Sony Headphone Sale, XBA Range, Save 85%, Free Shipping for MySony Members

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Save 85% OFF selected end of line and box damaged XBA headphones.* Offer ends on 31st July, 2013 or while stocks last so get in early to secure your pair. This exclusive offer is only available from www.sony.com.au or your local Sony Centre or Sony Kiosk.
Don’t forget to log in to your MySony account before you check out to receive FREE DELIVERY!
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Your Sony Team

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- jenna12 on 05/07/2013 - 15:56
  
  No they don't.
- Jorkus on 05/07/2013 - 15:56
  
  +2
  
  Yeah but they're not getting any further than that.
ctemby on 05/07/2013 - 15:55

+3

Sony Centre will not answer phone, and online Customer Service will not take phone orders!
theological on 05/07/2013 - 15:59

+1

they still have everything but the xba-3ip and the bluteooth ones at westfield parramatta. When I was there, the phones were getting hammered, better to just head out there, looked to have about 30ish in stock (across the range). Picked up a xba3 and the 2vp… haven't tried those yet but holy shit the xba3's are amazing
- ffysn on 05/07/2013 - 16:09
  
  im after XBABT75 ,damn it,Should i go tomorrow ?
  - theological on 05/07/2013 - 16:11
    
    those are the bluetooth ones that aren't available. to be honest given the amount of interest they had when I was there, I doubt there will be much left even at this point…
giventofly on 05/07/2013 - 15:59

Too good to be true, methinks.
Bob81 on 05/07/2013 - 15:59

Epic Sony fail.
liverpool2009 on 05/07/2013 - 16:00

Why is this shit, still on the front page? Literally like 2 people managed to buy online…
- 2842 on 05/07/2013 - 16:09
  
  +3
  
  but it is still available in store so the dead is still valid
jenna12 on 05/07/2013 - 16:15

+1

Waste of time. My time's worth more than the discount anyway. Sony are bastards for this. Did even a single person get a pair online?
Phoebus on 05/07/2013 - 16:15

+3

oh ffs my shopping cart has magically emptied.
tkotk on 05/07/2013 - 16:18

+4

I got through to the payment section, then the gateway timed out and the next screen I saw was 'down for maintenence' So close…
flatwhitepls on 05/07/2013 - 16:21

-2

Guys don't give deal a negative because you couldnt grab one :P. It should be positive for the person who shared it in the first place. Nice catch !! I got one.
EyesWideOpen on 05/07/2013 - 16:22

Great deal, seems not many public got it? I wonder if even staff managed to buy any?
PurpleHippo on 05/07/2013 - 16:24

I have a couple of pairs on order. Went into the Nunawading Sony Centre, paid up, they'll call me when they come in (hopefully next week)
- atlas on 05/07/2013 - 16:39
  
  Thanks for the tip. Placed a phone order. Apparently only 3 sets left in the warehouse.
revacious on 05/07/2013 - 16:25

damnit i've been watching the xba-3ip price now for almost 6 months, and when it finally hits bottom I miss it.
- revacious on 06/07/2013 - 03:35
  
  got one. finally!
zhen on 05/07/2013 - 16:32

+8

First time and last time use Sony online.
Ryxxi on 05/07/2013 - 16:32

+1

I think I was able to buy the $59 Bluetooth ones (SONY XBABT75 ). I am not sure if I placed the order for sure tho because the site crashed when processing the payment. I have been trying for like 4 hours.

Edit1: There is a $59 transaction in my bank account so I called the customer support and the guy told me that he doesn't have the ability to check customer orders..

Edit2: Just confirmed with my bank, the $59 transaction went to sony Australia. The SONY XBABT75 seem to be out of stock now. The delivery date for new order's says: Backorder where as my first order has a july 12-13th estimated delivery. Hopefully I get them.
kazines on 05/07/2013 - 16:34

go to VIC nunwading and put your order for XBA3
the rest is out of stock

Since I have XBA4 and ordered UE900 yesterday I'm gonna skip on this
Ace26 on 05/07/2013 - 16:43

+2

Great price but I couldnt access the website since the deal went live (I also recieved the email) so no deal for me given the website was down all the time. Now I hear there is no stock.
elgoog on 05/07/2013 - 16:46

+1

Was anyone able to place an order online? I couldn't at all since this pretty much started and calling didn't help much either.

Seems like some people like kazines above are able to order in store though..
tanqqqqq on 05/07/2013 - 16:50

Can we pricematch this with OW or Dick Smith?
- jenna12 on 05/07/2013 - 16:54
  
  +1
  
  But they don't stock these? :s
mooboy on 05/07/2013 - 16:51

Just at the Melbourne store - they have about 1 or maybe 2 XBAS65B's left to buy (pre order - one week away).

They mentioned website should be back later with some stock, but not sure of which products or in what quantities.
bobjane on 05/07/2013 - 16:59

+1

Finally got through on the phone and reserved a XBA3 for pickup. Then turns out while the guy was on the phone with me some greedy person rocked up and bought all 4 that was left. I was able to raincheck one at the sale price though.
- sixnout on 05/07/2013 - 17:03
  
  Which store did you reserve this at mate?
mlburnian on 05/07/2013 - 17:04

Called nunawading store… None left. Nothing to see here
[Deactivated] on 05/07/2013 - 17:17

-3

Good work nuking a stores reputation when the store never intended this to be a massive sale to begin with. How many damaged paid of headphones were you expecting? Great work Ozbargain… discouraging small flash sales since 2011.
- jenna12 on 05/07/2013 - 17:21
  
  +5
  
  It's not the customer's fault in the slightest. This is entirely Sony's bad. They poorly estimated traffic. "Not intended to be a massive sale" - They just sent out an 85% off email to everybody on their MASSIVE mailing list. What are you trying to get at here?
- ben1680 on 05/07/2013 - 17:23
  
  People upset because the way Sony website handle the sale and traffic, not amount of discounted unit.
  You would think massive company like Sony have better resources in anticipating surge in traffic and not wasting people's time like this.
  - jenna12 on 05/07/2013 - 17:39
    
    Imagine if you weren't even trying to get the headphones, and just trying to file a warranty claim or get drivers for five hours, hahaha. rage
    - [Deactivated] on 05/07/2013 - 18:31
      
      -1
      
      If you rage over not being able to claim a warranty for 5 hours, I really worry about how stable a person you are.
      
      Not everything that doesn't run perfectly requires blame to be assigned. It is unrealistic for Sony's local website to handle being 'ozbargained'… The cost of constantly paying for the ability to do so would result in their products being even more expensive because they would have to pay additional costs to pay for better servers.
      
      Best situation you can hope for when threads like this happen is that they either run the same thing exactly again, and continue to get more bad press, or alternatively… instead of a lucky few getting a bargain, they don't advertise a single bargain to begin with.
    - jenna12 on 05/07/2013 - 19:12
      
      -1
      
      Haha, what? That was clearly a hypothetical joke. I was obviously here for the headphones like everybody else. Why are you being so defensive and taking this so personally. Everybody is being all "lol fail Sony", and you are sounding like you are personally hurt by the fact that anybody would speak ill of them.
    - [Deactivated] on 05/07/2013 - 19:25
      
      -1
      
      I am not taking it personally. I would be very disappointed if companies were discouraged from posting low stock flash sales because of yourself and like minded individuals.
    - jenna12 on 05/07/2013 - 19:31
      
      -1
      
      So do you expect people to be sent spam and then respond by going "Hmm, I wont visit this page just yet, because lots of other people probably want to see what this is all about as well. I'll just wait in the imaginary queue and have a turn in a bit."
      
      This isn't going to discourage Sony from posting deals, they will be thrilled at how much traffic they got (or almost got), what they will be frustrated about is that they couldn't handle the traffic. This will encourage them to improve their servers, not discourage them from making sales or getting traffic through promotions in the future. They're not going to say "Nope, the internet is too expensive, there's too many people on it, waste of money".
    - [Deactivated] on 05/07/2013 - 19:38
      
      Sony didn't post this deal.
      
      Try contributing to the ozb community instead before complaining that companies aren't meeting your expectations. That's the way it used to be here.
    - jenna12 on 05/07/2013 - 19:52
      
      +1
      
      Haha, what? You're the one complaining here, mate. I'm just trying to explain things to you that you don't seem to understand, since you seem rather distressed and confused about it all. :)
      
      Also, I was clearly talking about the huge amount of emails they sent out. Of course I know the poster isn't a rep. Even if they were that's irrelevant to our discussion. I feel like you're trying to change the topic, or somehow prove that you're a better person than the rest of us or something. Have a nice day. :)
- coolhand on 05/07/2013 - 17:47
  
  +6
  
  Agree entirely, there's so many people on here that feel like they are entitled to get a bargain. Just because you weren't one of the what would seem like ~100+ people judging by comments on here with reports of stores with 30 or so units in stock, there is no need to get so negative about a company. With sales like this you need to expect that you most likely won't be able to get the product but feel lucky if you do, not the other way around.
  Company does crazy sale like this —-> some people get product for ridiculous discount, many don't —-> the many complain that x company is awful lots of bad PR for the company —-> company decides not to run sales like this in future, no one gets ridiculous discount.
  - jenna12 on 05/07/2013 - 17:58
    
    +8
    
    As explained above, the majority of people aren't annoyed because they missed out. They are commenting on Sony's inability to estimate or manage traffic. Sony directly requested the surge in traffic by spamming out an email to everybody on their mailing list. They did this to increase traffic! But they couldn't handle it. Sony is a ridiculously huge company that specialises in technology. It's not at all unreasonable for people to provide commentary on this.
    - shaiguy on 05/07/2013 - 18:17
      
      +3
      
      Ditto - funny how ozbargain's site is fine but Sony's site crashes…
    - [Deactivated] on 05/07/2013 - 18:24
      
      +1
      
      I would assume that Ozbargain has significantly more regular users than the local Sony website.
    - jenna12 on 05/07/2013 - 19:15
      
      Dude, are you serious?
    - [Deactivated] on 05/07/2013 - 19:21
      
      +2
      
      Absolutely. Ozbargain would have more daily users/unique clicks than most Australian websites.
    - chid on 05/07/2013 - 19:56
      
      +3
      
      @jenna http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/ozbargain.com.au compared with http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/sony.com.au
      
      Ozbargain has a LOT more traffic.
    - coolhand on 05/07/2013 - 20:40
      
      +1
      
      The amount of traffic generated by an email offer system is distinctly different to that offered by ozbargain. Sure, you could say that they should have expected it to be shared, however these offers are considered by the company not in terms of "this is the best deal we've offered this year!"…it's just another offer and I'm sure they've had many in the past which have not been considered a bargain by the community here which received very modest traffic. It is unrealistic to expect them to handle this huge influx of traffic, even given that they are part of such a large global company, the sony electronics store Australia can't instantly pull resources from other divisions, they are essentially a separate entity and have their own budgets and website traffic requirements. Aside from the points made above, it's just a shame to see so much negativity, it simply breeds more negativity, I fully realize I'm hypocritical by arguing your points. But it would be nice if this was a positive community, if only so I didn't have to wade through so much whinging to read valuable posts explaining user experience with these & pointing out that you could phone order..
zelda707 on 05/07/2013 - 17:58

+1

looks like it's the same kind of thing as here
Ryxxi on 05/07/2013 - 18:45

The site is back up.

Sony store

Thanks for coming to the Sony Online Store. We’re currently experiencing a high traffic load on our site.Don’t worry, we have plenty of stock so make sure to come back later today to place your order.
- Jaskie on 05/07/2013 - 18:49
  
  +1
  
  Was in the middle of typing the same thing ;)
- liverpool2009 on 05/07/2013 - 19:26
  
  +4
  
  Plenty of stock at full price I bet lol
- Veilus on 05/07/2013 - 20:11
  
  +1
  
  It's probably a default message for any product. Tried buying a couple of different items and got the same message.
arsenal1 on 05/07/2013 - 19:37

+1

we have plenty of stock so make sure to come back later today to place your order.
Excellent news, there's me thinking i wasted 3 hours trying to buy 1.
morpheu on 05/07/2013 - 20:08

+1

Offer available online or in Sony stores only.
online is DOA, tried to locate Sony store, no Sony stores for NSW/SA/ACT?! way to go Sony!
tonyyang on 05/07/2013 - 22:40

'come back later today' Sure, it's 10:39pm… #trueozbargainer
- CarbonTwelve on 05/07/2013 - 23:22
  
  If you refresh now the offer for the cheap prices is gone. Looks like the message about having plenty of stock was bogus :(
  
  Edit: And now they're back again, but still with the message…
liverpool2009 on 06/07/2013 - 02:46

.
bobjane on 06/07/2013 - 03:12

Online ordering is back up.
- lamerthanlam on 06/07/2013 - 03:14
  
  +1
  
  Yes. A true ozbargainer never sleeps. Ordered 2.
  - liverpool2009 on 06/07/2013 - 03:36
    
    Was about to sleep, sooooo happy I managed to get it!
vaditya9 on 06/07/2013 - 03:23

Products back in stock

Edit: Got one

XBA-NC85D Sony Balanced Armature Headphones $94.95
tondyd3 on 06/07/2013 - 03:29

Got The Bluetooth one at 3:20 AM …… for those early bird ;)
xba3vi out of stock still ! But well at least we know what Sony meant by "Very Soon" anyhow
ExtremeDavo on 06/07/2013 - 03:31

Site is now working, stock of everything.
Confirmed, bought 1x XBA3 successfully.

Thank you for choosing to shop at Sony Store

Your order number is: xxxxxxx
The total amount of your order is: $ 59.95 AUD inc. GST
The estimated delivery date is: 12-Jul-13
Please note, orders are generally delivered within 7 business day(s) after payment clearance.

An Order Confirmation has also been sent to you by email.

You can track your order through a link that has been included in your order confirmation email.
- lamerthanlam on 06/07/2013 - 03:36
  
  +3
  
  Didn't you sign up for a mysony account? Could have saved 9.95
  - liverpool2009 on 06/07/2013 - 03:41
    
    Needed to have a product code.
    - bobjane on 06/07/2013 - 03:43
      
      Can just just any product code on the products page.
      
      eg MDR-1RNC yes I bought a pair of those… from err… Harvey Norman?
    - liverpool2009 on 06/07/2013 - 03:45
      
      arghhh, oh well I think for the prices given the extra $10 isn't a deal breaker.
  - revacious on 06/07/2013 - 03:41
    
    Yeah, can sign up with any bogus product code. I just used the example they provided
- zelda707 on 06/07/2013 - 10:49
  
  why the neg if you got one?
BinaryPirate on 06/07/2013 - 04:13

Damn. Dropped back in here to advise the store is back online with stock and taking orders but looks like there's more than one insomniac in the ranks of OZB ;)
greengrocer35 on 06/07/2013 - 04:15

Thank you for the "My Sony" free delivery trick! Got an XBA3 for $50!
Foos on 06/07/2013 - 04:49

Insomnia pays off. Ordered some xba3's this moment. Paid for and all 4:45am
viki8702 on 06/07/2013 - 04:57

getting this error

Looking for something at Sony?

The page that you are looking for is unavailable. You may have used an outdated or invalid link or may have typed the address (URL) incorrectly. You might find what you are looking for in one of these areas:

Products
Support
Retail Shops
Contact Us

Or you may want to visit our Global or Asia Pacific website.

Looking for Support?

We have revamped our Support section and some old links may no longer be valid. Please visit Sony Support homepage
navinjd on 06/07/2013 - 05:12

hey guys, except XBA4 everything is back… I just bought 4 headphones. try it now… I thiught I missed this deal…. I am so happy :)
binary01 on 06/07/2013 - 05:48

+1

First time I have been happy my 2mnth old baby has me awake at 4 o'clock! Xba3 for me and some xba2vp for gifts :)
docpol on 06/07/2013 - 05:59

Can't decide whether I want an XBA-3 or XBA-BT75. Ended up getting both! Oh well, hopefully I'll be able to use them both. The Altec Lansing Muzk earphones I ordered from the dealsdirect deal hasn't even arrived yet.
Chinerama on 06/07/2013 - 06:06

Backordered the XBA3IP. Fingers crossed it won't take forever.
lovebargain87 on 06/07/2013 - 07:44

Thanks Ozbargain I am so happy to finally got it. Been holding a while for these. Best deal ever. Love Sony. Welcome back Sony. Go PS4, GO xperia phones and tablet and Bravia TVs and the walkmans !!!
snvl on 06/07/2013 - 08:16

+1

Slow/dead again :(
- abandc2003 on 06/07/2013 - 08:28
  
  same, put my cc details in and then got an error page.
  haven't been able to complete order since :(
videoman on 06/07/2013 - 08:42

Got up early this morning and bought the nc85d. Forgot to get the free postage but still a good deal. Thanks
fakesies on 06/07/2013 - 08:49

Not working again…
abandc2003 on 06/07/2013 - 10:02

+1

Finally got an order confirmation using BPAY as payment method after the site kept crashing with credit card details. However it looks like my credit card has been charged despite the errors. With only one confirmation email I wonder if I'll get 2 pairs of XBA3's or charged twice for the one pair?
- carlenet on 06/07/2013 - 10:05
  
  I crashed on CC details too however cannot tell whether I've been charged with no email confirmation or anything showing in my order on My Sony. I think I now officially give up!
  - Ryxxi on 06/07/2013 - 10:17
    
    They charged me for a crashed order. But I did not get an order conformation :(
    - Fin88 on 06/07/2013 - 11:08
      
      did you ever get a confirmation email in the end. same boat here. i got charged but got no confirmation email!
    - Ryxxi on 06/07/2013 - 11:11
      
      nope
    - Fin88 on 06/07/2013 - 11:32
      
      hmm this is a worry.i dont want to try re-order if i dont have to but the money is definately been taken. Maybe there is a delay for credit card details - wish i read here first and did the pay it at post option…
tonyyang on 06/07/2013 - 10:05

We are currently down for maintenance.
Sorry for the inconvenience. We will be back online shortly.

got up too late…
Revolutionize on 06/07/2013 - 10:15

Been trying for the past few hours. I add the item to my cart, log into MySony. Get to the CC details then it crashes. Try again, item isn't there so I have to add the item back into my cart. System maintenance error… Try the process again, relog into MySony like a thousand times. Add it to my cart a thousand times. Guess I got to keep trying eh.

EDIT: And I haven't yet to complete my purchase.
- abandc2003 on 06/07/2013 - 10:18
  
  Hang in there - it is possible!
- Cindia on 06/07/2013 - 10:26
  
  Keep trying, I just got through and got one using BPAY
  - ffysn on 06/07/2013 - 10:43
    
    it took ages to load, and keeps saying gateway time out
dunker56 on 06/07/2013 - 10:28

Grabbed a pair of XBA2's from KIOSK in NSW, going later today to pick it up, I really want an XBA3 tho…
krammis76 on 06/07/2013 - 10:37

I finally grabbed a pair of XBA-3's online. Haven't received the confirmation email yet though…
- sixnout on 06/07/2013 - 10:59
  
  I finally got through too, and I just got a confirmation email.
  - krammis76 on 06/07/2013 - 11:35
    
    Did you get the email straight away?
    - sixnout on 06/07/2013 - 17:54
      
      Yeah mate, pretty much. It's also in my account ad pending payment as I paid by bpay
MadMaxBargainRoad on 06/07/2013 - 10:43

Argh, really wanna get a XBA3IP for my phone even though it's android, still good to have a mic :(. Anyone scored one since early yesterday?