On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 10:00:11AM -0700, Larry Colen wrote: > On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 12:31:47PM -0400, P. J. Alling wrote: > > The end user is the final QC. That's true of every manufacture these > > days. Read the Canon and Nikon Fora if you think their QC is any better. > > You can probably make the economic justification that most end users > won't notice a lot of the problems with image quality, so it isn't > worth spending the money to not sell an item that the purchaser may > not find the problem with anyways.
It's far simpler than that. People buy based almost entirely on price. They won't pay an extra $50 to get a product that is tested before shipping, because they don't expect that they will get the defective merchandise. The same logic means people buy by mail order, not from a local store. For the manufacturer it's far cheaper to ship them all and deal with the occasional return of an item that isn't working (or not working correctly). -- 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.
