He does make a valid point though. I'd be far more likely to buy a lens for a camera I just won than I would to buy a camera to fit a lens or a flash ... although I think Pentax'd probably get better marketing value for giving away a camera kit.
I'd be far more likely to buy *ANOTHER* lens for a camera I'd won if I could it use right out of the box. And it's far more likely I'd eventually follow an upgrade path once committed to the system than if I have a lens or a flash I couldn't use for anything but a paperweight. Sometimes I wonder if Pentax hired all of IBM's old marketing guys. From: Godfrey DiGiorgi > Gads, Tom. How could they make such an egregious error? > > Sheesh. It seems you always something to be critical about, even when > someone has been gifted with a very nice prize unexpectedly. I guess > for some people the glass is always half empty. > > Godfrey > > > On Sep 12, 2007, at 9:09 AM, Tom C wrote: > > Good for you. Getting a free lens when you're already a Pentax user is > great. > > Pentax is being pretty cheap and backwards though. Why not give away > a few > camera bodies to boot? That way people that visit Pentaxian.com that are > not Pentax users, if winning a body, would be introduced to Pentax and > have > an incentive to buy more Pentax gear. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
