Sony orders Gaming Heads to destroy all of their statue merchandise.

Weird. Like, why? Sony has ordered major merchandise seller Gaming Heads to destroy all of their Sony Playstation merchandise, including orders ready for purchase, items in productions, etc.--but also items that have already been purchased and are awaiting shipment. Literally, people spent the money, and now their items are going to be destroyed instead of shipped to them, followed, naturally, by a refund.

What exactly is Sony doing here? This is money on the table for them that they are just throwing away. Odd, huh?

Here's the letter Gaming Heads received:

Came in expecting that Sony had ordered their people in charge of gaming to destroy any statues they had. 😅

Anyway I imagine this is just to control their product and IP.

Sounds like a normal thing for an evil dictator to do.

Shit's made in China. Probably made of some toxic ass plastic and they want to destroy it all before being sued to oblivion.

Execute order 66

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2021/01/30/fact-check-story-boy-cardboard-nintendo-console-unproven/4310183001/

evil dictator

When you cant even give that shit away,destroy it.

Bunch of people do buy this stuff. Sony even had them destroy the sold merchandise, awaiting shipment.

Slow news day reporting at Sony's HQ disaster.

@davillain: Heard they got hacked...

@nod_calypse: Sony don’t want 40 year old virgins buying plastic toys. They want them to become men, have kids so they can milk a new generation. They need the dictatorship to survive.

Weird. Would like to see a statement from Sony. Maybe a quality control issue?

There's many reasons stuff like this happens. Quality control defects or safety issues with materials (e.g. toxic, liability for age range and choking hazzards, etc).

For liquidation of unsold inventory, whereby Sony refunds retailers for remaining inventory the retailer no longer wants, they have to account for all remaining inventory, issue a refund based on that remaining inventory, and that would prompt a stop to all potential sales, under the agreement all remaining inventory be destroyed (because it's cheaper to destroy than have retailer ship it back).

Now, I'm of the opinion many retailer say they destroy them but the employees low on the totem poll seize the opportunity to take them for themselves, tell their supervisors they destroyed them, then take them home and sell them on Ebay, so expect to still see these available from third party online retailers.

Same thing for retailers of things like movies, CDs, games, magazines, etc. They get a partial refund for remaining inventory that they on the honor system destroy said inventory. Some reason gamers act like it's a crime against humanity when they find piles of trashed games in a GameStop dumpster, but there's a reason for this.

Nothing is weirder than Sony this generation.

I have some Gaming Heads statues. They're good quality and a solid product. Individually numbered and hand painted. Hell, my Dovahkin statue even has real fur. This seems like a Lil bitch move from Sony.

Having them out there may be more expensive for them than without somehow.

Someone should tag solid as he's the resident expert on Sony's statues.

Same

@xantufrog: Disappointed that it wasn’t that. Would have definitely been weird and absolutely hilarious. 😅

@Archangel3371: no souvenirs! Back to work!

Any more details on this and why the decision was made?

Fake sales,dont worry Sony will raise the price of something to cover loses.

For the payers!

It seems like Gaming Heads knew about this since June but continued to take orders:

If Sony has unlawfully collected royalties without extending the contract then they can expect a lawsuit.

GH customers are not making direct royalty payments, they are paying full product prices, and it seems like GH would be responsible for refunding product payments.