Bargain :D

benjo · 8 Aug 2009 at 21:55

I was in work today, and my manager was going through the waste. There was a 360 there which had been returned months ago, supposedly faulty.

My work was going to put it through the waste and it would be thrown away :/ I offered my manager a tenner and I took it home.

I was thinking that I could just return it to Microsoft and get it refurbished if something was wrong with it. When I opened it up, everything was there, but it had an EU plug on the power cable. I popped an adapter on it and it works :eek:

So I'm guessing it was returned because it had the wrong power plug on the end.

Either way, I got a working 360 Premium for a tenner :cool:

/smug

.Lethal · 8 Aug 2009 at 21:57

pfffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff

alex24 · 8 Aug 2009 at 22:00

I'll give you twenty.

roboffer · 8 Aug 2009 at 22:07

benjo said:
Either way, I got a working 360 Premium for a tenner

Nice one! Where does the tenner come into play?

ic1male · 8 Aug 2009 at 22:10

You just know you're going to get the RROD now for gloating.

benjo · 8 Aug 2009 at 22:10

roboffer said:
Nice one! Where does the tenner come into play?

I'm not really sure to be honest with you, my manager said that he'd put it into the kitty that goes towards staff dues etc, but he probably just pocketed it

ic1male said:
You just know you're going to get the RROD now for gloating.

Haha I'm slightly paranoid

Is there any way to find out how old it is?

V4NT0M · 8 Aug 2009 at 22:15

Yea, Karma = RROD.

ic1male · 8 Aug 2009 at 22:16

benjo said:
Is there any way to find out how old it is?

Manufacture date will be on the back near the power connector.

Locke · 8 Aug 2009 at 22:18

benjo said:
Is there any way to find out how old it is?

If you can copy the lettering/numbering onto here (near the power), then we could give you a rough estimate

benjo · 8 Aug 2009 at 22:20

2006-8-12

It's an oldy

V4NT0M · 8 Aug 2009 at 22:45

That's ooooolllllddd, on a completely unrelated note my new xbox was made in 2009... Get Ower!

Robert1986 · 8 Aug 2009 at 23:53

This story makes no sense. Either you made it up or your boss is a monkey. If all that was wrong with it was a EU plug, why would he not see this? Something doesn't add up.

benjo · 8 Aug 2009 at 23:57

I'm not making it up, why would I need to? When items get returned, the fault gets wrote on a defective slip and placed on the product at customer services. The defective slip on this 360 said it had power problems.

The console was originally bought in 2007, and it was in the warehouse since then. He was getting rid of all of the waste as we have a stock count next week, and was throwing all sorts into the compactor.

mithrandir · 9 Aug 2009 at 00:02

Nice bargain. Whoever checked it for the return should get the boot

benjo · 9 Aug 2009 at 00:04

mithrandir said:
Nice bargain. Whoever checked it for the return should get the boot

I'm sure my manager will think the same when I tell him what was wrong with it

Robert1986 · 9 Aug 2009 at 00:08

benjo said:
I'm not making it up, why would I need to? When items get returned, the fault gets wrote on a defective slip and placed on the product at customer services. The defective slip on this 360 said it had power problems.

The console was originally bought in 2007, and it was in the warehouse since then. He was getting rid of all of the waste as we have a stock count next week, and was throwing all sorts into the compactor.

wow, what a terrible way to run a business. If he'd change the plug he could have sold the 360.

Take full advantage of this and start writing defective slips on all sorts of gadgets. You could start your own business.

benjo · 9 Aug 2009 at 00:10

Robert1986 said:
wow, what a terrible way to run a business. If he'd change the plug he could have sold the 360.

He probably would have, had he of known that that was the only problem with the 360. All we have to go on is what's wrote on the defective slip. We don't have the time or ability to test every electrical item we get returned.

Take full advantage of this and start writing defective slips on all sorts of gadgets. You could start your own business.

You say that, but he jokingly said he had a PS3 to go through the waste soon

SilverTongue · 9 Aug 2009 at 00:13

Robert1986 said:
wow, what a terrible way to run a business. If he'd change the plug he could have sold the 360.

Take full advantage of this and start writing defective slips on all sorts of gadgets. You could start your own business.

well given where benjo works and the town it's in he could probably get away with it and nobody would notice

Robert1986 · 9 Aug 2009 at 00:18

So I'm guessing it was returned because it had the wrong power plug on the end.

Would customer service not be able to see the problem right there and then when it was returned? It doesn't take a genius to figure out it had the wrong plug. Also, what was your shop doing selling 360's with EU plugs?

When items get returned, the fault gets wrote on a defective slip and placed on the product at customer services. The defective slip on this 360 said it had power problems.

but there was no fault. It was a perfectly fine working console...

Wow, where do you work? and how is this place still in business? Shocking. I've worked in retail before and I would have got fired if I let this through the cracks.

Robzere31 · 9 Aug 2009 at 00:19

benjo said:
2006-8-12

It's an oldy

Same age as mine