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B&O must have threatened to graffe them. There's nothing showing up in their online store now.
MediaBobNY: B&O must have threatened to graffe them. There's nothing showing up in their online store now.
From the previous page (even includes Marius)...
ɓʋɾɑɳɫɘɮ: vikinger: ɓʋɾɑɳɫɘɮ: P.S. On topic: Abt out of Chicago sold B&o online for years -though they seem to have retreated from that within the last year or so. They still maintain a showroom, however. I believe that stores running unofficial websites are liable to be giraffed by head office. Graham Don't get me started on Marius! Well, the Abt store deal was official with B&o and dates back to about ~2000ish or so. As mentioned, Abt still maintains a showroom as far as I know. Oh, and they are located ~15 minutes from B&o's US headquarters.
vikinger: ɓʋɾɑɳɫɘɮ: P.S. On topic: Abt out of Chicago sold B&o online for years -though they seem to have retreated from that within the last year or so. They still maintain a showroom, however. I believe that stores running unofficial websites are liable to be giraffed by head office. Graham
ɓʋɾɑɳɫɘɮ: P.S. On topic: Abt out of Chicago sold B&o online for years -though they seem to have retreated from that within the last year or so. They still maintain a showroom, however.
P.S. On topic: Abt out of Chicago sold B&o online for years -though they seem to have retreated from that within the last year or so. They still maintain a showroom, however.
I believe that stores running unofficial websites are liable to be giraffed by head office.
Graham
Don't get me started on Marius!
Well, the Abt store deal was official with B&o and dates back to about ~2000ish or so.
As mentioned, Abt still maintains a showroom as far as I know. Oh, and they are located ~15 minutes from B&o's US headquarters.
ɓʋɾɑɳɫɘɮ: Confirmed. The Greenwich store is apparently a women's clothing shop now.
Confirmed. The Greenwich store is apparently a women's clothing shop now.
Ah - so you find it necessary to confirm what other people say, but it's not okay if someone confirms what you say. Do I have that right now?
Gosh, he IS grouchy, isn't he?
MediaBobNY: ɓʋɾɑɳɫɘɮ: Confirmed. The Greenwich store is apparently a women's clothing shop now. Ah - so you find it necessary to confirm what other people say, but it's not okay if someone confirms what you say. Do I have that right now? Gosh, he IS grouchy, isn't he?
Umm... What are you talking about?
There have been products available online from authorised dealers for a while now.
http://www.bostpauls.co.uk
I think its a rubbish idea. I can't imagine the frustration a convert to the brand would have when he got his new B&O kit delivered and had to try and figure out installing it himself.
Hardly the experience and first exposure to a luxury item you should get when you come home and find it all nicely setup and installed by some experts.
www.luxussound.com even discounts it.
rednik:There have been products available online from authorised dealers for a while now. http://www.bostpauls.co.uk I think its a rubbish idea. I can't imagine the frustration a convert to the brand would have when he got his new B&O kit delivered and had to try and figure out installing it himself. Hardly the experience and first exposure to a luxury item you should get when you come home and find it all nicely setup and installed by some experts.
ɓʋɾɑɳɫɘɮ: Lots of good folks in that thread
Exactly my thought when I read trough it!
Too long to list....
More competition on the high street.....
http://www.whathifi.com/news/meridian-opens-its-doors-in-west-london
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Found this comment from B&O in an article of the online Jyllandsposten.
You'd probably have to run that through 'Google Translate' ;-)
http://epn.dk/brancher/detail/ECE6482687/b-o-vores-produkter-skal-opleves/
- Onlineshopping is NOT part of a recent general B&O strategy - but the initiative from the store in Frederikshavn is welcomed as way for a dealer to reach his costumers, -
As I wrote in an earlier post: I see it as just another way of advertising to get (new) costumers into the shop!
Greetings Millemisen
There is a tv - and there is a BV
ABT back to selling online.
How very tacky
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Apple sells B&O online, so why not an authorized dealer? The reality of retail distribution. What disturbs me more is the group dumping BeoPlay in the UK. In the US when an unauthorized group dumps a product, the warranty doesn't transfer. What about UK?
Luxussound has been around for quite some time.
They have been selling the whole B&O range online for a couple of years. So the store mentioned above was not the first.;)
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As you see in my initial post my point wasn't to discuss which shop was the first or second....
I tried to raise the question:
Do you think it is a good idea to sell the Bang & Olufsen products online?
MM
Evening all. I would have to say that my initial substantial foray into B&O has not been the luxury experience that I would have hoped for. Dead pixels on BV11 and questions about replacement (although it was eventually replaced) and fail to deliver product in anything even remotely like a reasonable time. I ordered a motorised stand for BV11 - 7 weeks ago, was told 3 weeks, still not here and given a demo store unit instead. So frankly, where it not for the initial complication of set up and all that, I would have been more than happy to shop the entire experience on-line, particularly if it came with a discount. It would be unlikely to be any more fraught than it was with the store experience, although they did try hard, I will give them that credit.
@Mille...
I didnt't see that in your initial post... The words "first" and "ever" implied something else. ;)
imac: @Mille... I didnt't see that in your initial post... The words "first" and "ever" implied something else. ;)
The post was triggered by an article about an official danish B&O retailer, who made an online-shop recently.
It was refered to as the first of its kind there.
In the discussions on the following 4 pages there were several examples of other stores going online - some already long ago.
The mentioning of the danish online store opening was meant a a vehicle for the question:
is it a good idea to sell the complete B&O product collection online?
Not all B&O products are plug and play ; the V1 is not sold online. Ours too hours to install, by the shop .
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Millemissen: imac: @Mille... I didnt't see that in your initial post... The words "first" and "ever" implied something else. ;) The post was triggered by an article about an official danish B&O retailer, who made an online-shop recently. It was refered to as the first of its kind there. In the discussions on the following 4 pages there were several examples of other stores going online - some already long ago. The mentioning of the danish online store opening was meant a a vehicle for the question: is it a good idea to sell the complete B&O product collection online? MM
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Simonbeo:Not all B&O products are plug and play ; the V1 is not sold online. Ours too hours to install, by the shop .
we tend to forget there is more to design than designing.
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Sold online at LuxusSound, Amazon, Abt, shopbangolufsen.com.
I wonder where people, who bought a V1 online, try to get support, if they need it?
Millemissen: I wonder where people, who bought a V1 online, try to get support, if they need it? MM
Customer Service hotline, BeoWorld, and Sounds Heavenly, where else? Auto Dealers in US have internet sales managers, why not B&O?