Originally posted by JeffJS That depends on when you started looking. I paid $360 out of pocket for mine, New. In November 2008. It was my first purchase experience from ProDigital2000. The MS (Bing) cashback rebate of the time brought the cost down even further. I've seen a couple used ones offered in the last 6 months around that price but you are correct. These days, that is rare and you have to be on top of things if you want one for that price.
Prodigital 2000 between 2007 and the beginning of 2009 had some amazing deals for US Pentaxians. The dollar was weak and Pentax hadn't raised prices in Canada for a long time. At that point, you could get the DA 35 limited for 350, I got a DA *16-50 for just a hair under 600 dollars.
Anyway, since that time, the US dollar has weakened considerably and prices have gone up world wide. So much for rock bottom prices...