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DarkSymphony
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ok so quick question:
I have enough money to spend around $220 on a used 360 at a local used game store. It's got the HDD and cables and such, but I keep worrying that when I buy it, it's either going to red ring this week or that it, will, inevitavly red ring sometime down the road and I will have thrown 200 bucks away.
so, it a good idea to pick it up? I don't have the cash to buy a new one, but I've bought used systems before (ps1, ps2, dreamcast) and all are perfectly fine to this day. It's just that the 360 has a lot of horror stories that I don't particularly feel comfortable with. Is there anything I should do or know before hand about the warranty?
The store is a really good store for selling systems used. they test them with a few games for a half hour or so before they buy any system from anyone just to make sure it's good to sell.
I have enough money to spend around $220 on a used 360 at a local used game store. It's got the HDD and cables and such, but I keep worrying that when I buy it, it's either going to red ring this week or that it, will, inevitavly red ring sometime down the road and I will have thrown 200 bucks away.
so, it a good idea to pick it up? I don't have the cash to buy a new one, but I've bought used systems before (ps1, ps2, dreamcast) and all are perfectly fine to this day. It's just that the 360 has a lot of horror stories that I don't particularly feel comfortable with. Is there anything I should do or know before hand about the warranty?
The store is a really good store for selling systems used. they test them with a few games for a half hour or so before they buy any system from anyone just to make sure it's good to sell.
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If you've had no problems with the store in the past, then you probably won't have any problems now. I would personally wait, but I like to have new, especially with something like this.
MS doesn't even check the time remaining on a warranty right now. You just say that you have a red ring and they tell you to ship it back to them. It's really easy.
This is just for red ring issues, though; anything else is only covered for 1 year (and if it's used they'll likely use the manufacturing date)