Well...

My brother in law's PS1 from 1995 still works perfectly. Everytime I have a go on it I get an ancient all-knowing old man vibe from it as it creaks into motion and plays the games. He still even has the launch games with it - Ridge Racer, Tekken and Zero Divide.

Man... I can't believe it's been 13 years. :eek:
 
My launch PS1 needed the upside down trick, then that stopped working and it required the 45degree trick... Think it's still in a cupboard at someones house, would dig it out but I'd be disgusted by the hideous yellowing.

If Sony aren't any use then I'd go with what previous posts have said and try the shop, just get some of the resident SOGA 'boffins' to arm you with some knowledge first. :)
 
Emlyn_Dewar said:
If Sony aren't any use then I'd go with what previous posts have said and try the shop, just get some of the resident SOGA 'boffins' to arm you with some knowledge first. :)
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It came from the purple shirt store(****) so I dunno how they'd play ball with the SOGA, unless someone from there posts on here and would kindly let me know.

Thanks.
 
Tupac said:
It came from the purple shirt store(****) so I dunno how they'd play ball with the SOGA, unless someone from there posts on here and would kindly let me know.

Thanks.
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They have to by law, no one can consider 13 months to be a reasonable period of time for a £425 console to last.
 
Burned_Alive said:
They have to by law, no one can consider 13 months to be a reasonable period of time for a £425 console to last.
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It's not always that simple, however, as a lot of stores will interpret the SOGA in their own way and simply won't budge.

My mother in laws 13 month old CRT broke last year, purchased from a very large electronics retailer. Wrote a letter, as advised by Consumer Direct (who are excellent) took it in, but the store manager had his own interpretation of the SOGA and wanted it examined by an engineer.

We paid for an engineer to look at it, quote repair cost, but the engineer couldn't state that it wasn't inherently faulty; although could confirm it was something we couldn't have possibly done. Toshiba couldn't help either (which I found amusing - they couldn't say their products should last longer than 13 months! :p). Again, store manager was reluctant and asked us to deal with head office.

Letter to head office, accompanied with receipts and advice from Consumer Direct, cheque comes through for £90~ for cost of repair and initial quote. Took 3 weeks start to finish, or thereabouts.
 
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Tupac said:
It came from the purple shirt store(****) so I dunno how they'd play ball with the SOGA, unless someone from there posts on here and would kindly let me know.

Thanks.
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http://www.tradingstandards.gov.uk/ pop in your post code, and call your local office or fire an email off, they are normally quick to respond and seem to enjoy sorting these things out.

This cuts out all the messing about.

Aslo, if your stuck, have a look on the AV forums Xbox 360 hardware section for good examples and template letters which you can apply to the PS3 to get refunds when out of the 12 month warranty.
 
I just phoned up Sony's support line and a new one will be with me next Wednesday, there honouring an exchange because its so shortly after my warranty ended. I forgot to ask but it'll be a refurb I presume? What warranty will I get on the next unit? Nothing?

So so long away, I need my fix of GTA4 :mad:
 
I wouldn't mind swapping my hard drive over, but I guess with the time taken it'll annoy the van driver thats doing the swap round?

Or better still can I download the PS1 games I've paid for, for free again?
 
Tupac said:
I wouldn't mind swapping my hard drive over, but I guess with the time taken it'll annoy the van driver thats doing the swap round?

Or better still can I download the PS1 games I've paid for, for free again?
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Deactivate your current PS3 using account management tools, that'll refund the 1 of 5 download credits you've used so you won't have lost any.

Backup your savegames onto a USB stick as they're the only things you can't re download.

On your new PS3, reuse your existing account login information - all stuff purchased on the PSN will become available to you again (no extra charge).
 
Tupac said:
I just phoned up Sony's support line and a new one will be with me next Wednesday, there honouring an exchange because its so shortly after my warranty ended. I forgot to ask but it'll be a refurb I presume? What warranty will I get on the next unit? Nothing?

So so long away, I need my fix of GTA4 :mad:
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It is a refurb yes, but it's in a brand new casing so you cannot tell.
You get 3 months warranty.
 
ooooh brand new casing, the one i'm shipping back has scratches here and there, but they never affected how it work, just cosmetic.
 
Tupac said:
ooooh brand new casing, the one i'm shipping back has scratches here and there, but they never affected how it work, just cosmetic.
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lol I would hope so, if a scratch stopped any console from working there would be uproar :p.
 
Can see this problem is quite common with the playstation 3, i don't know anyone personally who it has happened to though.

I must be really lucky with consoles, well all electrical stuff really since i got launch day playstation, playstation 2 (fat original version), 2x 60gb ps3 and snes all working perfectly. Never had a problem with any of them.
 
Lucky you. Faults are still quite rare on 60gb PS3's, and if it does form a problem it's 99% of the time the Blu-Ray drive.

My first PS3 failed on that as well as all the other fails that come to mind that I've read about on here, so their build quality can't be faulted (on the PS3).
 
So far I have received nothing :mad: - The man said i'd get a replacement today.

Should I phone Sony to check up on things?
 
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