Yep, the $1000/lb number is wrong (unless you are talking a Super Guppy or AN-224, which is where I expect my source got it, unfortunately they didn't divulge the math behiond the umber, and I took it on face value, mistakenly). It doesn't change the basic equations of air freight vs sea freight.
The real world is typically far more complicated than common sense allows for. -Adam Aaron Reynolds wrote: >Yikes! > >Okay, perhaps I should have been more clear -- I wasn't defending the numbers, >which I know nothing >about. I was trying to clear up the fact that Pentax DOES ship by sea for >large orders and by air for >small ones. Regardless of what one thinks of "common sense" or "basic >economics", that is actually >what they do. The first batch of K100D and K110D bodies destined for North >America are on a boat >last I heard. My DS2, which was a very late production model, shipped by air >directly from the >Philippine warehouse (by Purolator, if I recall correctly) and took only a >couple of days to get to me. > >We've seen a clear demonstration already with the real-world numbers from Paul >and Bill of how bigger >shipments actually do get more expensive by air. The real world is under no >obligation to conform to >common sense, and frequently doesn't. > >And how can I be digging if this is only my second post on the subject? ;) > >IN SUMMARY: Pentax ship large orders by sea and small orders by air. They're >either doing it in the >most economical way, or total idiots. Arguing that they don't do this is akin >to arguing that they don't >sell cameras. > >-Aaron > > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
