360 Extended Warranty

[jjoe]

I've always believed warranties are a waste of money and in the long run, it is better to take your chances then spending all that money. It seems if you have a problem, it should surface in the first 90 days. I'm curious how many 360 owners purchased the extended warranty? I believe it says you have 10 days from purchase to send it in.

[Havok410]

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I'm not gonna purchase the warranty until I start seeing some problems with the XBOX360. For now, it's working perfectly but if I start seeing more freezeups, etc. then I will buy the warranty.

[jjoe]

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I'm not gonna purchase the warranty until I start seeing some problems with the XBOX360. For now, it's working perfectly but if I start seeing more freezeups, etc. then I will buy the warranty.

I thought the warranty insert says you have 10 days from purchase to buy it. It says it's a limited time offer. Am I mistaken?

[LBzrule]

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I thought the warranty insert says you have 10 days from purchase to buy it. It says it's a limited time offer. Am I mistaken?

Not mistaken with respect to what is written on the pamphlet. But mistaken with respect to how long you have to get the warranty. I've had mine since 11/21/2005 and I just got the warranty on Monday. You will have the default 90 days then after that it is all on you. I'd do it. You never know what will happen. The next wave of games could cause something in your particular system to go awry. My first PS2 did that. When I first got it I did not have a problem with the games that came out the first two years, but after that my PS2 had a problem with every game, so I had to send it in for another one. I'd get the warranty regardless unless you just radically trust that you picked up the machine that will be immune to all problems.

[Victor99]

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Again, as I have stated numerous times, get the 3 year MS warrenty for 65 bucks. For roughly the cost of one game you'll have peace of mind for 3 years. It covers everything from the console, controllers, and free shipping as well. Very much worth IMO.

[ComfortablyLomb]

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I got the Best Buy 2-year deal for $50 or whatever. My rationale was that considering the spotty durability record of the 360 I just didn't want to risk being in a position where I would either have to purchase a new console in time or spend some sum of money $50 or greater on repair fees.

I think the only other time I've gotten an extended warranty on anything electronic was with my laptop and that ended up paying off since I like to move it around a bit and as a result I seem to go through a hard drive every few months. Dell is in the hole quite a bit on that warranty.

[jjoe]

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Again, as I have stated numerous times, get the 3 year MS warrenty for 65 bucks. For roughly the cost of one game you'll have peace of mind for 3 years. It covers everything from the console, controllers, and free shipping as well. Very much worth IMO.

One last thing about the warranty, Victor. The mailer says if you use a credit card, I think it is $49.90. Is that correct? Is it cheaper if you pay by CC?

[RoyalBoyle78]

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Again, as I have stated numerous times, get the 3 year MS warrenty for 65 bucks. For roughly the cost of one game you'll have peace of mind for 3 years. It covers everything from the console, controllers, and free shipping as well. Very much worth IMO.

I never saw a 3 year $65 warranty, I got the $60 warranty for 2 years from MS.

[Altimus]

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I have a warranty with GS.

I rather pay the extra couple bucks now than spend more and worry later.

Or even worse, not be able to find one period.

[RoyalBoyle78]

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One last thing about the warranty, Victor. The mailer says if you use a credit card, I think it is $49.90. Is that correct? Is it cheaper if you pay by CC?

I paid with credit card and it was $59.99 for 2 years.

[Victor99]

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Hmmm, that's strange FF. When I got my replacement console the form came with it. I don't know what to telly ya. Maybe you outta give them a call. But I indeed got 3 years for about 65 bones. 1, 2, and 3 years were avaiable, about 20 bones for each additional year.

[goopaluchie]

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Without a doubt this is something that gets me angered with so called big companies.

My brother bought and dropped top dollar on the PS2 when it first came out. Not even a year old the thing was having trouble reading the disks. He called Sony and they wanted him to send it back to the company so they could fix it. He ended up paying 3/4 of what he had paid for the system in the first place. And he didn't have anything to play in the meantime. All because Sony used "cheap laser eyes" in the development of their system. Then that system lasted two years and it started up with the same thing again. He wasn't about to do what he had done before so he bought a new system. They were cheaper by now. Since he's gone through 4 PS2's.

I went and got the xbox when it first came out. And within a year or so my system wouldn't read the disks either. So, I called Microsoft and they wanted me to send it back to the company so they could fix it. I remeber what hapened to my brother and what he paid. And I remember reading on these boards that Microsoft used cheap Thompson driver's in the production of the new systems. So I told the lady on the phone that she should fix it for free b/c it was Microsoft's fault for making faulty machine's. I wasn't going to pay for Microsoft's cheap product mess-up. I wasn't about to drop another $300.00, or pay close to that to have the company fix it.So one Christmas I took the system up to EB when they were running a sale. I traded in my system and got a new one with the new driver's in it. Since the release of the 360 I've gone through 3 xbox's.

Now from what we both went through above, and the price of the systems nowadays, I got a warranty on this system. I don't have that kind of coin to be dropping $400-450.00 on a system when it breaks. My brother and I ALWAYS took care of everything game related. No scratches on the disks, no slamming of the joysticks, no dropping of the systems. When always had our stuff in plastic bubbles, and we would go over our friends houses and there would be their game systems with the cover off, people spilling 40oz. in the system, joysticks got one button that works, and there is all the wires exposed on the controller, and the system is being used as a coffee table leg for balance. Hell, but their systems always worked. While ours always was down.

With the 360 all the games and accessories are $10.00 more than the xbox. If you want a HD, that's going to run you and extra $100.00. And in reading magazines and forums and listening to people slightly push you down the HDTV path. We all know how much those things cost? So I got a one year warranty from EB games and it ran me $40.00. And it runs for a year. EB wouldn't go anymore than the year. They also said they would give me a new 360 with no questions asked. We will see b/c around Nov. when I got the 360 I'm taking my 360 back to EB and getting a brand new system. And then I'm going to ask for another $40.00 warranty with the new system. I'll do that every year till something else comes along. I also feel better know that my system is covered from what happened above. Maybe by then the getting hot problem will be solved, eventhough I have not had any trouble with mine as of yet.

[RoyalBoyle78]

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For any body worried about there Xbox warranty, I just recived my Xbox 360 Service Contract in the Mail today. Sweet.

[Victor99]

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Good deal, I sent mine out a while ago as well.

[TJdaSportsGuy]

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It seems if you have a problem, it should surface in the first 90 days.

People used to come in and recite the old "it should surface in the first 90 days" myth all the time when I worked at Best Buy. The fact of the matter is this. It's electronics. They know no rules. They don't know if it's been 90 or 900 days since the original purchase, some electronic devices are predisposed to malfunctioning at random points in time.

With that said, I purchased the 2 year service contract from MS and I gladly handed over the $50.00 for it. Peice of mind is worth that money.