PS3 Repair and/or Death Thread

[aukevin]

Quote: Originally Posted by GearsX8

Kevin, are you getting your own system back or are they sending you a refurb?

I won't know until I get the PS3 back. The customer service rep said 99% of the time with Blu-Ray drive failures, they just replace the drive and send the same unit back. So if that is all that is wrong with mine, then I should get my original unit back. I sure hope so because I don't want to lose the game saves for some of my games that don't back up like Rock Band and Guitar Hero.

[CaptainZombie]

Quote: Originally Posted by aukevin

I won't know until I get the PS3 back. The customer service rep said 99% of the time with Blu-Ray drive failures, they just replace the drive and send the same unit back. So if that is all that is wrong with mine, then I should get my original unit back. I sure hope so because I don't want to lose the game saves for some of my games that don't back up like Rock Band and Guitar Hero.

Cool, keep us updated.

[goh]

Quote: Originally Posted by RedheadKingpin

"If you're in the US and have a credit card you can go through a guy on ebay to fix the YLoD if you don't want to give Sony any money (you shouldn't),it's also cheaper ($75 instead of $150) and you'll be getting your own system back (your save data will be safe): http://myworld.ebay.com/jdelectronone/ It looks like the individual pages expire so that's the main page." Yeah,lets not deal with the company that actually makes the system,but lets give some guy on ebay a shot? I understand you had a bad experience with Sony,but come on with this one.

Well it's highly reccomended by people.

[pfunk880]

Quote: Originally Posted by goh

Well it's highly reccomended by people.

That's a ringing endorsement if I've ever heard one.

[goh]

I wouldn't know,they don't ship to Canada. Can only go by what others have said.

[DXZeke]

Thanks for the replies thus far guys.

It's interesting to see what's broken on these systems.

[seasprite]

Quote: Originally Posted by DXZeke

Thanks for the replies thus far guys. It's interesting to see what's broken on these systems.

You can bet as soon as they figure out what is causing it, I will expand my 360 repair business to accomodate the PS3 repair.

[aukevin]

I got an email saying my PS3 is on its way home. I should have it Monday, Tuesday by the latest. I called Sony customer service and the rep says it appears my original PS3 is what was shipped back. The rep said usually when they ship a refurb replacement back out there is a serial number attached to the order, but there was none, so she suspects my original is coming back. I sure hope so. I backed up all my game saves that allow that to a flash drive, but I came home the other day and one of my dogs mistook it as a toy. I was able to get most of the data off the flash drive, but some of it was corrupted.