Home > Consumer Reviews > Plantronics GAMECOM 1 PC HEADSET ( 67003-01 )

I sing on a voice enabled chat room - not a gamer - and This is the best headset I have found. Noise canceling is outstanding - voice quality evokes remarks and inquiries very often.

This is a comfortable headset and it sounds great for voice chat, but I've gone through two of them in the last six months. The first, purchased about five months ago, lost sound on the right side about two months ago. The second, which was purchased immediately afterwards, lost sound on the left side less than an hour ago.

Were it not for the repeated failures, this headset would get four stars from me.

UPDATE: It's been about eight months since I wrote this review, and the replacement I received from Amazon for the second dead headset has now lost sound on its right side. Stay away from this headset!

I've owned 2 of these headsets... and none of them have lasted me more than a year. They fit my head well, and are comfortable for long sitting, but require delicate handling. I kept buying these headsets because they worked so well, but I think I'm going to try logitech after this. The first headset I had, the cord got yanked out of the headset. The second one still works, but doesn't have sound in the right speaker, which makes it very hard for FPSes. Overall, it's a good headset if you take care of it and don't abuse it.

I was concerned as any buyer to the claims about comfort and performance. Except for just having bought it, and not being able to vouch for the claim of another reveiwer that this product will likely run out in a year, it fully meets and to my surprise, I would say, exceeds the claims I read from other reviews here on Amazon. I would easily say this is the best you could buy for comfort and price without forgetting the quality one would hope for in a simple headset. I haven't yet tried the mic for online chatting yet, but I doubt there will be a problem. Simply put, if you can accept the testimony of a concerned buyer who HATES being scammed or tricked into buying something, I would say go for it. This will no doubt be worth it even if it breaks in a year. ...Hope this helps! 8D

The cheap price is the get what you pay for deal. I had a pair of these when they originally came out, and they lasted awhile but the cords have very thin insulation and that tore and broke the wire rendering them useless. A year later I bought another pair from amazon and the audio quality was terrible, not sure if they sounded like that the first time around. I had them a month and the cord got a cut in it again so in the trash they went. I tried to repair them the first time it happened but had no luck. This is also my 4th plantronics headset. The other two laster longer but the same thing happened to the cord. The first set was $110 and the the clip for the volume and mic controls actually broke the wires. So now i tend to stay away from plantronics. YMMV