How many people who do not already own Pentax equipment would hang out on a "Pentaxian" community website looking at what other Pentax users had to say?
I feel the criticism is misplaced. It's a little easter egg hunt to inspire enthusiasm for pentax users, not a major "win a pentax camera" contest to draw new users. What I see in so many posts like Tom's is constant criticism of the company and its products, which makes me wonder why those who are so critical of them choose to continue as owners/users. I wouldn't if I were that critical of both company and products. IBM seems to be doing pretty well nowadays. G On Sep 13, 2007, at 9:02 AM, John Sessoms wrote: > He does make a valid point though. > > I'd be far more likely to buy a lens for a camera I just won than I > would to buy a camera to fit a lens or a flash ... although I think > Pentax'd probably get better marketing value for giving away a > camera kit. > > I'd be far more likely to buy *ANOTHER* lens for a camera I'd won if I > could it use right out of the box. > > And it's far more likely I'd eventually follow an upgrade path once > committed to the system than if I have a lens or a flash I couldn't > use > for anything but a paperweight. > > Sometimes I wonder if Pentax hired all of IBM's old marketing guys. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
