On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 10:56 AM, steve harley <[email protected]> wrote: > Ned Bunnell in April: "you’re going to very shortly hear that Pentax is back > in a major National account, which is something we’ve been working on > extremely hard for over a year."
Yes, and that is the same post in which he makes the case for the "parity in lens pricing" policy (which they have already been forced to [dump] retreat from). It is speculation on my part, but if that policy was implemented to make some major retailer happy, then that didn't work out so well and perhaps the major retailer has reconsidered (something Ned surely would not be trumpeting in his blog). In any event, define "very shortly" and "major National account". That same post (in the previous sentence to the one you quoted) also emphasizes its relationship with a lot of smaller camera retailers: "during the last year we have renewed relationships or expanded our presence with key photo retailers across the U.S. such as Samy’s (LA), WB Hunt (Boston area), Dodd Camera (Cleveland), Ace Photo (Virginia), Cameraland (Iowa), Cameraland (NYC), Creve Coeur Camera (greater St. Louis), National Camera Exchange (Minneapolis) as well as others." http://nedbunnell.posterous.com/lens-prices-and-our-channel-strategy-in-the-u -- "The key to seeing the world's soul, and in the process wakening one's own, is to get over the confusion by which we think that fact is real and imagination an illusion. It is the other way around." -Thomas Moore, "Original Self" -- 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.
