Glad you forwarded Ned's comments. Jack :-)
----- Original Message ----- From: Miserere <[email protected]> To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> Cc: Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2012 10:56 AM Subject: Re: K-r successor coming soon? On 21 March 2012 12:09, Jack Davis <[email protected]> wrote: > A number of years ago I ask a camera store owner why he didn't stock Pentax. > He explained (?) that Pentax wouldn't let him pick and choose just those > items he wanted to stock, but instead dictated to him what he would be > required to stock. Stated he featured Canon, carried a few Nikons and Olympus. > The thing he didn't do was "bad mouth" Pentax, but instead said he considered > their lenses (referred to them as "Tacks") as being "excellent.". Claimed his > first SLR was a Pentax. > > Jack My "local" camera store, Bromfield's in Boston, stopped stocking them when Pentax fired all their sales reps some 10-odd years ago. They don't have anything against Pentax but Pentax decided that they didn't want to sell in brick & mortar stores, so now Bromfield has mostly Canikon gear with a smattering of Olympus (and maybe Sony). When I spoke to Ned Bunnell about this a couple years ago we said Pentax USA had a plan to return to B&M stores, but it's not something you can accomplish in a week as agreements have to be reached and Pentax has to be careful not to swamp stores with their cameras only to have them not sell. It's a process that Ned said would take years but would benefit Pentax in the long run (in the US). As I've said before, Pentax is present alongside Canikon at big box electronics stores in Spain and I've seen more people on the street with Pentax DSLRs over there than I have here in the States, despite only spending 2-3 weeks a year in Spain. I'm sure Pentax will eventually reach Best Buy, but only after it's firmly planted in B&M stores. Cheers, —M. \/\/o/\/\ --> http://WorldOfMiserere.com http://EnticingTheLight.com A Quest for Photographic Enlightenment -- 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.
