Pentax cashback

The reality is that 'none' of us know what the product will be like.
The secondary problem is that we may all wait until the 'price drops' as we feel we have a bargain..................
And then what do they do?????????

Hike the price! We all rush!

If we DIDNT all RUSH then we would ALL benefit from lower prices,(particularly the UK), and especially all over. We are all 'Pentaxians' but do we really need to pay 'over the odds' in the first instance?

It would be far more effective for the 'Vendor' in this case Pentax, to inform there prospective market far more effectively and prematurely.

Market Awareness.

Paul

Paul

Link to the Pentax site> http://www.pentax.co.uk/cashback

Don said [I never understood consumers that line up and even sleep in line just to be first for the new item.
I do understand the desire to get a new item that you want or need.
It is hard to be patient, but being first to buy also means being first to find the first run production errors.... first to find bugs and gllitches..... and first to find out if the initial asking price is off base compared to the market.]

Indeed....the Pioneers got killed by the Indians

Howard

Germany also has the Cashback with €150 and in some store it's instant cashback

No sign of it in the Netherlands - but then the K-5 is still not available here.

I'm so glad I didn't wait for a Dutch one .

Yes they are, Camera.nl and Klein at least have them for a week now.

... the body is under €1200 here without any cashback, so I don't get the point for me. Ah well...

Bret

Body here is €1119 at a good dealer not a unknown internet store link

So if i get the K5 from SRS with the cashback it would still be cheaper to buy one here without the cashback...

But off course €100/€150 is always nice right?

Camera.nl do not have it in stock. I wouldn't buy from Klein any more than I would from Pixmania.

Cashback from Pentax UK is only for UK addresses and bank accounts Stefan. It is not being done the same way as the last one was.

Which might mean those in the UK get their money quicker.

Gwyn i was at Camera.nl a week ago and i hold the Pentax Kr and the K5 there and the website say they have the k5 at stock link
And since camera.nl is a sister off klein it's likely they have it as well.
In Rotterdam there is Klein professional those are still pretty good but i mostly go to Kameraexpress or the local store here.

Same for Germany.
The stores that give direct cashback there are Amazon, Saturn and MediaMarkt maybe they do the same in the UK?
I really hope they will do the same action here but it doesn't look likely

You are right Stefan.
I'm still not convinced they are "Nederlands modellen" as they claim they are - why would de Beukelaer supply them before the biggies who are Pentax premium dealers?
Very odd.

If they had looked like getting hem around the same time as SRS I would have gone to Urk for mine. I like the people there, and it is always well priced.

No mention of cash back on Pentax.nl Wouldn't be the first time they didn't bother with NL/Be because of de Beukelaer. It's a pity Pentax Europe don't take over distribution. No doubt they have a really long watertight contract.

I don't know Gwyn all I know is that they have them and they even had a nice display with all the Pentax models in the shop, that was quite pleasant to see
They could be imported from one of our Neighbours... don't know if that count as grey-import since the boarders are open in the EU.

I'm not a fan of de Beukelaer either... maybe they can put use under Germany?
Never heard off any service complains from them.