Ah you are in the US, if you were here in the UK I know a way you could get it repaired for £5. My launch PS3 crashed on me and so did the replacement a day later. Couple months later 3rd one crashed but I did a sneaky. Got continious play for £5 and a couple weeks later called to say it was no longer working.

bish bash bosh got a new PS3! It's bullshit when something so expensive does not last for years but some people get all the luck. :(

Do you not get any warranty period after you get it back or is it shorter than 8 months?

Also just curious since you have a BC PS3, did they say if you send it to them you won't get the BC PS3 back? I've heard places that they've stopped doing that if they have to do anything with the motherboard and that has me a little worried since I have the 80gig with full BC and 4USB slots.

yea I know that pain...hopefully PS3 slim will be less breakable

They should do what a lot of other companies do. If you get it repaired at an official center you get a 1 year warranty on the problem (parts/labor). So if this time it was the same problem as last time they fix it for free.

If you put the HDD in a different ps3, you'll be forced to reformat. You can back up with a PC either because the xmb encrypts back up data and the new ps3 would have to read encrypted data. This won't have happened if my kz2 data wasn't copy protected and I could just save it to a usb stick. With a ps3 that has over 120gb of data, it's hard to keep backing up. I'm 3 months behind...

Is that location near to any of these locations?

Willow Grove

ChaddsFord

Lancaster

Chalfont

Plymouth Meeting

Lansdale

Try complaining a lot. And loudly. And keep asking to speak with people's supervisors. Be unreasonable until they do something reasonable (fix the PS3 for free).

My friend and I haven't had problems with our 60GB PS3s, so it sucks to see that you've had problems twice.

Sorry to hear that you got F'd again...

About that last line: If the numbers of failed units are within the margin of error, they don't have to "admit" to anything, do they? Both they and Ninty have given their repair / broken numbers and they seem to fall within the margins easily. So you just got f'd twice by a faulty unit. Very unlucky :-/ *hopes his ps3 doesn't do that >_>*

If it makes you feel better I'm on my 4th PS3 right now. I think even Sony are starting to wonder what they hell I'm doing with them now.

Don't know if they have Continuous Play in the US but if so you might want to consider it. Here in UK for £5 a month Sony will replace the console (so long as you didn't smash it yourself with a sledge hammer I presume) as many times as needed so long as you cough up the £5 a month.

When my PS3 broke most recently I was quoted £150 to fix it from Sony. I said let me think about it, signed up for the Continous Play program, waited a few days (didn't want to be that obvious) then phoned up and said 'you'll never believe it, but my PS3 has just stopped working'

The way I figure it instead of spending £150 for a one time fix I'm spending the same (in installments) to ensure 3 years of cover no matter how many fixes I need.

Given how fast I seem to burn out PS3s I'm terrified to buy a 360 (which I've come close to a few times) in case I burn it out even faster!

360 owners relax - just joking.

I tried. Dude keeps talking policy, policy, policy...they can't even guarantee I'll get the same console back which is more important than anything else. I've always hated corporations but now...I can't descibe the hatred. Due to the lack of individuality in the process, no one can feel your pain. People just operate robotically.