Banned Xbox User Slaps MSFT With Class-Action Suit

[K2N hater]

Law subject should be mandatory in schools as teenagers and even kids are the target of abusive business tactics.

As many have pointed even though it's true any contract makes law among the parties clauses (or even the whole contract) may not be enforced once they conflict with the constitution, laws, decrees or rulings. Otherwise the bank would hang anyone who is in debt lol...

 

[DRosencraft]

I feel I should restate this so everyone is clear; you are not prevented from suing them by the TOS clause. That is NOT what the TOS says. It says you cannot get together a bunch of people and sue as a group, which is what class-action means. Courts usually have the final say on what can be a class-actions suit anyway. Not all cases filed as a class-action suits are allowed to proceed as one by the courts. A lot of times it goes the other way around and seperate cases get rolled into one by the courts for the sake of saving time and money.

 

[A Bad Day]

[citation][nom]mihaimm[/nom]It's funny a TOS can forbid you to have class action suits. I wonder... is it legal to have a TOS that saying "if you open this box you are never allow to sue us"?[/citation]

A law is a scrap paper if it isn't enforced...

 

[alextheblue]

[citation][nom]aicom[/nom]Yeah, you've got to transfer the old drive's FW signature to the new drive. Given that a simple YouTube or Google search can yield that information, I'm not sure about that repair guy.[/citation]
Exactly. Either it was a modded system or the repair was done improperly. Either way, it's not really Microsoft's fault. People replace DVD drives properly all the time, and they don't get banned.

 

[john_4]

[citation][nom]soldier37[/nom]LOL the crapbox, really? What a waste throw this case out please.Glad I'm a PC gamer can swap out my own $15 dvd rom drive in 2 min time. Or in my case Blu Ray burner.[/citation]
Thumbed you back up to 0 from some Crapbox 360 punk who was is probably living in his mom's basement.

 

[razor512]

it is easy to get customers to pay for a repair or buy a new console when you get then to invest a few hundred dollars into the service.

 

[demonhorde665]

holy crap banned for getting a third party repair guy ???.... damn i better becareful myself , i got a dvd drive lasrer replaced by FX (a used game store in my area) and when it broke a second time i fixed it myself (just needed a laser re-alignment the second time).


how can MS even tell that she had third party repair work done? did she send it to MS later for a different type of repair?

 

[demonhorde665]

[citation][nom]gogogadgetliver[/nom]MS is not making money off repairs. They are *at best* breaking even. The reason this person got banned isn't because they gave repair money to someone else. The reason this person got banned is because they used a 3rd party to replace a component that can be used for piracy detection and it just happens to be the #1 mod used to allow altered software to run.Sucks to be this gamer but as another XBL user I'm glad they did this.[/citation]


my a$$ they arn't making money off repairs .. when i called to se about xbox 360 drive repalcment , they told me 100 bucks .... you do realize that you can go to ANY website and buy a cheap a$$ phillips , or Haitichi (the brands most xbox360's use) DVD drive for as little as 15 bucks now. wow is that breaking even? ... GEESUS even if MS covers shipping both ways they stil make like 60-70 bucks pure profit (shipping a xbox 360 by ground slowest method would run maybe 20 bucks at most) even it if shipping was 40 (20 there 20 back) that comes to 15 +40 = 55 , they are still grabbing a 45 dollar profit off dvd drive repairs.


"My state requires car insurance. If you refuse to purchase car insurance, you lose your driver's license and get slapped with a $500 fine."

Driver licenses and driving cars , is not considered a right. Driving is considered a privilage in the US. I don't drive, never have driven , and even i learned this in high school. So really comparing driving to using xbox live or buying a console is not the same thing.

 

[freggo]

[citation][nom]K2N hater[/nom]...Otherwise the bank would hang anyone who is in debt lol...[/citation]

As any mobster will tell you, DEAD people do not pay back their debts.
You hang 'em, you write off your debt 🙂