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If Walmart tests the system and sees that it works, it goes right back on the shelf. For this reason I always avoid buying stuff that's been opened. This goes triple at Fry's Electronics.
I used to be big in the Commodore 64 scene...ran a warez BBS and all that. (Yeah, giving away my age...44!) The C-64 and it's disk drives were some pretty unreliable beasts, not designed for 24/7 operation on a BBS, even though I added fans to the C64 and disk drive case, every few months something would die. I took the dead 64 or drive to Target and got a new one, must have done it a dozen times. I was getting so mad at C= (Thats Commodore's "chicken head" logo) I started yanking chips before taking it back...then I started yanking the whole motherboard, then the whole disk drive innards. I would hot melt glue a brick inside the case so it would not feel empty. I EVEN LEFT A LETTER INSIDE WITH MY NAME AND ADDRESS, telling C= they could have their stuff back if they would only ask...they never did. To this day I have a small stock of good SID, PLA, ROM, 6510 and CIA chips, plus a couple 1541 and C64 boards. I keep them to fix my remaining C64, C128, SX64, 1541 and 1571's...
What I did was return stuff that died an early death. Some was in warranty, some was out, I was not going to buy a new C64 every six months....they cost a lot more than a PS2 for most of their life, when adjusted for inflation and the fact I make 12x more $$$ than I did when I was 21...
If your PS2 dies an early death, by all means give Sony the shaft; the damn thing should last years. But swapping it out just because you have had it five months seems a bit much.
P4 4.2ghz, 2gb DDR, 150gb Serial ATA raid 0, PS2 v9 with Matrix Infinity chip. I collect firearms, want to see my AK-47?
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