[Nabeshin]

I mean, I don't even know how I can even try to explain something so easy

- Order a Quest 2 with a guest account
- When it arrives, claim completely EB (nothing at all in the parcel) on their support page (I went with chat)
- They asked for photos of the outside and the inside of the box, provided them through the chat
- "We'll start an investigation with UPS"
- Wait 3 days
- We're still investigating but whatever, customer is always right, replacement or refund?
- Your choice, really

Done
Zero PR, zero extra questions, nothing at all but 3 days of silence and a refund.. the label on the package even registered 2kg as weight and yet not a single complain

Just to be on the safe I won't turn this on until this Sunday just to give it a couple days but in case it's blacklisted or something (doubt it but you never know) I'll either:
- play pirated games on it, offline
- buy a new one from any other shop, ask for a legit return and put the blacklisted one in the package

EDIT: for the love of whatever, DO NOT TURN THE DEVICE ON until you get your refund
I've already read about 2 different people getting their refund denied because they couldn't wait 2 days to play with it, obviously Meta WILL see the s/n went online and will cancel your claim, just wait until your money are back and then a couple days just to be sure

Regarding the edit. they lock accounts.
Even if the SE works perfect, the SN is now marked, and when it goes online, the account on it will be locked and told to contact support. You could possibly say, bought from fb marketplace or something, but your account will have to be completely unrelayted to it.

This is the first time I hear of locks, the one I got isn't banned for example
Plus, you can literally pirate ANYTHING on it, if you don't want to go online
And of course you have to order it on a guest account in a browser where you aren't logged in on FB, obviously