On 3/21/2012 11:16 AM, Tom C wrote:
Larry Colen wrote:
I think that the single biggest thing Pentax could do to sell
more cameras is to get them into stores where people can buy them.
Well, yeah. But that's a little like saying the best way to become
rich is to make lots of money. It's true, but doesn't provide much
helpful information about how to accomplish the task.
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Mark Roberts - Photography& Multimedia
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So the question becomes... why DOESN'T Pentax have a high-end presence
in Costco, Walmart, Best Buy, and other nationwide brick and mortar
stores? Just about the only retail presence I see is camera shops,
which typically are selling at close to MSRP, and which get a small
fraction of the traffic the above mentioned stores receive.
It's even rare for me to even see a Pentax P&S on sale here.
Tom C.
Hell, Pentax isn't even in the local Brick and Mortar camera store.
Last place I saw a Pentax camera in the plastic so to speak, in any
store, was in a Sears, a ZX-30 with kit lens. The camera store has had
a few used lenses and occasionally the Vivitar V3800n during school
camera buying season, Oh I take that back they had a few used K1000's in
a small display case off to one side.
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Don't lose heart! They might want to cut it out, and they'll want to avoid a
lengthily search.
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