> > From: "John Forbes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2006/09/26 Tue PM 11:03:26 GMT > To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: K10D availability > > Actually I meant to say the US price (plus shipping, duty and VAT) was 10% > LESS than the expected UK price. I was told that the expected price was > between £700 and £750. I'm using rough figures, but 10% isn't far out. > > Given that the release date appears to be roughly the same in both > countries, and bearing in mind that the initial production run of a new > camera is more likely to throw up faults, and that EU consumer law is > better than US, I felt that the approx 10% difference was a price worth > paying.
By today's figures ($1 = 53p) the $899 I've seen bandied about comes out to £476. The $999 list price comes to £528 - just less than I paid for the DL2 kit. I don't think I agree with you. 8-)) > > For those interested, I placed the order with Park Cameras. > > John > > > On Tue, 26 Sep 2006 21:04:10 +0100, mike wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > John Forbes wrote: > >> I have just placed an order on a UK supplier (price to be confirmed, but > >> expected to be 10% more than US price plus shipping and taxes), and was > >> told that availability is expected to be good, and delivery was firm for > >> the first week of November. > > > > You are talking equal value of Sterling and dollars, aren't you? Not > > properly converted? > > > >> > >> The proof of the pudding, of course........., but I reckon that either > >> Pentax has built up some seiously large stocks of this model, or they > >> have > >> under-estimated potential demand. Let us hope it is the former. > >> > >> John > >> > > > > > > > > -- > Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/ > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > ----------------------------------------- Email sent from www.ntlworld.com Virus-checked using McAfee(R) Software Visit www.ntlworld.com/security for more information -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
