GameStop No Longer Offering Xbox 360 Replacement Plans


Whenever I purchase a major piece of electronics, be it form Best Buy or anywhere else, I always get the store's extended replacement plan. In almost every case it's come in extremely handy especially in the case of the DS Lite I got from GameStop which I had to return three times due to burnt out pixels. But, good things don't always last forever...

GameStop is now ending their replacement plan for new Xbox 360's due to the system's high failure rate. According to a GameStop employee newsletter and information provided to website GamersReports, current replacement plans will be honored until they expire, but no new ones will be offered.

Not too terribly surprising considering the seemingly never ending rash of stories about 360 hardware failure. I can only imagine that something like that would basically be bleeding money from the company right and left. Even though Microsoft has promised that all the new systems will no longer have these issues, it looks like GameStop isn't taking any chances.

via kotaku

I wonder why we haven't started implimenting this, I could understand this with a used system, but a new one, I know the issue is gone there, oh well I won't be there much longer anyways.

I'm sure this has been stated a hundred times or more, but if you're going to release a piece of equipment for $400, make the dang thing work! At least Microsoft extended the warranty, I'm glad of that, but I honestly don't expect other people to suffer for it. I'm actually unsurprised as well that GameStop quit the service.

They quit probably for the main reason that its most likely costing them too much money to have to keep repairing them.

too bad me and my friend opend his dead xbox

Wow im glad mine still is in effect till christmas so im going to return it and get the 65 nanometer chipset & HDMI.

Yep this is probably cause it costs them to much money, and for jack baure u should never open almost everything , u always lose ur gaurantee.

wow it was probably costin gamestop a arm and a leg

this is BS i payed for one b/c i knew my system was going to die now they tell me oh, wait a month for microsoft to fix it for you, and by the way do you want a refund, of course i want a refund u charged me for a plan that you in no way support. I feel sorry for the poor b*stards who dont know about this but paid for it