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Xbox probs. advice?

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smooticus
Posts: 1798 - Karma: 27
So i got the red rings like 4 months ago and sent my box in for repair, it was in repair for like 2 months and i just got it back. So pretty stoked, had it for like 3 days and today i was playing COD. I grabbed my laptop while playing and since my laptop is connected to my box it kinda yanked it (it didnt fall over or anything). Immediatly it it started makin funny noisy, i just figured i had messed up the fan or something and wasnt suuuper worried. I played for like 3 mintues like that and it froze. So now im worried, i turn it off and take out my disk, its scratched as fuck. So i googled and i guess if you move the box with a disk in that can happen. Soo im mad but i figure i should be able to repair it eventually. Later i was playing skate, same thing, so now my only two games are ruined and i cant use my disk drive.

Spark notes: Basically i wanna know how much leverage i have hear. I feel like they should replace the box and my games. But what i want is a damn cash refund for all of it. What do you think my best option is, whats the best outcome here. I already emailed support and am ready to make some angry phone calls, i just need to know what i should expect to get.
May 13 2010 12:37AM
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Chickendodo
Posts: 1426 - Karma: 33
You will receive absolutely nothing from anyone for things that happen to your stuff caused by you.  Faulty machinery is their problem and that's why you got the red ring fixed, but this is solely your fault, so you ain't gonna get shit except laughed at.
May 13 2010 12:40AM
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smooticus
Posts: 1798 - Karma: 27
Really, i mean its not like i dropped it or anything, it just shook and went to shit. or are you trolling, seems like your trolling.
May 13 2010 12:43AM
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chase.
Posts: 716 - Karma: 18

check you craiglist, theres sometimes people who fix x boxes for pretty cheap

May 13 2010 12:48AM
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Chickendodo
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I'm not trolling, you really can't get any reimbursement for broken games.  Yeah so their system scratched your disks, but you're the one who knocked the system over, thus causing the games to get scratched.

Really, nobody's gonna do anything for you, you're SOL.
May 13 2010 12:50AM
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zerospinskier
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Microsoft won't do anything for you for that kind of stuff. It has happened to quite a few people over the years. Your best bet is to buy a new disc drive and put it in. It is pretty easy. The problem should be isolated in the drive.
May 13 2010 12:50AM
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smooticus
Posts: 1798 - Karma: 27
lol. but on the real, no one thinks i have a case here. Whatev, i going to at least get the box fixed for free. ill prove you all wrong, updates will come soon. a holes
May 13 2010 1:02AM
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Big_Spence
Posts: 16177 - Karma: 4,352
1. go to walmart.
2. buy an xbox.
3. put your shitty, broken xbox in that box.
4. take it back to walmart.
5. "omg liek mai g-ma nd mai m0m b0th g0t m3 xb0x's 4 mai burffday nd i dnt n33d 2!"
6. ??????
7. PROFIT (and new xbox)
May 13 2010 1:29AM
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ECfreeski3
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does that work? im not gonna try it either way, but i feel like it's not that easy
May 13 2010 2:23AM
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Big_Spence
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i've never done it personally, but i know a couple of my friends have done it.

don't really see how you would get caught doing it either. they don't make you prove that the Xbox you're returning is the Xbox that you just purchased from the store. plus i've never had to fill out any sort of paperwork when returning an item and if you're really that concerned with them tracing it back to you pay with cash.
May 13 2010 2:31AM
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scratchproteen
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must have screwed something up inside...if your other games don't work...your cod disk is fucked my buddy did that with a movie it puts a nice huge circle scratch in it.
May 13 2010 2:36AM
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rickroller
Posts: 2468 - Karma: 483
rap it in a towl
May 13 2010 2:48AM
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Big_Spence
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did you read more than the first six words?
May 13 2010 2:50AM
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CarRamRod
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I had COD in one day and something moved the xbox which made COD unplayable because of a giant circle scratch. I took the game to Hollywood Video and they cleaned the disk up real nice, looks like it is brand new. It has worked since, so there is game fix. It was totally free for me (I knew the kid working). It only costs probably like $5 (thats a total guess by the way).
May 13 2010 3:00AM
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TOUCHE
Posts: 1183 - Karma: 162
Brilliant idea. next time mine breaks im doing this. they wont open it up and check it completly works, if anything they might check if you dropped it and cracked the plastic
May 13 2010 7:28AM
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uni-corn
Posts: 13846 - Karma: 651
They do compare serials from the box to the device in the box....... Be wary.
May 13 2010 8:00AM
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zerospinskier
Posts: 4867 - Karma: 350
A friend of mine did something similar at Costco. He got the new xbox, and swapped all the internals from his broken one into the other chassis, then returned it. That way the numbers outside match up. I never did this though because almost all xbox problems are really easy to fix.
May 13 2010 3:24PM
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leahey
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Wait, when you were playing Skate, did you yank on the Xbox again? Because it is true you can't move the xbox while playing, it circle scratches your disk like buttah
May 13 2010 3:30PM
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