This year, my resolution is to be finished buying Christmas gifts before the end of November. In the past I have found it too hard to be caught in the rush of holiday shopping #70, people are mental and ugly.
Anyway, somehow we found ourselves inside HMV this past Saturday evening, looking at Wii games, seeing what’s new, when DR found the ultimate new Katamari game… FOR XBOX ONLY!!! I then spotted DeadRising… FOR XBOX ONLY!!! And I saw DR drooling over Bioshock… FOR XBOX ONLY!!! We went back to the Wii section, then to the Xbox section, went to talk to the guy at the counter, went back to the Xbox section, looked straight at the direction of the Wii section, giggled like schoolgirls in the Xbox section. Our minds were made up, we knew it, we needed it… So, with my resolution to get our Christmas shopping done before the end of November in mind, we decided to buy our own gift right away. So we did. Along with DeadRising, who can resist smashing zombies?!?
We arrived home at 7:30, Xbox was in full mode by 8:00. We had our players profile done in no time and the zombie attack started. It had been a long day, we were tired and went to bed fairly early on Saturday, say 11ish. Happy.
On Sunday morning, tradition is we get up, go to Tim Hortons (I know, I know.. but it’s the only thing close by) and watch Coronation Street in bed while having bagels and tea. But this Sunday, we were treated to drunk neighbours coming home at 4:59 am. Loud drunk neighbours. So what’s a boy to do but get up and play Xbox. We did, I played for one hour and pshhhttttt, Xbox died. Fatal Error 79. It’s 6am. Their webiste wasn’t at all informative on our problem, except for the letter from Peter Moore, some big wig at Xbox, saying that people had spoken and they had heard them, but not offering any solutions. We knew we weren’t the first ones though… It said to call their customer service at 7am Pacific Time… that was 4 hours wait time… HMV opens at 11am, that was 5 hours wait time… Immediate Xbox withdrawal symptoms were starting to show up. I swear my right eye started to twitch. We couldn’t even enjoy Coronation Street when it started at 7:30.
Finally 9:59am. DR is already dialing California. The gentleman was absolutely nice and professional, heard what DR had to say and told him that all we needed to do was go back where we purchased it and do a straight exchange as the purchase was less than 7 days ago. He even gave him a code in case there was any issue.
I was the first customer in the store at 11am, straight down the stairs to the video game section. After inspecting 2 different boxes, opening them and making sure they didn’t look beaten up, we chose one. By 11:10 we had our brand new Xbox in hand and were walking home… The End… for now! I swear I saw it make that face at me this morning:
What the hell is up with that first graphic? A cheerleader?
The Circle of Light Error Message seems to be commonplace with Xboxes, it seems. According to Phronk, it may be beneficial to get the extended warranty…
And the Xbox site is the worst. Its like they looked at Nintendo and Wii and said “Let’s not make this as user friendly as theirs. In fact, let’s fuck with their heads and get them lost.”
The printed material has URLs on it that don’t exist. Like oh… the REGISTRATION PAGE. WTF?
She’s happy that we got 2 Xbox for the price of one… She’s happy…
Honestly… They could have found a way hotter cheerleader at the local community college and/or Hooters. She kinda looks like the hottest girl in the office “that day” when someone remembered they had a photo shoot and didn’t call an agency yet. Not saying I’d turn down anything she offered, but…
I actually they plucked her out of a St-Patrick’s Parade, gave her green beers and asked her to hold the pompoms. Then they said: Who Wants Another Beer? and click!
Congrats on getting an Xbox, but it sucks about the bad luck with it. Yeah, it has all the best games, but then the worst hardware. I dunno about the extended warranty, since it’s automatically extended (for free) to 3 years for the 3-light problem, and most warranties won’t go past that anyway.
Nice choice in games, though. Oh and hey, if you guys are on Xbox Live, be sure to add me…I think I’m Phronk on there too.
I’m deadrobotTO65! I’ll look for you tonight.