Originally posted by Blue With exception of the web presence and the Pentax store in New York, show me this Pentax marketing and presence in the U.S.A of which you speak.
I agree. It's quite shameful and there is no excuse.
I met Mark Dimalanta at a large store in LA during the advertised "Pentax days".
He was hidden behind the Tamrac bags, and all the lenses I could see were the ones
Mark owns. A great guy BTW. I bought into the system partially thanks to him.
But there was NOTHING available in a store to buy! Mark showed me his own stuff
and then I went online to buy it! What a joke, even he was embarrassed.
Samy's is the biggest store in LA (2nd city in the US) and you can't buy Pentax there.
Ned was sometimes seating in their store here also, but that happened maybe twice
in last 5 years. Ned is a cool guy, but he could as well be drinking pinacolada in Hawaii,
the results and Pentax presence in the US would be the same.
Maybe the Japanese headquarter is here to be blamed, but who cares really?