5000 For The Price Of One - One Screw To Screw Them All
Sony are notorious over-pricers. Blu-Ray is, in the eyes of many, costly enough, but when you factor in the price it must cost Sony to mass produce screws, things go a little overboard.
With VAT included, a single screw from the Sony labs will cost you a whopping €74.80 ($100.62). Alternatively, head down to ScrewFix and pick from their extensive range. By extensive, I mean extensive (no - not expensive), with thousands of screws to choose from. Heck, you can get 5,000 brass screws for just over £50. What’s the deal Sony?
Then again, this screw is special. *ahem* I’ll leave it at that…
I bet it has one of those proprietary heads too, and the screwdriver is another $400. - Mandrel
Thanks Shang.
May 25th, 2007 at 5:26 pm
My dad has a huge collection of screws… what are Sony thinking. Is this made from Solid Silver?
May 25th, 2007 at 5:35 pm
Nah… Probably got a built-in blu-ray diode though, or something equally ridiculous.
May 25th, 2007 at 7:53 pm
o______O;;; Maybe the screw’s got an uplink to MI5. Maybe it’s James Bond’s screw! o_o
:: That was… Random. ::
May 25th, 2007 at 7:55 pm
LMAO! Random is nothing new Seshi.
OMG! Sony are supplying our agents with warez to PWN our consoles! :O
May 25th, 2007 at 8:40 pm
This screw is Dual Core obviously.
May 25th, 2007 at 8:52 pm
Ha! Sony still sren’t cutting edge. Maybe you’ve heard of quad-core?
May 27th, 2007 at 1:33 pm
o____O Delta, that was Seshi’s second voice saying it was random. Please tell me you remember that. *Sighs*
Obviously Seshi and I need to /force/ you back on your own forum. xP
May 25th, 2007 at 8:46 pm
It’s almost unbelievable, except I’ve read about so many stories like this one: extreme overpricing and poor customer support. If Sony keeps this stuff up, they’ll be on their way out in a hurry.
I wonder how many people complained to Sony about this?
May 25th, 2007 at 8:53 pm
I feel your pain… It’s not just Sony, though they do seem to be the main culprit at present. I imagine their customer support helpines will be flooded sooner or later with people refusing to pay over $100 for a single screw.
May 25th, 2007 at 10:52 pm
But Hey, My brother got his PSP repaired, you took it to the post office, said it was sony, and they repaired it for free.
May 27th, 2007 at 9:30 am
Sony suckers….PS3 seems the only good thing from Sony. And oh, Sony Ericsson phones.
May 27th, 2007 at 10:54 am
The PS3 sucks, incase you didn’t hear.
And maybe you’ve run across the ‘iPhone’ on your travels?
lol
May 27th, 2007 at 9:31 am
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May 27th, 2007 at 10:53 am
It does? Can’t say I’ve noticed. Speakign of which, over 50% of our traffic coems direct from the SEs. We’ve got a kick-ass, in-house SEO crack team working at Zi Media now (*cough* Nate *cough*. But seriously, you’ve never seen anything like it. We’re getting hundreds of targetted SE visitors everyday - Nate rocks socks!
May 27th, 2007 at 9:34 am
Seems like I and Andrew Some are contesting for top commentator….
May 27th, 2007 at 10:53 am
Hence three comments in four minutes on one post?
lol