Ricoh does some marketing and apparently has deals with B&H, Amazon and others to promote Pentax products. That’s efficient marketing. PPG is hugely inefficient. It has to be staffed and maintained, and then for it to be effective, it has to be promoted. Not a good way to spend a thin marketing budget.
> On Aug 21, 2018, at 11:37 AM, P. J. Alling <[email protected]> wrote: > > The PPG was a creature of Pentax marketing, itself a kind of unicorn, at best > an afterthought since sometime in the 70's. RIcoh has aparently contracted > the Asahi marketing disease which seems to amount to if you build it they > will come. Unfortunately if you don't advertise it who will know... > > > On 8/20/2018 2:15 PM, [email protected] wrote: >> PPG went stale about six months after it opened, once they stopped paying >> any attention to it. >> >> Sent from my evil super-villain lair, mobile headquarters >> >>> On Aug 20, 2018, at 12:44 PM, Jostein <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> PPG has gone stale. >>> I have removed my files from the gallery and requested that my account be >>> closed and removed. There's no button for opting out. >>> >>> Jostein >>> >>> Den 15.08.2018 16:04, skrev Daniel J. Matyola: >>>> Same here. >>>> Last week, I check the PPG site, and the Upload page was still broken. >>>> When I tried to send them a message through the contact page. the >>>> "captcha" could not be satisfied, and would not permit the message to be >>>> sent to Ricoh. >>>> Late last night, I tried again, and received a message like the one you >>>> got: "Your connection is not Private. Attackers might be trying to steal >>>> your information from pentaxphotogallery.com" >>>> Does anyone have a general email for PentaxRicoh that we can ise to try to >>>> communicate with them? >>>> It looks like the PPG is dead. :( >>>> Dan Matyola >>>> http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola >>>>> On Wed, Aug 15, 2018 at 5:26 AM, Bong Manayon <[email protected]> >>>>> wrote: >>>>> Tried going into PPG today and my browser/security program would not let >>>>> me. "Unsecure" site...I tend to trust it so am not going to try...yet. >>>>> Anything on your end? >>>>> >>>>> Bong >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> Bong Manayon >>>>> http://bong.manayon.net >>>>> >>> -- >>> 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. >> > > -- > America wasn't founded so that we could all be better. > America was founded so we could all be anything we damn well please. > - P.J. O'Rourke > > > -- > 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.
