timing just wrong for me....price was right though IMO

marketplace for Pentax stuff is just weird at the moment...people just looking for stuff on the cheap...

I have a word for those who steal that lot, but Mr Riley would tell me off.

Do you have your serial numbers handy? If so, publish them on this site (and there are other photography/Pentax sites) to let people know that if this gear comes for sale people will know it's been acquired by dishonest means. You had nice kit there, and there will be a few takers; much as we dislike burglars we would not wish unsuspecting buyers acquiring (thus handling) stolen gear.

Awful bad luck Phil, sorry to hear about that

Did Phillip ever reply?

Well, consider the poor folks who've bought the Samsung equivalents of the K10D and K20D, S Techwin get bored and then suddenly any support for the GX1, GX10 and GX20 disappears.. Same with the NX cameras...

So if a GX develops a fault even the likes of JP or Asahi Photo are defeated. Camera becomes doorstop.

Also, Pentax's adoption of DNG for raw is a massive plus, unless you have Creative Cloud, support for NEF is limited unless you update. And while we are on Nikon, compatability does suck even though the F-mount is older than K-mount, same with speedlights...

OH has had a XPro 1 and XT1 - the firmware updates are just basically there to make sure the cameras work, I found that neither worked perfectly out of the box.

I was looking at the 150-450, and thinking of trading the K-5 in for it. in the end the LCE deal was so poor that I could still get the lens on one of Chris's special offers, and keep the K-5 and still be £250 better off. The K-1 kit deal was good though.

Got a Lee Super stopper for £90, wish I'd got the Little Stopper at the same time. Having bought a 36MP FF DSLR at the Calumet stand (I already had the K-1:wink I bought 2 32GB SD Extreme cards for £14 (total).

As long as the battery is packaged and the terminals covered it should be ok....I received my grip with a spare battery and the package had a huge label plastered on it,...

Quite dismayed that a camera as good as the K-5 has such low residual value, when you factor in the spare battery and 8GB card and postage and noone has even sniffed at it is worth much more to me so I am not willing to let it go for a pittance. I am even more dismayed that when I advertised a D7100 on another forum it was snapped up in 2 days, for close to asking price.

So, reluctantly, I am withdrawing the K-5 from sale.

and yet still much cheaper than LCE's special price at TPS2017

1st time for ages.... maybe 10 years since I went.... when it's £40 petrol, £12 parking and £18 entry it gets pricey....so I take my own sandwiches....