Bad Wii chargers!

code-a-holic

We have a brken Wii remote. Does not turn on at all. It seems its down to the docking station. The chargers have a bad reputation it seems and have caused many nuked remotes. Our charger is being disposed of and ill be using rechargeable AA batteries from now on. Now i need to buy a new remote and cant find any in stock. grrr:mad:

Little_John

Why dont you try returning it to the place you bought it and tell them you would like a new wiimote aswell due to the dammage it has caused to yours.

Print the pages of other people with the same charger and take it with you when you return it showing them tha it is an inherrent fault with the charger under the sales of goods act shops are not allowed to sell inherrently faulty items.

CHR15

If you are prepared to wait up to a couple of weeks for delivery I think the cheapest place is dealextreme.

A Wii Remote and Nunchuck for £34

http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.3883

code-a-holic

Another phone call to Nintendo and spoke to someone useful!
Nintendo are aware that charging docks are 'frying' Remotes. She advised me to tell everyone i know woth a Wii not to use charging docks and she is sending me a pre paid envelope to send the broken one to them and they will send me a new remote.
Happy to get a replacement for free, annoyed that i have to chuck a charging dock away - waste of money.
Lets hope the message gets to some before they have a broken remote

svmitche

code-a-holic wrote: »

Another phone call to Nintendo and spoke to someone useful!
Nintendo are aware that charging docks are 'frying' Remotes. She advised me to tell everyone i know woth a Wii not to use charging docks and she is sending me a pre paid envelope to send the broken one to them and they will send me a new remote.
Happy to get a replacement for free, annoyed that i have to chuck a charging dock away - waste of money.
Lets hope the message gets to some before they have a broken remote

Take the dock back to the store you got it from, backed up with any documentation you have from Nintendo - surely they will accept it back for store credit at the very least as it's fried your Remote?

howmuchcaniget

if its broken you don't need a receipt for a refund... its up to the shop to prove you DIDN'T buy the charger from them...

See sales of goods act 1974(or the new revised one date unknown) but I read this usefull tip when looking into faulty goods I needed to return.

thor

Code-a-holic you are right about these docks being a waste of money. I just use a normal battery recharger to recharge my nmih rechargeables. I can't understand why anyone would use docks. I did even know they existed until a month ago and just assumed everyone used a standard recharger.

Stubert

howmuchcaniget wrote: »

if its broken you don't need a receipt for a refund... its up to the shop to prove you DIDN'T buy the charger from them...

See sales of goods act 1974(or the new revised one date unknown) but I read this usefull tip when looking into faulty goods I needed to return.

You're certainly correct you don't need a receipt to take a product back to a shop if its faulty. You are however missing the point that you do still require some proof of purchase. If you walk into the shop and have no proof of purchase, that's proof to the shop you didn't buy it from them! I think the shops are wise to taking peoples word for it!

You could use a credit card/bank statement as your proof of purchase, even though that doesn't show what you purchased, but it will show that you made a purchase in that store around that time.

Poppycat

We got a dual charger from Argos last week. It was £9.99 if you bought two games. It consists of two rear battery backs with two metal pins to charge to and each back has 2 AA NimH batteries.

Every time I use the wii the batterys are almost flat and we only sue if for 30min or so not every day. I have the charged plugged into the wii usb port but it will only charge the batteries if the wii is turned on which often it isnt as we plug things side of tv on a plug extension devices like surround sound amp, pc and wii of when not in use.

I am beginning to regret having the charger now as the batteries AAA wont last as long as AA but they would fit inside the docking stantion due to two plastic compartments where the AAA go

Hope it doesnt begger up our two remotes

Little_John

code-a-holic I told you what to do eariler, sales of goods act makes if illegal for stores to sell inherently faulty goods. the charger is inherently faulty if there is a few or more cases with the same problem. return it to the store with some proof of purchase for a refund. again take print outs of the other faulty complaints as evidence so the store can see the extent of the problem.

poppcat, I would stop useing the charger especially if it needs the wii to me on to charge the battereis in the firstplace, I doubt that it is a high speed charger so the batteries will never charge if it is only on at the same time as your useing the wii. We bought a uniross 15 minute sprint charger and some hybrio bateries for the wii as it isnt used daily so the hybrio's are better for it. I am in the process of replaceing all batteries with hybrios.

Claire79

Poppycat wrote: »

We got a dual charger from Argos last week. It was £9.99 if you bought two games. It consists of two rear battery backs with two metal pins to charge to and each back has 2 AA NimH batteries.

Every time I use the wii the batterys are almost flat and we only sue if for 30min or so not every day. I have the charged plugged into the wii usb port but it will only charge the batteries if the wii is turned on which often it isnt as we plug things side of tv on a plug extension devices like surround sound amp, pc and wii of when not in use.

I am beginning to regret having the charger now as the batteries AAA wont last as long as AA but they would fit inside the docking stantion due to two plastic compartments where the AAA go

Hope it doesnt begger up our two remotes

I have the same problem. We bought the twin dock this Saturday, left on charge over night and still after 20 mins playing it said battery low!!

Not impressed at all.

Also when we bought it the sales assistant said "exempt from 30 day etc" I said ok fine... When I got home and actually looked at the item in the Argos Catalogue, it doesn't have the exempt logo and it states "Wii consoles and Software are exempt" which this is not either of those. So i'm going to take mine back this week, it doesn't charge properly anyway so I wil be having my money back lol