Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
09-19-2012, 11:34 AM
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I do not remember where I got this info. (from the camera store owner in Vermont or the one here in my town in Virginia, from this forum?), and I also don't know the proper business terminology, but it was my understanding that Pentax required store owners to actually buy all of the merchandise they sold, whereas Canon and Nikon would stock the product and it was paid for as the product was sold. I know somebody out there could phrase that more skillfully than I did, but if that was true and I owned a store, I'd probably stock Canon and Nikon too because you wouldn't be taking risk that you would with Pentax. Did I just make this story up or can anybody confirm that this was/is the Pentax business strategy?
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
08-13-2012, 04:02 PM
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I honestly don't know how Pentax stays in business. I once again attended 2 very large music festivals and saw not one Pentax. Plenty of pro level Canons and Nikons, maybe one Sony and one Fuji point and shoots, but not a single Pentax. Two years in a row--same result. I have concluded that we are really that rare and I can't figure out how Pentax stays in business. I really can't. I'm in the US, so I have to assume it's somewhat different in other parts of the world. True?
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
10-04-2011, 06:04 PM
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The answer is yes we are. I bought a Kx as my first DSLR because it gave my the best bang for my limited bucks, so when someone on the forum said that something called Woot had them on sale for one day for $430, I jumped at it. One of my better decisions. This summer I went to a very large music festival and had my little red Kx (oh, I forgot to mention that for some reason I fell in love with the red, something my Canon friends find very funny, an endless cause for their hilarious jokes!) and I felt a little inadequate when I saw the pros who got to get right up to the stage with their expensive mostly Nikon outfits. But you know what? During my 3 days at this festival, I had 5 total strangers say things like 'cool camera' and 'love your camera' and things lilke that. I'll bet nobody told those pros that they had a cool camera. And, strangely enough, I did run into one guy at the festival who had a . . . red Kx. We gave each other the thumbs up. And I guess I'm still happy with my red decision, though I've found it helps to have thick skin when I'm around all those black cameras!
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