I bought a WG-III GPS camera from Pentax early in the 12 days. Received it within 3-4 days. But that is an "old" camera that they may well be phasing out. I think the Ricoh marketing (website managers) and inventory/distribution people must not talk to one another. And/or they (Ricoh) have a totally inadequate model of the expected supply/demand curves as they are affected by variations in price points. B&H on the other hand usually has a better grasp of all of that.
stan On Dec 20, 2013, at 6:31 PM, Igor Roshchin wrote: > > Bob and Yolanda, - I fell for you both. > > I pulled the trigger on that one-day sale of 31/1.8 on Cyber-Monday, > and bought one from B&H. It said (and still says) "Usually ships in 3-7 > business days", but it's been a while (3 business weeks), and > I am still waiting.. > > That day Ricoh also had the sale for this Pentax lens (which prompted > the matching sale by B&H). > It says "in stock" for that lens on Pentaxwebstore.com. > > > Igor > > > > Fri Dec 20 16:21:16 EST 2013 > Bob Sullivan wrote: > > Ya, I was disheartened to see that sale as I have/had the grip on > backorder with B&H. > I figured the Ricoh deal sucked up all the supply of grips. > To hear that you didn't get an immediate shipment gives me a glimmer of > hope > that they protected their other backorders. > I'm waiting to see the cheap Chinese version on ebay. > I bought 2 (for the K-7 then K-5) and they worked just fine. > You'll get the order jammed back up your ~~~ distribution system if > you don't deliver soon. > Regards, Bob S. > > On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 12:04 PM, Yolanda Rowe <yprowe at gmail.com> > wrote: >> Grrrrrrrrrrrrr! Now, that I have that off my chest I can tell you why >> I feel that way. >> >> We hopped on the deal for the K-3 w/battery grip (who cares about the >> sling bag; it will simply go in the pile collecting dust). I've been >> watching the email for the shipping notification (and the charge acct >> for a earlier hint). Saw the charge pending but it disappeared, so I >> contacted Ricoh (refuse to say P*ntax on this one--LOL) >> >> The damn thing is back-ordered and customer service has "no >> information" on when it will be in stock. From what I've read here, >> it's probably because of the grip. In any case, it might have been >> nice to learn that from them. Simple thing to have the system generate >> an automated email reply for a WEB STORE order that has an associated >> email. If they're too cheap to ship twice, contact me and give me the >> option to pay for extra shipment. >> >> In any case, we know that they are moving product. >> >> So much for sneaking off and playing with a Christmas gift before it >> goes under the tree. >> >> Thanks for *listening* to my first world problem... >> >> Yonnie >> > > -- > 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.
