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But this was on digg like 6 hours ago..]]>Feb 29th 2008 2:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/gamers-tale-takes-xbox-repair-woes-to-new-levels-of-sadness/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/gamers-tale-takes-xbox-repair-woes-to-new-levels-of-sadness/Feb 29th 2008 2:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/gamers-tale-takes-xbox-repair-woes-to-new-levels-of-sadness/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/gamers-tale-takes-xbox-repair-woes-to-new-levels-of-sadness/Feb 29th 2008 2:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/gamers-tale-takes-xbox-repair-woes-to-new-levels-of-sadness/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/gamers-tale-takes-xbox-repair-woes-to-new-levels-of-sadness/Feb 29th 2008 2:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/gamers-tale-takes-xbox-repair-woes-to-new-levels-of-sadness/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/gamers-tale-takes-xbox-repair-woes-to-new-levels-of-sadness/Feb 29th 2008 2:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/gamers-tale-takes-xbox-repair-woes-to-new-levels-of-sadness/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/gamers-tale-takes-xbox-repair-woes-to-new-levels-of-sadness/
I guess I came off a lot more elitist than I intended. Sorry ya'll, didn't mean to offend anyone. I just thought it was interesting how stories appear double on sites that are pretty related.

This really is a shame though. I still can't figure out why Microsoft would let something like this happen..]]>Feb 29th 2008 2:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/gamers-tale-takes-xbox-repair-woes-to-new-levels-of-sadness/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/gamers-tale-takes-xbox-repair-woes-to-new-levels-of-sadness/
Thats like punting an autographed football down the street.]]>Feb 29th 2008 2:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/gamers-tale-takes-xbox-repair-woes-to-new-levels-of-sadness/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/gamers-tale-takes-xbox-repair-woes-to-new-levels-of-sadness/
And what makes you think digg and engadget are related?

]]>Feb 29th 2008 3:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/gamers-tale-takes-xbox-repair-woes-to-new-levels-of-sadness/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/gamers-tale-takes-xbox-repair-woes-to-new-levels-of-sadness/
So it was on reddit yesterday?]]>Feb 29th 2008 3:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/gamers-tale-takes-xbox-repair-woes-to-new-levels-of-sadness/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/gamers-tale-takes-xbox-repair-woes-to-new-levels-of-sadness/Feb 29th 2008 3:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/gamers-tale-takes-xbox-repair-woes-to-new-levels-of-sadness/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/gamers-tale-takes-xbox-repair-woes-to-new-levels-of-sadness/
Brooks hungry! Brooks make engadget readers angry!!

Anyone else think Microsoft should sponsor a trip for him to Redmond and Bungie?]]>Feb 29th 2008 3:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/gamers-tale-takes-xbox-repair-woes-to-new-levels-of-sadness/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/gamers-tale-takes-xbox-repair-woes-to-new-levels-of-sadness/
Thats like punting an autographed football down the street."

whats the use of having an xbox 360 signed by bungee and drawn and all if you DONT use it. its like not eating the cake because it'll ruin the icing]]>Feb 29th 2008 3:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/gamers-tale-takes-xbox-repair-woes-to-new-levels-of-sadness/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/gamers-tale-takes-xbox-repair-woes-to-new-levels-of-sadness/
He brought it upon himself, and it is a shame that such a nice object was destroyed. Really though, why did they clean it, and a coat of varnish on the outside could have prevented this tragedy.]]>Feb 29th 2008 3:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/gamers-tale-takes-xbox-repair-woes-to-new-levels-of-sadness/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/gamers-tale-takes-xbox-repair-woes-to-new-levels-of-sadness/
And what makes you think digg and engadget are related? "

How about: I saw this story about how some kid got his custom signaturized XBOX pwnd by MS...digg it?]]>Feb 29th 2008 5:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/gamers-tale-takes-xbox-repair-woes-to-new-levels-of-sadness/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/gamers-tale-takes-xbox-repair-woes-to-new-levels-of-sadness/
The easiest way to turn plain ol' varnish into barbeque sauce for your xbox..

Doesn't the xbox get hot enough already?]]>Feb 29th 2008 5:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/gamers-tale-takes-xbox-repair-woes-to-new-levels-of-sadness/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/gamers-tale-takes-xbox-repair-woes-to-new-levels-of-sadness/Feb 29th 2008 2:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/gamers-tale-takes-xbox-repair-woes-to-new-levels-of-sadness/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/gamers-tale-takes-xbox-repair-woes-to-new-levels-of-sadness/Feb 29th 2008 2:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/gamers-tale-takes-xbox-repair-woes-to-new-levels-of-sadness/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/gamers-tale-takes-xbox-repair-woes-to-new-levels-of-sadness/I didn't have to look very far...

http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/07/microsoft-weighs-in-on-save-xp-petition-sort-of/
http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/16/microsoft-vista-plus-pack-in-the-works/
http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/01/microsoft-blames-babys-parents-for-deadly-xbox-fire/]]>Feb 29th 2008 2:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/gamers-tale-takes-xbox-repair-woes-to-new-levels-of-sadness/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/gamers-tale-takes-xbox-repair-woes-to-new-levels-of-sadness/and I usually don't laugh out loud at the office]]>Feb 29th 2008 3:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/gamers-tale-takes-xbox-repair-woes-to-new-levels-of-sadness/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/gamers-tale-takes-xbox-repair-woes-to-new-levels-of-sadness/Feb 29th 2008 3:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/gamers-tale-takes-xbox-repair-woes-to-new-levels-of-sadness/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/gamers-tale-takes-xbox-repair-woes-to-new-levels-of-sadness/Feb 29th 2008 3:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/gamers-tale-takes-xbox-repair-woes-to-new-levels-of-sadness/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/gamers-tale-takes-xbox-repair-woes-to-new-levels-of-sadness/Feb 29th 2008 4:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/gamers-tale-takes-xbox-repair-woes-to-new-levels-of-sadness/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/gamers-tale-takes-xbox-repair-woes-to-new-levels-of-sadness/
And I'll also hate a bazillion other stuff just because they did something bad before as well. I might as well hate everything.

Besides, I do feel sorry for this person, but I don't see how Microsoft was 'greedy' if they were giving his Xbox a nice clean. More like ignorance to users' customizations is more like it. That's what they need to fix in their repair policy, and maybe they will now since it hit the news. ]]>Feb 29th 2008 5:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/gamers-tale-takes-xbox-repair-woes-to-new-levels-of-sadness/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/gamers-tale-takes-xbox-repair-woes-to-new-levels-of-sadness/The other 1/2 makes me want to slap him for even beginning to think to send in a custom console. Nobody in their right mind should ever do that, even if you wrote a letter.

Plus don't pretty much all manufactures give refurbs BACK to the customer anyway? If you read the fine print on pretty much any warranty it says that.]]>Feb 29th 2008 2:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/gamers-tale-takes-xbox-repair-woes-to-new-levels-of-sadness/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/gamers-tale-takes-xbox-repair-woes-to-new-levels-of-sadness/Feb 29th 2008 2:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/gamers-tale-takes-xbox-repair-woes-to-new-levels-of-sadness/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/gamers-tale-takes-xbox-repair-woes-to-new-levels-of-sadness/Feb 29th 2008 2:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/gamers-tale-takes-xbox-repair-woes-to-new-levels-of-sadness/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/gamers-tale-takes-xbox-repair-woes-to-new-levels-of-sadness/
Hi guys,

Im one of the people that works at MS for console repair.
(im a lacky but I can shed some light on this)

Keep in mind that the console repair facility for north america is in mexcio, by a 3rd party company, under administration by microsoft. Very few people there speak english so the letter would have just been disregarded when the consoles are unboxed.
Standard procedure is for the consoles to udnergo a cleaning and removal of any stickers or anything on the console before and after the repair process (otherwise it might get back dirty and people would complain about that). Thats what happened here. It got scrubbed with rubbing alcohol twice before leaving.

Nobody took vengance against the console to purposley scrub it off, this incident inst the fault of MS. Its just std procedure to make sure the consoles are returned to the customer in like new condition.
Sucks that it happened to this console though ]]>Feb 29th 2008 3:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/gamers-tale-takes-xbox-repair-woes-to-new-levels-of-sadness/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/gamers-tale-takes-xbox-repair-woes-to-new-levels-of-sadness/
Your mom is an STD procedure.]]>Feb 29th 2008 3:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/gamers-tale-takes-xbox-repair-woes-to-new-levels-of-sadness/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/gamers-tale-takes-xbox-repair-woes-to-new-levels-of-sadness/Feb 29th 2008 4:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/gamers-tale-takes-xbox-repair-woes-to-new-levels-of-sadness/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/gamers-tale-takes-xbox-repair-woes-to-new-levels-of-sadness/Feb 29th 2008 8:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/gamers-tale-takes-xbox-repair-woes-to-new-levels-of-sadness/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/gamers-tale-takes-xbox-repair-woes-to-new-levels-of-sadness/

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A jealous idiot.

(Or one of the above.)]]>Feb 29th 2008 2:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/gamers-tale-takes-xbox-repair-woes-to-new-levels-of-sadness/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/gamers-tale-takes-xbox-repair-woes-to-new-levels-of-sadness/
No hablo english.]]>Feb 29th 2008 3:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/gamers-tale-takes-xbox-repair-woes-to-new-levels-of-sadness/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/gamers-tale-takes-xbox-repair-woes-to-new-levels-of-sadness/Feb 29th 2008 3:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/gamers-tale-takes-xbox-repair-woes-to-new-levels-of-sadness/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/gamers-tale-takes-xbox-repair-woes-to-new-levels-of-sadness/Feb 29th 2008 4:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/gamers-tale-takes-xbox-repair-woes-to-new-levels-of-sadness/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/gamers-tale-takes-xbox-repair-woes-to-new-levels-of-sadness/Feb 29th 2008 4:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/gamers-tale-takes-xbox-repair-woes-to-new-levels-of-sadness/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/gamers-tale-takes-xbox-repair-woes-to-new-levels-of-sadness/Feb 29th 2008 4:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/gamers-tale-takes-xbox-repair-woes-to-new-levels-of-sadness/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/gamers-tale-takes-xbox-repair-woes-to-new-levels-of-sadness/

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I bet one of the repair crew actually stole his (valuable) case, and gave him one with faked remnants of the illustration. Wouldn't be difficult to do.]]>Feb 29th 2008 2:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/gamers-tale-takes-xbox-repair-woes-to-new-levels-of-sadness/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/gamers-tale-takes-xbox-repair-woes-to-new-levels-of-sadness/Feb 29th 2008 2:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/gamers-tale-takes-xbox-repair-woes-to-new-levels-of-sadness/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/gamers-tale-takes-xbox-repair-woes-to-new-levels-of-sadness/
With that said, I know how evil people are so it would be no problem getting a second XBOX and returning that with the old insides. Then, when I received it back, I'd put everything correct and sell the new one. Think of it as a maintenance cost of having such a valuable piece of work. I certainly would never trust my stuff to anyone. What's Murphy's Law say?...]]>Feb 29th 2008 2:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/gamers-tale-takes-xbox-repair-woes-to-new-levels-of-sadness/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/gamers-tale-takes-xbox-repair-woes-to-new-levels-of-sadness/Feb 29th 2008 4:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/gamers-tale-takes-xbox-repair-woes-to-new-levels-of-sadness/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/gamers-tale-takes-xbox-repair-woes-to-new-levels-of-sadness/Feb 29th 2008 4:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/gamers-tale-takes-xbox-repair-woes-to-new-levels-of-sadness/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/gamers-tale-takes-xbox-repair-woes-to-new-levels-of-sadness/
So when they receive a 360 with internals that don't match the serial on the box and void the warranty for tampering, then what? The case isn't the only thing with date and site codes on it, you know.]]>Feb 29th 2008 8:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/gamers-tale-takes-xbox-repair-woes-to-new-levels-of-sadness/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/gamers-tale-takes-xbox-repair-woes-to-new-levels-of-sadness/Feb 29th 2008 2:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/gamers-tale-takes-xbox-repair-woes-to-new-levels-of-sadness/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/gamers-tale-takes-xbox-repair-woes-to-new-levels-of-sadness/Feb 29th 2008 2:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/gamers-tale-takes-xbox-repair-woes-to-new-levels-of-sadness/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/29/gamers-tale-takes-xbox-repair-woes-to-new-levels-of-sadness/Feb 29th 2008 2:45PM