i bought a broken v1 off ebay back when v5-6 was in stores it was 1/2 borken so i got it cheap it played awhile but got worse and worse about reading so i called sony told them i bought it off ebay as working and it was doing rsod on ever thing they told me to send it back and they fix it for free
they said usely would cost $90 but they waved that fee so i sent it and they put a new laser and clean it up and sent it back and it worked like new but it took like a month for me to get it back cause they had my address screwed up so it came to my town and went back to MI then back to me again and in the mean time i bought another v6 so i sold the v1 on ebay for $170 and bought me my first no solder R mod which worked great with my gs2 till i got the money to get a apple solder in and the funney thing is i opened that v1 trashed that warrenty sticker and they still fixed it i had taken that ps2 all apart lol i guess cause i told them it came from ebay the sticker was alrdy like that but yeah they fix them for free $ony was good about doing that.