sony screws customer, literally

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May 24th, 2007 post a comment (43) stumble it! by: technabob

Here’s a case where a picture truly is worth a thousand words…

61 Euro Screw by Sony

Apparently Sony thinks this one little “Special Screw” is so special, that it’s worth over 61 euro (appx. $82 US Dollars.) All I can say is, WTF?

[via QT3 via Wired Gadget Lab]

May 24th, 2007 post a comment (43) stumble it! by: technabob

43 comments post a comment

1. Zeroes | May 25th, 2007 at 5:46 am

Well it’s not suprising, i’m in the air force and work on air craft, our parts can be upwards of 100,000 dollars sometimes! The smallest and cheapest item that we use is a lcd segment that costs the government 2,000 USD a pop, and they go out all the time!
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3. KidBlogger | May 25th, 2007 at 9:45 am

Lol same reaction! WTF?!
4. powermonkey500 | May 25th, 2007 at 5:31 pm

F**king Sony. I hope they’re happy.
5. Monkey | May 26th, 2007 at 3:02 am

Zeroes, the thing is, THAT IS A F**KING SCREW!
6. Cameron | May 26th, 2007 at 5:51 am

Well first of all, it may not be sony but a local store that’s selling a sony part - aka a screw. There’s no way to know if that’s what sony charged or the local hypothetical store. either way, I’m not sure it was worth being ripped off to take the picture!
7. Adam | May 26th, 2007 at 7:34 am

No wonder the PS3 costs so much, they must need at least 4 screws to hold the case together…
8. Sam | May 26th, 2007 at 1:25 pm

lol Adam. Well, at least we know that the PS3 will fail just like the Dreamcast, and loose Sony money just like the old-skool Xbox did.

But jees.. Thats like, £40 in the UK.. For a goddamn screw!?
9. technabob | May 26th, 2007 at 3:27 pm

Well, I guess we in the U.S. get a bargain. Go to:

https://servicesplus.us.sony.biz/sony-parts.aspx

Then search for part #324018911. Here in the states, this “special screw” is a steal, at just $38.40!

Wow, such a deal!
10. Redbull | May 27th, 2007 at 1:41 pm

Well see that there is probably a Blu-Ray screw, it’s the future of screwing that’s why it costs so much!
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12. Bilal | May 29th, 2007 at 1:34 pm

Hey sony rocks man you can’t say anything about them if they wanna sell a screw for 80 buks let ‘em I say but no one will buy
13. mark | May 31st, 2007 at 10:41 pm

Where can I order these, I’m doing a bit of diy just now and want to keep the costs down
14. Shadus | June 1st, 2007 at 9:26 pm

They must buy parts where the government buys toilet seats.
15. Joe | June 2nd, 2007 at 12:55 pm

That’s bulls**t,
https://servicesplus.us.sony.biz/sony-parts.aspx
search for item 324018911 - aka - ‘SCREW, SPECIAL’
costs $4.95, nintetards go back to bed.
16. technabob | June 2nd, 2007 at 4:05 pm

Joe, it’s not B.S. when I wrote this story, the price was much higher…

…but it looks like Sony got so much grief over this story that it looks like they dropped the price down to $4.95.

Power to the consumer!
17. SquirrelNutz | June 15th, 2007 at 1:22 pm

It is called that because anyone who pays that much for it is “Specially Screwed!”
18. chris | June 16th, 2007 at 2:30 pm

screw that…..lol pun
19. DOROTHY | June 17th, 2007 at 3:36 pm

Hooray for sony. i want too have mr sony’s babies.
20. LOL | June 19th, 2007 at 11:29 pm

Dell charged me $90 for 8 of the rubber stoppers on the bottom of my laptop. I didn’t respond to the invoice, and they forgot about it.
21. SirOJ | June 29th, 2007 at 12:38 am

@LOL, had a likewise story w/ Dell with a bracket (24€). Never paid it, never heard from it again.
22. Joe | July 10th, 2007 at 1:00 pm

Dell sent me a replacement hard drive 320gb, and the original was fine. i told them this but they forgot about it, i never got a bill! So i know have a 320gb external hard drive, only cost 5 pounds for the case!
23. Spencer O'Connor | July 14th, 2007 at 1:16 pm

wow, that reminds me. did you all know the government spent $12 billion to invent a pen that could be used in space? it had a lot of other uses too. like the ability to write underwater, and at over 300 degrees. nice to know where our tax dollars are going…….

p.s. the russians used a pencil
24. Charles | January 13th, 2008 at 4:09 pm

You know you can find the exact same screw at home depo. lol
25. Phil | January 14th, 2008 at 2:39 am

Spencer, that story is completly false. The space pen was developed by a private company and then sold to NASA, as well as the Russians. Prior to this both the US and Russians used pencils in their space crafts, but if the lead snapped you’d have a tiny piece of electrically conductive graphite floating around, which was a serious hazard as it could get into control panels and cause shorts.
26. daniel | January 15th, 2008 at 10:12 am

well, you have two choices: either you buy the screw and get the thing working, or dont buy it and whatever needs that screw will be useless. that’s why it costs so much, because it is probably used in expensive equipment. that’s why it is often cheaper to buy new than to fix old. also don’t forget you aren’t just paying for the metal in the screw. you are paying for services (shippement, storing, manufacturing etc) which may not be the regular one’s we use for our furniture screws. it may also have a special treatment for tenacity, temperature, strength, anti-oxidation, etc. in other words, it looks like just a screw but it obviously isn’t.
27. the 0ne | January 15th, 2008 at 6:37 pm

If it looks like a screw turns like a screw it’s a screw
28. numb | January 16th, 2008 at 5:46 am

Not only could it be specially treated for tenacity, temperature, strength, anti-oxidation, etc. it may also be able to write in space.
29. Dazed | January 16th, 2008 at 1:31 pm

There’s nothing special about it, stop making excuses.
Price gouging, pure and simple.
30. Johnny | January 16th, 2008 at 4:13 pm

Sony is the sh*ttiest company when it comes to support and service. Remember when the 400.00 GPRS phone first came out? Every last one of them was defective,and they sent replacements to all who bought one…problem was, the replacement phone was a piece of crap 70.00 phone, compared to the 400.00 phone!?!?!
Sony sucks.
31. Connor | January 16th, 2008 at 7:02 pm

Sony, because there shouldn’t be any difference between getting screws and and getting screwed.
32. DrPsykes | January 20th, 2008 at 5:52 pm

re numb - if it could be used to write in space there would be a danger of the tip of it snapping, causing shorts in the control panels. and dont say the tip wont snap, it is sony dont forget…
33. Snuzz | January 25th, 2008 at 2:12 pm

Well… Elaborate?
34. Rob | January 27th, 2008 at 9:10 pm

SCREW Sony!
35. Rob M | January 30th, 2008 at 10:13 pm

The Screw could be made of Gold and painted black and still be cheaper than $82.
36. john | February 4th, 2008 at 8:49 am

looks like you got screwed !

but screw that, just get another one, its not worth it paying that kind of money for a good screw…
37. Shippou Oud | February 4th, 2008 at 10:07 pm

Why throw away the old one, when you can disassemble it, and sell the parts for a profit?

Heck buy a new one, and “part it out” ^-^
38. Amy | February 5th, 2008 at 3:32 pm

He, he the screw screwed you! Its called Home Depot & a quarter!
39. neviboy | February 7th, 2008 at 3:45 pm

that’s bullsh*t … that’s a normal screw that comes with your mp3 car stereo brackets , if you need some i can post some for free.screw me!!!!!!!!!!
40. Me | February 11th, 2008 at 7:46 am

Down certain streets round here you can get a screw for a lot less than $80!
41. cassetti | February 13th, 2008 at 8:51 am

Thats hilarious, It even looks like a simple wood screw! But hey, I work for an IT data storage company, and we charge $30 for a coin battery you can buy for $2 that goes in 90% of the keyless entry remotes for cars. And people buy them! Because its cheaper than the $90 that the manufacturer charges!

whats even more funny is on the older systems, the manufacturer won’t sell you the battery, you have to pay $2,500 for a whole new card - so $30 is a steal for our customers haha.

And last i heard Zeroes, if the military is being overcharged for an item, and a military accountant discovers the error, he receives a large sum of money equivelent to half of how much they will save. (like the guy who found out they were being charged something like $10,000 for a hammer back in the 80’s)
42. Again NOT Grant | February 28th, 2008 at 8:54 pm

Comment #42 is so true.. sony does suck.
43. monkeyman | March 6th, 2008 at 10:55 pm

strangely enough worth more than alot of the sony made ps3 games that retail for about the same price