Come to think of it I bought it at Costco.  I bet they'll take it back
regardless and let me apply the purchase price to a different model.

On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 11:46 AM, Tom C <[email protected]> wrote:
> You're right there's few if any perfect products.  I have a 1 year old
> Garmin GPS that I consider a quite crappy product for the money I paid
> for it.  You know the one. If' I'd have filled out my mfr's warranty
> card I'd have returned it long ago, but now I'm basically stuck with
> an over-priced, flawed piece of hardware.
>
> By complaining or voting with my wallet the next time around, a
> company can get the message.
>
> If Pentax releases a flawed product there's nothing unfair with them
> taking a beating for doing so. I needn't preface the comment with
> (they're just like all the other companies that want my money, so
> let's not be to hard on them).
>
> On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 11:18 AM, William Robb <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> --------------------------------------------------
>> From: "Tom C"
>> Subject: Re: Photokina observations...
>>
>>> A person of any age should not 'outgrow' what is a basic operating
>>> aspect of a camera.
>>
>> Why not?
>> When I was 12 and got my first camera, I inherited a mid 50s era Fuji
>> Rangefinder. Within a year I had outgrown enough of the basic operating
>> aspects of the camera to feel that it just wasn't doing what i wanted it to
>> do any longer, so I looked at my Dad's camera usage and decided that he
>> wouldn't miss his Spotmatic, provided it was at the back of his closet on
>> Christmas morning and the day before we went to Montana for summer vacation.
>>
>> Having said that, Pentax seemed to realize that the AF accuracy of the K10
>> was flawed, but they weren't very able to do anything about it from a
>> consumer use perspective. This is why the K20 has user adjustable focus
>> biasing.
>>
>> The question is, should they have released it that way or held back on the
>> camera for an indeterminate amount of time until it was the perfect camera?
>> All the while realizing that every day they held up the release they were
>> losing sales to other companies, and realizing that their competition was
>> also releasing products that were flawed in one way or another.
>> How many lens sales do you suppose Sigma got because they held up the
>> release of the 60-250 for as long as they did?
>>
>> William Robb
>>
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