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Microsoft sued over allegedly faulty X-boxes | |
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| Time: 11:41 EST/16:41 GMT | News Source: the inquirer | Posted By: Brian Kvalheim | ||
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A VIDEO GAME fan upset over an apparently "tiggered" disk drive in his Xbox video game console has sued the vendor of the game gear, Microsoft, on behalf of users everywhere. Sean Burke's console stopped reading all disks after less than a year of use and alleges that the thing was only useful as a door stop. The man filed a case in Los Angeles' "Superior Court" on behalf of anyone in the United States of America who bought an Xbox in the United State since the console's November 2001 launch. | ||
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| #1 By 2960 (68.101.39.180) at 10/29/2004 3:50:01 PM |
| His Lawyer would have never taken the case if those very basic pre-requisits had not been met. |
| #2 By 3653 (68.52.181.4) at 10/29/2004 6:52:14 PM |
| Same thing happened to my XBox after 10 months. But BladeZero, I'm not so sure its junky parts. They use quality name-brand hard drives. But anyone with server experience can tell you that hard disks fail like a mutha furker... |
| #3 By 1658 (24.18.60.13) at 10/30/2004 1:07:03 AM |
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To Halcyon... as always...
Well I haven't had the time to reply to your other thread posts yet but once again, you're off the bandwagon. Xbox systems are made ENTIRELY from new hardware out of the box from the OEM suppliers we use. No refurbished hardware is used anywhere in an Xbox unless it was sent to us for repair at which point we CLEARLY state via the telephone, our website, and in the license disclaimer for the box that we reserve the right to replace it with refurbished hardware if it is available. If not, you get a brand new box. There is no question that the RCA drives (Thomson Manufacturing) have been problematic. The choice of what to do about this problem is much more complicated than you might imagine. It's not as simple as "Just replace the X-number of bad drives out there for free". Though I know you'd prefer to look at everything through such a simplistic lense. Oh and while we're on "free" and what you'd likely consider to be a purely money-saving move on the part of Microsoft to not replace the drives, I'd like to hear you explain how we grew our revenues at 12% if all we did was cut costs to increase profit? You obviously lack even a basic understanding of business to claim that by simply cost cutting, that is the only way in which we grew our profit. Any corporation can cost cut all they want, that doesn't translate to high revenue growth, it translates to profit. But I know, our sales still aren't flying... You want me to inform you of what's going on here at Microsoft? I can't even count on you to read a simple earnings release available to the world before commenting on how we made our money. It's not even worth my time... Visit our investment site for more information that you'll no doubt deem as FUD, lies, or somehow manage to spin and associate it in some odd manner with the Get The Facts campaign: http://www.microsoft.com/msft |
| #4 By 23275 (68.17.42.38) at 10/30/2004 5:24:10 AM |
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We've had two Xbox systems for over two years with no problems of any kind. We've made gifts of several of them to friends and family and we have yet to hear of any problems. It's been a delight and the kids love them - we got the second one for our eldest Daughter who uses it about every night as a DVD player. It's a great system and with the upcoming Xbox extender, we'll be able to access content from the MCE 2005 system. Like all MS hardware, the build quality and materials "feel" more substantial than those use with other systems.
There may be something valid about components, but I know MS will stand behind the product and make their customers whole. |
| #5 By 3151 (216.164.50.176) at 10/31/2004 1:45:11 AM |
| I also had problems when I bought my Xbox about two years ago. It slowly but surely was scratching discs. Nothing too severe, except for Enter The Matrix. But Microsoft repaired it and sent it back. Very little hassle. |
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