Bob, I found out last year @ GFM, that Don worked for my guy @ Pentax.
Kenneth Waller
http://www.tinyurl.com/272u2f
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From: Bob Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Pentax Fires USA Sales Staff
Ken,
That's interesting. Given guys like Don Nelson were reps
2008/4/6 Bob W [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Sadly, the *reason* for changes like this is that stores like the
one
you used to work at (and the one I used to work at) are going
the way of
the dinosaur.
they're growing feathers and taking to the sky?
Bob
Yep. Just like the dodo's ancestor... :-)
Christine,
I don't think Chicago got very good service out of the Pentax Rep.
Helix was terrible on Pentax stuff. Only Central Camera had anything.
Out in the western suburbs, only one independent near Morton Arboretum
had Pentax - PJ's Camera.
I hope Calumet does better now with a new shop in
a larger
format; I think I'd very much like it. Have you been to the Oak Brook shop?
Cheers, Christine
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From: Bob Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net
Sent: Sunday, April 06, 2008 6:39 AM
Subject: Re: Pentax Fires USA Sales Staff
very much like it. Have you been to the Oak Brook shop?
Cheers, Christine
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From: Bob Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net
Sent: Sunday, April 06, 2008 6:39 AM
Subject: Re: Pentax Fires USA Sales Staff
Christine,
I don't think
they're growing feathers and taking to the sky?
...or getting wiped out by a meteor...
Kenneth Waller
http://www.tinyurl.com/272u2f
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From: Bob W [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Pentax Fires USA Sales Staff
Sadly, the *reason* for changes like this is that stores
something Pentax, he'd ship it to me I could either keep it or ship it
back no questions asked.
Kenneth Waller
http://www.tinyurl.com/272u2f
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From: Bob Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Pentax Fires USA Sales Staff
Christine,
I don't think Chicago got very
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From: Bob Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Pentax Fires USA Sales Staff
Christine,
I don't think Chicago got very good service out of the Pentax Rep.
Helix was terrible on Pentax stuff. Only Central Camera had anything.
Out in the western suburbs
Ken Waller wrote:
FWIW - years ago I got frustrated with the lack of Pentax stuff in stores in
the Detroit ares.
I called the Pentax district sales guy who handled Detroit. He was located
in a suburb N.W. of Chicago. He was well aware of the situation in the
Detroit area. Pentax reps
http://theonlinephotographer.com/the_online_photographer/blog_index.html
I think this explains what has happened. Anyone want a job?
Walt
On 4/4/08, Stan Halpin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Probably wishful thinking on the part of the store personnel.
Distribution of goods, relationships with
http://theonlinephotographer.com/the_online_photographer/blog_index.html
I think this explains what has happened. Anyone want a job?
Walt
Wow, interesting! I wonder how this will affect their relationship with
shops like the one I used to work at. I also wonder how one goes about
On Sat, Apr 05, 2008 at 11:03:53AM -0700, John Celio wrote:
http://theonlinephotographer.com/the_online_photographer/blog_index.html
I think this explains what has happened. Anyone want a job?
Walt
Wow, interesting! I wonder how this will affect their relationship with
shops like
http://theonlinephotographer.com/the_online_photographer/blog_index.html
I think this explains what has happened. Anyone want a job?
Walt
Wow, interesting! I wonder how this will affect their relationship with
shops like the one I used to work at. I also wonder how one goes about
John Celio wrote:
http://theonlinephotographer.com/the_online_photographer/blog_index.html
I think this explains what has happened. Anyone want a job?
Wow, interesting! I wonder how this will affect their relationship with
shops like the one I used to work at. I also wonder how one goes
] On
Behalf Of Mark Roberts
Sent: 05 April 2008 20:57
To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List
Subject: Re: Pentax Fires USA Sales Staff
John Celio wrote:
http://theonlinephotographer.com/the_online_photographer/blog_
index.html
I think this explains what has happened. Anyone want a job?
Wow
- Original Message -
From: Mark Roberts
Subject: Re: Pentax Fires USA Sales Staff
Welcome to the 21st century and the era of the Big Box retailer. :(
(Ironic that the dinosaur analogy breaks down here because it's the
lumbering giants that are out-evolving the smaller, nimbler
William Robb wrote:
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Welcome to the 21st century and the era of the Big Box retailer. :(
(Ironic that the dinosaur analogy breaks down here because it's the
lumbering giants that are out-evolving the smaller, nimbler shops...)
Not out evolving so much as
Mark, you and others make some good points. However, I have talked to
our local full service camera/hobby store and they told some pretty
dreary stories about how the Pentax rep would rarely visit their store
or do much of any communicating. Eventually the store owners just
dropped Pentax from the
Walter Hamler wrote:
Mark, you and others make some good points. However, I have talked to
our local full service camera/hobby store and they told some pretty
dreary stories about how the Pentax rep would rarely visit their store
or do much of any communicating. Eventually the store owners
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From: Walter Hamler [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mark, you and others make some good points. However, I have talked to
our local full service camera/hobby store and they told some pretty
dreary stories about how the Pentax rep would rarely visit their store
or do much of
That's not quite true, most were in trouble before they were crushed.
Those that aren't that give good service, treat their customers well and
stock items that the big boxes don't bother with, seem to do quite well.
Mark Roberts wrote:
William Robb wrote:
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Or the usual dealer BS. It amazes me just how much utter crap
salesmaggots say about various brands, all of it with absolutely no
basis in reality.
-Adam
On 4/4/08, John Mullan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Can you say April Fool? That's what it sounds like, and the timing is
right.
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- Original Message -
From: J. Meeks
Subject: Pentax Fires USA Sales Staff
I was in my local camera store today and the clerk I
deal with knows I am a Pentax guy. She let me know
that their sales rep sent an email informing them that
all the USA sales reps and managers had been let
If you try googling on it you get nothing. If it were happening I would
think someone would have posted somewhere besides here.
Adam Maas wrote:
Or the usual dealer BS. It amazes me just how much utter crap
salesmaggots say about various brands, all of it with absolutely no
basis in reality.
Can you say April Fool?
Wouldn't bet on it.
Kenneth Waller
http://www.tinyurl.com/272u2f
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From: John Mullan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Pentax Fires USA Sales Staff
Can you say April Fool? That's what it sounds like, and the timing is
right
Mullan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Pentax Fires USA Sales Staff
Can you say April Fool? That's what it sounds like, and the timing is
right.
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From: J. Meeks [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: pdml@pdml.net
Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2008 9:12 PM
Subject: Pentax Fires
Probably wishful thinking on the part of the store personnel.
Distribution of goods, relationships with local retail outlets, has
been a weak point of Pentax for a long time. Treated like mushrooms
is an old metaphor that describes local stores in this relationship.
We can only hope that
Can you say April Fool? That's what it sounds like, and the timing is
right.
- Original Message -
From: J. Meeks [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: pdml@pdml.net
Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2008 9:12 PM
Subject: Pentax Fires USA Sales Staff
I was in my local camera store today and the clerk I
deal
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