That's true, but you can overdo it, and Pentax did with the K10D when the price nosedived, it earned them K10D sales at the cost of completely destroying K100D Super sales. The K10D was already priced at a nice discount over the less-featured D80 (about $100) at launch, and maintaining and/or slightly increasing the price advantage would have made more sense.
It's even less sensical that the K200D sells for a ridiculous premium over the comparable cameras from Sony and Nikon. -Adam On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 1:38 PM, Bruce Dayton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Adam, > > When you are Nikon or Canon you can price reasonably because most > users will buy your products over weaker brands if the price is > similar. When you are the weaker brand, there has to be something > more than a comparably featured body to entice. You either need a > demonstrably better body at/near the same price or a noticeably > cheaper body with about the same feature set. Pentax went the price > route. > > -- > Best regards, > Bruce > > > Thursday, May 29, 2008, 7:40:34 AM, you wrote: > > AM> However when your flagship is priced $50 over your base model (K10D vs > AM> K100D Super) your pricing is moronic. The K10D came out at a mild > AM> discount over a D80, which is similar spec and released about the same > AM> time. Maybe a $100 price difference. 8 months later the K10D was over > AM> $300 cheaper than the D80, which had dropped about $100 or so. That's > AM> just ridiculous pricing. > > > AM> -- > AM> M. Adam Maas > AM> http://www.mawz.ca > AM> Explorations of the City Around Us. > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
