New e-commerce site from Olympus (in US only)
PRESS RELEASE
Olympus Puts Purchasing Power In The Hands Of Consumers With Robust New E-Commerce Site
The Olympus Store’s Live Chat and Advanced Search Make Online Shopping Fun and Easier Than Ever Before
CENTER VALLEY, Pa., August 9, 2010 – Today, Olympus Imaging America Inc. is proud to announce the launch of the Olympus Store, a new, e-commerce website that makes shopping for Olympus products fun and easier than ever before. The site is easy to navigate and helps consumers find the right product by giving them access to knowledgeable customer care representatives, through live chat, e-mail and phone support. In the future, the e-commerce website will offer consumer reviews and recommendations on what products would best fit their lifestyles. At the Olympus Store you will enjoy a hearty shopping experience, utilizing the site to research and purchase a wide selection of products, including digital cameras, lenses, underwater housings, audio devices, binoculars and limitedly available accessories, allowing you to capture it all.
The Olympus Store has a variety of other features to make shopping simple, including:
* Advanced search capability to find the right product in a flash;
* An account dashboard to keep track of multiple orders and view past order history; and
* A wish list that enables visitors to choose and highlight their ideal Olympus presents, making gift shopping a breeze for their friends and family.
“Through every step of the purchase process, the Olympus Store makes shopping fun and easy by giving people all the facts they need to make an informed purchase,” said Dan Mastellon, vice president—operations, customer care and repair, Olympus Imaging America Inc. “With Live Chat, visitors to the site can instantly communicate with a customer care representative who will answer questions and help with selections. The site also lists accessories that can sometimes be hard to find making it a one-stop shopping experience for our customers.”
To access the Olympus Store and start the e-shopping adventure, please click here: https://us.buyolympus.com/.
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Comment from Michael Meissner: The site basically replaces the old http...
Michael Meissner
2 years ago |The site basically replaces the old https://emporium.olympus.com (which now forwards you to the new site). Like the emporium (or expensitorium as I used to call it), don’t look for bargins in the normal prices. The prices are always MSRP, and the rationale is if Olympus undercut the brick and mortar/high volume internet sellers, those places would stop stocking Olympus gear.
The accessories for older cameras have been moved to an archived section, and some of the accessories have now disappeared (E-1′s FS-1, FS-2, and whatever the LCD cover part number was).
Interestingly, all flashes seem to have disappeared (but not flash cables or the older flash bracket, but the two new brackets are gone). Olympus still seems to have the same fine level of detail in the site — a quick glance at the E-30 showed it had the E-300′s HLD-3 battery holder.
Another interesting deletion is the AV/PS-2 cable. This cable was needed if you wanted to tether your DSLR (other than E-1/E-3) to your computer as it provided both video and usb control (with Olympus tethering, you had to feed the video out into a framegrabber to see the image on the computer screen). Given that Olympus Studio had disappeared before the move to the new site, the Studio ‘replacement’ (Viewer-2) does not provide tethering support, the Pens not supporting tethering, obviously Olympus is hoping that people will just forget it ever offered tethered support.
As was reported on 43photo.com a few months ago, Olympus also stopped selling scuffed boxes and refurb gear through ebay.