k-3 for £599?

3 months ago I may have had a punt, pay by paypal or visa and your coin will be covered, Pentax comes with a wordwide warranty does it not? suppose it is down to your risk aversion level in the end.

According to many of the review comments the warranty isn't valid in the UK.
Personally, with the amount of evidence against them I believe that there is a low risk of getting a functioning product at a substantially less than UK price and a high risk of receiving a pentax shaped brick that you can't get repaired or get a refund on.
However the more people that buy something from them and make claims on their credit cards of paypal, the more chance there is that they will eventually be shut down from using those services.

Set your browser to ask if you want to accept each cookie individually - and then only accept those you really want or need to as that will stop a lot of these ads!

What I find hard to swallow is this example
K-3 from B&H photo in new york $1296 including Pentax grip and DA50mm and 32gb class 10 card
add on import duty and courier and its near identical to our european price
the import duty is just over $400 paid in advance
why the huge price difference ?

Northernmonkey
If the K3 came out of the factory at over £400, you would not see it for a £1000 in this country, more like £1500/1600.
Cheers
Dave

K3 is still GBP688 here, inc tax @ 10% (refundable for visitors).

The K3 SE with grip, is back in stock at GBP847 inc tax.

Both above prices are from main importer-direct sales.

Retailers prices are as above but there's not too many around Perth that stock Pentax kit.

They will order it in and match the price but you may as well order direct from the official importer.

Best regards

I've tried this in the past and have seemed to spend ages accepting/denying cookies. The solution is not to have so many 'personalised' (for want of a better term) ads on this forum. I'm currently looking at ads for:

Broadband - I have it otherwise I wouldn't be here.
An online casino - I spend too much on Pentax gear to have any spare to gamble.
Three different holiday ads
An advert for Nikon cameras - quite a good deal as it happens

EDIT: And I've just spotted a bunch of keyword derived ads at the bottom including 'Pentax SLR' which goes to an ad page with two Canon ads and nothing about Pentax.

For me it isn't worth paying the PU subscription with so many ads.

Web advertising is a mystery to me, websites seem only too happy to host ad engines that post ads from competitors, often in preference (or more prominent) than their own 'official partners' ads. If I was an official partner I'd be pretty annoyed to be honest.

Get Ghostery installed - if you are using FireFox. You can then ask "What Ads?"

I use 'Adblock' plugin and don't see any of them.

Unfortunately I don't have it on the iPad so it comes as a bit of a shock whenever I use that

I've moved this to General Chat as it's moved into areas that are useful, but nothing to do with a Leads to Deals.

That saves it from being culled at some point, but can I remind everyone that Leads to Deals isn't the place for discussions. They get removed eventually and then all that effort is wasted.