Microsoft selling old consoles as new?

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Euphoria14 on 15 May 2008

endimion said:
well the french site doesn't give more source.... it's even weired i'm not sure the pack of refurbs are the same price... it's kind of hard to say from those articles..... anyway refurbishing product is not new.... now that they do it so obviously like that seems awkward.... I wonder if it's not the retailers doing that.. I wouldn't be surprised lol :) we are talking about french retailers here lol

Just because a retailer is French does not indicate they are corrupt. There actually isn't anything corrupt about this news as long as the box states it is a refurb.

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Kyros on 15 May 2008

I wouldn't doubt that this great package is used to get rid of older models so an old motherboard doesn't surprise me. But refurbished 360s? This would suck hard.

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Euphoria14 on 15 May 2008

Kyros said:
I wouldn't doubt that this great package is used to get rid of older models so an old motherboard doesn't surprise me. But refurbished 360s? This would suck hard.

The old warranty sticker makes me think it is just old stock (maxconsole stated it was MS Repair Center sticker), as with having no HDMI. The part that gets me though is the markings on the case and blood inside the console (which I am very skeptical about anyways).

Maybe they marked the old stock previously before they thought about selling it?

Anyone know when these go on sale?

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endimion on 15 May 2008

Euphoria14 said:

endimion said:
well the french site doesn't give more source.... it's even weired i'm not sure the pack of refurbs are the same price... it's kind of hard to say from those articles..... anyway refurbishing product is not new.... now that they do it so obviously like that seems awkward.... I wonder if it's not the retailers doing that.. I wouldn't be surprised lol :) we are talking about french retailers here lol

Just because a retailer is French does not indicate they are corrupt. There actually isn't anything corrupt about this news as long as the box states it is a refurb.

hey i'm french i can chose to bash myhome retailers lol

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mike_intellivision on 15 May 2008

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