The owners of both of the local stores in Raleigh told me the same
thing. Pentax would not keep them as a dealer unless they *stocked in
inventory* one of every item Pentax offered (excepting endoscopes). Both
were existing dealers who had carried a fair amount of Pentax merchandise.
This was before Hoya.
From: "P. J. Alling"
Pentax would actually have to respond to stores that want to carry them
for this to even marginally work. The last "local" and by local I mean
less than 25 miles away from where I sit, if you can call that local,
full service, camera store tells me that they stopped carrying Pentax
because after the last good sales rep retired, their calls went unanswered.
On 4/18/2012 9:54 AM, David Parsons wrote:
That makes perfect sense. While I'm not really keen on the actual
prices being enforced (who likes to pay more?), getting the product in
stores for a similar price as online may actually get me to shop in a
store if I want to try a lens out.
On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 9:40 AM, Christine Nielsen<[email protected]> wrote:
http://nedbunnell.posterous.com/lens-prices-and-our-channel-strategy-in-the-u
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