Pentax cashback

The thing is that at the present price with cashback deducted it was still a better deal to be a SRS early adopter (By some £20). To be asking for the cashback as well when the camera has only been released a week (and so getting a double bite of the cherry) would maybe seem just as unfair (if not more so) than not getting the cashback.

As for the people that didn't get the SRS price .. well they just bought from the wrong retailer

Not everyone is a member of this forum, so not everyone got the camera for the "special" price.

I have no objection to a cashback offer after I have bought a much needed camera. But to introduce that offer just a couple of weeks after the camera is available is a tad unfair. Why not wait another month and do it in December for the Christmas/pre VAT rise market?

If everyone waited to buy a new model of camera until there was a cashback/the price comes down/some other idiot has tested it for us then no cameras would ever be sold and Pentax would go bust.

Gwyn,

I think that you are fighting a losing battle with this one

It was a racing certainty that Pentax would introduce a cashback scheme at this time of year, once the retailers had good stock levels of the products.

Well I do hope that the cashback scheme this time is a little better managed. Look back to an earlier thread discussing the never-ending saga of claiming the cashback last time it was offered.

My point is that sometime between the time of initial purchase, and the actual receipt of the cashback, the shop price will have dropped anyway to less than the cashback gave you.

Gee I sound bitter don't I

Oh I know that Hyram. It started as a bit of a joke really but things got out of hand.

I accept I'm not going to win the cash back argument.

But I do get annoyed by everyone sitting back waiting for prices to drop and at the same time complaining Pentax aren't bringing out new lenses, FF cameras, aren't spending enough on R&D and advertising and goodness knows what else.
If you want new products you have to buy what is already there at the prices asked, so Pentax can make money and spend the profits on more new goodies. Don't just sit back and say I'll buy when the price drops to x amount. And don't accuse early adopters of being foolish. Someone has to be first or the rest of you will never have anything else to buy.

All new products go for a premium price when first released.
It then depends on the market if they come down or not.

Well you can always return the camera and ask your money back and then get it over 4 days again

Or just try to send your receipt to Pentax with the cashback offer filled in and see what they say.
No hurt in trying right?

I'm with you on that Stefan.

It can't hurt to try can it Gwyn.

Go on, you know you want too.

Not a hope - hard enough to get cashback on a legitimate claim

With hard do you mean the long wait?

Yes - a very long wait, due to the Pentax 'sub-contractor' (previous cashback scheme) being totally understaffed, so the last thing a genuine claimant wants is the system being clogged up with people 'trying it on'

Has no one considered that SRS may have had an inkling of the cashback offer and done a deal with Pentax to supply the K5 at a special price to their favorite() forum?.

I would have jumped on the SRS price had I been in a position to buy, later cahsback offer or not.

I would have as well had I not been waiting for the K-5/18-135mm kit.

I can also add that I bought the 50-135 because of the cashback offer and not knowing how long the 60-250 was going to be, in hindsight with the price increases it was the right thing to do, so hanging on is not always a good idea.

The kit price for the K20D with the DA*16-50 wasn't that much cheaper than buying them seperately if I remember correctly, perhaps £5-10 tops, and the K20D And DA* 16-50 & 50-135 bundles about the same saving.

The only thing that made the K20D & 16-50 cheaper was the £100 cashback

Is there going to be such a thing? I ordered a K-5/18-135mm kit and have been quoted a price. I took the K-5 a week ago and I am waiting for the lens. No need to wait if you buy at the right place.