----- Original Message ----- From: "P. J. Alling" Subject: Re: The JCO survey
> That's completely out of thin air, they might be losing thousands of > immediate camera sales and probably losing no actual lens sales in the > long run. I don't think that the lack of an aperture simulator is a > long term deal breaker, but I'll bet they'd sell more cameras during > the > immediate release when they sell for a premium price than without, at > least on the first model that offered it. How much lost revenue is it > when say 10-20% of those who'd buy immediately wait for the inevitable > price drop? How many people who would buy immediately would wait for the price to drop if the camera cost an additional chunk of money? At a thousand bucks for a K10D, how much do you think they can drop the price before it's a money loser? How many more cameras will need warranty service because of failed components? William Robb -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
