Two of the three remaining independent stores within "easy" driving distance have Pentax prominently displayed. Even the Ritz camera stores have them and the 50-200 in stock, (though the K10 is scarce as hens teeth). The big box stores (Wal-Mart, Target, Circuit City, etc.), seem to have never heard of Pentax.
William Robb wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Paul Stenquist" > Subject: Re: Pentax - Selling HQ and Apparently Drops 645D > > > >> I agree. But in terms of retail exposure, it's gotten much better for >> Pentax in the last six months. You couldn't find a Pentax *ist camera >> in any of the local camera stores. But since the introduction of the >> K series, they've been in the display cases. Now they're beginning to >> be featured prominently. I don't know if this is happening >> everywhere, but it's certainly obvious here in Michigan. >> > > It's gotten better here as well, but our local retailer really likes the > brand. It hasn't hurt at all that the new cameras are pretty close to best > in class as well. > They still aren't well represented in the big box places though. > > William Robb > > > -- Entropy Seminar: The results of a five yeer studee ntu the sekend lw uf thurmodynamiks aand itz inevibl fxt hon shewb rt nslpn raq liot. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
