Gateway Shifts Focus to Others to Sell Their Products

Gateway has been gaining momentum in the PC market for a while now, but despite that, they have decided to scrap their own personal online sales entirely in favor of allowing e-tailers and retailers to have all the fun. Their current retailer list includes Best Buy, Office Depot, NewEgg, CompUSA, Circuit City, Costco, Tiger Direct, HSN, OfficeMax and Wal-Mart.

The move is an interesting one, but it’s apparent that many people didn’t go to their site to ultimately purchase their products anyway. When I bought the XHD3000 a while back, I was forced to purchase it through Best Buy, due to their absolute lack of support in Canada. So it’s no real surprise to me that their online sales presence is now gone.

On the other side of the coin, moving to this model may make more sense in the future as they are focusing 100% on that method of sales, which may entice other e-tailers and retailers to sign on board with their products. If recent notebooks and displays are anything to go by, then any retailer has a good reason to begin carrying their products, if not already.

“We believe that our retail and e-tail partners offer consumers the best, easiest and most effective way to purchase Gateway products,” said Mark Hill, Acer Group U.S. General Manager. “Customers can rest assured that they will continue to get the award-winning products and outstanding technical support they’ve come to expect from Gateway for the last 23 years.”