Oh, the turmoil Pentax must be in trying to decide on the final pricing. Many reasonable scenarios have been put forth.
Bruce Friday, March 7, 2003, 8:48:24 AM, you wrote: SD> It definitely means that if you are going to sell every camera you make, there is no use in lowering the price to sell more. You can't "buy market share" without having the units themselves to SD> deliver. The correct business approach would be to price the cameras just low enough to sell every one you make. Making them cheaper accomplishes nothing. The higher price may even make them SD> more desirable, in a perverse sort of way. SD> Steven Desjardins SD> Department of Chemistry SD> Washington and Lee University SD> Lexington, VA 24450 SD> (540) 458-8873 SD> FAX: (540) 458-8878 SD> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/07/03 11:38AM >>> SD> Doug wrote: >> Excellent point. Reports out of PMA indicate that Pentax will have trouble >> keeping up with demand for the *ist D, and the price hasn't even been set yet. SD> Not to be negative but hardly any digital camera is made for meeting demand. Nothing scare the manufacturers more than having unsold stock of digital cameras. Hence, avery digital camera SD> manufactured are already sold. So the fact that a manufacturer doesn't meet demand doesn't mean anything really. SD> P�l
