Microsoft 360 Warranty Worth it?

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So I just bought a 360 last night...at 4 am...at a Walmart...pretty much on impulse. I'm wondering i the $50 warranty from MS is worth it?
 
Honestly, I'd say read the forums and decide for yourself. In my opinion, yes. Although it seems the newer batches are having lower failure rates in the short term, who knows how well these will hold up in the longer term, especially since one of the big problems is overheating.
 
I agree with Genocidal. With a retail outlet, you never know what kind of hassles or crap they'll give you. With the 2 year MS warranty, they can see I'm covered, so all I have to do is call them up and they'll fix my 360 if anything goes wrong with it. Just seems easier in the long run if anything happens.
 
[quote name='Michaellvortega']You have a warranty for a year anyways, IMO not worth it considering Walmart will honor that.[/quote] You have a 90 day warranty, not 1 year. Check your paperwork for that one.

Or just look here:
http://www.xbox.com/en-US/ZZZ+old+channels/howto/system/xbox360/warranty-xbox360.htm

Also, WalMart will tell you go deal with MS, if it's beyond 30 days. Inside of 30 days, they'll swap it out.

The 2 year warranty extension, which extends the warranty from 90 days to 2 years, 90 days, will cover shipmebt both directions at no cost to you, including sending along a box to ship it to them. It's supposed to be $59.90 for the 2 years, if memory serves. Plenty of threads/posts about it in here.

I'd recommend it highly, with enough people seeming to have issues with it.
 
I know nothing about walmart's warranty plans so I dunno about your situation. However, IMO MS's Sevice Contract (technically it's not a warranty) has pluses and some major cons. The big cons IMO, being you get a used/repaired system back that has had previous problems, instead a fresh new one. Their support is sub-par, as others pointed out they don't even get you all the paperwork you need. Actually the only plus about it is it's unlimited repairs during those two years and most of the time you need only send back what needs fixing.

Personally I actually go with in-store warranties for several reasons:

1) You get a brand new system. This is huge for revisions/redesigns to consoles. Take the new processors that will go into the 360s starting next year. Mine doesn't even really need to be broke, but I can still take it into the store and get a 360 with a cooler, quieted processor if I want to.

2) Many stores will pay you back the full price of what you payed for the console. So when the price drops to $330 sometime you still get your $400 back and don't lose $70 in the process.

3) With some instore plans you don't have to ship anything and wait for a period of time before getting a new one. They, at least IMo are typically less hassle than dealing with the manufactuer.

Now of course in-store plans have downsides as well... Like not having any in-stock, being one-time only deals, etc, etc. But to me they are less hassle and greater reward.
 
[quote name='shrike4242']You have a 90 day warranty, not 1 year. Check your paperwork for that one.

Or just look here:
http://www.xbox.com/en-US/ZZZ+old+channels/howto/system/xbox360/warranty-xbox360.htm

Also, WalMart will tell you go deal with MS, if it's beyond 30 days. Inside of 30 days, they'll swap it out.

The 2 year warranty extension, which extends the warranty from 90 days to 2 years, 90 days, will cover shipmebt both directions at no cost to you, including sending along a box to ship it to them. It's supposed to be $59.90 for the 2 years, if memory serves. Plenty of threads/posts about it in here.

I'd recommend it highly, with enough people seeming to have issues with it.[/QUOTE]

On the phone when I got my 1st 360 repaired(which is on it's way back now) they told me it was a year. I have a launch system and they repaired it for free and it's very much past 90 days.
 
[quote name='Michaellvortega']I have a launch system and they repaired it for free and it's very much past 90 days.[/quote]

That's because of the botched launch and all the problems launch systems were having.
 
[quote name='KaneRobot']I got my paperwork for the warranty today. I sent it in mid-February, so it definitely takes a while.[/QUOTE]

I sent in early December....STILL NO PAPERWORK
 
I got the extended warrenty in April and it came the other day. Technically the 360 warrenty says 90 days, but Microsoft put in writing that my extended warrenty started in July. So basically they seem to be doing 6 month warrenties on the 360, and the extended warrenty adds 2 years onto that for 2.5 years. And that is in writing, not quoted from a random MS phone tech.
 
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