Another Xbox 360?

Here's my thinking: $140+ mileage check from work + $30 = new, redesigned Xbox 360.

Then, sell my 360 when I get it back on eBay.

Am I so wrong?

Too bad. It's done.

Microsoft Support Still Good

Besides the first or second Xbox 360 failure that got lost in their repair center in Texas for 2-3 weeks, I still can't complain about Microsoft's handling of the problem. I always get pretty good customer support, even from the folks over in India.

I'm also glad they still have the option to send you a special box to ship your Xbox back to them in with custom molded foam inserts. You get a box like it back and they always give you an extra faceplate.

I just sent in the request today for a shipping box.

So far, I'm still holding out for this Xbox to get repaired. I'm very tempted to run over to Target and pick up an Arcade unit for $200 and try to sell it on eBay later (or keep it). But honestly, I need to do some work on my basement and finish cleaning out my Accord to sell.

Another Xbox 360, I Hardly Knew Ye

Last week we picked up Lego Batman for Nicole and took our time getting into it. After a couple hours and two levels of the game, we picked up our first glitch; the first vehicle level crashed in the same spot almost every time. We put the game off for awhile out of frustration knowing that one of us would go back in single player mode to see if that was the problem. Since then I've been playing a few games, so we didn't think much of it.

Today I fired it up to play and it crashed in the exact same spot. So I restarted it again and got single red light. I was going to go look it up and decided to restart the Xbox one last time and that's when it hit: three red lights.

This is Xbox 360 #4 for me. I told myself last March when this happened that I would go buy one of the new Xbox's just so this would never happen again. But it's wrong. It's expensive. It doesn't solve anything. But it's Sunday and I'm pretty pissed, so who knows what will end up happening.

The repair process is started so I will be getting a new Xbox regardless, but I see and Xbox 360 Elite or Arcade in my future. I was 300mb away from filling up my harddrive anyway, so that was going to be an extra $80 online for a 60GB harddrive just for that. Might as well buy all new stuff.

I'm not going to delve into how broken Microsoft's boxes are. It's a pointless conversation that they actually just brought up themselves. "The worst is behind us," they said.

You, maybe. Us, not so much.