The Sony Shop - you've got to laugh

Hmmm the only Sony Product I have bought was a AV Receiver from Richer Sounds at least 6 years ago, its still going strong.

Would never buy from Sony Centres anytime I have checked them they have been overpriced.

Pitty, such a great place and the staff really knew how to talk to someone who knew what they wanted.

i worked for the hi fi corner range of sony centres (dundrum, blanch, liffeyvalley, ballsbridge, swords, drogheda) while i was in college and we always knew our stuff, the others run in the city centre and the square are owned by peats and are renowned for being badly run shops with the small one in syephens green possibly the most overpriced shop in dublin. we always made sure we were on a par with did dixons power****ty etc pricewise. the reason they dont sell ps2 is there is absolutely no money to be made on the units, all the margin is in the games, cost price on the ps2 is about 15 euro less than retail, psp is about the same. i used to be able to but most sony stuff cheaper off the web than what the shops here bought it for from sony irl / uk. sony dvd players are atrocious unless you are willing to spend big big money, there dvd recorders are overpriced , some of the camcorders are good, the digital cameras are pure crapola, especially anything with a vertical lens mount (skinny cameras) the entry level lcds are overpriced, the entry level home cinema systems like all "all in one box systems are sh1te" if you dont think so clean your ears, the new 1080 lcds are fantastic tv's but quite expensive at the moment, the vaio laptops are generally overpriced with in my opinion only the S series a standout in the lovely 13.3", dear but sometimes you need to treat yourself. Sony made the greatest CRT's ever that is the only thing thay have always managed to do better than anyone else, that is where they got the name and of course the Walkman. I'm not a fan boy and i dont want to put anyone off sony or on to it, i dont work there any more i have a real job and i couldn't give a sh1te. Anyway wear sunscreen.

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Which I always found odd seeing as Ericsson used to make awfull piles of ****e. We used to have 3 boxes for broken phones when I woprked in a phone shop. One for Ericsson, one for Siemens and one for the rest. There must have been 1 half assed employee in each company before the merger, just about holding their respective companies together, who , when merged became one super employee that creates all the great phones we know and love today.

AngryBadger wrote:

Was buying a laptop last week, for €999 I got a sweeeet little HP job from the new Soundstore in Ballybricken, with an intel duo processor clocked at roughly 1.7GHz, a 14" widescreen monitor, 1Gig of DDR RAM, wireless enabled, and with a dual layer DVD burner, the frigging thing even comes with a digital tv tuning card!!!

Went to the Sony shop in Waterford just to compare prices, and for €300, and €500 more they were offering machines with half the RAm, slower processors, and no DUAl layer burner, and these weren't even widescreen beasties. these were just regu-beasties.

A souped up 97 glanza may well be quicker round town than a top of the range diesel S class..............

jdempsey wrote:

Peats own and run most of the city centre Sony shops....

Thats true which is why the customer service levels are as good as Dixons which sell mainly their own Matsu****a brand at half the price or less, and the Sony guys product knowledge is not much better than Woodies staff. in other words , please don't ask for a real demo or probing questions because all I know I read from the advertisement!

Sony in Ireland is crap, a great brand with some great products but it's mainly end line crap sold in Irl/UK. A quick visit to any Sony outlet in Europe will confirm this.

The problem with Sony is that they have diversified into being a multimedia company e.g sony pictures ,music etc. They did take their eye off the ball the most glaring example of this is the ipod which is natural sony territory. Their Bravia line of tv has been getting rave reviews of late which still proves they are a force to be reckoned with.

I've always found Sony hardware to be very reliable though I've never bought anything from the Sony Centre itself (I've looked around in the Cork centre but the selection has always been poor imo). Their software on the other hand makes me want to cry and I've heard some horror stories about their mp3 players. I've a Sony-Ericsson at the moment and it's the best phone I've owned so far.

I work in an electrical shop and one of the things I find is the foreign nationals, such as the chinese, are always asking for sony.

I think that the sony centre is there to rip the foreigners off because the sony brand is recognised all around the world