I totally agree with Dave and the other comments: a petition doesn\'t do anything but perhaps get their attention.
I think that\'s worthwhile from one regard - it might warn them that they may lose revenue in the future from this decision. Once they\'ve started to lose revenue that affects a lot of things including research and development and I don\'t want to see that happen.
I have no doubt that there will be a revenue hit. There are 200 small and medium sized dealers that also did repairs. All of them are pushing people to Canon and other brands now.
I have two large corporate rental customers that are 100% Nikon. (They rent from us to fill in gaps in their inventory, etc.) Both have rented large trial packages of brand X equipment in the last month. Both are considering changing because the cost of ownership is higher for Nikon equipment now.
I doubt many of us who frequent the forums are going to change brands over this - we\'re less interested in cost of ownership than in absolute image quality. What happens is new customers get steered another way, new pro photographers starting out with companies like the one above get started with Canon instead of Nikon. A few years down the road market share change gets noticed but by then it\'s too late and an uphill battle has to be fought to regain it.
I totally agree with Dave and the other comments: a petition doesn\'t do anything but perhaps get their attention.
I think that\'s worthwhile from one regard - it might warn them that they may lose revenue in the future from this decision. Once they\'ve started to lose revenue that affects a lot of things including research and development and I don\'t want to see that happen.
I have no doubt that there will be a revenue hit. There are 200 small and medium sized dealers that also did repairs. All of them are pushing people to Canon and other brands now.
I have two large corporate rental customers that are 100% Nikon. (They rent from us to fill in gaps in their inventory, etc.) Both have rented large trial packages of brand X equipment in the last month. Both are considering changing because the cost of ownership is higher for Nikon equipment now.
I doubt many of us who frequent the forums are going to change brands over this. What happens is new customers get steered another way, new pro photographers starting out with companies like the one above get started with Canon instead of Nikon. A few years down the road market share change gets noticed but by then it\'s too late and an uphill battle has to be fought to regain it.
Oct 09, 2012 at 10:25 AM
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