codemonkey
Shared on Sun, 04/13/2008 - 23:34A few months back my Xbox 360 Premium pooped itself, after 3 years on my shelf, she finally gave it the good old "shitty hardware" try and crap on itself. By crapped, I mean the video card died. Had it red-ringed I'd be in good shape and gotten away free of spending cash, but alas, no red rings...just a dead video card.
You may ask yourself, "What hardware product has a core device fail after 3-years in which you spend, easily, over $400.00 for a bundle?" Well, the Microsoft product of course! I'm a lucky one, as I've had a few Xbox 360's now but none of them died due to red-rings of light. I've had one get hit by lightening and lose the network card, but I just sold it for cheap and moved on with life. Now, however, I replaced my xbox 360 premium with a brand spanking new Arcade Edition (cheap one) just so I could have a new core device and put my old hard disk in it. Sure, the CDROM is white instead of silver, but it worked...
I finally made the decision to call Microsoft about the dead one and get a quote...$99.00 to fix it (including a new 1-year warranty, shipping included, etc.) and that seemed a fair deal as I could probably sell it and make that money back without a big deal, but I still feel a bit dirty knowing that a) the product is faulty and I actually went out and bought a new one (Falcon Chipset of course) and b) I paid ADDITIONAL money to repair the old one.
Sucker? Probably.
But I just feel bad leaving this thing to waste away on a desk for all eternity when the best I could do is eBay it for $30.00 as spare parts. It seemed more valuable to have it repaired for $99 than just let it die.
Such is life.
You may ask yourself, "What hardware product has a core device fail after 3-years in which you spend, easily, over $400.00 for a bundle?" Well, the Microsoft product of course! I'm a lucky one, as I've had a few Xbox 360's now but none of them died due to red-rings of light. I've had one get hit by lightening and lose the network card, but I just sold it for cheap and moved on with life. Now, however, I replaced my xbox 360 premium with a brand spanking new Arcade Edition (cheap one) just so I could have a new core device and put my old hard disk in it. Sure, the CDROM is white instead of silver, but it worked...
I finally made the decision to call Microsoft about the dead one and get a quote...$99.00 to fix it (including a new 1-year warranty, shipping included, etc.) and that seemed a fair deal as I could probably sell it and make that money back without a big deal, but I still feel a bit dirty knowing that a) the product is faulty and I actually went out and bought a new one (Falcon Chipset of course) and b) I paid ADDITIONAL money to repair the old one.
Sucker? Probably.
But I just feel bad leaving this thing to waste away on a desk for all eternity when the best I could do is eBay it for $30.00 as spare parts. It seemed more valuable to have it repaired for $99 than just let it die.
Such is life.
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