“I would give sony 0 stars if possible for their monopolising anti second hand sales of console ban campaign, basically I have bought a second hand playstation 4 from cash converters today proof of purchase with a reiept dated and time stamped with the console serial matching the console, it had been bought faulty download only on the sticker, when asking they said it's a blu ray drive fault no returns, well low and behold I fix the drive turn it on to use and login to an account and it comes up this ps4 is banned or temporarily restricted, well I contacted sony and they say it's permenantly banned which is not actually possible as to obtain any ban digitally they need to flag the mac and ip of the console or it's digital trace on the server so they can remove that but they are refusing to, even though it is proven legitimately bought and I clearly have no relationship whatso ever to the previous owner in fact I assume that even cash converters were not aware it is banned hence why state download only if it's bound to be returned. So this is down to the stage of pure bombardment from me on playstation now a true campaign to expose the whole process of gaining a percuniary advantage via using console bans on second hand consoles to try to stem the flow of sales via banning certain consoles, there should be a number to call or email service send the picture of the console with the serial number visible and a picture of the reciept that must have a matching serial number into them via email and they re-enable it drop the ban, but no they seem to think it's fine to keep it banned so you buy a new one, surely it's a breech of consumer rights for second hand buyers in the uk to do this as you don't have second hand cars being banned for use after being sold because it has a outstanding concern or ticket etc do you? And you don't see people buying other forms of second hand goods to find they are now no longer allowed to use them, therefore it should be outlawed when being sold on by a credible retail outlet and a hotline setup for re-activation forced upon both sony and microsoft for console ban removals, it's a monopoly otherwise they have also got then the ability to outright ban indiscriminately where they deem fit and could unfairly ban as well. It's just a stealthy way of gaining an advantage selling new consoles vs second hand consoles and it needs to be made if not allready made a law. But as for sony they appeared to not take it into any consideration they seemed like a souless roboticaly responding group with no intention of having a scrap of any form of humanity or compassion and therefore I would highly recommend against buying sony consoles new or second hand unless bans are outlawed or more fairly regulated. I mean what's to say you don't buy a ps5 next when they arrive and your little brother or sister or some mate goes on it while your out and eg.calls someone a crudename or says a profanity or something considered negative and hey presto they get you banned with no chance of an unlock and not because they can't unlock it but because they have 0 compassion and choose not to when it's allways possible I mean if they can tell it's logging in they can deactivate the ban for sure, that's what happened with me, for me it was some stranger gets it banned a store sells it me unwittingly with a no return policy and I contact sony and immediately they point blank heartlessly turn their back on me as a second hand user, and to think I wanted to buy games online off them and a vr headset to be met with that response just says it all, all they care about is money not customer satisfaction or ratings hence this will go a long way to lowering their ratings yet again like the last review did before mine. I'll stop writing a plethera of these reviews on every site I can find now which I shall be every single day another review now until they lift my console ban I didn't even that ban my self so probably the time I pull these reviews down is the time they unban it which is likely never so I think this review is equally fair and equally deservant and absolutely factual.”
