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Samsung NX roadmap & (possibly) discontinued lenses?

Started May 9, 2015 | Discussions thread
andre95 Forum Member • Posts: 55
Re: Yes I would like such a lens too (n/t)

bpjod wrote:

Based on this evidence, Samsung seems to me to NOT "know rather well what they are doing", at least from a marketing, distribution and sales accounts perspective here in Canada. Others in other locales have expressed similar concerns with finding product in stores, so I don't think Samsung Canada is the only distributor to be criticized.

I can fully understand your frustration, but I still think that they are aware of that. My assumption is that Canada (and the other poorly cared for markets) are not profitable / high volume enough. I don't know how Samsung works, but I guess there will be marketing and distribution teams for certain areas, and if there are only few sales, than these teams will either be small or there will be no dedicated team but e.g. Canada may be covered by the US team. And these teams will naturally have a certain personnel, time and budget. If that budget is not sufficient to do all they want to, they will neglect the smaller markets first. Having good representation of a product costs money and time.

Take another example: In France, the third largest mobile phone seller is a company called "Wiko". Third largest, just behind Apple and Samsung. I.e., big volume! You can get them in Germany as well, but e.g. not in the UK at all. They are a rather young company, and I presume they will enter one market after the other, slowly.

Kind Regards,

Andre

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