Holy mac, this is truely sad.I had a feeling this was gonna happen sooner or later but so soon....I ordered from there once and all went silky smooth. R.I.P. Lik-Sang.

crappity smacked up dudes!

What the crappity smack is sony crying about?
Well there goes another good one.

Hates to see this peepz

This is nothing but a step in the wrong direction for gaming.  Lik-Sang was smooth and offered good customer support for every country they served.......unlike ANY of their competitors.  Good luck finding import items in the future.

The sad thing is I really think Lik-Sang could have won in court had they been able to pay for lawyer fees.  Oh well.  That's what happens when you're the little guy.

This is incredible and it will mark a turning point in import gaming.

DON'T BUY ANY SONY PRODUCTS !

NationalGameDepot wrote on 26. Oct 2006 at 13:28:


WhiteDRG wrote on 29. Oct 2006 at 10:25:


You hate MS and Nintendo also then, since they also sued L-S. It will also mean: do not buy any MS or Nintendo products.

I wish people could check alittle more around the case instead of just see "Sony + L-S closed = Sony sux!". One reason can be that the importers in <country A> have a contract with Sony saying that they are the only one that are allowed to import PSP stuff into <country A>. Then they see that another company, in this case L-S, that also import (well, export) PSP stuff to <country A>. Then they push Sony because they have a contract with them. What shall Sony do, ignore them? They have no choice but to try to stop the export.

How many of you bought stuff frequently from L-S? Now that L-S is closed, is it impossible for you to get the same stuff elsewhere? Play-Asia is also a very good source. This only affects PSP stuff, not PS2. If you try to order PSP stuff from P-A you will get a message saying that you cant, but with PS2 games it works fine. Im not sure if this is for Europe only or Worldwide. Someone from the US here, try to order a PSP game from P-A. You dont have to confrim the order of course, just try and see if you get any messages.

This is not a turning point in importing games. As mentioned, this only consern PSP stuff and L-S is not the only store that carried import stuff. If you really want a PSP game from Japan there is no problem getting it. Just get a contact/friend in Japan and you're set to go.

If i try to order i.e. a GBA game from Amazon.com i get a message saying i cant. People who have played some old arcade games might remember a line that says something like "For sale in <country> only!". I also bought Rockman X8 for PC from Thailand through Ebay. When i got it i see that the CDs have Tipex on them. I removed it just to see what was under and it said something like "For sale in Thailand only!". So PSP games are far from the first gaming thingie thats illegal to export.

I dont mean to be rude here, but please check into the case and not just jump on the "i hate Sony" wagon. I've seen so much "MS sux, Linux ownz!!!1" stuff in the past year and im gettin really tired of it. I hope i wont see the same with Sony.



PS: I know many will think "OMG Sony fanboy 2 o' clock!" now, but im not a fanboy. I'm just trying to think what the most reasonable reason can be. Sony still makes about the same amount of money even if they sell a PSP in Japan or in Europe/USA so i cant see why they would do something like this on a own initiative since its all about money and laws. Both MS, Nintendo and Sony have all done some crazy stuff and some really sux, but i dont go around hating them. Also for the record, eventho i never bought anything from L-S i still think it boring that its gone.

I just found out about Lik-Sang when searching for stuff on the internet.  It's too bad - there were some things I was thinking of buying from there.

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I have a few bad products from Sony.  I had a DVD/VHS player that costed a ton and died like 2 weeks after the warrenty ran out, they said they couldn't do anything.  I rarely used it also, was nearly brand new.  I had two Sony CD players and they also both died within 2 years of owning them, Sony done nothing.  I had numerous friends who had several problems with PS2's, and all of them were told Sony could nothing for this or that reason.  Disc read errors, or the cache memory being full.  Sony told some of them they would fix there PS2 for 100 bucks plus shipping both ways, but it wasn't guaranteed to work and was non-refundable either way.  When they learned of the PS2's problems, they should have pulled all the defective units and replaced them ALL with better quality ones.  They should have also told people that if they use the DVD player often it will mess up the sytems functionality, which it did, and they never mentioned it.  The only products that Sony makse that are good quality and seem to last are there TV's from my experience.  Have I been unlucky with them, maybe.  But I have heard tons of people who refuse to buy there products anymore cause of problems just like these.  The PS2 that I have works (most of the time) but I got mine pretty late in production, and rarely play it.  Sony does have a repair warrenty, but it has a lot of small rules to protect them.  Most problems were NOT covered by it.  I know a guy who runs a local game store he said since all the of the last gen consoles were released they saw about 10 Gamecubes that broke, 25 X-box's and 100's if not 1000's of PS2.  Maybe Sony rushed the PS2, or just used low quality products, but if the other 2 big game console companies don't have all the problems with there products tearing up, neither should Sony.  I think they done it on purpose to get more money, they could have solved this problem and recalled all there systems and replaced all of them that could have had problems.  Money is more important that customer satisfaction and quality, just not a good corporate culture IMO.  They only way I will ever buy Sony again it to make money.  I plan to buy a PS3, then sale it on ebay the same night I buy it and make double or maybe even triple my money.  I don't even want to open it and try it, just simply don't care.  I really do hope that Sony cuts there own throat with the PS3 and it fails.  They already dropped the price of it in Japan cause people there freaked out about the 600 price tag.