they cant keep up > production which is mainly being driven by those internet outlets. Of > course this is all speculation on my part, I only have a sample of two > camera shops, but two out of two aint bad. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> On 18 Aug 2004 at 1:18, P�l Jensen wrote: >> >> >>> I can't spot the mystery. These lenses sell so few (obviously as they only >>> fit a >>> single camera that haven't sold that much), that no one want to stock many >>> of >>> them. If the distributor has underestimated the demand (it happes all the >>> time >>> with cameras as well) they will get short. >> >> >> It's no mystery all right, here the distributors aren't even aware of all the >> lenses that Pentax makes. We still have to order in LTD and the FA200 Macro >> doesn't exist, never did. >> >> >> 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 >> >> >
