I was done with them like 10 years ago once online retailers really came into prominence. There is literally no reason to buy from actual stores when that same game will be 25-50% less when buying from online retailers.

Also, surprise: Komplett is NOT an authorized Sony retailer. I hope you bought their extended warranty. 

http://www.sony.com/retailers

EU law, they provide 24 month warranty regardless.

Yeah a small bit, but really things like PSN getting their act together with decent prices now and just how easy and fast shipping from online retailers is even for myself something from Amazon can be here by the end of the week so I love how online is taking over a bit in terms of being able to get goods which would otherwise literally take me a 3 hour bus trip to get to a nearby City to go and see.

I guess it's the same as everything, more choice of how to buy is never a bad thing for the customer, if you have good local stores like your place then go there for the staff and advice, if you are less fortunate in that regard you have Amazon to fall back on.

Shopping online isn't bad, nor is digital. 

My point is buying a TV online is foolish, because the TV will only look as good as your phone or computer. 

It's also a US law that they provide a 12 month warranty, but they somehow get away with it. 

oh yeah I get what you mean, you are just at the mercy of user reviews of products if you have no chance at all to see them, but it can be very hard to get an idea of image quality by someone elses words in a review... as they say a picture is worth 1000 words, but I think it can require even more to describe a perfect 4k hdr image :)

Your only real hope is Rtings.com, but they don't test for visual noise algorithms and they completely half-ass the upscaling tests. 

Surprise; Komplett is not a US store, it doesn't exist there, so official US Sony retailers have zero bearing on my rights with my purchases there and zero relevance at all. Komplett is only for Norway, Sweden and Denmark and are authorized to sell all the major brands in hi-fi and PC components. It's the biggest online retailer in all of the Nordic. You'll notice that not a single Swedish or Norwegian store is on that list of US retailers. Global = US argument? Typical vgchartz...

So, no, I didn't buy any extended warranty because I don't need it.

Their daughter company; MPX, is not an authorized Sony dealer, they only have rights to PC components and some household appliance manufacturers. MPX also have shit customer service and pretty poor pricing, so I don't shop there. Komplett is not the cheapest store, but it's by far the best I've ever used, all in all.

You seem to be under the impression that it matters from one country to another. Don't has plenty of non-US retailers listed as well, because they auhorize across the globe.

But you know, good luck with that.