XBox Owner Sues Microsoft

drusoicy writes "Reuters is reporting that Sean Burke has filed suit against Microsoft because his XBox system stopped reading discs (games or otherwise) after less than one year of use. Many XBox owners can relate, as XBox hard drives are known for crashing. 'The defective XBox's stop working after minimal usage, after unreasonably, unconscionably, unusually and unexpectedly short amounts of time,' the lawsuit said. The suit will probably become class action, and seeks to represent anyone who has purchased an XBOX since the 2001 launch."

Comments

Re:It's Microsoft, which means of course:

[Phoenix-IT]

I just love how /. moderators assume the worst possible intention of anything anyone posts.

Re:Why can't he just return it?

[Acidic_Diarrhea]

If they were broken so badly that he thought he was entitled to a new pair of shoes, why did he wait until the warranty was about to expire? Why wouldn't he simply exchange them once he noticed that they were broken?

You specifically stated that this person waited until just before the warranty was about to expire - thus implying that they were still usable up until this point, when they suddenly become defective and had to be returned. The behavior you describe is unethical. Certainly, Nike's warranty system may accept this type of return but my personal morality system dictates that I only demand a warranty on a product that has failed to perform as expected during the warranty period - rather than simply trying to game the system and get a new pair of shoes.

Just because you can do something, doesn't mean you should. I wish people would think more about ethics and morality than about the legal bounds and how much they can get away with for nothing.