Pentax Fires USA Sales Staff

[Christine Aguila]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Walter Hamler" <hamlerwalter at gmail.com>


> Mark, you and others make some good points. However, I have talked to
> our local "full service" camera/hobby store and they told some pretty
> dreary stories about how the Pentax rep would rarely visit their store
> or do much of any communicating. Eventually the store owners just
> dropped Pentax from the line. They lament that they would love to
> carry Pentax but it's hard to do meaningful business with a voice on
> the other end of a phone or via cryptic emails.

A few months ago, while talking to the manager at Calumet Photo near Cherry 
& Division sts in Chicago, I learned the Pentax Rep for this store used to 
be based in a nearby suburb of Chg, but the new rep (at that time) was based 
out of New York.  Perhaps a harbinger of what we now know.

Cheers, Christine