Sony sues Lik-Sang into oblivion
Posted by inpheaux on October 24th, 2006 at 12:16 pmIn a shocking followup to a story from last week, where Sony successfully got the grey-market import shop Lik-Sang to stop exporting Sony products from Hong Kong to Europe, Lik-Sang has closed down entirely.
No further orders on anything will be taken. All un-filled purchases will be cancelled. Everything will be refunded.
In their going-away-notice, Lik-Sang had this to say:
"Sony have failed to disclose to the London High Court that not only the world wide gaming community in more than 100 countries relied on Lik-Sang for their gaming needs, but also Sony Europe's very own top directors repeatedly got their Sony PSP hard or software imports in nicely packed Lik-Sang parcels with free Lik-Sang Mugs or Lik-Sang Badge Holders, starting just two days after Japan's official release, as early as 14th of December 2004 (more than nine months earlier than the legal action).
The list of PSP related Sony Europe orders reads like the who's who of the videogames industry, and includes Ray Maguire (Managing Director, Sony Computer Entertainment Europe Ltd), Alan Duncan (UK Marketing Director, Sony Computer Entertainment Europe Ltd), Chris Sorrell (Creative Director, Sony Computer Entertainment Europe Ltd), Rob Parkin (Development Director, Sony Computer Entertainment Europe Limited), just to name a few."
While I'm not directly impacted by this, as I have no presently outstanding orders with Lik-Sang, and nothing I was itching to import at the moment, I'm still saddened by losing such a valuable source of import products. My Navy Blue DS Lite was supplied by Lik-Sang, and even though I ordered it stupidly late, they managed to get it across the world and to my doorstep just in time for me to take it to E3 2006. I enjoyed the service I got from Lik-Sang, and it sucks for them to get shut down in such a manner.
So, Europe, Sony has successfully saved you from yourselves. You will no longer have to worry about playing a wide variety of PSP games when the rest of the world gets to, or worry whatsoever about picking up a PS3 until 2007. And those of us elsewhere in the world have one less quality online retailer. THANKS, SONY!
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