R.I.P. Xbox 360.

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Zucas said:

mrstickball said:
Microsoft's 3 year warranty is retroactive. Any box thats under 3 years old gets the service plan, regardless.

Goto your best buy and demand a new Xbox. If that doesn't work, call MS and demand a new X360.

Either way, you'll get back into gaming quickly.

 

Yea that's an overstatement.  2 friends had this happen and did exactly that and took them a month to get a new 360.  Even worse those 360s were older models than they ones they had. 

OT: feel ya bro... RROD suck and MS don't do much to help ya out with it.  Bad timign really too with all the good games coming out.

Where do they live?

Took me about a week to get my back, fairly quick.

MS won't send you a model without HDMI if you had a HDMI model. How did your friends know the models they sent them were older?

Also, if they sent them new ones, they pre-register them for you, so basically, your friends got a brand new warranty(Think that's how it works).

Either way, it took me a 20 minute phone call and about 6 business(8-10 regular) days from shipping to retrieval. I didn't wait for a box, I had it packed up and out the next morning after mine broke down.

I know this is anecdotal, but I had a very good and easy experience, and got a brand new 360 out of the deal. It was pretty great actually. I have no fear about them.