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Buying a 360

  • 13-06-2007 10:01am
    #1
    columok
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,398 ✭✭✭


    Hey guys at the end of the Summer I'll finally be biting the bullet and buying a 360 in Dublin. With the reliability of these things clearly in question I was wondering people's advice on where I should buy one. I hear game have a €35 extended warranty which sounds pretty good. Are the manufacturing flaws still being found in current batches? Is it possible to make sure I'm buying a console from a new batch rather than the old one?

    Any advice about packages too would be great. Am thinking a premium with a few games.


Comments

  • #2
    yawnstretch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 861 ✭✭✭yawnstretch


    Can someone please explain to me what the hell an extended warranty is about?

    I thought we have consumer rights in this country with regard to electronics?

    My 360 started giving trouble after about 8 months. Brought it back to HMV and they switched it then and there. No messing around.

    "Got your receipt?"

    "yes"

    "here's your new xbox"

    The End.


  • #3
    Fingleberries
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,396 ✭✭✭Fingleberries


    Extended warranty is one of the biggest shams of a mockery of two travesties of a sham going. It's a way for certain companies (not mentioning them by name, but we know who they are - and three of them are from the same UK parent chain *hint*)

    It's a way to scam an extra 30-100 Euro from an unsuspecting customer (usually a mum or dad buying a gizmo for their child, but others fall for it, too) for something they're already covered for anyway. Your consumer rights should often cover you for the period covered by 'extended warranty' - e.g. if you get the three rings of death on your xbox after 3 months, it's not fit for the purpose for which it was sold.

    I know the BBC did a show on this before (I think it was on Watchdog a couple of years back), about how it's a rip-off and I think staff even get a commission if they sell a certain amount of extended warranty (but I'm open to correction on that).


  • #4
    Mixie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 935 ✭✭✭Mixie


    Many of the issues relate to overheating though in newer models it seems at though Microsoft are attempting to correct the problem. More info can be found here:

    http://www.xbox-scene.com/xbox1data/sep/EElEZukFEleqkRrcnN.php


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