Rumor Alert: Is there a PSP recall at Wal-Mart?

recallSony, according to an eyewitness report, is recalling some defective PSP units at Wal-Mart. The eyewitness said he went to a Wal-Mart on January 11 just in time to see a sales person taking all the PSPs from the shelf. The eyewitness then questioned the sales person but didn’t get an answer. That’s a nice way of hinting it wasn’t really the eyewitness’ business.

Not taking a “no comment” for an answer, the eyewitness decided to ask someone else who worked at Wal-Mart. The chattier someone else told the witness that Sony recalled all the PSP systems. The eyewitness says:

I know there is a lot of defective PSP sold on Christmas and people are returning systems like crazy and the problems are system shut down by itself, UMD doesn’t read, cannot read memory stick, system restore by itself and more.

The PSP recall theory triggered a few speculations.

  1. One guy who said he works in the retail industry explained that it wasn’t a recall but RTV or Return to Vendor. This means if a system is bad they take it back to the store. The unit is then shipped to the vendor’s warehouse to be replaced. The unit itself is shipped back to the manufacturer to be refurbished. “Besides people do funny stuff with the PSP to get it not to work and will say anything to get it returned. Funny thing is, is that Wal-Mart… will take back almost anything without question and for any reason.”
  2. The eyewitness countered the PSP units he saw being carted away were new and in unopened boxes so it can’t be RTV.
  3. Retail guy said recalls MUST have a notice so consumers can be notified. “It is not a recall unless they specify with a notice at the return desk. If it is a notice than it is a recall.”

There are other theories. You might want to sit down and not drink anything. If you spew your drink all over your keyboard it’s not our fault:

  • Sony’s taking back the PSPs has something to do with Dark_Alex OpenEdition series.
  • Maybe Sony has finally given up and pulled all PSPs. They figured if you can’t beat ’em, just pull ’em. That is why no titles are being released, they just simply canceled all PSP-related sales after the stock of PSPs sold over the holidays.
  • Maybe the Wal-Mart employees are digging them out and are going to eBay them as they did with all the 1.5’s they could get their hands on after Sony upgraded new units before shipping them.
  • Sony may be recalling them back to be replaced with a new motherboard to combat downgrading or their latest PSP batch could have some really big flaw which we could have used.

So many theories and no one really knows for sure. That’s why we’re classifying this as a rumor.

Via DCEmu

recallSony, according to an eyewitness report, is recalling some defective PSP units at Wal-Mart. The eyewitness said he went to a Wal-Mart on January 11 just in time to see a sales person taking all the PSPs from the shelf. The eyewitness then questioned the sales person but didn’t get an answer. That’s a nice way of hinting it wasn’t really the eyewitness’ business.

Not taking a “no comment” for an answer, the eyewitness decided to ask someone else who worked at Wal-Mart. The chattier someone else told the witness that Sony recalled all the PSP systems. The eyewitness says:

I know there is a lot of defective PSP sold on Christmas and people are returning systems like crazy and the problems are system shut down by itself, UMD doesn’t read, cannot read memory stick, system restore by itself and more.

The PSP recall theory triggered a few speculations.

  1. One guy who said he works in the retail industry explained that it wasn’t a recall but RTV or Return to Vendor. This means if a system is bad they take it back to the store. The unit is then shipped to the vendor’s warehouse to be replaced. The unit itself is shipped back to the manufacturer to be refurbished. “Besides people do funny stuff with the PSP to get it not to work and will say anything to get it returned. Funny thing is, is that Wal-Mart… will take back almost anything without question and for any reason.”
  2. The eyewitness countered the PSP units he saw being carted away were new and in unopened boxes so it can’t be RTV.
  3. Retail guy said recalls MUST have a notice so consumers can be notified. “It is not a recall unless they specify with a notice at the return desk. If it is a notice than it is a recall.”

There are other theories. You might want to sit down and not drink anything. If you spew your drink all over your keyboard it’s not our fault:

  • Sony’s taking back the PSPs has something to do with Dark_Alex OpenEdition series.
  • Maybe Sony has finally given up and pulled all PSPs. They figured if you can’t beat ’em, just pull ’em. That is why no titles are being released, they just simply canceled all PSP-related sales after the stock of PSPs sold over the holidays.
  • Maybe the Wal-Mart employees are digging them out and are going to eBay them as they did with all the 1.5’s they could get their hands on after Sony upgraded new units before shipping them.
  • Sony may be recalling them back to be replaced with a new motherboard to combat downgrading or their latest PSP batch could have some really big flaw which we could have used.

So many theories and no one really knows for sure. That’s why we’re classifying this as a rumor.

Via DCEmu

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