It's official. My 360 has suffered its now THIRD red ring of death since I bought it. It is now, however, out of warranty and will cost nearly $150 to get it fixed. Since one of the main points of this blog was to NOT spend money on games, this defeats the purpose. This leaves me with a few options:
1) Screw it, throw out my 360 and erase all twenty 360/XBOX games from my backlog.
2) Buy a used 360 for the same price as the repair
3) Call MS and raise hell
I've had recent problems with Microsoft lately. They automatically renewed my Gold membership for their new price of $60 without my permission, and then refused to cancel it or refund me the money - on a cancelled credit card by the way. I eventually got the credit card to charge back the amount and got it settled, but as soon as that gets worked out the damn system shits the bed.
You know what? I think I'm done with this stupid company and their low quality product. Screw it. I'm done. Any objections? Wanna talk me off the ledge?
F it, man. Mine died a couple of months ago, and I haven't missed it at all. I'd just finished a game, and had been off XBL gold for several months, anyway.
ReplyDeleteI face the same choice as you; pay for the repair or get a new unit. I'm holding out for a good reason to get a new one, because I'm sure not going to pay over $100 for another old model that'll just have it's own RROD a few months later.
As for the games on the backlog, just flag them as currently unavailable and maybe get back to them later. I'm without access to several XBLA games and 360 exclusive titles, but it's nothing that's got me rushing out for a new box. They'll still be there in the future.
If you do re-buy you should get a slim instead of getting a used unit that will simply RROD again.
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