Lik-Sang.com Out of Business due to Multiple Sony Lawsuits!

Children, children, stop crying and think for a moment.

Lik-Sang BROKE THE LAW.

This isn't a matter of opinion or debate - a real life JUDGE in a real life COURT said so. You might not like it, but Lik-Sang recognised their guilt - they didn't even bother to turn up to defend themselves.

Lik-Sang have CHOSEN to close down. They CHOSE not to turn up in court. Presumably they CHOSE not to respond to whatever private communications Sony sent them before it escalated this far.

The vitriol and anger here is completely mistargeted - if someone steals your wallet and then gets sent down is it YOUR FAULT for complaining? I think you should be angry with the criminal, and not the victim - no matter how "rich" or "unpleasant" you think them.

You can continue to throw your PSPs from your prams if you insist, but it doesn't make you right. :)

the implication is that you are not allowed to trade online, despite owing the products. if you owned the psp you should have the right to resell as you choose. ebay seller should also be banned by sony.

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Originally Posted by nemo20000

Children, children, stop crying and think for a moment.

Lik-Sang BROKE THE LAW.

This isn't a matter of opinion or debate - a real life JUDGE in a real life COURT said so. You might not like it, but Lik-Sang recognised their guilt - they didn't even bother to turn up to defend themselves.

Lik-Sang have CHOSEN to close down. They CHOSE not to turn up in court. Presumably they CHOSE not to respond to whatever private communications Sony sent them before it escalated this far.

The vitriol and anger here is completely mistargeted - if someone steals your wallet and then gets sent down is it YOUR FAULT for complaining? I think you should be angry with the criminal, and not the victim - no matter how "rich" or "unpleasant" you think them.

You can continue to throw your PSPs from your prams if you insist, but it doesn't make you right. :)

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if liksang is illegal than so is ebay.

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Originally Posted by CAPTAIN AWESOME

if liksang is illegal than so is ebay.

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Lik-Sang sold new goods?

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Originally Posted by Synthesis

Lik-Sang sold new goods?

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so does ebay

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Originally Posted by Darksaviour69

so does ebay

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And thats why they're being very careful around the PS3 orders and taking most of them down.

Lik-Sang was another one of the suspiciously run Hong-Kong importers that don't give a toss about laws. Wait for a few weeks time when they're up and running again under a new name.

no, Lik-Sang were very good, i used them a few times and they treated me better than some other European and America online stores

they are talking most of them down...most, also they are only taking them down because of the bad pr they got last year with the 360

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Originally Posted by Darksaviour69

no, Lik-Sang were very good, i used them a few times and they treated me better than some other European and America online stores

they are talking most of them down...most, also they are only taking them down because of the bad pr they got last year with the 360

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It makes no difference whether they were good or not though.

Just remember, ITS NOT SONYS FAULT LIK-SANG GOT SHUT DOWN. If you think about it, its their own fault. Lik-Sang were the ones that didn't show up to the court and therefore automatically lost. They could of just taken down the Sony hardware and everything would of been fine, but no, they betrayed all their customers and simply shut-down, using there closing statement to get people on their side and start all this internet rage.

i don't agree. first they are going to makes sure that all customer get their money back (which is happening)

second, Sony like to use you money as muscle to force small business's out of ... err business (alot of the big corps do this).

e.g. bleem: bleem never lost a case in court, but sony kept filing law suit after law suit, giveing the bleem team bills they had to pay then, and stopping their only source on income, selling bleem. They simply ran out of cash to pay for lawyers.

In the end there only choice was to settle with sony out of court. Basically Sony bullied them out of business.

Sony filed a law suit in every EU country against Lik-Sang, they had no hope to defend themself.

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Originally Posted by Darksaviour69

Sony filed a law suit in every EU country against Lik-Sang, they had no hope to defend themself.

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If they hadn't of broken the law they all would of had the same outcome. They turned and ran because they had no chance of winning because Sony had a legitimate case against them.

At the end of the day, this is all nerd rage. No-one is going to even put a dint in Sony, so theres no point in trying.

no, they did not/ could not defend themself so the court ruled in sonys favour. Lik-sang are not a big business that can fund many different on going court cases in a different continent from which they are based.

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Originally Posted by compoman386

In the uk, the price currently listed for a ps3 in most shops is five hundred pounds, that equates to around one thousand US dollars. I for one will not be spending such a ridiculous amount on a console, from any company, and I know a **** load of ps2 and psp users who agree. I really don't think that this time sony will be able to get away with their "we can do what we like, you will still swallow our shit"- type attitude.

They will fail as a company and they only have themselves to blame

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That is exactly WHY Sony took Lik-Sang to court. Why buy a PS3 from a UK shop at the equivalent of 1000 USD when you can buy it from Lik-Sang for 600 USD?

-Edit- I did some research. 500 GBP = 945.602 USD, courtesy of www.xe.com

I knew there was some ulterior motive behind it, not 'protecting the consumer'.

Synthesis you have this extremely deluded view of how things work in law. For starters, lawyers need to be hired to begin correspondence with the courts on the entities behalf. The cost of getting a lawyer to write one letter in the US is close to 500 USD, for any case. Fighting a simple traffic ticket with a lawyer will cost anyone in the US at least 1500 dollars.

Now, factor in that Lik-Sang would have had to hire multiple lawyers, writing multiple letters. By US standards this would be well in upwards of 2000-3000 dollars just for this. Then, flying the lawyers to Europe to take the case, the time they'd spend in court, etc. At the end of the day, Lik-Sang would have 10 to 20 thousand just to get the ball rolling.

If they should lose in court, after already spending all of that money, they'd have to spend more money.

Its like playing poker. When someone bets you 100,000 and you can't raise, you fold. In the same vein that said poker player forced your fold, Sony forced the folding of Lik-Sang. Sony bet, and Lik-Sang couldn't raise.

And after all of this, I have more respect for Lik-Sang, rather than get themselves into a position where they couldn't deliver to their consumers because of huge loss of funds, they'd rather just fold under the pressures of tyrant Sony and give the money they do have back to their customers and leave their customers happy at the end of the day, rather than letting them get shafted out of PSPs, PS3s AND their money.

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Originally Posted by F9zDark

Now, factor in that Lik-Sang would have had to hire multiple lawyers, writing multiple letters. By US standards this would be well in upwards of 2000-3000 dollars just for this. Then, flying the lawyers to Europe to take the case, the time they'd spend in court, etc. At the end of the day, Lik-Sang would have 10 to 20 thousand just to get the ball rolling.

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Well, if Lik-Sang is the super popular online store everyones making it out to be they could of easily afforded that.

They are 'super popular' here because they have countless times donated goods and time towards PSP Homebrew Competitions.

And if you cared to read the rest of my post, if Lik-Sang should have lost the case after all that effort, it would have put them in a situation where they would:

1)Be forced to pay Sony the money
2)Not be able to deliver PSPs and PS3s to consumers who paid in full or in part for them
3)Not be able to refund customer's funds, in the event that they would need to shut down

As I said, they would rather save face and be the company that takes care of their customers and fold rather than make their customers angry with them when they are forced to shut down after the injuctions of the law against them, and CAN'T possibly refund the customer's money.

If what companion386 says is true, then you can spend the 950 USD on a PS3 and get ****ed in the ass by Sony. With Lik-Sang you'd have only paid 600 USD. Have a nice day! :D