Hey everyone! I’ve been meaning to post about this for sometime but it has slipped my mind. This is a story about how awesome of a company Pentax is.
About a year or so ago, I founded the first Pentax facebook page called “Pentax Cameras”. Were any of you in it? Anyways, I had over 3000 people join and I was planning on becoming more active as the site’s moderator. A few months ago, perhaps in early June, I received a notice from facebook that my page had been taken over by Pentax. It was understandable since facebook pages are meant to be owned and operated by the business itself. However, I couldn’t help but feel a little cheated since I felt proud about making such a large group and Pentax is now heavily using it for marketing purposes. So, I saved the facebook warning and sent it to Pentax marketing. I asked if I could possibly get some form of compensation for founding the site and suggested a K-7. You know, fat chance right? But I figured it was worth a shot and I would honestly be just as happy if they decided to hook me up with anything. The people on the marketing end were very kind when I was talking to them about this, especially Carolyn Pitcavage, who was at the Pentax road meets.
I left for Europe for a two week trip about month back and I didn’t get a response back. I figured I wasn’t going to get one anyways, so I bought one before hand- a huge drain on my small income but I’m stupid.
While in Europe I received an email that they decided to set me up with a K-7 and man, it’s just unbelievable. Seriously, can you imagine any other company who would send someone their top of the line camera for that? So, I have a new K-7 sitting here next to my other one and I’m wondering why on earth I have two copies of my dream camera. I definitely don’t regret buying one before Europe though; it was an amazing tool in piecing together my portfolio abroad, as I posted in another
thread. I made my best work while I was there, though obviously this had more to do with myself. The K-7 with 3 pancakes has become the perfect tool for the type of photos I take. As a heads up though, I think I’m going to put it up for sale on the marketplace to recuperate some of the money I lost from my other one.
Anyways, Pentax gave me excellent customer service throughout the entire ordeal and made sure that I was happy. I think they definitely paid off the cost for the facebook page, I can never have any qualms against them and they pretty much earned my loyalty until death. I was hesitant to adopt the company’s marketing term but I am now a Pentaxian.