On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 17:07 -0400, "Adam Maas" <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 4:53 PM, William Robb <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joseph McAllister" > > Subject: Re: DA*60-250/4 shipping to a couple resellers. > > > > > > > >>> They must have leftover stock. Pretty much everywhere else has it > >>> going for $1799CDN now. > >> > >> That's a rip off for sure. Direct monitary conversion puts $905 Euros to > >> $1449.27 CAD. > >> > > > > Apparently Canadian Pentax users have far more disposable income than our > > friends across the pond. > > > > William Robb > > > > Or Pentax Canada has no understanding of the concept of comparison > shopping. As nice as the Pentax bodies are, who's going to pay $775 > for a FA 35/2 or the same price for a 17-70, let alone $800 for an > AF540FGZ. Right now Pentax is the unarguable value loser in Canada > despite the fact that the body prices are finally where they belong.
Pretty much the same downunder. The AF540TGZ is listed by one of the more price conscious sellers here at $A889 (about $780 Canadian) and they have the 60-250 f4 listed at $A2850 ($2500 Canadian) - not that I intend to buy either..... Cheers Brian ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://members.westnet.com.au/brianwal/SL/ > -- -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Accessible with your email software or over the web -- 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.
