[360] Xbox 360 Discussion. Thermal paste, the delicious and nutricious snack of the future.

A question for you guys. My 360 died the other day. I want a brand new one and don't want to wait 4 weeks because I got a few games on xmas. So I'd rather not ship it to Microsoft. My friend's brother told me he bought a brand new 360 from Walmart and swapped his broken 360 with the new one and returned it a couple days later for a full refund. He said they didn't check the serial # on the receipt and match it with the console.

Do you guys think I should give this idea a try? I'm not sure if he lied or not, but I don't want to be out $400 if it doesn't work. Should I try it? It would be nice to get a brand new Falcon for nothing.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

I guess it can't hurt to try then. I'll try to return it to a female employee that doesn't know squat about gaming. If they compare serials then I'll just lie and say my brother packed the wrong Xbox or something. Then I'll bring back the new one, return it and ship my broken one off to Microsoft.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

I didn't mean it as an insult to women. It is just that 85% of gamers or more are male. A female employee probably isn't a gamer, and thus might not be aware to match serials with the Xbox.

I'm going to give it a shot. Either way I'm going to get a full refund. If I bring back my broken Xbox and catch me, they can't ban me from returning the other one. The customer is always right, and I'd tell them that I'd write to corporate and speak of their name. Then they'd most likely back down. If not, then I'll return it to a different Walmart location all together.

Plus I am an OCD freak. I don't want someone else's refurbished console. I want a brand new one.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Whether the etiquette is right or not doesn't matter. They can't prove I was trying to rip them off. Mistakes happen all the time, and they pretty much have to take my word for it that returning the wrong console was a mere mistake. Of course it wasn't a mistake, but mistakes do happen. It isn't that inconceivable. Do you really think some employee that makes a little more than minimum wage is really going to flip his lid if you are stealing money from Walmart? All they care about is their paycheck. Nothing more.

I'm sure if I explained it in a kindly tone, then they'd understand and I'd just bring the original back and return that. Going off at a customer for something that can be an innocent mistake(even though it isn't) is not the way a big corporation would want to go about their reputation.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

I highly doubt they'll tell me to fuck off. I think they'd give me the benefit of the doubt. But as I said before, if not, I'll take it to a different Walmart and return the new one.

I don't think it is stupidity to think that they won't flip out on me. Anyway, we can just agree to disagree on it. I guess we'll find out soon. I'm going friday.

I was speaking idiomatically.