record store ecommerce founded london england headquarters worldwide products recorded music videos dvds books computer games beauty website http www.wowhd.co.uk wow hd is an online retailer offering games cd dvd books and cosmetics . similar to amazon.com it offers websites in and ships from multiple countries including uk usa hong kong new zealand republic of ireland australia sweden norway denmark netherlands japan and germany . wow hd offers free shipping worldwide on all products except cosmetics which attract a handling fee . 1 wow hd is owned and operated by lan media partners . they have offices in sydney melbourne and hong kong and operate in 15 countries hosting its servers in australia and jersey in the channel islands . they have 70 staff worldwide . 2 as a pure pay online only store wow hd offers three ways to pay through its own checkout using a credit or debit card through paypal or through google checkout so you don t need to sign in to make a purchase . 3 an affiliate company of wow hd access digital entertainment will become the first online retailer to offer ultraviolet enabled digital content in the uk when it launches wowhd.tv partner site of wowhd.co.uk . the new platform will offer download to own and video on demand content compatible with ultraviolet uv marking the first time uv copies of movies and tv shows will be made available for purchase as a standalone offering rather than sold as part of a bundle with physical discs in the uk . 4 5 history edit under its previous name cd wow launched in the uk in 2000 under mtol hk ltd. 6 cd wow offered cds at lower prices than its competition . the retailer began operating in the uk in 2000 offering cds and dvds at lower prices than the high street . in 2004 the company was taken to court by the british phonographic industry the recording industry association for the uk for selling cds at prices that often undercut uk retail prices by 25 % as although the cds in question were legal many of them were licensed for sale and distribution in other markets and thus priced accordingly for those markets . the bpi acting on behalf of its members saw the lower priced albums as damaging to the uk and european markets and took the company s former owners music trading on line hk ltd to high court citing uk s copyright designs and patents act of 1988 . this resulted in cd wow being ordered not to sell titles that were not licensed for sale in europe and claiming it had to increase the price of all cds 7 on 29 may 2007 the former owners of cd wow were ordered by the high court to pay 41 million in damages to the bpi for breaching a 2004 agreement over the sale of imported cds . 8 on 1 september 2007 cd wow was bought by stomp pty. ltd. 9 in may 2008 cd wow launched a new site design in the uk ireland and the us and changed its domain name from cd wow.com to cdwow.com . as of september 2008 cd wow has launched the new front end into all the domains including a new domain in the netherlands and is offering cosmetics and perfumes on all the sites via its wowwoman.com domain . in september 2010 stomp au and stomp hk went into voluntary administration and sold the assets of the business including cd wow to a new australian company lan media partners . lan media partners pty ltd owns and operates online retail sites cdwow.com chaos.com and play4me.com.au . 10 on 20 february 2012 cd wow changed its name to wow hd 11 as stated in their announcement we have decided that we need a name that reflects our passion for bringing you more entertainment across a range of formats . wow hd represents more music more games more entertainment more value more interaction and more news 12 on facebook wow hd posted a message on 23 september being under new management since 1 august that year . a lot of their customers are complaining on their facebook page that they have not received orders from prior august 1st nor refunds . this gives the impression wow hd went bankrupt and now is under full new management . wow hd replied to customers that as they were under new management they had no control on any orders prior to 1 august 2015 so they won t deliver the missing items nor refund however they still have control on account information of existing customers . wow hd changed their site forcing members to change their password . also users found their order history and vouchers had disappeared without explanation and they are no longer selling games books band merchandise or health and beauty items . references edit osbourne hilary 25 may 2012 . store wars play.com and wow hd . london guardian.co.uk . retrieved 25 may 2012 . virtual servers bring real peace of mind for lan media partners . professional advantage . osbourne hilary 25 may 2012 . store wars play.com and wow hd . london guardian.co.uk . retrieved 25 may 2012 . nash thomas . australian retailer launches first uv compatible digital movies in uk . screen digest . retrieved 6 june 2013 . wowhd.tv with ultraviolet to launch in uk . 17 may 2013 . cue magazine . about wow hd nz . any codes . cd settlement forces prices up cd wow to pay millions new owners for stomp cd wow new name new business opportunities as stomp becomes lan media partners pdf . retrieved 6 october 2010 . cd wow has changed its name to wow hd . cd wow has changed its name to wow hd . external links edit wow hd retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title wow hd & oldid 725611372 categories music retailers of the united kingdomonline music storesonline retailers of the united kingdomvideo game retailers in the united kingdom navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial 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