According to rumours* the K-r has been discontinued so this may be run-out stock. There hasn't been any official announcement, but if you are trying to get rid of stocks of the old model before introducing a new one that is probably the safest way.
*well, okay, the rumours were on the PentaxForum, but not all of them wear tinfoil hats Paul On 24/11/2011, at 7:21 AM, Christine Nielsen wrote: > Pentax announced today on fb: > "The K-r digital SLR will be available soon exclusively on walmart.com > in limited edition pink, purple, blue, green, yellow, navy, metallic > brown, gold and silver. " > > Interesting. At first glance, I thought maybe a promising step > towards getting Pentax stock into stores... but then I realized > "walmart.com"... Maybe not such a big deal after all. But, if they > have the Hello Kitty edition... > > :) > -c > > -- > 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.
