They're growing the Pentax owner base. That's the secret to success in the SLR business. Get some market saturation, sell some lenses and ensure some repeats down the road. Even if you can't meet all of the demand, that can be a good thing. A line of buyers is a good thing. It puts a halo on the product. Paul On Aug 17, 2006, at 8:34 PM, Tom C wrote:
> Simple solution. Put on more shifts. :-) Why would they be giving a > rebate if they have trouble meeting pent up demand? That doesn't > make a lot > of sense, if true. Either they are reducing profit with rebate in > order to > sell stock, or their cost was so, little that they could factor > that in > behind the scenes. > > > > > Tom C. > > "I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or > numbered." > > > > > > > >> From: "Digital Image Studio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Reply-To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> >> To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: The third best selling DSLR in Japan >> Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 10:24:21 +1000 >> >> On 18/08/06, K.Takeshita <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> In Japan, Pentax factory cannot meet the demand even on a 3 shift >>> basis. >>> There is a waiting queue and you have to wait for varying time in >>> some >> areas >>> before you can get your paws on it, which of course is very rare >>> for the >>> (past) Pentax. >> >> So would you say they priced it correctly? Doesn't seem so. >> >> -- >> Rob Studdert >> HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA >> Tel +61-2-9554-4110 >> UTC(GMT) +10 Hours >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio//publications/ >> Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998 >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
