Finally, got my 4TH xbox 360 back from Microsoft…it stopped reading game discs in less than 2 wks.
I am so tired of getting faulty crap from Microsoft. Now I am searching for a Lawyer who is willing to sue Microsoft. I wasted many hours of frustration, along with my entire family on the xbox 360. If they keep sending you faulty 360’s, they are committing fraud and not really honoring their warranty.
Anyone know any great lawers? Drop me an email . Guess I will leave this post up top until I get some feedback. I would would really like to post some jokes and funny pictures but I need help with this matter much more.
(Still dealing with the Microsoft failure machine, the xbox 360. The story continues here, 2 yrs. later, as my 6th xbox 360 breaks down!!!)
AXE
Filed under: General Stuff, Thoughts, Xbox 360 | Tagged: lawsuit, microsoft, Xbox 360
Get a Wii
Not really the answer I was looking for. But let me reply to your comment.
Are you saying that I should just forget that microsoft sent me 4 faulty xbox 360s ?
Perhaps you are trying to say Microsoft is doing good business practices by replacing non-functioning 360s with non- functional 360s?
Or maybe you are trying to say that Microsoft is just too big to sue?
I am not certain how getting a Wii helps me to sue microsoft, please explain further…
AXE
[...] I WANT TO SUE MICROSOFT !!!!!!! [...]
I have one, it works great. I’m not suing anybody.
I think suing Microsoft will cost more money than it is worth. They have too much money to let you win. It is sad but true. But if you must pursue this, I suggest calling Judge Judy. You might as well take this to television and get your point made. Or try to get some other people that have had the same problem and go for a class-action lawsuit then you might have more leverage.
Have you been dealing with the vendor or Microsoft itself? If it’s the vendor, they don’t really have any interest in satisfying you, they just want you to go away while costing them the least amount of cash. If it was me, I’d get hold of a list of the bigwigs at Microsoft and email them, Bill Gates included if I could get email addresses. If you can actually get through to someone who matters, I bet they’ll sort this out.
i too have had this problem, i sent back my 360 because it was starting to freeze up and they sent me one 5 WEEKS later, they said it would only be 3 and now i got my new one
i was all excited to play Halo 3, i plugged in my new 360 hit power and nothing
it didnt even turn on!
i called them and they told me to “give the service center one more chance”
i say screw them im in fro the class action lawsuit
im tired of being screwed around
i had problems with 2 of my original xboxs too
now im going to be on my 3rd 360
Peri, I habe been dealing directly with Microsoft. They have promised that the next one will have all new parts and will work.
I already have one other person who wants to sue Microsoft. I am just looking for a lawyer who wants to make money. You would think that would be easy to find!
AXE
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Im with you brother! If we cant afford a lawyer we’ll start an army! Of napalm and anarchy.
If i wanted to get dicked in the arse i would go to a gay bar, i never though my shit would be vaccume packed into the back of my neck by a console.
Fuck microsoft Lets all sue together, some lawyer will take it for free because of the publicity
Guys.
If Microsoft was sueable it would have been done a long time ago.
Shit we never did get 98 running properly and now we dont even support it.
Thanks for your money and hope you enjoy our new exchange warranty program where we circulate faulty units untill you finally give up.
You arfe very persistant axe, our statistics show 98% give up after 3 swaps lol.
@ fuzz I wish it were true that some lawyer would take the case for the publicity but I have yet to have even one respond. Guess, all lawyers are chickenshits!!!
Very funny Bgates!
i am furious with microsoft and the way those indians treat my calls av got joe billtrami from glasgow on the case Bring it on bill gates you rat
I feel ya on the piece o’ shit box. I get an overheating fault ONLY when it’s been off for hours and I try to turn it on. I can’t even download stuff from the store anymore. Every time I try it says “Can’t download xxx,” what a bunch of junk. I bought an HDTV so i could enjoy the graphics and a new vista notebook to stream videos. But even when it did work, it didn’t work all the time and when it did work, it took FOREVER for the box to recognize files on the pc. This shit NEVER worked as advertised. I WANT TO SUE MICROSOFT TOO!!!
I am also looking for a lawyer, I have recieved 3 pieces of junk from microsoft in less than a year. They refuse to give me a new one or my money back even though their waranty says they will refund upto amount paid at the option of microsoft but they say there is no refund policy for the xbox.
worst 400.00 dollars I ever spent plus 100’s in games
Mircosoft said my seal was broken on back and sent me xbox back. I do not have a clue with electronics.
Fuck bill I spent 535 when game came out waited 6 months for a box to send it back they had it one day and told me warranty nun and void do to broken seal. on back? there was never one there. These 3 red lights I guess are common so take all your games that you bought for christmas for your kids back. Protest that scum that preys on the working man to send jobs over seas to ripe us off.
I’m all for sueing Microsoft and it’s vendors….I recently reapplied what I thought was a fully licensed version of VISTA and at the time I was to put in their product key, I was informed that the version I bought from MS didn’t originally have a product key, and that I’d either buy a new license or wipe my drive out completely and reinstall the original (To be emailed me) copy? So pissed off.
I am more than up for suing microsoft i am so pissd off right now its unreal i have had 9 360 of which i just recently bought the 3rd elite which has just chewed up my disc within 3 days of purchase brand new i think microsoft is absolute bullshit and need to be tought a painfull lesson i had hoped eventually they would fix these bloody problems as they are extremely similar to the xbox original but noooooooooo MICROSOFT GET OFF YOUR FKIN ASS AND FIX THIS SHIT YOU PIECE OF SHIT!!!!!! I apologise for my language but as you can probably tell i am extremely angry and even this post cant describe how very very mad i am with this company, anyway chiao
Too bad every lawyer on the planet is afraid off sueing Microsoft on this matter.Not one single lawyer has approached me on this issue.
perhaps it would be best to file a suit in small claims court. You won’t need a lawyer then, but you will need to do a little bit of research to figure out what you’re “charging” them with. Small claims court is designed for the average american to come to court, without having to spend very much money or hirer a lawyer. While you probably won’t get “national fame” in a small claims court, you may actually get your problem addressed!
I am too poor to even do that.Got a extra $400.00 to get that started?
if everyone that is dissatisfied with xbox and with all the people dissatisfied with vista (which is half of the people that bought it including me) sued at same time throught country sued it would certainly change something. Maybe the way they treat disgruntled costomers or maybe just maybe put a product out there that has a little bet of quality. Or maybe we could suck em dry with them having to pay the lawyers and they dissolve which is unlikely but would be great for the consumer.
I’m currently in the process of having my lawyer file a 2 page letter of complaint and than file a lawsuit if they do not complie. this is my lawyer
https://www.prepaidlegal.com/hub/shawnnicholson
LOL! This is MIcrosoft, remember? They will just ignore the letter because they are certain nobody will take them to court.
Good luck though!:)
AXE
I also Have been Having problems with my 360 console. My Brother has gone through 2 xboxes and I am getting my second from xbox. I have to wait 3WEEKS! (what will I do with myself). Anyways, My problems consisted of FIRST, disc is unreadable… SECOND, Place this game in an xbox 360 console… FINNALY, Red ring of death. I sent my console in and they are sending me a new one…I think MICROSOFT knew about this problem upon release of the system…because of the fact that they had to get their console out before the competition. They really do not care about their customers if they aren’t willing to fix the issue rather than dance around it.
Later,
Andrew
i want to sue to its a long ass story i would tell you the whole story but i am afraid i dont have enough space to tell you but to sum it up the xbox company is fucking retarded email me at donnyboi2010@yahoo.com we would need a class action lawsuit to get theese big bastards !!
I feel i need to bring this to as many people’s attention as possible. MS will sell XP and all office products to the military to run our Dell computers, right? But will they fix our 360’s? NO! I’m a soldier in the US Army whose 2nd xbox(a replacement unit) RROD’d and whose 3rd box (an elite) got an E74 error. MICROSOFT WILL NOT SHIP TO A MILITARY ADDRESS!!!!!! messed up huh? MS operates out of the US and they wont send a replacement to their own soldiers(even ones out here in Japan). I guess you can say they don’t support the troops. Because they won’t help me this qualifies as a breech of warranty. I’m gonna see if one of the military lawyers from the JAG out here can offer some advice. if not, we should organize a class action suit.
evans173@hotmail.com
if you find one I will jump on it too… Microsoft is the only company who is allowed to give people bullshit excuses for products. FUCK MICROSOFT!
I am on board, I just got done boxing up my 4th 360. Each time I have had to send it off and wait at least 2-3 weeks for a new one. Each time the new one has gotten the 3ROD.
I am currently seeking a lawyer as well. Let me know what you find. I am not some young kid who is blowing smoke, I am a retired U.S. Marine and business owner. This is not about a my kids not being able to play a video game, it is about principal and the total lack of responsibility and lack of urgency Microsoft has consistently displays.
I have many people who want to sue Microsoft,those who have posted here and those who have emailed me. However, i have yet to find a single lawyer with enough guts to take on Microsoft.
I don’t want any money from them but now my Ebay listings are not being shown up on Ebay.
Crome works, firefox works, and every other one works.
BTW, I mention 8% live cashback from microsoft. MS is a sh1t-head monopoly.
You have my permission to sue.
Listen, anytime you can get this rolling I am willing to put my complaint right by yours and twenty million other peoples. I have had the exact same problem with these real fks!!! I have two sons actually who bought this piece of s after buying the first xbox…which also broke down a few times and is now totally worthless. The first time I advised my kids to buy xbox because I made the dumb mistake of thinking that microsoft would put some good titles together…instead they mostly put Garbage together even then…so later they go out and buy Xbox 360 and this piece of sht cannot get out of the repair shop…twice we mail it in, it takes months to get back, and voila comes back and something else is wrong with it. Finally, it comes back and cannot go online now! When I called those _holes at microsoft support all they can tell me is that its probably the drive and its bad…it turns out the fk thing even ruined my router and i had to buy another one…my best bet is that its the net card and they jimmied it when it was there, or else the three rings of death somehow damaged it…worst of all there are a number of games which we purchased, including oblivion which are now hampered because all the downloaded stuff that goes into the game is no longer available…in reality mcrosoft should have given me the expansions to the game, instead, due to their greed they make people have to download the expansions every time you try to play the f game!!!! NOW THEY WANT ME TO GIVE THEM ANOTHER HUNDRED DOLLARS PLUS SHIPPING PLUS HANDLING PLUS THE TIME LOST SO THAT I CAN PLAY MY OWN F GAME!!!!!! I am pissed as all hell at this company…this company needs to be sued and reconfigured!!! If you can look into the oblivion(morrowind) game and the requirements of microsoft to make you download content each and every time you play the game, there may be a wicked lawsuit there because then the burden of keeping the line open and working falls on them since they tampered with your property and or promised you an expansion to the existing game. Since you have a site going devote some time with this let me know what you come up with……I see a class action against them, and they deserve it something awful.
AT THE VERY LEAST YOU WILL GENERATE TONS OF TRAFFIC CAUSE I THINK THERE ARE MILLIONS OF PEOPLE SICK AND TIRED OF THIS FREAKING GREEDY DISGUSTING COMPANY.
Pete.
so sue microsoft…..not a xbox prob….but close enough….
so last nite windows media player wants to update….i let it, gets about halfway done…says update failed please restart computer…do that, and voila a restart loop with a blue screen at end…continuous….cant do a restore cuz cant log into windows…tried doin repair thru xp cd….no luck, try reinstallying xp….no luck…try maunally copying files from cd to c: get blued…..so i format…..go to reinstall xp after format, says xp cd is not a valid windows cd, get a valid windows cd and try again….so fuck that shit, i bust out my linux, boot it from cd, getting ready to install it….and oh no….wont install. try on another comp…works fine, go back to mine….NOTHING……have formatted, repartitioned, everything, and still nothing….NOW heres the catcher….this same thing happened on my 2 dell c640’s from a windows update….” are they trying to make me convert to vista?” the time and data i lost…..theres not enough money i can sue for….but if u find a lawyer….let me fuckin know….i also know about 6 other people who have had similiar probs…..
same problem here but they won’t even fix my childrens xbox360, I live in a small town and they don’t have to fix it, because I have a pobox ain’t that some crap. Because they spy on the people for the government they are really fu–ing the people I will take it up the A– , I will never spend a dime on mirosoft I’m throwing away this piece of shi- computer , and all thier spywear, were is the Aclu? In uncle sams pocket no doubt!!!
im all for suing microsoft. im on my : 2nd xbox 360 (elite)
2nd play and charge kit
FIFTH MIC and ive been on xbl for about a year… srsly 2 wired mics that both only laster half a year, then i bought a wireless mic wich was broken right out of the box, bought another wireless mic wich worked for 2 weeks then broke so i sent it to microsoft for a replacement. then today i got the replacement and it came broken! and tomorrow i have to send it back to them again, WTF MICROSOFT. we totally have a case. remember that wiimote strap thing a while back? this is much worse and we do have a case. class action lawsuit time
Stop buying M$ products! That means stop buying PC’s with M$, Office Software by M$ and game consoles with M$. The only alternatives are to buy Mac’s or use PC-Linux. Use Open Office instead of M$ office and use any other gaming console. Only when you stop buying their products will they be inclined to make a “better” product.
Tell me when this train leaves the station cause i wanna be on it. I bought a custom made computer with Windows Vista Home Business, worst mistake I’ve made. My XP machine gave me less hassle. TO date, WMP11 still doesn’t rip my CDs, and Service PAck 1 won’t install, ever since putting IE8 on my computer, it corrupted the winsock file and no one can tell me how to fix it, so i have to do a full restart every once in a while to continue browsing the Web. They need to be held responsible for the poor quality of merchandise they market! Screw the EULAs that absolve them of responsibility! If it doesn’t work it’s THEIR FAULT and they should pay for our lost time and effort in fixing THEIR MISTAKES.
hi yes SUE them if theres a way we all could come together i will face a damn court just to sue them iam on my 3rd xbox360 and i just finally realize this is all bullshit please give me an email when all this shit comes together i want to see them fall, yeah fall hard!
I am rather irritated with the Xbox 360 myself. These consoles are infamous for their unreliability, and Microsoft refuses to fix the problems they are responsible.
I bought my first Xbox 360 in March of 2006 with an extended Best Buy warranty (I decided to play it safe, given my bad experiences with the early PS2’s). That unit started scratching discs and it was replaced under Best Buy’s extended warranty.
My second (and current) Xbox 360 lasted past the remainder of the extended warranty, only to give me the “red ring of death” later on. The Best Buy warranty was expired, but I learned that Microsoft extended the factory warranty for three years for the “red ring of death” issue. I called them about it and I sent it to them. They repaired the unit free of charge, and I am assuming that my Xbox 360 was refurbished, given that it came back with that newer NXE operating system and a service date in place of the manufacture date on the back of the console. I know it is the same console, as the serial number is the same.
Now five months after I got this Xbox 360 back from Microsoft, this one is scratching discs like my first one was. I have never moved the console around at all during operation, so I cannot be at fault. I also do not have any pets or kids, so nothing could have knocked it around.
I called Microsoft about this issue, and they want me to pay to have it fixed, as it past the original warranty. I refused and stated that Microsoft is infamous for making Xbox 360’s that scratch discs. I wasn’t blaming the guy on the phone, as he is just someone that works there and does not make policy decisions, but I ended up ending the call and not sending the Xbox 360 in for repairs.
They did offer some program where I could exchange the scratched discs, but what would be the point of that? The machine would just proceed to scratch up the new discs (I have also heard you have to pay to get replacement discs). Admittedly, the scratching is not severe yet (I am not getting those huge circular scratches all around the disc and my games still fun flawlessly), but they are getting worse. My Elder Scrolls IV disc even has some knicks in the side of it from this shoddy console.
Why should I send it in for repairs? It already came back from their repair center, only to start scratching discs later on. Given Microsoft’s infamous reputation for shoddy consoles, why should I buy a new Xbox 360? It will probably just end up defective like the ones I have been through. Why should I pay for a problem that Microsoft is responsible for?
I am just irate, as I have invested a good deal of money into the Xbox 360, my HD output cables, and the games. I am all for suing Microsoft, but sadly, I just don’t see it happening. I have heard of class action lawsuits being fled against Microsoft in the past for scratched discs and not getting XBox Live service, but I have not heard of them getting anywhere.
I honestly do not know what to do. I do not want to give Microsoft more money to get another Xbox 360 (which would probably just break anyway) or give them money to repair my console (and it could just break again after coming back).
In hindsight, I wish I would have waited and purchased a Playstation 3 instead of an Xbox 360. But then again, hindsight is always 20/20. Thanks to Microsoft’s immense wealth, I doubt they will ever be sued anytime soon. Thanks to them, I will probably be forced to take a huge loss by purchasing an Playstation 3 and replacing a lot of my 360 games with Playstation 3 versions. I will also lose my game saves.
Getting a PS3 will allow me to get back to gaming in this generation, but I won’t ever get me my money back, my hard earned cash that Microsoft conned me out of.
I am assuming this site is US based, but I am having the same fuckin problems. I JUST threw out my 3rd 360. Purchased the first one, graphics card failed, then returned it under warranty. Luckily it went 1 week before warranty expired. Got “new” refurbed piece of shit, complete with 90 day warranty, which failed @ 110 days (DVD drive). Purchased new a new arcade, added my HDD (120GB) and used that, and wouldn’t you know, at 108 days, the DVD drive comes down with “open tray” error.
This company HAS to be brought down a peg or two. I hope, with all my heart, that you are successful in your ambitions to sue them. As I am in Canada, trying to sue under these premises is near impossible, but maybe if you can change it down there, EVERYONE can reep the rewards.
I have made the decision to purchase one more arcade. THIS WILL BE THE LAST. The ONLY reason I am even doing this is to be able to play the games I currently have and to maintain my ranks on the leaderboards (currently ranked 51st on BF:1943) . No further game purchases will be made by me, nor new accessories.
Like I said, I hope you are successful, and I REALLY wish I could help with some names of lawyers, but I am not in the US.
PS FUCK MICROSOFT and anyone involved with them