Well I finaly took the plunge and bought myself a PSP. Normaly buying a new system is something that's exciting and fun, but not this time. My attempt at purchasing a PSP did not go smoothly at all, and in fact took many many hours to accomplish, and left me feeling physicly and mentaly drained. I don't feel like writing it out in paragraph format, so instead ill just list the events as they occured. It's not as dramatic, but it'll give you a good idea of how it all went down (note: Bus trips take 20-30 minutes each): Get home Try to wake room mate. no good One hour later, try to wake room mate. no good Another hour later, try to wake room mate. no good And another hour later, try to wake room mate. no good Half hour after final attempt, room mate wakes up, says he can't drive because his gf is comming over Take city bus to terminal Wait at central terminal for 25 minutes Take bus to Toys R' Us Arrive at Toy R' Us 20 minutes later Explain to employee why I need to try it in store (check for dead pixels) Start walking to best buy in blazing heat and 'ocean-in-the-air' levels of humidity Arrive at best buy after about 45 minutes. Buy $75 mem stick, am charged $110 with the rebate supposedly being where the $75 comes into play. Get on city bus on route to terminal 15 minutes into ride realize that forgot to buy usb cable, and after reading receipt find out that the rebate is only for $10, not the $35 it should be. Get to terminal, await bus for 40 minutes Get on bus, and travel back to best buy 30 minutes later arrive. Try and get price fixed and a refund on mem card, it takes them an hour. Buy usb adapter, and screen protector. Start walking home 30 minutes or so in, take short cut that I had only used once, and get very lost Walk for an hour and a half in maximum humidity, and approx 95-100 degree heat Realize where I am, and proceed to walk for another 45 minutes towards house. Arrive at home, barely able to stand. Discover that psp has a minimum of five dead pixels I didn't notice before. Get 'stuck pixel fixer' video to work, leave on all night (approx 8 hours) Wake up, all stuck/dead pixels still present. So how about the rest of you, have any similar stories from buying new consoles? Or from buying anything for that matter.
Since when do people think a video will fix a dead pixel... Also moving to OT as this is going to turn in to a horror story about buying general things.
Lol, looks like it was the 95-100 degree heat + 'ocean-in-the-air' levels of humidity that killed your pixels, next time take the bus home, it's quicker
Welcome to the club, and naw, you cant see the deadl pixels on the "fucking bright" light in best buy, you get home , turn off the light and the horro begins.
Well, not dead pixels but it can fix stuck pixels. And most people can't see the diffrence between the. Have fun with your PSP! I've had mine since the US release and I've had much fun with it. To bad there aren't that many good games for it as for DS (luckily I've that one too )
when you want to check a disc, or anything else that cannot be seen with super nuclear lights that most general stores have, take a flat and wide item (like a book, by exemple (well...a big book) and place it over the object, not too close or too far, so that you can have an optimum view of the item you're checking. You'll look like a silly guy, but that doesn't mather. If you have no item that could be used nearby, take your coat or your hands to hide the subject. make sure you tell the guy working here what you're doing with your coat though, 'cause it will look suspicious.
The moral of the story is: God really wanted you to buy a DS. :smt043 As far as console-buying horror stories go, here's mine: Close to seven years ago now, I decided to buy a Playstation. Final Fantasy VII was calling me in a way I could not possibly resist as a Greatest Hit, and FFVIII was just released, so there was no reason to put it off any longer. I was planning on trading in my boxed SNES with complete, boxed copies of Super Mario RPG, Chrono Trigger, and Doom, and using that in conjunction with my meager life savings at the time to get the deed done. Please note that the lure of FFVII was very very strong, and this was before I really began to cultivate a collector's mentality. So I go to the gamestore, announce that I'd like to trade in my goodies for one of their Sony refurb PSX units, and begin the process. The fellow at the counter cheerfully takes my games and system one-by-one, and I end up with something like $60 in store credit. "Excellent," I said. "I'll take that refurbished PSX and-" "Sorry, store credit can't be used for systems." What the hell, I thought. I SAID I wanted to get the PSX with trade credit, and he never mentioned anything about that before. As I was still in the middle of high school at the time, my mother had accompanied me to do some shopping of her own in the mall, and she stopped into the store where I quickly appraised her of the situation. In exchange for the better part of my next paycheck, she agreed to foot the cost of the system, leaving me with the credit towards a game. I picked up a cheap, no-name memory card, and then stood browsing the shop wall looking for something ELSE that interested me - Final Fantasy VII was not present, but there on the shelf, in all its glory, I spied a new copy of Final Fantasy VIII. So I voiced my request to the counter clerk, who said: "Store credit can't be used towards new games." So I bought a used copy of Dino Crisis and never went back to that fucking store again.
Those fucking thieves. I fucking hate when store people decide what you can or cannot buy with store credit, after already having ripped you off with the trade-in. I mean, it's okay to want a profit, but that's just immoral. Or what, you're only going to want to get used crap all of the time?
