Come to think of it I bought it at Costco. I bet they'll take it back regardless and let me apply the purchase price to a different model.
On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 11:46 AM, Tom C <[email protected]> wrote: > You're right there's few if any perfect products. I have a 1 year old > Garmin GPS that I consider a quite crappy product for the money I paid > for it. You know the one. If' I'd have filled out my mfr's warranty > card I'd have returned it long ago, but now I'm basically stuck with > an over-priced, flawed piece of hardware. > > By complaining or voting with my wallet the next time around, a > company can get the message. > > If Pentax releases a flawed product there's nothing unfair with them > taking a beating for doing so. I needn't preface the comment with > (they're just like all the other companies that want my money, so > let's not be to hard on them). > > On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 11:18 AM, William Robb <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> -------------------------------------------------- >> From: "Tom C" >> Subject: Re: Photokina observations... >> >>> A person of any age should not 'outgrow' what is a basic operating >>> aspect of a camera. >> >> Why not? >> When I was 12 and got my first camera, I inherited a mid 50s era Fuji >> Rangefinder. Within a year I had outgrown enough of the basic operating >> aspects of the camera to feel that it just wasn't doing what i wanted it to >> do any longer, so I looked at my Dad's camera usage and decided that he >> wouldn't miss his Spotmatic, provided it was at the back of his closet on >> Christmas morning and the day before we went to Montana for summer vacation. >> >> Having said that, Pentax seemed to realize that the AF accuracy of the K10 >> was flawed, but they weren't very able to do anything about it from a >> consumer use perspective. This is why the K20 has user adjustable focus >> biasing. >> >> The question is, should they have released it that way or held back on the >> camera for an indeterminate amount of time until it was the perfect camera? >> All the while realizing that every day they held up the release they were >> losing sales to other companies, and realizing that their competition was >> also releasing products that were flawed in one way or another. >> How many lens sales do you suppose Sigma got because they held up the >> release of the 60-250 for as long as they did? >> >> William Robb >> >> -- >> 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. >> > -- 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.
