Xbox 360 Another Red Ring of Death Victim :(

Nah, mine was the "Unknown Error" not one of the heat related errors.

Anyway, the "tax on the stupid" worked for me, took me 6 minutes to get another 360 at CompUSA. Admittedly though their price is more than MSFTs price for a plan. 30 minutes of driving to and fro, 6 minutes doing the 360 setup (wireless and MCE), so in under an hour I'm back to being lazy and having an upstairs and downstairs 360.... i'd say that worth the extra $15 bucks I paid vs the MS plan, not that I am adverse to their plan.

TBH I don't see why early adopters wouldn't buy a plan. Nowadays, most stuff doesn't even have to be proven defective, things like printers and such. This is how I "upgrade" my printer every couple of years...tricks of the (former) trade.

 

reminds me of the time I got a new CD burner by hooking my car battery charger up to the circuit board, did the trick! gotta make use of that extended warrantee! lol...good times

 

damn

that's my greatest fear.... unknown error.

I agree, I got a warranty plan.

 

Ya i bought one a couple weeks before my 90 day expired. Whether it breaks or not, it's going back in 2008

 

For the HD-DVD included version, no doubt...

 

lol, well lets just say i'm not holdin my breath

 

Well in terms of Customer support MS couldn't have done a better job of gettig my machine up and running. The machine was picked up on a Monday and I had it returned on the Friday. The only real issues I have is that 1. They didn't expalin what was wrong with my machine and 2 although it seems to been replaced by a new machine my save games have unfornautely all been lost, which is a right bugger because I had dowloaded payable content for PGR3 and Xbox market place. Again they have not explained anything regarding this lost.

 

I would demand some free points, actually, downloadable content should be tied to your gamertag, you shouldn't have to pay again.

 

A little tip: You get the two year warranty for fifty bucks option when you buy a 360, but you only get ten days to exercise it.

Well, the card you send back only asks for serial # and purchase date, no receipt or anything of that nature. Point being you can write any date you want as purchase date and they cant check it.

I mailed mine like in late May even though I have a launch console. Just make up a fictional purchase date within the last ten days.

I have always found this warranty a good deal for peace of mind.

 

exactly

you can downoad it again and Live immediately recognizes that you have already paid and gives it to you.

 

What do you mean? I bought my 2year about 10weeks after I bought the console. Do you mean you only had 10days after it breaks to make the claim? If thats the case, what they don't know won't hurt them.

 

So far I've been impressed, too. Mine should arrive tomorrow.

Luckily I was able to keep my harddrive, so my save games should be fine.

 

AFAIK every electrical item in the UK has to have a full 12 month warranty.

I'm fairly sure this applies to the rest of Europe too, however, as Guden said, in some countries it's 2 years.

 

I got my replacement console. I was hoping it'd be a newer one, but it was manufactured in November (one month newer than my old one, though). Obviously refurbished.

But it works.

 

the same exact thing happened to me this week!!!!!
i down loaded an update and my system crashed over and over.
MS said to return for repairs and wait two weeks. I walked over
to game stop and returned mine for a new one (warranty).

WTF is up with the update! I NEVER had a problem w/ my system before
the update!

 

I have a thompson too (Oct 02). It hates some DVD movies but has never given me an issue on a game. i have smashed it a few times....now i'm posting for the hell of it. I need sleep.