My xbox story.

[shadowprophet]

I wake up a couple of days ago and find much to my despair that my 360 would no loner read a disc. "sniper if you are reading this, You where right. I suppose most 360's will die eventually" It was one of the new falcon units. It was a premium sku that came with the marvel ultimate alliance and forza motor sport game that no one ever plays.

So I called microsoft and they wanted to send me one of their little boxes and of course I had no choice. So they gave my some sort of number to write down while I waited for the box to come in the mail.

It's a well known fact that shadow is impatient. So I decided to dig around, until I found my receipt much to my joy I discovered that the 90 day return policy hadn't expired yet on my original purchases, So I decided to take it back to the store but sadly they didn't have any premium units left. all they had was one arcade unit and one elite unit.

I asked the woman at the counter if I could swap the hard drive in the elite for my original hard drive because it had about three hundred dollars of content on it. The woman asked her manager, the manager wouldn't allow it and so my impatience got the best of me. " I reasoned, Well the elite does have the 120 gig hard drive. So I decided to go ahead and swap it for the elite unit. Which cost me nothing to swap, The manager said it was nice of me to be so patient with the new clerk who literally took two and a half hours getting to me because it was a really long line and it was her first day on the job.
So The extra cost of the elite was waved

At this time. I was unaware that I could simply sign into live and reclaim my gamer score. That was the first bit of good news I had today. Later on I decided to browse market place to look at all the content I thought I had lost.

Strangely. All those glorious little check marks that indicated I had purchased those items before where still there because I had migrated my gamer score over to my new elite.

I'm so happy. Now I have a brand new elite with the 120 gig hard drive. All my market place content, my full gamer score. And all I lost in this transaction was two and a half hours of my life i'll never have back and all my game saves. Not bad.

Its been a good day

Shades

[Shadowblind]

I wake up a couple of days ago and find much to my despair that my 360 would no loner read a disc. "sniper if you are reading this, You where right. I suppose most 360's will die eventually" It was one of the new falcon units. It was a premium sku that came with the marvel ultimate alliance and forza motor sport game that no one ever plays.

So I called microsoft and they wanted to send me one of their little boxes and of course I had no choice. So they gave my some sort of number to write down while I waited for the box to come in the mail.

It's a well known fact that shadow is impatient. So I decided to dig around, until I found my receipt much to my joy I discovered that the 90 day return policy hadn't expired yet on my original purchases, So I decided to take it back to the store but sadly they didn't have any premium units left. all they had was one arcade unit and one elite unit.

I asked the woman at the counter if I could swap the hard drive in the elite for my original hard drive because it had about three hundred dollars of content on it. The woman asked her manager, the manager wouldn't allow it and so my impatience got the best of me. " I reasoned, Well the elite does have the 120 gig hard drive. So I decided to go ahead and swap it for the elite unit. Which cost me nothing to swap, The manager said it was nice of me to be so patient with the new clerk who literally took two and a half hours getting to me because it was a really long line and it was her first day on the job.
So The extra cost of the elite was waved

At this time. I was unaware that I could simply sign into live and reclaim my gamer score. That was the first bit of good news I had today. Later on I decided to browse market place to look at all the content I thought I had lost.

Strangely. All those glorious little check marks that indicated I had purchased those items before where still there because I had migrated my gamer score over to my new elite.

I'm so happy. Now I have a brand new elite with the 120 gig hard drive. All my market place content, my full gamer score. And all I lost in this transaction was two and a half hours of my life i'll never have back and all my game saves. Not bad.

Its been a good day

Shades

Dang, within 90 days o_0

I guess im one of the lucky ones; had mine for over a year now. Heres to hoping it doesn't die tommorow

[ICE]

Did you get a receipt on the new one? Dont lose it if you did lol.

[SnesR0X]

wow that's not a bad deal at all
I would have gotten a mem card and copied the game saves to it though, but hey you can't go wrong with an extra 100 gig

[Man]

Thats pretty sweet, when i sent mine away to Microsoft i was going to buy the elite and then just sell the one that i got back from microsoft, but it came back before i could buy a new one !

[Eviltaco64]

Good story.

In the end you get a superior console thats black. I wish that was my case.

[WhizzBang]

Shadowprophet, do your XBox Live Arcade games work when you are not logged in to XBox Live?

A friend of mine who had similar problems now finds this to be the case. We think the games must be registered to the original box they were downloaded to and so will only work if connected to XBox Live and confirming the user is the person who purchased the games, even if it is not the same machine.

[Triv1um]

Lucky.

Ashame about the game saves, but it sounds worth it.

[ExcruciationX]

So, you can re-match me now, shadow?

[Accordion]

Is no one else disgusted with the need to send your unit away for repair and be without a console for weeks?

Some may know that i went through 4 PSPs to get a screen with less than 20 stuck pixels, but the return service was a next day delivery exchange by courier.
That was a big problem, but the service was so good i could not complain, i simply phoned up gave them my serial number and address and chose a day for exchange with the next day as an option every time i called.

It seems the 360 seriously needs a design overhaul to fix the problems, anyone know if your 3 year warranty gets renewed each console- it should.