Avoid at all costs
Partner bought me a slim PS3 from these guys as a gift for an overpriced $160 figuring it'd be in working order. Received the console, disc drive wouldn't accept discs. Kind of ironic since -- plastered everywhere on their website -- are the words "certified" and "tested" for everything they sell. Seems someone didn't test this one. I let them know and they sent a replacement. The replacement was making noticeably loud clicking sounds during play sessions and intermittently skipped and froze. Let them know, they told me to return it for a refund and keep the bricked console.
They received the console, gave us a call. Spoke to a man named Fred who explained that what I said was happening wasn't happening when he was testing the console and that they'd charge my partner a 15% restocking fee because it wasn't doing what I said it was doing. He explained that it was likely the game discs I was using. Discs, mind you, that are spotless and run perfectly fine sans the clicking noises and freezing on our other PS3. He kept touting that it was policy and told me, "It's not that deep" when I became rightly irritated at being unjustly charged. Fred, if it was "not that deep," why are you charging me a restocking fee for a console that wasn't in good working order when I received it? If it's not that much money, why do you need it, a company that's now going to turn around and sell the same console I sent back -- per your words -- for a profit?
I'm quite happy for y'all that the console miraculously stopped freezing and clicking on the way back to you guys. Ecstatic you'll be able to recoup some losses. But what about us, the customers? We're just kinda left eating trash. We did nothing wrong. We just bought a console from you guys, got sent a brick, let you know, got sent a faulty console, returned it, and are now gonna be ending this transaction with a bricked console and less money than when we started. That's pretty trash customer service, Fred. All over this "it's not that deep" 25-or-so-dollars you're skimming off the top of our refund.
At one point, you told me "some onus has to be on the customer" and "why should we have to eat all the shipping costs and still refund you". You sent me a BRICKED. CONSOLE. $160. Disc Drive no worky, Fred. No one from your company tried to put a disc in the first console you sent me prior to sending it to me. And you're sitting over here talking about onus on the customer and why must you eat crow. Um, maybe because you're the freakin company selling the faulty product? I don't know, makes sense to me. Telling me over and over that the console's been running CoD Ghosts for 86 straight hours and hasn't been doing what I said it did means absolutely nothing. Point is, it was doing it when I had it while playing discs that have never caused the same or similar reaction in our other PS3. End of story.
I will never buy from these greedy, unjust people again and wouldn't recommend anyone else buy from them. Everything they sell is horrifically overpriced, anyways. You might as well take a chance on something that's 30 to 90 percent cheaper on eBay. At least you're covered by eBay's guarantee and will get ALL your money back for faulty product. Thanks for the huge waste of time, Fred. TheVideoGameCompany? More like TheHugeWasteOfTimeAndMoney. Hope that extra $25 prevents y'all from going out of business, since it's not that deep.