On Wednesday 12 January 2005 05:44, Kostas Kavoussanakis wrote: > On Tue, 11 Jan 2005, Herb Chong wrote: > > given that the US list price for the *istDs and the 300D are almost the > > same and the street price is nearly so, what's up with the UK > > distributor? > > You hit it on the head Herb. Pentax is really overpriced in the UK. > > Kostas
Yet another example of "rip-off Britain," eh? What accounts for the huge difference in price in dollar terms? If anything, the UK price should be *lower* in dollar terms, given the relative strength of sterling against both the US Dollar and the Yen. I'm not aware of a tariff restriction, either, so why this difference? -Luigi
