Didn't you know, Pentax makes marketing decisions using a dartboard? Adam Maas wrote: > 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. >> >> > > > >
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