Buying 360 used...?

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dmanrevived

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I'm planning to buy a 360 used, came across a pretty fair deal. Is there anything I should look out for? I'll definitely get the guy to hook it up at his place and turn it on to make sure it's not bricked, but aside from that, I'm clueless.
 
Make sure you have a warrenty. It may be break down in the future. But if u can get a good deal on it go for it. Warrenty is the biggest factor IMO. 360's are known to randomly break down. Sure we only hear the horror stories and rarely any satisfaction stories but some of those stories even make me worried about there return process.
 
its not like the bricked issues are the only thing you have to worry about. Many times there are various other symptoms before the system bricks.

Not to mention various "disc dirty issues" that have no resolution. Only that some people have them in some people do not, possibly pointing to a faulty disc drive.

Sucks to play a game for 15 minutes only have your xbox tell you that the disc is dirty and kick you back to the main menu. Sucks even more when that system was 1 week old.

I went through 2 new systems different manufacturing dates in 2 weeks. My 3rd one has been running strong for over a week. No issues. Keeping my fingers crossed.
 
Well the guy said he just got it over the holidays as a present, but I'll take a look at the manufacture date. Anything special need to be done to take over a warranty from him if there is one? Would I need his receipt for the one year warranty that comes with the 360?
 
dmanrevived said:
Well the guy said he just got it over the holidays as a present, but I'll take a look at the manufacture date. Anything special need to be done to take over a warranty from him if there is one? Would I need his receipt for the one year warranty that comes with the 360?
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Depends. If he registered it with Microsoft for the extended warrenty you will be out of luck I think. If he didnt you should be good I think.
 
i bought my 360 used from my friend because he wanted a ps3 now. He had sent it in for locking up and got a new one. I think i still have 2 months of the 1 year warrenty. I heard you can buy and extending one from MS if you call them.

Its been working great and i got a good deal for a prem with 6 games for 300 that was barely used.
 
fireburster said:
I heard you can buy and extending one from MS if you call them.
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Perhaps somebody can correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't there a card that comes in the box, that allows you to get like a 2 year warrenty directly from Microsoft? At least that's what they had in the past.
 
fireburster said:
i bought my 360 used from my friend because he wanted a ps3 now. He had sent it in for locking up and got a new one. I think i still have 2 months of the 1 year warrenty. I heard you can buy and extending one from MS if you call them.

Its been working great and i got a good deal for a prem with 6 games for 300 that was barely used.
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I looked at the warranty policies on their website and didn't see any extended warranty...
 
i emailed them through the xbox live page. Its 29.95 for a year more for a prem and 59.95 for 2 years.
 
Ask him to look at the receipt so you can verify for yourself the purchase date.

If the guy is local, you can ask him to deal with any warranty problems that come up. I've done this before and it's worked OK. If I had a problem with the 360, for instance, I'd email the guy, and he'd call Microsoft and deal with getting a replacement.
 
Thanks guys, but I decided to trade in some of my old ps2 games and stuff and pay a little more to get a brand new 360. I didn't want to have to go through a lot of trouble if problems came up. It was a nice surprise to see that Best Buy had a special for a free Enchanted Arms game when buying the 360 premium, more trade in value for me :)

All my games are sitting there on my desk taunting me while I'm trying to get some work out of the way :(
 
I got my 360 used and I haven't had a lick of trouble with it. Got a 2 years warranty with it that doesn't even kick in until next month (still under 90 day) :)
 
kabob983 said:
I got my 360 used and I haven't had a lick of trouble with it. Got a 2 years warranty with it that doesn't even kick in until next month (still under 90 day) :)
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The warranty for all xbox360s was extended to one year, so I believe your 2 year warranty doesn't start until the initial year warranty ends. I will confirm this with MS support and post back. I need to I call them anyways about re-downloading my arcade games so I can play them offline on my replacement console.
 
Yeah I wondered about that. I'd be happy if it was pushed back. I got the 2 year set up literally 2 or 3 days before they extended it, but since the warranty hasn't actually started, hopefully it'll push back.
 
Yea I hate the "Dirty Disc" error. I bought my 360 a week ago and I got the error twice, once while selecting "Play Game" from the dashboard and the other time was when I walked away from GoW for about 45 minutes. I came back and unpaused the game and got the message.
 
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