Kim wrote: Good idea, but don't this hurt Pentax in the long run? Kim, I don't quite understand what you mean by "hurting Pentax in the long run"? In a sense, buying any used lens is less profitable for the company than if one purchased a new lens (which then causes the retailer to purchase more new lenses for their stock).
Economies seem to work even with used items on the market, because some people will sell their used stuff in order to fund their purchase of new items. So your purchase of the used item *indirectly* helps the company sell the new item. Not everybody, for a variety of reasons, wants to purchase new things. Perhaps they can't afford them; perhaps they hate the idea of losing value through depreciation the moment that item is used; perhaps they are most interested in "bang for the buck". I'm a "bang for the buck" guy. I still have never purchased a new Pentax lens. But Pentax has made plenty of money off of me because I'm now on my 6th different Pentax body (all of which were purchased new). Pentax has (apparently) long ago fixed the SDM problem by using better components, But that doesn't mean that there aren't (literally uncountable numbers of) lenses out there with the old components that still may fail. It is each failure, which causes dismay to the owner that hurts Pentax, because each time somebody complains on some forum about it, it gives the impression that the problem still exists in SDM products being made today. That's what hurts Pentax, in the long run and in the short run. -- 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.
