PSA: Today Is the Final Day to Make Purchases From Sony.com

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We’ve already covered the topic in great detail but just as a quick reminder, today is the final day to make purchases from Sony’s online retail portal. According to the electronic giant,

 Sony Store Online will stop taking orders at 1pm (PST) 

It remains unclear what Sony will do with its online portal as it will not disappear. Instead, I believe that it will serve as a domain for product information with all purchasing options being redirected towards authorized dealers. Earlier this month, Sony began directing people to shop at Amazon. While you’ll still be able to purchase every Sony product from other retailers like Amazon and to a lesser extent Best Buy, there is something to be said when a large corporation doesn’t find it in their best interest to sell products directly to consumers. A few more thoughts after the jump.


Though unconfirmed, I speculate that Sony is shutting down their retail portal due to low sales volumes. In the end, somebody at Sony who is looking to cut costs where they can did the math and what they made from the online portal versus the costs simply didn’t add up. In fact, you can argue that places like Amazon are better suited at delivering Sony products, seeing how Amazon Prime can have it to your house in two days. For Sony, this also means getting rid of a portion of their web developers, warehouses and other infrastructures related to running a large ecommerce site.

Seeing how Sony doesn’t do nearly the volume that other companies like Apple or Dell do, the move makes sense. However, from our perspective, its a true sign of how things are going at the company and in short, they’re not going well. So remember, if you want to make some last minute purchases, you only have a few hours left.

Discuss:

Have you made any last minute purchases?

[Via Sony]