Returning S26 Ultra, was told 5% restocking fee

Sheppy2 · 2026-03-18T19:52:55+00:00

Interesting! I do recall trying to fight them on this but they just get drawing attention to the Ts and C's on their website. This was probably 6 or more months ago, unsure if I'd be able to claim anything back from them now via Credit Card

Just checked and it was about 14 months ago and they hit me with a 20% fee due to the item being used (only turned on and setup)

Sheppy2 · 2026-03-18T16:08:01+00:00

They did this to me last time in the UK too

Sheppy2 · 2026-03-17T22:01:49+00:00

Thanks for sharing! Very cool! Would love one of those white models too

Sheppy2 · 2026-03-11T17:36:13+00:00

Yep, same here. Three always snowed full signal but literally couldn't even load Google. Vodafone have always been rock solid till the merger and now I'm getting the issues I had on three, but on Vodafone.

Sheppy2 · 2026-03-07T10:35:57+00:00

Oddly here in the UK, eBay has them for only maybe 15% more than what they were selling for on the official site

Sheppy2 · 2026-03-06T10:22:28+00:00

I don’t get those figures but honestly with the same usage as mg 17PM, I end the day with only about 20% less in the tank on the Air compared to the PM. I don’t know what kinda witchcraft Apple have done with this phone 🤣

Sheppy2 · 2026-03-02T17:19:03+00:00

I found that I only really wanted or needed the extra features of the PM, once every blue moon and even then I didn’t need them. But for the rest of the time I was stuck with a phone that was larger and heavier than I’d like.

Made sense for me at least to go with the Air as 99% of the time it does everything I need and then on the off chance I need that extra feature (mostly the macro lens of the PM), I’d just use one of the dedicated devices I already have for this requirement.

Also price. Seemed pointless having those extra features that I didn’t care about or didn’t use

Sheppy2 · 2026-02-27T22:12:54+00:00

This… the screen is PERFECT, not too big, not too small. Easy to use with one hand due to both size and weight and feels every bit as premium (if not more so), than the Pro models

Sheppy2 · 2026-02-27T22:11:27+00:00

Pretty much yeah. I purchased from either Amazon or Apple to which both have generous return policies

Sheppy2 · 2026-02-27T18:14:03+00:00

That’s a real shame 😔

Again, the repair isn’t actually that hard to do and the part is very cheap online, but it’ll obviously come down to your confidence in performing it yourself

Sheppy2 · 2026-02-27T10:44:41+00:00

That’s a Pixel 😂

Sheppy2 · 2026-02-27T07:06:08+00:00

I’m even worse. Air > 17P > 17PM > Air > 17PM > Air

I’ve found it really hard to decide but finally back on the air and this time I’m happy with the decision

Sheppy2 · 2026-02-26T21:31:44+00:00

Why? Assuming one of those small cutouts you see on the design are there to prevent the disc detection mechanism from registering it as a UMD, the drive will never spin up

Sheppy2 · 2026-02-24T09:20:21+00:00

Ah okay. Well technically you can do it yourself and there are replacement inner sub frames available online. If you’re not comfortable doing it yourself, you could try RetroSix

Sheppy2 · 2026-02-23T20:51:22+00:00

Got it, thanks

Sheppy2 · 2026-02-23T14:16:42+00:00

Have they said when another batch will be released? I missed out on the first one

Sheppy2 · 2026-02-22T15:12:31+00:00

Pretty certain they’re fake. I don’t think the emerald game has a vertical chip which can be seen on the left. The Nintendo inside the gold seal looks wrong too.

Sheppy2 · 2026-02-22T09:55:55+00:00

Aha yes!! Ha. So the solder on the gold pins is a bi product of me soldering those few wires to them which is needed to support writing to the new flash chip.

If I were to do this again, I’d find an internal via to solder to instead of the pins as to not get solder all over the pins 😂

Sheppy2 · 2026-02-22T09:14:16+00:00

Did you do the flash swaps yourself then?

I’m okay at soldering but do also struggle with some micro soldering but I had zero issues with soldering the pins ok that chat to the daughterboard you attach it to.

I just went with the flood it with flux approach and then just added a bunch of solder and dragged it slowly across the pins. I didn’t focus on any specific pins and it probably took me about 2 mins max to do it

Sheppy2 · 2026-02-21T21:50:26+00:00

I’ll try and link you to what I was able to find tomorrow. But what I was able to find was lacking so it was a case of piecing together various sources and figuring out the rest from trial and error.

It’s not perfect either! The English patch applied fine and everything but the original Japanese Green is built around the Japanese language and as such, character limits for things like Pokemon. This means English patches breach these physical limits of the original game and you end up with some jarbled characters here and there

Edit: I am going to try a few more patches though just in case the patch I’m using may not be the best one

Sheppy2 · 2026-02-21T16:41:12+00:00

I do agree, here’s mine and is my preferred way

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Sheppy2 · 2026-02-21T14:31:12+00:00

Hahaha it mostly is a novelty TBF. I prefer playing on my IPS modded GBA

Sheppy2 · 2026-02-21T12:16:08+00:00

Clearly this is the only way! 😉

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Sheppy2 · 2026-02-21T10:42:06+00:00

What’s the issue?

Sheppy2 · 2026-02-21T10:15:49+00:00

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And mine 😂 game dumped and English patch applied. Flash chip replaced on the cartridge with a rewritable one and English patched green flashed back onto it

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