ok i see that a lot of people are saying that when you get RRod its such a hassle to get it fixed because it takes such a long time to get your console back. How I mean my friend got his 360 at Costco and when his got RRod he just took it back and gave him a brand new one and guess what else since the Xbox had dropped in price he still got like an extra 100$ of store credit lol because they just totally refunded his money of what he originally paid. I was just wondering can you do that at other stores?

you are looking at the infantessimally smallest slice of pie on the "where people bought 360's" chart.
The average person does this
1. shit bricks
2. try to find the box and stuff to return it.
3. get to the store and then find out it isn't returnable
4. go back home and call microsoft for a box
5. wait several days for the box.
6. send out the console and get it back 2-3 weeks later based on delivery method and reliability
7. hope it doesn't happen again
8. quit doing any drugs that took the place of the 360 while it was out

Here in Belgium (Europe for the ignorant), I signaled the problem to MS customer support wich directly sent an email with the UPS order. They came to my house the next day to pick it up, sent it to a repair center in Germany and returned it to me. The whole process took less than a week (week-end included).

i never got rrod

me either lol

A lot depends on where the console is purchased and whether or not the consumer has paid for additional store warranty. For example if the console breaks down you get a new one free of charge.

Fuck i wasnt even think about warranties =///

Oh i see

Costco offers something like 2 years warranty.

if thats not listed directly in the warranty thats a law suit your looking at though that varries state to state. one of the reasons people do take those out is drop off connivance. for not covering that without a clause listing it your looking at fraud. though it does seem best buy tries to dissuade you from getting a warranty honored, i had to take them to small claims once over an slr, i ended up getting twice the value of the camera back since they violated the contract (they did not show up so default judgement) they paid up, and i used B&H since it was cheaper, and bestbuy had made it clear they had no intentions of honoring warranty for drop offs

if bestbuy does not honor it, check your local laws, you way be able to get claims of up to 5times the original value, though you want to make sure you dont take the award amount above small claims limits for your state