Originally posted by Indecent Exposure I stand corrected, When I saw the $1,599 it appeared that it was US Dollar plus the duplication of the webpage.
Unfortunately the management of CC is closely related to Ritz. Read the WSJ, I am quite surprised that Hoya did not look into this prior to making a business commitment on web sales with them. Mistakes like this are about as "sharp as a bowling ball" if you get my drift.
The best DSLR manufacturer on earth and they make crucial mistakes in marketing like this? Go figure.
Actually it is becoming a mute point because the K7 is days away from being fully released in the US and the market will bear what it will bear.
Within a few weeks the pricing wars between sellers begin. With regards to the impatience comment I hold strong. PT Barnum was absolutely right.
Good Day
Fortunately I do not get into pissing matches on a forum and resent being called a troll. I do not post in any other Pentax related forum besides this one.
Don't you mean
"MOOT" point?
moot |moōt|
adjective
subject to debate, dispute, or uncertainty, and typically not admitting of a final decision : whether the temperature rise was mainly due to the greenhouse effect was a moot point.
• having no practical significance, typically because the subject is too uncertain to allow a decision : it is moot whether this phrase should be treated as metaphor or not.
verb [ trans. ] (usu. be mooted)
raise (a question or topic) for discussion; suggest (an idea or possibility) : Sylvia needed a vacation, and a trip to Ireland had been mooted.
noun
1 Brit. an assembly held for debate, esp. in Anglo-Saxon and medieval times.
• a regular gathering of people having a common interest.
2 Law a mock trial set up to examine a hypothetical case as an academic exercise.
ORIGIN Old English mōt [assembly or meeting] and mōtian [to converse,] of Germanic origin; related to meet 1 . The adjective (originally an attributive noun use: see moot court ) dates from the mid 16th cent.; the current verb sense dates from the mid 17th cent.