On Mar 21, 2012, at 4:18 PM, Toralf Lund wrote: > On 3/21/12 20:46, John Sessoms wrote: >> From: Mark Roberts >> >>> 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. >> >> It's a first step they need to take if they want anything else to work. > I think the point was that Pentax may well realise that they are in too few > major shops, the problem is finding a way to get there. I believe it's a lot > more involved these days than just to call the shop owners and ask... > > - T > It is not just cameras. Even back when my local KC camera store carried Pentax gear, they had a love/hate relationship with Pentax. The store owner liked the cameras but he could never get anything but cameras from Pentax. E.g. I bought a couple of PZ-1p from him, asked him for alternative focusing screens. He said that it would take months if ever before Pentax would send him anything like that. Ditto a number of other "special orders" for screens, battery grips, and other ancillary accessories for the PZ-1p, MZ-S, *ist-D. And then it got to where he couldn't even get cameras from Pentax unless he committed to a large buy. So I switched to Adorama and B&H.
stan >> >> Most people aren't going to buy a camera they can't see in a local store. >> >> They may buy it from Amazon or B&H to get a cheaper price, but they're going >> to look at it at Target or Walmart first. If they don't see Pentax there, >> they ain't gonna' buy a Pentax. >> >> And if they don't buy Pentax first time around, they ain't gonna' switch to >> Pentax later. >> > > > -- > 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.
