Scratched Xbox360 Disc, Repair Options

[nickluto]

So, my little boston terrier puppy decided to knock over my xbox 360 while i was playing rockband and, as will tend to happen when the disk is rotating and you move the system, there is a perfectly circular scratch around the circumference of the disk causing it to give me "disk cannot be read" errors.


Any way to fix this? Anyone have it work? Or do I have to buy another rockband 2?

[Spectatrix]

How is buying a warranty after the item is already damaged NOT fraud? It's equivalent to buying car insurance and trying to get them to pay for pre-existing damage,

This post has been edited by Spectatrix: Oct 6 2008, 09:31 AM

[Mommy]

How is buying a warranty after the item is already damaged NOT fraud? It's equivalent to buying car insurance and trying to get them to pay for pre-existing damage,

because it's still within the 30 days of purchase time frame. To each their own. I see nothing wrong with purchasing a warranty you know you're going to use.

As for returning a disc damaged, all that they do is send it off to the manufacturer who uses a whopping $1 to make a new game. You already paid for the game development when you initially bought the game. Now all you're doing is getting a clean copy of the game. If you feel bad about it, mail the manufacturer an anonymous check for $8 to cover shipping a new game to the store, burning a new copy of the game, and inserting it into a new case. To pay another $60 for a game you have already bought is retarded though. Hence why I said call or write a letter to the manufacturer as my initial solution. You may never know. They may have an RMA program where you purchase the game for really cheap and mail the damaged copy back when you receive the new one.

I see problems with doing what I am saying with other goods, but video games is retarded. They are expensive because of the game development. He probably only had the game two weeks before it was damaged. He just barely paid the high price which covers the game development. I can understand having to buy a new copy of a game that you have owned for over a year, but this game is brand spanking new.