Christine, I don't think Chicago got very good service out of the Pentax Rep. Helix was terrible on Pentax stuff. Only Central Camera had anything. Out in the western suburbs, only one independent near Morton Arboretum had Pentax - PJ's Camera. I hope Calumet does better now with a new shop in Oak Brook. Corporate in Bensenville sold me the first K20 in the neighborhood. Regards, Bob S.
On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 10:08 PM, Christine Aguila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Walter Hamler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > Mark, you and others make some good points. However, I have talked to > > our local "full service" camera/hobby store and they told some pretty > > dreary stories about how the Pentax rep would rarely visit their store > > or do much of any communicating. Eventually the store owners just > > dropped Pentax from the line. They lament that they would love to > > carry Pentax but it's hard to do meaningful business with a voice on > > the other end of a phone or via cryptic emails. > > A few months ago, while talking to the manager at Calumet Photo near Cherry > & Division sts in Chicago, I learned the Pentax Rep for this store used to > be based in a nearby suburb of Chg, but the new rep (at that time) was based > out of New York. Perhaps a harbinger of what we now know. > > Cheers, Christine > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
