Sony pissed off at MediaWorld underpricing PS3

[Alby_da_Wolf]

drkohler said:

RVDondaPC said:
I'm not sure what you mean by "base", like their headquarters?
That's strange you would think they'd want their customers to have their phone numbers of local stores. I just go on google maps type in a store name and it will give me the location, hours and phone number of all those stores in the given region that I am looking at. Or I could just use the company website but you don't get an interactive map layout like on google maps.

The article in the link quotes Sony which writes about "MediaMarket". I'm sure this is the large chain that operates under "MediaMarkt" (also Saturn) in other countries. As I have written in another thread, every MediaMarkt pretty much operates on its own rules, every MediaMarkt can set prices whichever way suits best (under corporate quidelines). So this is one MediaMarkt head honcho that thought (for whatever reason) it a good idea to make this deal in his shop (happened in November here too, one palette of PS3s only though). The next MediaMarkt, even if it were 100 ft away from this one, would not have this deal.

Yes, MediaMarket is strictly tied to Media Markt, most probably it's its Italian branch renamed because "Markt" is not an easy name for Italians.

MediaMarket controls both MediaWorld and Saturn, these are just store chains names, the company name is MediaMarket and you find only it on phone directories, with no distinction between the two chains, you must know the street name to get the right number if both chains are present in your town. They must be very confident on every other mean to be known by people and they must hate phones, as they don't even print their numbers on their leaflets.