For whatever reasons, Pentax has had a big shake-up in Germany. I
surmise that out of that comes a new importer/distributor, and new
employees. For some reason, they are marking Pentax products up by
untennable amounts. Then the stores they distribute to will mark them
up again, or stop selling them.
The upside is they will learn that they cannot sell anything at those
price points. People will start msuggling equipment in from nearby
countries to avoid the prices. Less will be sold in Germany.
The downside is that they will have such low sales turnover that
Pentax will drop them, and you won't be able to get any Pentax
products there.
Complaining on PDML or anywhere online will do less good than a
written letter sent to the distributor with a cc: to Pentax and your
local store.
Those prices are outlandish! If they spread to the US, you'll see me
holding up signs in the street in front of the last camera store in
the Pacific Northwest! ,:-)
On Jul 8, 2009, at 06:38 , Martin Trautmann wrote:
I checked myself by now, since both 2007 and 2008 are still on
their site.
I found my 2005 list now as well:
http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg274600.html
I do not know about the prices before, but the prices remained all
the same
for 2005/2007/2008.
Spreading 20 % across four years would be 4.7 %/year - still much
more than
the local inflation, but not that exaggerated (2005: 1.5%, 2006: 1.6%,
2007:2.3%, 2008:2.6%, total since 2005: 6.6%)
- Martin
If it doesn’t excite you,
This thing that you see,
Why in the world,
Would it excite me?
—Jay Maisel
Joseph McAllister
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