Well... the saga has ended.
I am posting my final review and will be leaving Jason's thread... unless he tries to trash me for no reason.
I FINALLY recieved my Wii back from Jason. FINALLY.
I don't know what the hell happened, or what the hell Jason did. All I know is that I can not recommend ANYONE using his service.
I can understand many things and I can overlook many things. But this man made so many mistakes with his customers, just this thread alone should be the reason no one should ever use him as a modder again. He's unreliable (held my kids Wii hostage... ON PURPOSE... which he admitted to above). He's unorganized... mailed out my Wii to a customer in Iowa 'thinking it was me' even though he knows I'm from Michigan and has seen the word Michigan/Detroit perhaps 15-20 times in this thread. Luckily I was able to get it back. How he made a mistake and thought I was someone else with all of this rukus in this thread... I'm have the foggiest idea. Perhaps he should have just read the box that he mailed my Wii in. It was the original box I mailed my Wii in from day one. Still has my handwriting and everything on it.
I will say this, my Wii is THANKFULLY working. I'm going to send it out to a respectable modder to have him look over everything to assess the damage Jason did to it. There may not even be any long-term damage. Not really sure at this point as I did not open the Wii. I do know that Jason isn't to keen at Customer Service, nor is he all that great with the QUALITY of his work from what I see. Just a quick look at my Wii and I can spot missing rubber feet from the console and other things. My chip was also included in the package. Funny thing about it... not a single solder was made on that chip.
Kind of strange when someone said it was installed all of the way at one point, and that it was working (until a resistor blew). Then he had to take the chip back out to fix it. Then supposingly it was reinstalled again... halfway... until I wanted my console back so I can give my kids a Christmas present. Yet... not a single mark on that chip at all. I'm not an expert, but I do know when I installed a few PS1 and PS2 chips, you can tell when a chip is brand new or if someone has attempted to solder it on.
But... I am not here to really bash Jason. Not at all regardless of the above portion of my post.
Jason has been doing mods for a few years now from what I gather from the people on this board.
I personally think the d2c Wiis basically kicked his ass. That simple.
Is he 100% terrible at the other stuff? More thank likely not. I would not send stuff to him.... but that is a choice I choose to make because of his lack of professionalism with me and the way he disrespected me, my kids, etc. It is funny, I had to actually threaten him with law enforcement and give him a two week timeframe before something actually happened. I hope and I pray NONE of you ever have to go through this just to get your systems modded. It was uncalled for... and very very childish. He was caught in many lies throughout this entire thing. His address is the same address as the first address I shipped to. So I know he didn't supposingly move all of a sudden as he and others claimed.
My advice for you Jason:
Just tighten up your operations a little bit, man. It would go a long way.
Send out emails and updates. That goes a VERY long way to keeping people happy
Don't take on something if your plate is too full. Lessen your work-load and work on quality rather than quantity.
Don't Lie! It doesn't bode well for your business if you are caught multiple times.
When you make a promise... follow through. (In my situation, I basically had my kids Christmas ruined, I am out the shipping costs and I still don't have a modded Wii).
If you can't follow through, make up for it. Sometimes you have to eat the profit when you fall through on a promise. In my case, you did everything on purpose and in spite. Terrible. Yet in the future, take extra steps to avoid being the bad guy. Offer Free Shipping, knock off a percentage of the modding costs. Whatever makes the customer happy.
In my case, I am happy that my kids finally got their Christmas gift yesterday. I'm happy that I just got it back so I'm not out the $300 I spent on it. I am out shipping both ways... but that is fine. What's done is done.
Now, as I mentioned, I am going to stay out of this thread. The top part of the post is how I feel about the entire situation. The bottom part is suggestions to turn yourself around and fix things. Pay more attention to the bottom part, Jason. Don't be pissed off and concerned about the top.
Take it easy... and good luck. It may take a bit of rebuilding... but if you follow some of that advice... you'll come back around.
Adios...
Eric DeLee
(I'll be in the other threads/forums... just not this thread or any of your started threads. Please do the same at any other site. I do not wish to speak to you at Blackcats or anything. Please stay away. What's done is done)
