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Re: [OM] We need B&H in Canada

Subject: Re: [OM] We need B&H in Canada
From: Garth Wood <garth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2002 12:30:10 -0600
At 01:07 PM 08/04/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>Hey all
>Hhere is a rant.  I wanted to get the wcon-08b lens (the e20 add on lens) to
>use on some Zuiko lenses for astrophotography work (cheap wide angle).  So I
>called all the major dealers here in Ottawa.  No luck.  I then called
>Canada's largest dealer Henrys in Toronto.  No luck either.  Henrys said
>Olympus accessory items rarely sell in Canada.  Does this sound true to any
>other Canadians?  No wonder Olympus closed its doors here.  Very
>frustrating!!!!


More like the other way around -- their Canadian distributor did such an 
indifferent job of promoting Olympus products (in particular, the OM line) in 
Canada during the last thirty years that they effectively destroyed the market 
for Olympus in Canada.  Since I was a teenager back in the Seventies, Oly's 
always been far more popular/available in the States than Canada.  And my 
friends in the retail camera business all laid the blame for this state of 
affairs squarely on the Canadian distributor.  (They also over-priced Oly stuff 
in Canada by at least a factor of 2.)  Since I've been a teen, I've acquired 
Oly stuff from B&H, which has always been a better deal even prior to NAFTA or 
its predecessor, the FTA.

I'd suggest just going to B&H.  That's what I've always done.  If Canadian 
retailers don't want your business, then so much the worse for them.

Garth


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