Last week we reported how Sony decided to close most of their Stores in USA. Today Sony Blog posted this:
Starting today, select Sony Stores will be offering up to 60% off some of your favorite Sony gear for a limited time only. Deals will include:
- Cameras & Camcorders
- 50% off All Cameras & Camcorders
- eReaders
- 50% off All eReaders
- Media
- 80% off Movies & Music CDs
- 60% off All Accessories, Blank Storage Media & Software
- Mobile Phones
- 60% off All Cellular Telephones
- PlayStation
- 50% off All PlayStation Game Titles & Accessories
- 25% off All PlayStation Game Consoles
- Portable Audio
- 60% off All Portable Audio Products
- TV & Home Audio
- 60% off TV Stands & Wall Brackets
- 50% off All TV & Home Audio/Video Components
- VAIO
- 25% off All VAIO Computers & Tablets
The list of stores offering thsoe deals can be found at Sony Blog
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I’m quite sure San Marcos store is an outlet store…anyways, 50% off it’s a lot!
EDIT: after reading comments, I should have known… Too good to be true!
Anything like this in the EU? Can’t order stuff from the US.
Very funny.
Just called the Cherry Creek store. I was told nobody has stock, the stores were forced to send everything back, so it’s a trick Sony is playing. The employee was pretty upset about all the extra hassle.
Lol, thanks Jason I was thinking of running over there… no need to bother now!
Called local closing store in San Jose and they didn’t have any 50% off cameras.
Wonder about lenses…. But if everything is out of stock anyway
I phoned the 2 bay area stores that are closing (valley Fair and Gilroy), and tey ahd a few open box marked lenses and single 55 to something, so I gave up. Not the Zeiss bonanza I was briefly hoping for!
Just called the Sony Store in Las Vegas and they’ve already sent back the cameras and lenses.
Just called the NYC Store. No consoles and the only discount on cameras was a free case.
The nyc store is not closing.
I too just called one of the stores that Sony says is closing. They *DO* have plenty of Alpha’s in-stock (all A-mounts, all E-mounts except A7r and the new 5000&6000), but no discounts — the two specifics I checked were the same price as Adorama has.
I suppose it’s possible that only the Cybershot line is discounted? Or maybe the discounts only ring up at the register in person, but they are quoting full price over the phone and/or for mail-in orders? Or…?
Just called Valley Fair store in San Jose. No 50% off cameras. The only discounted cameras are open box ones for 20% and subject to availability. I was looking for a RX100 II but they only had the Mark 1 version. Doesn’t look like any of the stores have 50% off cameras so far…
Ahem.
“That turns out not to be the case.”
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Or… is that feeding the troll?
Yeah … whaeva
Ha, again this is why I despise (most of Marketing) they can’t seem to understand how to treat the customer. What are we that stupid, trick us? lol give me a break and do some real work for a change will you? (not that they would bother reading something from an actual customer)
Admin, can we get a little moderation relief from the above troll?
This is not accurate. I stopped by the Comcast Sony store in Philadelphia and the only discount they are offering is for Comcast employees and it’s nowhere near what is posted above. I actually tried to get them to price match the Buy.com deal back on 3/8 and they declined. No wonder Sony is closing stores. Their arcane MAP policy is killing them and they continue to hold on to this despite the fact that the ship is listing
so basically, none of the good stuff is on sale.
Has anyone brought a tablet/smartphone *TO* one of these closing stores, and showed them Sony’s own statements? Pointed out (particularly in California) the truth-in-advertising laws? Sounds like Sony is busily shipping all the high-end product OUT of these stores, but someone who got on the ball really quickly *might* be able to get the deal that Sony has promised…
Admin
I do not believe sony can do what you are claiming.
They cannot sell Sony products retail for less than the suggested retail price because it would undercut thier retail distributers.
Wrong. They are only doing this at the stores that are closing down. Liquidating the stock that they can’t push quickly to nearby stores.
The ones that I called only have TVs and other large items in stock. Everything else has already been shipped to nearby stores.
Worthless sale, every store that is closing said Sony removed all the high end models, nothing left but small ticketed items, no A7, A7R or A99,s!
Just called the Boca Raton location, the Tysons Corner location, and the Fashion Centre at Pentagon City.
All these stores were sold out of cameras before the sale (starting on 2014-03-13) had even begun.
Tysons Corner claims that the 50% off deal would not have applied to interchangeable lens cameras (i.e. NEX and Alpha) in their store.
Boca and Pentagon City say it would have applied to all cameras in their store.
Also, all three stores I called are closing down within a week or so.
just kiddin’. I love sony cameras! Just like giving you guys a hard time.
I actually HATE canon gear. HATE HATE HATE!!!
Well. Maybe I have to get a life, but I called every store on the list. None of them have any Lenses except San Marcos, and they have one 16-105 lens that was a demo, but they cant sell it till Monday morning as “that is when the embargoes will be lifted”.
Everyone else said they had no high end primary stock left, or they had already sold out.
So there you have it.
Just FYI to anyone in the LA area. I just called… employee said No TV’s, Consoles, Cameras, or Phones at the Century City Store
I wish I’d read your post before but I was already on my way to the Century City store. Oh well, at least I got two ND and one PL filter and an extra battery. All that at 60% off. But, you are correct, there is nothing worthy of buying left
Not true. I just bought a brand new 70-200mm lens (the last one, and the last lens too) for $649. That’s like 70% off!
Shipping tomorrow. Fedex 2 day. Saaaweeet!
No other closing stores have any lenses, according to the manager. All stock has been sent to remaining stores.
yeah sorry i didn’t specifically ask about lenses… Congrats on the nice snag on the lens!
What a load of cack! Turns out all the “good stuff” (in Los Angeles, anyway) was shipped out to the other stores (the ones that aren’t closing). 🙁
Basically neither Camarillo or Culver City has anything ‘interesting’ left. No cameras, just one lens left (a 70-200 telephoto, but it’s an A-mount). Just things like batteries/cases/accessories/filters/etc. Meh :-p
70-200 is gone 🙁
Yes, it is =)
$649.00 !!! Brand spankin’ new. Last one among all the closing stores, according to the manager of Century City.
I’m going for a steak dinner now.
I just got back from the Aurora il store. They seem to have plenty of cameras there and had a sign that said 50% off all cameras. The Sony A7 was listed at $1999, $300 over? Maybe it came with a kit lens but I didn’t see it advertised that way. Anyway I simply asked is it really 50% off for the Sony A7? I was told no, that is 20% off. So in summary it was a 15% mark up being sold at 20% off with advertisements saying 50% off. No wonder their stores are closing.
Looks like they’re all scams since they said 50%off all camera in store…
The Sony store is a bunch of bull, I called them way earlier than this (was looking for an NEX 6, because the deal was on amazon and since they’re closing I thought they’d give me a good deal), and they’ve told me that they’re shipping everything to the regular sony store, so no deal. Then i just called today and they’ve told me they “sold” all the cameras already, nothing left, what this really means is that they’ve shipped everything to the none closing sony store. Anyways, no deals to be had here, move a long guys.
I was at Tyson Corner 5 minutes before they open today. The staff told me they shipped out all of the cameras & high end equipment last week. There’s still plenty of accessories at 60% off. Too bad the W battery for Sony A7 (fits all NEX mirrorless) and its charger no where to be found. As for the display, they didn’t have permission from corporate to sell them. There are 5 selection of Sony headphones. The active noise cancellation is no where to be found. They didn’t have any of the headphone model where the stereo cord is removable.
This is totally a hype and joke, just like Sony always does. They have shipped all valuable stuff like A7/R, RX to somewhere else. Even one of their staff told me he found one open-box RX1, I still need to pay 2K+ for it, nothing close to 50% or even 25%. The real discount only apply to those craps like $20 earphone. Sony need learn how to honor their word or they deserve bankruptcy.
I bought a buncha stuff today! Too bad most the things I wanted were all gone like the LAEA4. I almost went away with an Rx10 for only like 200 bucks but I don’t know why I didn’t just grab it. There was only 1 left. I think its too late to come back for it now.
You should have grabbed it for $200!
I know I’m thinking about it more and more now and I regret it. I don’t have much money to spend at the moment so I’m kind of skeptical to spend so much. :-p
Guys, it was not a scam. There were a ton of valuable stuff. I went out with an LAEA1 adapter for only twenty dollars. I will have to sell it since I just found out it doesn’t support FF. I also got a water proof sports mp3 player for another 20 bucks. Leather strap for 8 bucks and……I forgot what else. Maybe they don’t have the top of the line stuff available but there were some st uff worth bying.
I agree with you. I was at Tyson Corner (Virginia) store. Came out $280 poorer. Got a nice Sony LCS-BP3 large DSLR camera packpack (retail $159) for $64. A bunch of batteries for my Action Cam and RX100, they use the same X battery, at 60% off.
In Brazil if you pay with transfer bank or “cash hand” you receive 10% descont in website or more in store.
The A99 and many lens like a (1635z, telecoverter, 11-18, 25-77, teleconverters is more cheap than BHPHOTO or japan.
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Mauro TOrres
Massachusetts store is bait-and-switch scam. I was looking at a99. 20% off cameras; will not meet Sony-advertised prices.
If I thought an a99 was in stock and really was 1/2 off it might be worth the 100 mile road trip but somehow I smell a rat. ;^)
That was misleading advertising.
I called to Dolphin Mall store and Boca Raton in South Florida and the same say at morning almost everything including cameras and lenses were sent to the Aventura Mall store.
That’s BS…
Admin… why don’t you just delete this Sony advertising? It is not true.
Ok guys I called San Marcos store couple mins ago and all A mount lenses were gone, all TVs and PS console gone. the only thing they have left is the A58 and A65 demo version model but they can’t sell them until last day of the store. Also they do have brilliant NEX lenses left such as E mount 18-55 and 16-50 pancake, nothing left guys, nothing left.
how come Sony is not doing well and they can’t look at their business process and improve it? obviously they’re doing monkey business here, if they DO NOT have anything left in store, they shouldn’t have listed the good deal on Sony Blog.
Went to the Dallas store today. It did seem like they’d preshipped all stock out, and the offer clearly said it excluded display items (confirmed by the clerk). Saw one guy get an open-box A7 (the last one) for a good price, like $900 w/ lens, and one E-series lens in the case. All Alpha lenses were display items only. Accessories available were marked full retail price e.g. a battery for A77/A99 marked $69 but with 60% off at $28 I picked up 2. Also got 2 pretty fast 16GB SD cards for $20 after similar markdowns. Only filters available were 62 mm and smaller diameters. Probably won’t bother making the trip back for lenses unless I can get a head’s up…they had like 1 of each Alpha except for the G2 version of the 70-400, which is the one lens I’d really want to pick up for a good discount.
There were a fair number of laptops going out the door though, and a few smaller open-box computer monitors. So it wasn’t entirely a waste, but not that much of a deal for camera shoppers.
It was $1000, Richard 🙂 But the camera is quite good, the AF and AF-C tracking are faster than my A7r’s, I got it for my wife to take pictures of the kids while I’m working, but she’s complaining it’s too big for her to carry. She only appreciated the Xperia Z1s phone I grabbed also for her for $219, waiting to get it unlocked now…
Please be mindful that there are employees who are losing their jobs at these closing stores before you start complaining about not getting the sale you wanted. Be thankful for what you get, you can still afford it.
When it comes to cameras they will sell all the displays at 50% off. But they will only do it the last 3 days before they close. The stupidest crap I have ever heard. They don’t want the store to look empty. Every one that went to the store and wanted to buy a camera the kids told them no, lol! You should have seen peoples faces. But right in front of us was a sign that said ” all cameras 50% off” To the person that feels sorry for the people working at the stores. Most of them are kids that go to school, they are all part time and all at the store I went have other jobs in the mall. Maybe the manager will suffer, maybe.
@disqus_OlsPAIy8tS:disqus How do you know most of them are kids? Did you do any research aside from looking at the people in the store in just your area? Did you ask them what their hours are? I’m sure you don’t have those answers. I actually do talk to the people at the Sony stores in my area (we had three), and all but one are out of college, some with families, and half were full time. And, whether or not they’re full or part-time, when you lose a significant amount of income it’s going to hurt, so don’t try to rationalize your lack of empathy.
We’re not talking about Sony monkey business here, Im sure somebody from Sony is reading these lines / complaints and we the PEOPLE who cares about Sony products are getting pissed of the way you run business!!!
Actually, if Sony people are reading this, they’ll know most of those posting that they didn’t get the deal they wanted or whining about the clearance policies would never have gone to the store in the first place if they didn’t think they’d score somehow. That’s why the stores are all closing in the first place. If it was your business, would you sell products at half off (lenses, cameras) which are current, aren’t perishable, and you know you can hold in stock elsewhere and sell for either full price or (worst case) smaller discounts as time goes on? They really only “cleared” smaller items that the clearance loss would be more equal to the reshipping costs. Its economics, and they’d be even worse in the hole if they weren’t paying attention to it.
With MAP pricing and the internet, a standalone retail presence just doesn’t make sense if you’re not a cult product like Apple…I’m kind of surprised it took them this long to pull the plug. I would have liked to score a cheap lens, but I was polite about it. I’ll get one eventually.
The people in my area told me that most if not all of the expensive lenses were shipped to stores not closing. I would agree with some of the people here that Sony corporate used the lure of 50% lenses to get people to come in, knowing that the only lenses that would be available are the display or open-box models. One of the stores I visited had Blu-ray players at 50% off, and they had a couple PS3’s that went for 25% off, but that’s it. I managed to buy a flash and some other accessory gear I’d been needing and was happy with that.
This was the situation at the Wrentham store last night. Lots of cheap cameras at a steep discount. For interchangeable lenses, There was an NEX3 and an NEX5, both open-boxed with the 16-50, which were at 20% off. Even with the discount, it was cheaper new on Amazon. They had three refurb lenses left (all were the 55-200) at 60% off (I bought all 3 to resell, as they ended up being about $50 each). Lots of cases and memory cards left. I was told that they weren’t allowed to sell the display models (yet). This was in the late evening. Had I gone in the morning, I think I would have found more stuff.
I went to menlo park mall, NJ and same thing no cameras at all and wouldn’t sell me display items. I little bit mad driving a hour half for zero.