Originally posted by AsahiGlass Sorry for the Educational post I needed. All these explanations that cameras are sold like cars is great. But the truth remains years ago I could go buy
A Pentax at a camera store, I could buy a 645 at the professional store. Now no.
So how do they sell the Theta 360 bull**** at BestBuy? They make exceptions?
Of course they do... The theta is their #1 selling product, because it's advertised..
Dude. You still have it backwards.
Have you looked inside one? It has an embedded off-brand MicroSD card for storage and a RIcoh-Branded compact camera battery perma-mounted to a holder. It costs
ZIP to make and sells for $379. It is advertised
because it is profitable at it’s price point at high volume and Ricoh can make enough of them to fulfill the delivery guarantee clauses of the Purchase Agreement with Best Buy and Amazon.
It’s a consumer toy, not a dSLR. Pentax doesn’t make consumer toy dSLR’s for $400 (but Nikon and Canon do).
I’m out.
Last edited by monochrome; 11-02-2018 at 03:18 PM.