EyeBrock wrote:
Canon jacked the price up, not Henry\'s and those R&D currency units are Yen, not Dollars.
If Canon Canada posted an apology giving the logical reasons of the increase, I\'d have it.
Instead they removed any traces of pricing from their website in a move that can only be described as underhand.
If the price rise is justified because of currency turmoil, why not just tell us?
Canadians are annoyed at the way it was done. I realise that the currency rates have an impact on imported items but lets be straight and above board on this.
Canon and the retailers have been most underhand, that is why I\'m pissed off. Learned links to market turmoil will not change the fact that we Canadian Canon customers have been treated badly.
First of all, the Yen AND the Dollar have been rising at about the same rate. So there won\'t be a change there. The Canadian Dollar is now worth .84 cents. This happened suddenly.
The way you say \"jacked the price up\" shows that you already aren\'t looking at this impartially.
You could have just said that they raised the price.
I don\'t see anything underhanded about what Canon did. They could have said that they were raising prices, but the result would have been the same. If they gave a weeks notice after the dealers had already taken your money in pre-orders, what would have happened?
The cameras aren\'t due for a few weeks as we\'ve been discussing for some time now.
So, Nikon announces price hikes across the board for next week. But they have no new significent product coming out right after that, that people have been waiting for, and put money down on in pre-orders. So it looks as though they did the right thing.
So if Canon said that they were raising prices next week, but your cameras still wouldn\'t have gotten here until the end of the month, what then?
Canon isn\'t taking your pre-orders, the stores are. Since they haven\'t received the camera shipments, the price hikes on this camera would take place before they received them, and you would still be in the same position. That is, the stores would be paying more for the cameras you pre-ordered.
What do you think they would do?
I\'ll tell you. They would have done the same thing they have done.
Where would your complaints be directed to then? Canon? The stores who took your money and then cancelled your orders, or raised your prices?
Nov 08, 2008 at 03:22 AM
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