Originally posted by Gray This vacillation makes PRIAC look like they don't know what they're doing. The prices shouldn't have gone up in the first place - for what? A ton of ill will and lost sales.
Loyal customers (retailers and photographers alike) shouldn't be jerked around. It's very bad for business.
Why is every single unhappy poster always 100% sure he knows better than professionals working on this for years? I'm only wondering do people have any self-criticism at all? Or maybe all the unhappy posters have advanced degrees in Finance, Economics and Marketing? I really doubt that. What makes you so confident you are the ones who know how to do it right?
Jerking around with loyal customers is not a good thing for a business. Though trying to go out of your way to please the customers when your company is at the edge of bankruptcy is not a great idea either. Pentax goal should be rebuilding the brand rather than pleasing the customers. Is this such a big surprise this process may be painful?
Many reasonable posters explained that and many more things and also predicted the prices will go back to normal eventually as it is happening now. Maybe the skeptics should go back to that Unilateral pricing thread and read again what other people have said?
Look, all the details have been explained pretty well, the reasoning behind the UPP has been explained numerous times, and yet some people make posts like they have never read or understood those explanations at all.
Originally posted by Chaos_Realm A post on the first page indicates this perfectly, lens broke, a replacement was then needed for a wedding. Sure there was nobody forcing him but really there wasn't many viable alternatives, and they didn't have a couple of months to sit around waiting for the prices to drop back.
What does "no viable alternatives" mean? And how about the Tamron 17-50 f2.8 or an equivalent Sigma, both of which were rated higher than the Pentax offering in several different categories as well as overall being much cheaper too! If one makes the choice in favor of a lens that costs almost 4 times as much as an equivalent (or even better) alternative, there should be a good reason for that. I guess for the affected Pentaxian the Pentax 16-50 did offer something significant enough to offset the huge price difference, i.e. the price was justified.
Last edited by vanyagor; 06-10-2012 at 02:55 AM.