Gram123
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Some people may have noticed a wee "Rakuten Group" logo on Play.com's webpages recently.
Rakuten is fairly large (£900 million) Japanese company who started out with an "internet shopping mall" (Rakuten Ichiba) and have spread into other e-commerce business areas over the last 14 years including book / CD / DVD sales, online auctions, travel planners, credit cards and e-banking, telecommunications, real estate, PPV TV etc...
They even founded a professional baseball team (the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles). They now seem to be getting involved in tablet PCs / e-readers and apps.
Most notably where us films fans in the west are concerned, Rakuten previously owned, and have recently closed down, the Price Minister UK website, in favour of consolidating their UK DVD (etc) business with the more established Play.com.
I don't know whether this will change anything for those of you who were previously discontent with Play's delivery times etc (personally, I've never had any problem with Play, but I know others have), or whether the company has been taken over wholesale, staff, premises, et al and they'll just continue on the same as they have been.
As one of the new kids on the block (along with the likes of Base.com, ShopTo, Coolshop, Gift of Sound, BTR Direct, 991.com etc), Price Minister never made it onto the lists on the first page. I still haven't checked out these sites properly, don't know if they sell new or 2nd hand items, and not many people here seem to be buying from them, so I've been a bit neglectful there, I guess...
Anyway, Price Minister were more widespread than I realised - they still have sites catering to Spain and France, it's just the UK one that's shut down so far.
Rakuten Group also owns Buy.com in the US, Canada and Europe.
In other news, Malaysia-based site and seller of many East Asian DVDs and VCDs, Sensasian ceased trading a couple of months ago. I think the rot started when their site was hacked a while back.
I'll update post 1 in this thread with these couple of removals, and maybe add in an "unrated" section for other DVD websites that have been mentioned throughout the thread but have thus far not "earned a place" in post 1.
< Message edited by Gram123 -- 11/11/2011 10:54:35 AM >
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