I got my PS2 replaced *cough*for free*cough*

After months of suffering through my messed up PS2, completely screwed up DVD watching and taking a while to read any game, it finally stopped working today.  The only game that would work out of the nine games I have is DOA2:HC.

Fortunately, my sister-in-law was over at my house.  She, and her husband (my brother) were not going to take this.  My brother and I wanted to play TTT!  So my sister-in-law called Walmart, and said her (*cough*make believe*cough*) son got a PS2 for his birthday last week from his grandma.  She said it wasn\'t reading the games and she didn\'t have a receipt because it was a present.  The worker there said to bring it in with everything that came with it and they would replace it.  Fortunately, I still had my PS2 box and everything that came with it. So my sister-in-law took it in and they replaced it!  Ha ha ha.  Take that Sony!  That\'s 130 bucks they\'re not getting from me.

Here is another method of getting it replaced for free that I heard from other people on the internet.  This might work, but I didn\'t try it.  What you do is go buy a PS2 from walmart, then put your crappy PS2 in the box, take it back, and say it doesn\'t work.  Tell them you want your money back instead of getting it replaced.  The problem with this is that some stores won\'t just give your money back, they might just give you "in store credit" to spend at a later time at their store.  Call up the store before trying this to find out what their return policy is.  Another thing to remember is do not go to electronics stores! (i.e. Babbages, Best Buy, Electronic Boutique).  They check the serial code on the box and on the PS2, and if it doesn\'t match, you\'re busted.  If you have your old box, you don\'t have to worry about that because the serial codes will match.

It might not be honest, but either is Sony for doing this to us hardcore fans.  If you will excuse me, I have some DVDs to watch.

BTW, Sony will catch on soon.  If you want to get your PS2 fixed for free, do it now or never.

not honest at all...........




i like it

I\'m glad to see you finally get a working PS2.  If Sony is going to stick us w/a short warranty they better get ready for a WalMart-return-raping.

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Good idea!! I would do that too!!  

what took ya so long. I would\'ve done this when it first happened

hmmm my PS2 has been messing up lately - this sounds like an interesting thing to try especially since thse people at my wal mart are not too smart

well i think i will try this - ill let you know how it goes

Thats good that you got your game replaced, You were very lucky.

tisk tisk, you guys must really hate the company that created the PS2.....

money isnt an opion when my PS2 is on hte fritz i was thinking of doing that but my heart told me no.

you could also do what I did with my original PSX, the ones with the bad lasers.  I bought a new one then opened them both up, switched the lasers, closed them back up.  Serial numbers are fine, and they never open it to check if the lasers have been swapped.  This gets you around the whole serial number issue.  The reason I did it this way was because the original PSX could play imports by just using the swap trick as opposed to any kind of Mod where as the new ones could not play imports.

Damn you guys

If you guys keep doing this trick my sony shares will never go back up

I bought at 96 on the NYSE
and its currently at 66 or something ... sigh

got close though. Was at 80 something a couple weeks ago.

OK, say me PS2 screws up and I have to return it.  I have my original box and PS2.  Say I do the swap trick from Wal-mart.  Would I just completely switch both boxes (return the original)?  All I\'m asking is if they can check the serial numbers by printung it on the recipt or something?

Originally posted by JC632X
OK, say me PS2 screws up and I have to return it.  I have my original box and PS2.  Say I do the swap trick from Wal-mart.  Would I just completely switch both boxes (return the original)?  All I\'m asking is if they can check the serial numbers by printung it on the recipt or something?

Yes, just return the PS2 in the original box with the instructions, one controller, and the cords.  If you do it at Walmart, they should not check the serial numbers because people at Walmart don\'t know a thing about electronics.  By the way, I would put it in the box it came with just in case.

But how do electronic stores check the serial numbers?  Is it printed on the box, receipt, and the system itself.

its on the box and on the PS2 thats why there is that hole in the box

Originally posted by JC632X
But how do electronic stores check the serial numbers?  Is it printed on the box, receipt, and the system itself.

Remember, you don\'t return it with a receipt.  That will completely mess up your story.