Is this dude full of ****!!

[GlasgowGary]

Hi all , hope it's ok to ask this here, so here I go:

I had a chip in my PS2(Version 5) last week and I had to swap disks(using an AR2 disk) to load all my backup copies of games.

Then I decided to get an all singing and all dancing Messiah 2 chip installed for £100 and thought "gr8 no more swapping disks" but the fact is now it loads even less games than it did before.

GTA vice city (DVD for one) just gives me a black screen after the Sony logo appears briefly. Anyway, after going back to tell the chipper and show him it not loading, he has basically said (after looking at it) that the PS2 must need a new laser as it cant be reading good enough to load Vice City, and the reason I could load all my games before was the AR2 disk was getting the laser past the loading points no problem as its an original disk. It all sounds kinda logical, but my PS2 can load any original game no problem e.g. Vice City , GTA 3, The Getaway..........surely this contradicts what I've been told if it can load all of these games? And he's basically incompetent(rip-off) and trying to fob me off

What do people think?
Is the dodgy lense suggestion total nonsense?

Any replies would be greatly appreciated
(even serves you right ones)

Gary