Oh Glorious day!!! Sony went all ninja on me and surprised me. Last night I was checking my email (gave up on checking the service status at the site for the day) and I saw this email from UPS with a tracking label. Sure enough it was a 16 pound box from Laredo Tx with an OVERNIGHT shipping label!

I went from almost losing my mind yesterday to infinite happiness to know that somtime around noon today I will have my beloved console back and hitting the links as soon as I get done at work. This is shaping up to be a great weekend (especially since it's supposed to be all rainy and pissy here).

Also, to let you guys know, I'm located in Connecticut, but with the overnight return shipping, I don't think it really matters where you are when they send it out.

Although this has been a painfull experience, the only real sucky part was being away from the games for about 2 weeks. Other than that though, the customer reps were very friendly and the overnight shipping to them and from them is a real nice touch that I am greatly appreciative for. Heck, I assumed they were gonna send it ground or something and was going to see about paying to upgrade the shipping.

That being said, good luck every one with your consoles, I'm sure it won't be long. Even with all my huffin' and puffin' about the whole situation and the dreaded "Backorder delay" message, they still managed to get it back to me within their predicted timeline (7-15 days, mine took 8).

See y'all in Liberty City !

Boogybones

Hahaha lol awesome man....see Sony never fails you...their customer service rocks! Anyhoo gratz man!

The GTA series has never done anything for me. I prefer Oblivion(and others of that nature) for an open ended game.Terami

Well said lol. I too am a great fan of Oblivion...I dunno why but i really like it. Anyhoo I'm gunna still get GTA IV for the simple fact that all my friends are like, "DUDE GET GTA IV SO WE CAN PLAY THE AWESOME MULTIPLAYER!"....so I'm gunna get it lol...