Bob, I found out last year @ GFM, that Don worked for my guy @ Pentax. Kenneth Waller http://www.tinyurl.com/272u2f
----- Original Message ----- From: "Bob Sullivan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Pentax Fires USA Sales Staff > Ken, > That's interesting. Given guys like Don Nelson were reps, that could > be a good deal. > I don't know about the rep for Chicago & the upper midwest. > I probably saw him once at a Helix annual show (handled a 15mm/3.5 but > price was retail), > and maybe a 2nd time at a Helix closer to me...in the last 24 years! > He was a younger guy and not really too visible or helpful. > Regards, Bob S. > > On Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 6:20 PM, Ken Waller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> FWIW - years ago I got frustrated with the lack of Pentax stuff in stores >> in >> the Detroit ares. >> >> I called the Pentax district sales guy who handled Detroit. He was >> located >> in a suburb N.W. of Chicago. He was well aware of the situation in the >> Detroit area. Pentax reps couldn't compete with the Nikon/Canon reps. In >> one >> large camera shop near my work location, if I wanted a Pentax >> camera/lense, >> they'd order it for me after I paid in full for it. If I didn't like it >> when >> it arrived they wouldn't give me my money back. >> The district sales guy offered to help me & over the years as I wanted >> something Pentax, he'd ship it to me & I could either keep it or ship it >> back no questions asked. >> >> Kenneth Waller >> http://www.tinyurl.com/272u2f >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Bob Sullivan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Subject: Re: Pentax Fires USA Sales Staff >> >> >> > 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. -- 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.
