The other day I posted about the great offer that the SONY dealer had where you can buy a 60GB Sony PS3 plus a get a game of your choice and an extra controller for KD139 and a PS3 by itself for KD135. Well it turns out the salesman was an idiot. For KD139 you get a 40GB PS3 with one joypad and the movie Spiderman and here is the best part, for KD135 you get a 60GB PS3 by itself BUT it doesn’t come with warranty! I spoke to a salesman over the phone after I heard about this just to confirm and it turned out to be true.
Even stores in Rihab who are selling grey market PS3’s give customers at least 3 months warranty, how come the official SONY dealer doesn’t provide warranty on the PS3’s they’re selling? This is just wrong in so many ways, its really a bad business decision. There is a lot of piracy in Kuwait and if the SONY dealer wants people to purchase proper Middle East versions of the PS3’s and not the grey market USA and Japanese version this is really the wrong way to go about it. Why should I buy from the official dealer if the grey market versions have warranty and theirs don’t?
Thank you MYK!
17 replies on “SONY dealer in Kuwait selling PS3’s without warranty”
The SONY dealer in Kuwait sucks pretty bad for the following reasons:
1- The prices are really high.
2- Their services suck.
3- They only bring some specific SONY laptops.
4- It takes them a lot of time to bring the new products; such as PS3, they should have had it a month after it came out.
how come in the first paragraph you mention that selling the PS3 without warranty for only 135KD is the best part while in the 2nd paragraph you mention that it’s so wrong! :-s
it’s kuwait (dear) IT SUCKS HARD.
you dont get it.. dont you? even Sony dealer in Kuwait (al tajheezat) get their own ps 3 from the grey market. its not imported officially from Sony corporate. Thats why they CANT AFFORD a warranty. Warranty is provided by the manufacturer. It does NOT cost the dealers (al tajheezat a SINGLE FILS since all repair costs and part replacements are covered by the manufacturer.
Lamest companies in kuwait who dont even want to bother with having a workshop to fix the electronics usually just send the devices to the regional workshop (which is most likely located in UAE). And I’m saying this just in case some retard want to claim that lack of service center or labor is the reason why altajheezat dont want to offer warranty on the ps 3.
hmmm… hahaha kuwait !
my ps3 is from canada, muahahaha
i has teh warranty,well… kinda.
Thank god i waited.
I got it for 230 when rehab was selling JAP( product of Singapore :P) for 180ish.
Mark, I just emailed you all three packages. And everything else that you said.
you should contact sony corporate and see if they can cause problems for the local dealer.
:: I spoke to the salesman from sony marina mall he told me that they have 3 offers and all has the 60GB thing with the warrenty and like what u said before the first offer comes with the moie. the other one with 1 game only and the best offer was like KD175 with 2 game (no no choice) and 2 joystick and guess what he said ONE year warrenty with all these package.
now u surprised me when u said that Rihab offers a 3 months warrenty thats weird coz when we bought one 2 months ago non of the shops has the warrenty excpet one he said (one week) only.
Frankom, I spoke to a friend of mine yesterday who has a store in Rihab, he offers 1 year warranty with the PS3 he sells at his stores!
Anyway I called Muthana branch and he told me at his branch they are out of stock of the Jap version which was selling for KD135. He told me the Jap version is NTSC and the other version they sell which he called “chinese version” is pal. So the SONY dealer is selling grey market PS3’s thats why they are not offering warranty on the KD135 PS3.
Here is the souk sharq number where until now they still have stock of the KD135 PS3. 2409442
Someone told me they are selling 40GB PS3 for KD125 at Rihab.
:: KD125 !!! ouch !
Frankom 125kd is actually a good price, it’s only 5kd above the american one.
here’s the thing …
sony store has some few old 60GB PS3s ( the 1st edition/shipment ) which are Japan made and Ntsc-jp system , which is the japanese system ..
because they are old and now limited , they started selling them @135KD … with 3 DAYS warranty !!! which obviously means with no warranty ..
and they also have the new PS3s .. new shipment/editions ..which is now made in china in all around the world ” mine from amazon and it is made in china ! ” .. and they’re selling the new ones 60GB with 2 games , 2 controllers @ 175KD … with 1 year exchange warranty .. if it’s dead .. change it .. and that’s it !
Sony Kuwait gives 1 year warranty on PS3 you are mistaken pictures below.
https://www5.0zz0.com/2007/12/27/23/38283862.jpg
https://www3.0zz0.com/2007/12/27/23/44642021.jpg
https://www5.0zz0.com/2007/12/27/23/79280249.jpg
just copy and paste URL into your browser.
I am not mistaken, you didn’t pay KD135 for your PS3 and thats the PS3 we are talking about here.
Services sucks big time on other services too, I have given a amp and it has been more than three months, every time I check I get the same answer. No parts and they r under order, ” it will be done in a few days”
vaio service center in suncity dont have parts , they ony dont knowwhen it is going to be available, customers buying laptops paying more than 300 kd nn service is 0
how much dose used ps3 with 40GB cost?