Bad Mod Experience. Need Ideas

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Heres the deal. I have a US v1 ps2 and I bought the v1-v3 Magic 2 to send to Bill at freedomlives to install it. After a few days I got an email from Bill saying my ps2 has the 010 bios so the chip wont work. Apparently it needs to have the 020 bios. I did lots of research on the Magic 2 to make sure I didnt run into any probs like this. No where have I ever heard anything about needing a certain bios. Now I'm out $90 on the chip and $30 for shipping charges of my ps2 to Bill and back. Any ideas?