Re: Almost Bought an Xbox! lol

On Mar 11, 5:50 pm, "alvinstraigh...@xxxxxxxxxxx"
<alvinstraigh...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Mar 11, 3:58 pm, RMZ <Jeremy.De...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:





On Mar 11, 12:20 pm, "alvinstraigh...@xxxxxxxxxxx"

<alvinstraigh...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hey I'll admit, I would like to have an Xbox so I won't be locked out
of the great Xbox exclusives.

Yet, with failure rate estimates as high as 70%, I would be stupid to
buy a new Xbox.  Buy the time you figure in sales tax and all the
extra junk, it is well over 400 clams for a piece of hardware that
could crap out anytime and take months to fix.

So I tried to go the used route.  I found a unit for $140 without any
accessories.  Sounded like a great deal until I saw the prices for
accessories.  100 bucks for a power supply?? 100 bucks for a lousy 20
gig HD?   M$ is raping customers with outragerous charges.  Power
supplies for every other electronic on the planet are usually less
than 20 bucks.  You can now get 500 gig HD's for $100 bucks.  Yet M$
can charge whatever they want because consumers must buy the
product.

This company disgusts me.  They rip off the customers to fatten their
wallets yet refuse to spend the necessary money needed to permanently
fix the console problem.  Their greed will be their downfall in the
end.

I do still believe the PS3 is a superior product from a hardware view,
and soon to be superior in the software dept as well.

First of all we need to get some facts straight. No one has ever
claimed a 70% failure rate on the XBox 360, not in 2006, not in 2007,
not ever. I don't know where you heard that number, but it's not true.
There were rumor in late 2007 about failure rate being as high as 30%,
but those were always speculation by angry consumer who continued to
send their 360 in for repairs time and time again.

Get yer own facts straight.  CheapyD has regularly quoted on cagcasts
that he believes the number to be this high.  He is currently
conducting a survery on his website, and the percentages are around
these figures.  Pretty sad.

CheapyD?

We're supposed to take seriously someone who calls themselves CheapyD?

Surveys conducted on websites are hardly scientific. RMZ's source,
while far from being enough to make any real claim, is a lot more
reliable in that it is simply reporting data from the warranties it
had to handle.

An optional survey on a gaming website will provide absolutely no
reliable scientific data whatsoever. In order to participate in said
survey, you have to know enough to go to the website in the first
place... and then have to be willing to put in your two cents, which
could just be a lie in the end.
.

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