Vince's Ebay Repair Thread - (Console Repairs & Mods)
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Well thats what I thought but thats seemingly not the case... they all seem to make it to the local depots the one in the image above is birmingham but they have gone missing from all over, this week the 3 destinations were birmingham, bradford and Blantyre. So all the B's and all one step further north than the last. When all is said and done I expect to be about 150 to 200 out of pocket for using evri these last few weeks
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If I told you that over 100 evri deliveries you should expect a sucess rate of 88% would you use them
I mean this one here for example....
Literally anything could happen at this point... This was Evri Next Day Service!! And was shipped Jan 10th
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Well today yet another parcel has done a runner... Plus side I now have direct contact details for Evri CEO... This could get interesting! What's the betting they ignore me just like Evri ignore support tickets and support requests?
Ill probably change over to DPD/In-Post slightly more expensive but I think worth the extra given the last few weeks.
Evri are notoriously atrocious, I see why individuals/small businesses use them as they're affordable but there seems to be issues across their entire chain. I never trust their tracking either, many times I've had updates stating that my "address was unreachable" or that nobody was in, despite me being in all day and there being no apparent obstacles between the road and the door to my building.
Good luck with the claims.
Good luck with the claims.
Yea it's a tricky one I get a lot of people who want cheap postage which I get, free postage eats into my profits which aren't massive but I make a little on everything I fix. Say I buy a switch for £45 and sell it at £89.99 when all is said and done I might make 30 quid. I make a lot more on repairs and builds I do for other people and collectors than I do on any buy/fix/sell which is effectively all I do on ebay. I much prefer building for people and I have at least 6 or 7 regulars at this point who always get in touch for builds that they would like and I really like those interactions and the response you get when you send the console back. For a full GG build for example I charge somewhere in the region of £90 for the build which includes a choice in led colour and full mlcc recap as well as fitting, but not supplying, whatever screen you would like installed. It's worth noting that the LED swap is a bit of a draw as swapping the led colour is more than just swapping the led over, if you are doing it properly it also involves tuning the LED resistor which is a 4.7k from the factory, but say you want a modern green one then you want to be using around 250k, blue 300k, pink 200k etc and and i've spent the time pairing all the LED's I use with the perfect resistors so that they dont blind the user if playing at night.
But yea i'm waffling, Evri are total Junk.
Soldato
Looks to be in fantastic condition!
...So when do the mods start?
...So when do the mods start?
Ive been offered more than I paid already but I am not sure yet what I am going to do, I might mod it but I might just make sure it works and keep it all original... I picked up a snes, blue wii, and some other stuff at the auction as well
But the saturn was my big spend 
snes and wii and a box of junk that go with them was 35 and a massive box of these things for £12
I left the auction early and set up some phone bids so will show the rest when I pick it up
Oh and I also picked up more boxes of harry potter collectables for the ebay shop
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well who would have thought that somebody would actually come back to me.. Given that I attacked the CEO's ability to right a sinking ship very openly in my email to him any response is better than what I was expecting.
And I have moved to a different courier already!
And I have moved to a different courier already!
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I think we need more updates....
Ive got a ton of new stuff to share, a mangled oled that came in all the way from New Zealand that we replaced some 20 components on in the most nightmare area on a switch board, I've got another failed mod chip install board coming in from a reddit user in Italy and have also finished a few other projects. But there is one project I am going to post up before I post that one up as its probably the one I am looking forward to the most! I found this:
Which is a completely unpopulated Gameboy Advance board but the gba never came in a blue board, they are all white... you know where this is going right? Well Ive been building myself a new GBA and its inline for a lot of mods some of which are already here but its getting a full internal led kit, new power led, tactile buttons all round (the shoulders are already done), lipo battery kit, and now im going to source all brand new components and populate that board so that my gba, this one below, can truly be one of a kind
Ohh... and I forgot to show you my snes as well that I've been fixing up. So much to post but given its a bit of an essay I'll just do one post per project/repair for now rather than a massive one with everything in. Watch this space
Ive got a ton of new stuff to share, a mangled oled that came in all the way from New Zealand that we replaced some 20 components on in the most nightmare area on a switch board, I've got another failed mod chip install board coming in from a reddit user in Italy and have also finished a few other projects. But there is one project I am going to post up before I post that one up as its probably the one I am looking forward to the most! I found this:
Which is a completely unpopulated Gameboy Advance board but the gba never came in a blue board, they are all white... you know where this is going right? Well Ive been building myself a new GBA
and its inline for a lot of mods some of which are already here but its getting a full internal led kit, new power led, tactile buttons all round (the shoulders are already done), lipo battery kit, and now im going to source all brand new components and populate that board so that my gba, this one below, can truly be one of a kind Ohh... and I forgot to show you my snes as well that I've been fixing up. So much to post but given its a bit of an essay I'll just do one post per project/repair for now rather than a massive one with everything in. Watch this space
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Another little update, so fella from New Zealand got in touch over discord and he had taken his oled to no less then 3 repair shops after royally messing up a charge port replacement, 2 refused it and 1 charged a diagnosis fee and called it a no fix claiming it could not be fixed, here are the pics he sent me of the board:
So the board ended up in the air during the port replacement knocking off random components and crucially shields etc on the wifi area, bq area and also m92 area of the boards all effected, after two weeks in transit half way around the world I get it on my bench and its time to see what we can do
Under the scope we can see the wifi area is a mess:
And this is it once rebuilt
The components that were missing outlined, 13 around this IC, I also reballed the IC as it couldn't be trusted, most of the components were stolen from an OG switch using a spare oled board as a reference for values
Missing components around BQ
Missing components around m92
Fixed m92 area and I reflowed m92 just to make sure it was seated nicely
Same around BQ area, components replaced and reflowed, looking pretty good.
The guy sent me the new port he was trying to put on so I put that on the board and then was slightly disappointed it had a bent pin but that's just cosmetic the port is on there like a boss
Once tested I replaced the shield, shield cover, ground clip just above the port to the left, and then the two clips eaiter side of the board that hold the port shield in place taking the total components for this repair up to 22.
I wasn't 100% convinced we wouldn't find some other issues but on first test it fired into life, it took an hour and 30 mins total start to finish.
And this is why I love a switch, its not about the £50 I charged for the fix, its about the challenge and more than anything I love the responses I get from people...
So the board ended up in the air during the port replacement knocking off random components and crucially shields etc on the wifi area, bq area and also m92 area of the boards all effected, after two weeks in transit half way around the world I get it on my bench and its time to see what we can do
Under the scope we can see the wifi area is a mess:
And this is it once rebuilt
The components that were missing outlined, 13 around this IC, I also reballed the IC as it couldn't be trusted, most of the components were stolen from an OG switch using a spare oled board as a reference for values
Missing components around BQ
Missing components around m92
Fixed m92 area and I reflowed m92 just to make sure it was seated nicely
Same around BQ area, components replaced and reflowed, looking pretty good.
The guy sent me the new port he was trying to put on so I put that on the board and then was slightly disappointed it had a bent pin but that's just cosmetic the port is on there like a boss
Once tested I replaced the shield, shield cover, ground clip just above the port to the left, and then the two clips eaiter side of the board that hold the port shield in place taking the total components for this repair up to 22.
I wasn't 100% convinced we wouldn't find some other issues but on first test it fired into life, it took an hour and 30 mins total start to finish.
And this is why I love a switch, its not about the £50 I charged for the fix, its about the challenge and more than anything I love the responses I get from people...
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Lets talk about our other auction lot, I picked up £30 box, this one in the pic below:
Most of it is junk and none of it is nice but still we can see a snes and we can also see a blue wii... the wii I have no interest in so sold it straight away on ebay for £30, so thats my money back.
Here it is:
The snes is what I wanted but it is pretty grim:
So lets see what we can do about that:
Came out pretty nice!
Then I cleaned up the pads:
Oh and printed a little stand for my GG:
Most of it is junk and none of it is nice but still we can see a snes and we can also see a blue wii... the wii I have no interest in so sold it straight away on ebay for £30, so thats my money back.
Here it is:
The snes is what I wanted but it is pretty grim:
So lets see what we can do about that:
Came out pretty nice!
Then I cleaned up the pads:
Oh and printed a little stand for my GG:
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Something a bit different as well? My ducky started playing up... I have about 10 LED's that are failing and then the windows key stopped working so given I got some what i thought were compatible LED's in I went at it...
You can see led up the top failed, these two are red when they should be blue...
This key stopped working, at first glance I couldnt find anything wrong so only one thing for it, I need to unsolder every key....
One of the LED's I need to replace...
Hmm keys off:
And here we are just the board, every key removed:
Everything cleaned, lets rebuild:
Still dodgey LED's
All the keys are back in
I love this keyboard! such a cool design
Anyway the funny thing was it didnt fix the windows key issue so I looked at the manual... Apparently some key combo disables the windows key... yep it was a software issue. At least my keyboard is nice and clean.. oh and the LED's i bought didnt work so i bought some different ones in from china to test. Basically I stripped the entire keyboard for no reason
You can see led up the top failed, these two are red when they should be blue...
This key stopped working, at first glance I couldnt find anything wrong so only one thing for it, I need to unsolder every key....
One of the LED's I need to replace...
Hmm keys off:
And here we are just the board, every key removed:
Everything cleaned, lets rebuild:
Still dodgey LED's
All the keys are back in
I love this keyboard! such a cool design
Anyway the funny thing was it didnt fix the windows key issue so I looked at the manual... Apparently some key combo disables the windows key... yep it was a software issue. At least my keyboard is nice and clean.. oh and the LED's i bought didnt work so i bought some different ones in from china to test. Basically I stripped the entire keyboard for no reason
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The SNES lives! Everything works a treat and as an added bonus it's no longer yellow. Dont know if this is the keeper or if i just shift this one along. I gave it a good old refurb, cleaned it out and put the shell back to a more normal colour, I think its good to go! I may wait for a boxed one to come along like the saturn.
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