On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 5:47 PM, Graydon <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 05:07:07PM -0400, Adam Maas scripsit: >> 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. > > Last year, I phoned Pentax Canada to ask about the apparent continued > availability of the A* 400/2.8 on their website. > > Turns out that, yes, it *is* still available, in the sense that they can > get you one from Japan, but it was also going for 13 kCAD. (Which was > the currency-converted value of its original introductory list price.) > > So the idea that whoever is setting those prices just doesn't believe in > the possibility of internet arbitrage does seem well-supported. (The > other possibility is that they're a serious pessimist about the loonie.) > > -- Graydon
The real pisser: Toronto is absolutely plastered in Pentax advertising. I think its possibly the only place Pentax does advertise. If they could get their pricing and availability issues under control they'd actually move some kit. There's quite a strong local Pentax community. -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- 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.
