Can I Buy A Refurbished Xbox 360 From Gamestop And Then Turn It In To Microsoft?
Thursday, October 29th, 2009 at
11:50 AM
I have a xbox 360 and it broke down a year later with e74 I tried to fix it but it didn’t work. So now I want to buy a refurbished 360 from gamestop. I know that they give you a warranty I believe, so is that warranty for them or for Microsoft and if it is for Microsoft then could I send it there, say, maybe the next day.
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You do know that the E74 has been extended to 3 years, so you can send the 360 you have now back to MS for repairs unless you opened it up, in which case, you’re screwed.
If you try the switch with GS, it’s not going to work because the serial is printed on the receipt, and if it doesn’t match up, GS won’t fix it.
Do you even know what refurbish means? It means that it’s been used or it has had some problems before, and the store fixed it and then resell it at a lower price. If it’s working, MS isn’t going to fix it.
I believe that when an Xbox is returned to GS, M$ cancels the serial, and reactivates the new 3 year warranty on it when it’s purchased again. But as said above, refurbished means returned/fixed because it had previously broken. Ex: If my Xbox broke, M$ would send me a new one, and market the broken (but now fixed) one i sent in as refurbished.
If by referbished you mean pre owned then you have the warrenty from the store (30 days for a repleacement system) or 7 days for your money back. And then you have what is left of the original warranty on the system if anything. You can buy a warranty from Gamestop for $19.99 which will allow you 1 year or one replacement in that year outside of the 30day warranty you get free. then at the time you get a replacement (if it breaks) you can buy another 1 yr warranty from that date.
I think that http://xboxit.com/ had an article on this. Search the site and see if you find something useful!
The warranty is through Gamestop.