No, what they are doing is ensuring that they have inventory to sell, by decreasing demand.
-- Best regards, Bruce Wednesday, March 11, 2009, 9:40:49 AM, you wrote: JM> On Mar 11, 2009, at 06:17 , Frits Wüthrich wrote: >> Apparently Pentax increased the prices with 15% lately. This is in >> line with other price increases from the Japanese industry to >> compensate for the lower demand because of the current economy. JM> Brilliant marketing strategy. JM> The economy tanks - people can't afford as much discretionary spending JM> - so let's raise our prices so fewer products will sell. JM> Joseph McAllister JM> Pentaxian JM> http://gallery.me.com/jomac JM> http://web.me.com/jomac/show.me/Blog/Blog.html JM> -- JM> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List JM> [email protected] JM> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net JM> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
