PS3 without Linux, you can get refund. The recent passage of the Sony console firmware 3.21 has removed the ability to install other operating systems on older generation consoles. As we have learned PlayStation 3 with Linux, new custom firmware GeoHot hacker has made custom firmware which rehabilitates this feature, but the trouble for Sony could not end here.

According to the reported site Playstation University, a European user is able to obtain a refund of 84 pounds or 96 euros, the English version of Amazon precisely because of the disappearance of features to install other operating systems. User application to European directive 1999/44/EC, which worries obligations of seller to reimburse its customers when the product sold is less than the advertised capacity.
Never mind that Sony wanted to lock up your console to prevent the possible outbreak of a principle of piracy, with GeHot again involved: maintaining functionality prevents the use of the PlayStation Network whereas if you miss a capacity upgrade the product advertised at the time of sale.

We do not know if those updates will not be entitled to a refund, but it is certain that Amazon will soon knock on the door if Sony had several customers ask for a refund. The story of the grotesque, and we wonder how these big corporations, ready to explore the entire land patent, fail to respect the laws. Or, and we are more inclined to think it, Sony has simply thought that the economic damage is totally ridiculous?