____/ Mark Kent on Saturday 01 March 2008 11:46 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> ____/ Jerry McBride on Friday 29 February 2008 22:58 : \____
>>
>>> [H]omer wrote:
>>>
>>>> Disgusting:
>>>>
>>>> "Once upon a time there was a boy who loved video games. This boy bought
>>>> an Xbox 360. Two years later it broke. The boy had no choice but to send
>>>> it in for repairs. It was then that Microsoft decided to screw him over.
>>>> A very big bend on over so we can give you the royal treatment sort of
>>>> screwing. This is his story."
>>>>
>>>> http://hawtymcbloggy.com/2008/02/28/another-gamer-screwed-by-microsoft/
>>>>
>>>> Sweaty's grease-gun must be working overtime.
>>>>
>>>> It's not often I feel sorry for those frothing fanbois, but my heart
>>>> really goes out to this poor guy.
>>>>
>>>
>>> He was an IDIOT for even thinking he would get his console back in one
>>> piece...
>
> There are presently 560 comments in the follow-up to that item. I don't
> think I've ever seen to many. Even Slashdot would be pleased with
> that...
>
> I agree that it was a mistake to send it back, and I'm sure he'll never
> be so trusting again.
>
> I published some numbers a few days ago on the number of people who
> could be expected to have suffered 5 (or more) Xbox failures based on
> their current failure rate - did you see them?
Bill pays the bill (bit *ouch* for Microsoft's bank account), but the nuisance
caused by shipping, packaging, waiting and poor support hardly equates to
the 'joys' of Vista experiments (most people walk away from it shortly after
trying it because it's preinstalled on news PCs).
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