just out of curiosity who was your reseller? im sure resellers would still be able to get in contact with the gateway team, teensy for all there bad rep about taking orders when they have no stock or delayed postage(probably the same thing) personally i have always found them very helpful and understanding, maybe going through your reseller would give your message a bit more clout, i know you are kinda over it but personally i would of bugged the shit out of them
I ordered it from the US via Realhotstuff.com, which they fobbed me off twice back when "Gateway" announced they would help with brick consoles being handled by them. Hot stuff kept telling to go through GW to resolve the issue and would only issue a refund or replacement, if the device was proven faulty. As you know, it was "Diagnostics" mode on the Beta firmware that was the cause of the brick and not entirely the flash cart itself. I think it's probably too late in the day to try anything with the re seller, as I don't have the device to ship back if needed and only my email receipt.
That's really crappy of Gateway.
In my mind now, they don't really have the entitlement to bitch and moan about people stealing their code if they go around stealing customers' 3DSs.
That's really low.
As a genuine case with this, I had a hard time getting certain users to believe me with the usual "fanboy", "clone user" or a noob bullshit that doesn't know what he is doing.
Thanks to our very own user here "Gamesquest1", he decided to try and brick the console on purpose and succeeded with it and confirmed the brick code was in fact real and not some modified launcher, clone use bullshit that GW where claiming to be all the time and instead was triggered by "Diagnostics" at some point during its use.
I'm not going into all the drama again, yet would like to point out, the one thing that still does bug me from time to time when I see latest announcements from GW, is that they still did not have the balls to admit their fault with the beta firmware.
And a note to new users wanting to buy their product or just having received one. Just be careful in future and don't always believe what you see and hear with them and take my experience, as a guideline regardless of whether the brick code is gone or obfuscated better in their recent newer builds of code.