Just bought an xbox on Ebay

[twesterm]

Man, if this thread doesn't scare anyone else from buying a refurbished 360 from eBay, I don't know what will.

Even the months guarantee wouldn't satisfy me.  I had one person with 600+ feedback complete fuck me over (and everyone else after some point when he decided to flip out).

I know you're trying to pay for small pieces at a time but unless much less than $100 is something along the lines of $20, I would never risk it.

1. What if your console has been banned?  I doubt that's covered in his one month warranty
2. What if he used the towel trick?  The console can stay fine for anywhere from a week to months before it gives up again (and it will if he used the towel trick).
3. What if it's a launch or near launch model?  Hell, what if it were even bought a year after launch?
4. You still have to buy a hard drive
5. You still have to buy your own power brick (MAKE SURE IT COMES WITH BOTH CORDS)
6. The seller could decide to screw you and just not honor his one month warranty
7. I'm sure that warranty isn't air tight and there are many ways for the seller to finagle himself out of it
8. You have no 3 year warranty since it's refurbished
   

Just so many things can go wrong and I would assume at least one of those would happen.