No more Pentax for Camera World

Hi All,
Thanks for your posts that helped me buy into Pentax after a long time considering many cameras, both full frame & cropped. This is my first post.
Last week I was in Camera World in Wells Street, London. A very good shop (with another branch in Chelmsford), they are friendly, knowledgeable and helpful. One of the guys asked how I was getting on with my new K7, which I had bought elsewhere at the same price they were selling at - £900 after the £100 rebate. I said “Great” and went on about it briefly.
I noticed they hadn’t any K7s or anything else by Pentax on display and asked how sales of the K7 were going and he said, “We were losing £40 on every body we sold and... well I mean Pentax... they just don’t care. So that’s it – we’re not stocking them anymore”. I’m sorry to make my first post a bit of a downer, but the way in which he sighed in some sort of dammed resignation when he said that Pentax didn’t care was really quite sickening.
Andy

Shame - you're right, it's a nice shop and a shame that they've had to do this. LCE on the Strand seem to have less Pentax stuff now too, and they used to stock quite a lot.

On the other hand, Kx and K-7 seem to be widely stocked by Jacobs and Curry's; but not much of a lens collection - that seems to be in a fairly exclusive number of shops nowadays but the Internet helps.

The left hand at Cameraworld does not seem to know what the right hand is doing.

Cameraworld has just started stocking the recently announted new Pentax H90 and I-10 cameras

Hi folks, well a bit of self promotion and back up for Pentax, i have recently taken on Pentax at my shop in Colchester, a brand i am very passionate about , the support and encouragement i have had from Pentax has been outstanding, they do care about their products and their user base, they are a brand with big plans and customer and dealer service is right at the top of their list.
Prices on all makes and margains is always under attack , Pentax does not suffer more or less than any other brand, beleive in a product and it will work !
I am sure our Strand branch will always be happy to supply any Pentax product at short notice, Colchester is not far away and is a very photogenic town.
Our stock of Pentax and Pentax fit equipment grows daily, visitors from any area of course always welcome and we are open 7 days a week, and contactable by phone upto 10pm daily

Dave

Good man.

Good to hear - thanks.