{"id":206,"date":"2007-07-06T14:53:54","date_gmt":"2007-07-06T14:53:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/2007\/07\/06\/WarrantyGoodnessFromMicrosoft.aspx"},"modified":"2007-07-06T14:53:54","modified_gmt":"2007-07-06T14:53:54","slug":"warranty-goodness-from-microsoft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/2007\/07\/06\/warranty-goodness-from-microsoft\/","title":{"rendered":"Warranty goodness from Microsoft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pictures.little.org\/photos\/170105114-S.jpg\" alt=\"\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>After seeing the same hardware failure <a href=\"http:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/2007\/06\/08\/my-badge-holder-broke-and-my-xbox-died\/\">bite me<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinachow.com\/blog\/labels\/xbox.html\">several friends<\/a> an cause <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailytech.com\/Retailers+Estimate+Xbox+360+Failure+Rate+High+as+33+Percent\/article7892.htm\">heaps of discontent<\/a> on the net I&#8217;m super-pleased to see us (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\">Microsoft<\/a>) step up and fix the problem by extending the hardware warranty &#8220;for certain general hardware failures which are indicated by three flashing red lights on the console.&#8221;&nbsp; Did you already shell out the 130 clams to fix your box?&nbsp; No worries, Uncle Bill is also going to be issuing refunds for the covered cases (the estimated cost to MS is one billion dollars.&nbsp; URK!).<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d agree this should have not taken this long to correct&#8230; but I&#8217;m glad it&#8217;s getting sorted in the end.&nbsp; It makes me happy not just for my own sake (my box broke and I can be a bit of a skin-flint at times) but also for the sake of our company image.<\/p>\n<p>For more details, check out <a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20081026164824\/http:\/\/www.xbox.com:80\/en-US\/support\/systemuse\/xbox360\/resources\/warrantyfaq.htm\">the Expanded Xbox 360 Warranty Coverage FAQ<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After seeing the same hardware failure bite me,&nbsp;several friends an cause heaps of discontent on the net I&#8217;m super-pleased to see us (Microsoft) step up and fix the problem by extending the hardware warranty &#8220;for certain general hardware failures which are indicated by three flashing red lights on the console.&#8221;&nbsp; Did you already shell out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[134],"class_list":["post-206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-idlevideo-games","tag-video-games"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}