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Repair ps3 ylod?

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  • 08-09-2013 7:22pm
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    Sgt Pepper 64
    Registered Users Posts: 9,627 ✭✭✭


    My b in laws PS3 (60GB) version has the YLOD.
    Ive read that its not worth repairing as it will go again after 3 months.

    Anyone else agree with this and how much and where could you get it repaired in Dublin?

    thanks


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    deadybai
    Registered Users Posts: 1,465 ✭✭✭deadybai


    Sgt Pepper 64 wrote: »
    My b in laws PS3 (60GB) version has the YLOD.
    Ive read that its not worth repairing as it will go again after 3 months.

    Anyone else agree with this and how much and where could you get it repaired in Dublin?

    thanks

    yeah its probably not worth repairing. It takes a lot of effort and money just for it to break again.


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    Myrddin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    Get it reballed or reflowed professionally & it should be a near permanent fix. Take a hair dryer to it or put it in the over & chances are it won't last. a 60GB launch model is worth salvaging


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    Sgt Pepper 64
    Registered Users Posts: 9,627 ✭✭✭Sgt Pepper 64


    EnterNow wrote: »
    Get it reballed or reflowed professionally & it should be a near permanent fix. Take a hair dryer to it or put it in the over & chances are it won't last. a 60GB launch model is worth salvaging

    any idea how much and where?


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    Myrddin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    Sgt Pepper 64 wrote: »
    any idea how much and where?

    Sorry I don't know any places that offer a proper fix, most of the repairs available seem to be half assed reflows from the likes of phone/electronic shops.


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    Liquidchild
    Registered Users Posts: 33 ✭Liquidchild


    It'd cost 50 odd euro to get it fixed and with ps4 out in a few months the price will drop considerably for ps3. Just bite the bullet with it mate. Tiz goosed don't waste your hard earned on it!!


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    Myrddin
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    Liquidchild wrote: »
    It'd cost 50 odd euro to get it fixed and with ps4 out in a few months the price will drop considerably for ps3. Just bite the bullet with it mate. Tiz goosed don't waste your hard earned on it!!

    It's really unlikely €50 will fix it, not for any real length of time anyway. To get it done properly, I'd say you're looking at upwards of a ton. The original 60GB model has software emulation of the PS2, something missing from all other versions of the console. It's the only one potentially worth fixing, but if such features don't appeal to you, I'd agree with the last poster, bust buy a new one.


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    robertxxx
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    I paid €80 with 3 month warranty, got it fixed twice in that time, and then fixed it about five times myself with the help of YouTube. It's terminal I'm afraid.
    Save your €80 or eBay it stating ylod. You might get €30/40


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    Myrddin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    robertxxx wrote: »
    It's terminal I'm afraid

    Plenty of people have had permanent fixes done, it is a gamble on whether to front the money for a reball or just buy a new console altogether.

    I really, really hope the PS4 isn't like this


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    Kashkai
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,399 ✭✭✭Kashkai


    EnterNow wrote: »
    Get it reballed or reflowed professionally & it should be a near permanent fix. Take a hair dryer to it or put it in the over & chances are it won't last. a 60GB launch model is worth salvaging

    That's what I paid €100 for last week, ie a professional reball of my 60GB PS3, and it lasted a whole 2 hours before it died again. I've texted the repair guy (who gave me a receipt with my one year warranty on the repair and nicely texted me the day after I picked it up to see how I was getting on - however at that point, I hadn't yet connected it up to realise that it was still fcuked) to see if he'll look at it again.


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    Myrddin
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    Kashkai wrote: »
    That's what I paid €100 for last week, ie a professional reball of my 60GB PS3, and it lasted a whole 2 hours before it died again. I've texted the repair guy (who gave me a receipt with my one year warranty on the repair and nicely texted me the day after I picked it up to see how I was getting on - however at that point, I hadn't yet connected it up to realise that it was still fcuked) to see if he'll look at it again.

    Hardly a professional job if it lasted two hours, more likely an overcharged half assed job. It's a really precise & difficult job, requiring very expensive hardware/tools & I think as such, that's why it's so hard to find anyone doing a proper repair. Were you told it was a reball yeah?


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    Kashkai
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,399 ✭✭✭Kashkai


    EnterNow wrote: »
    Hardly a professional job if it lasted two hours, more likely an overcharged half assed job. It's a really precise & difficult job, requiring very expensive hardware/tools & I think as such, that's why it's so hard to find anyone doing a proper repair. Were you told it was a reball yeah?

    This guy came recommended. I was told I was getting a reball for €100 which he said it was better than a reflow for €75 which I had done by another place last January. At least their fix lasted 7 months before the PS3 failed again. I was also told my PS3 would be whisper quiet when in fact it turned out even noisier than before it broke. I thought this guy was genuine, what with the one year written warranty and the follow up text to see how it was working. However no word back from him yet.

    He did say that he's done work for people on this forum and he apparently checks in quite regularly as he saw my original post in the "console modding" forum. So maybe his phone is bust and he hasn't gotten my text. Maybe he'll see this thread and pm me. Or maybe I've been suckered. Hope not as I can't afford to piss a hundred quid away.


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    Myrddin
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    Kashkai wrote: »
    This guy came recommended. I was told I was getting a reball for €100 which he said it was better than a reflow for €75 which I had done by another place last January. At least their fix lasted 7 months before the PS3 failed again. I was also told my PS3 would be whisper quiet when in fact it turned out even noisier than before it broke. I thought this guy was genuine, what with the one year written warranty and the follow up text to see how it was working. However no word back from him yet.

    He did say that he's done work for people on this forum and he apparently checks in quite regularly as he saw my original post in the "console modding" forum. So maybe his phone is bust and he hasn't gotten my text. Maybe he'll see this thread and pm me. Or maybe I've been suckered. Hope not as I can't afford to piss a hundred quid away.

    Hard to say why, but perhaps it has something to do with the console being repaired before, perhaps the mainboard was warped, or god knows what. I do sympathize, hopefully you get sorted out. To my understanding of how it works, it possibly should not have been reballed given it had previous repair history, but I'm not that well up on the process.


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    eltoastero
    Registered Users Posts: 279 ✭✭eltoastero


    I wouldn't recommend getting a PS3 repaired (reballed / reflowed) unless you know the person doing it, in my experience the job done is poor (or it's not done at all yet they've still charged you).

    you might get lucky with a deal from Game on a preowned one (with a year warranty you can trust) that will tide most people over until the PS4.


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    eddhorse
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    The guy i got the reball done from was very good, kept me updated all the way through the repair process (€100)

    He did ask if i had tried the reflow before which i did not.

    http://www.consolepros.ie/

    Ed


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    Kashkai
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,399 ✭✭✭Kashkai


    eddhorse wrote: »
    The guy i got the reball done from was very good, kept me updated all the way through the repair process (€100)

    He did ask if i had tried the reflow before which i did not.

    http://www.consolepros.ie/

    Ed

    Well I guess you were luckier with him than I have been (yes same guy). Funny thing is, he did keep in touch once he took possession of my console and did text me the day after I'd picked it to see how I was getting on (however my Grandmother had just died and so I hadn't gotten round to trying out the PS3). However since the console died (very very quickly after it had been connected up), and despite three texts, I've heard nothing back from him. He might be sick, have some family crisis of his own, be on holiday etc and so I won't give up just yet. He appeared to be genuine and so I can't figure why I've been left swinging waiting for a response.


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    brianregan09
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    You have his number ring him


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    Kashkai
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,399 ✭✭✭Kashkai


    brianregan09 wrote: »
    You have his number ring him

    Er, I have. No answer! No answer to my texts either. You might miss a phonecall and wonder who it was but a text is kinda "in your face" and hard to misinterpret, especially three of them.

    Look I'm pissed off that my hundred euro I gave that guy got me just two hours use out of my PS3, BUT, I'm still prepared to give him the benefit of the doubt. He might have taken a break, had a family emergency, be ill etc and so I'll wait for him to contact me. He has my name, and number and its not that hard to return a text.


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    j4vier
    Registered Users Posts: 1,893 ✭✭✭j4vier


    Check his facebook, i think He is away until The start of october so you'll have to wait at least until then


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    #20
    JaneyM89
    Registered Users Posts: 18 ✭JaneyM89


    I had dealing with this "business" that went on for months, I had to basically harass him by phoning close to 100 times a day, when he turned off his phone I would just leave numerous message and send texts to get his attention. He did not contact me for MONTHS when I sent it back after the YLOD came back for a 4th time (every time I had to deal with him ignoring me for weeks and months). I was also given a few fake tracking numbers to try get me off his back for a while.

    This time though because it got so bad, I wrote him a formal letter of complaint (I got a template from the National Consumer Agency).They took all his details, so anyone who is having a bad time with this guy, should complain so the NCA are made aware he is still doing this. I then e-mailed Conor Pope from the Irish Times who is a consumer expert to inform him, so if enough people make contact I reckon he will expose this "business". I posted on his facebook page and he deleted the posts and blocked me out because he didn't want people knowing he would not return my property. Eventually after months of this guy ignoring me and causing me so much stress and upset, I phoned the guards. I was told if I went into my local station to make a formal complaint because I had grounds to, that they would escort me to his business to collect MY property he had, and take it. If this didn't work then they would take the matter over.

    When I informed Bryan in consolepros about this he quickly gave me a tracking number and returned the ps3. You would think I would be happy, but the ps3 he returned doesn't even work properly after all the hardship he gave me. It still has the YLOD and take about 10 tries to turn on, and can turn off in the middle of using it. I am so tired of dealing with consolepros i'm not even going back about it, I couldn't be dealing with it again. I just want to make sure people know what might happen when you do business with them because I am not the only one this is happening to!

    Please be careful when handing over money to him, and kashkai I hope you get your console back. Maybe take some of the steps I had to.

    J


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    eltoastero
    Registered Users Posts: 279 ✭✭eltoastero


    Kashkai wrote: »
    Er, I have. No answer! No answer to my texts either. You might miss a phonecall and wonder who it was but a text is kinda "in your face" and hard to misinterpret, especially three of them.

    Look I'm pissed off that my hundred euro I gave that guy got me just two hours use out of my PS3, BUT, I'm still prepared to give him the benefit of the doubt. He might have taken a break, had a family emergency, be ill etc and so I'll wait for him to contact me. He has my name, and number and its not that hard to return a text.

    I've given this guy the benefit of the doubt since June and it has gotten me nowhere, he still has my PS3 and won't refund the money I paid him.

    I have been in touch with the NCA and the Garda too.

    I assume at this point he has no intention of honouring the customer service promises he has on his website, hopefully something positive will come of it when I escalate it with the Garda.
    Even if I've to wait until he's back in October


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    Kashkai
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,399 ✭✭✭Kashkai


    Well looks like I can kiss my hundred euro goodbye then. I don't think I'd be willing to hand my console back over to him now judging by what you guys said. I just wished I'd posted up a thread of "What do of think of Consolepros?" before I entrusted him with "fixing" (yeah right!) my PS3. I would have been forewarned.

    I think an email to Conor Pope is in order tomorrow.


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    JaneyM89
    Registered Users Posts: 18 ✭JaneyM89


    Has anyone had any luck with getting in touch with Bryan from consolepros? I think I will be joining the long que to try get money back as the PS3 he returned at long last is now completely dead again with YLOD. <snip>


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    Kashkai
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,399 ✭✭✭Kashkai


    JaneyM89 wrote: »
    Has anyone had any luck with getting in touch with Bryan from consolepros? I think I will be joining the long que to try get money back as the PS3 he returned at long last is now completely dead again with YLOD. Hes an absolute conman! I hope nobody uses consolepros.ie again and can learn from our hardship with this so called business!!

    He sent me a pm a few weeks back saying he was on holiday and asking that I delete my posts from this thread. I think the inference was, delete the posts and I'll look at your console when I get back. Flipping neck of him. Anyways, judging from other reports, i don't think I'd want to hand my old PS3 back over to him as i might not see it again.

    If I was the only one with a dead duck of a console, then ok, he might have had a bad day at the office but looks like there are many others who paid this guy good money for nothing. <snip>

    My advice to anyone whose console gets the YLOD, don't waste your money getting it repaired as it will die again sooner (or immediately in my case) or later. Put your hard earned towards a new console where at least you'll get a years warranty.


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    eltoastero
    Registered Users Posts: 279 ✭✭eltoastero


    This still hasn't been sorted. Fair enough if he's been away for the last few weeks, doesn't excuse the previous 3 months. <snip>


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    eltoastero
    Registered Users Posts: 279 ✭✭eltoastero


    Update on my current situation:

    Finally got a reply from him after I asked why the console he sent me back hadn't been repaired and why the serial number had been removed.

    He tells me that if he can't repair a console a replacement is offered and the unrepairable PS3 is stripped for parts.

    Had I been offered this replacement console instead of my repaired PS3 I would have refused and asked for my console back (no fix no fee on his website), and I also would not have paid €100 for the "repair". He told me in July the repair had been complete, so I paid and (three months later) I received someone else's (still broken) PS3.
    Not the service that I had agreed on.

    More to the point, he has destroyed my PS3 without my permission and given me something worthless in return (and still has my €100).


    This is a disgraceful service. <snip>
    The past few months of stalling appear to him bluffing so I'd lose interest, as he had no intention in sending me my PS3.


    Any advice lads? Like I'm never getting my console back as he has stripped it. <snip>


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    #27
    Myrddin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    Cmod note: Posts edited to remove what can be deemed defamatory material. Please refrain from using such terminology like "Scammer", "Con", "Rip off" etc.

    Forum mods informed & advised.


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    #28
    johnny_ultimate
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 29,238 CMod ✭✭✭✭johnny_ultimate


    This has gone beyond a Playstation issue. Contact the relevant consumer bodies etc... if you're having trouble with a particular company.


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