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  Catboy14 | January 29, 2008
  Microsoft needs to take responsibility and pay them back. That's not fair to Gamestop that they have to lose money for Microsoft's broken consoles. I would stop selling them too if I were in that situation.
  
  Either that or keep selling them but not pay Microsoft anything back to compensate for the lost money... What?
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  Seeker X | January 29, 2008
  Holy shit on a stick, this is huge. Especially when you decide to stop selling games for a certain console to save money (?) Or is this some sort of payback?
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    Akira_EX | January 29, 2008
    I'm pretty sure this is payback, because this time around EB actually tried to do some Quality Control on their part, and won't get compensated for it.
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  BANDITO ATTACK | January 29, 2008
  EB games commits suicide, this is the I HATE MY LIFE AND YOURE ALL MEAN TO ME note
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  jmac353 | January 29, 2008
  This is *bleep*ed on EB Games' part. Absolutely stupid. Wow, I can't believe a company would screw up like this. You NEVER handle this stuff yourself, especially when the problem is so widespread.
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  Incidnia | January 29, 2008
  LOL they will probably just give EB Games employees another free pile-of-shit xbox live arcade game.
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  slumpy monkey | January 29, 2008
  Hey I thought undertow was pretty fun
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  Incidnia | January 29, 2008
  You thought wrong....
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    slumpy monkey | January 29, 2008
    No I didnt I enjoyed it. I can enjoy it if I want. Your just giving it shit because its free. Anyother game MS chose and you would be giving it shit.
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  Storm | January 29, 2008
  Those 360's were probably around since release date, when they where more prone to being faulty. :S It's stupid to stop selling the consoles to make a point, as I'm sure the later models are actually the better product to be show-casing, but then again Microsoft do need to step up and take care of the problems in Australia.
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  the new era | January 29, 2008
  All EB Games is gonna get is a *bleep* load of crap from the Xbox 360's producers, and any of the lame fanboy's that support it, they're not helping business imo
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  Final Blade | January 29, 2008
  Wow that sucks, why is Australia getting the bad consoles...
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  Smoke | January 29, 2008
  Props to Australia EB. If I were a retailer who was losing money because the supplier made faulty products and didn't reimburse, I would stop stocking as well. Anyone who thinks otherwise is a fanboy.
  
  It isn't the retailers fault that Microsoft rushed a product, they should not be forced to take the loss. It's simple economics.
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  Cdemon | January 29, 2008
  Microsoft are repairing the consoles for free, though; It's their (EB AU) own stupidity for taking them back.
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    tallteen86 | January 30, 2008
    It is general practice though, many retailers do it...
    
    USUALLY, I think, they get some sort of help from the company that made said faulty product...
    
    EB's main prob, is that there are SO MANY of them....$10 million worth....There were a LOT of defective units coming in early on, and MS is still gettin a steady stream of busted ons >_>
    
    If people stop buying new 360's in australia, what happens? MS stops getting money from that (they're starting to turn a profit), and people are more likely to get a new Wii or PS3...
    
    Meanwhile, EB will sell the refurbished/second hand 360's and keep all the money, since they're used....MS will still get money from new games sold, but there will be less console units in circulation, since EB is a major retailer of gaming stuff, and a lot of people go to them to get games and consoles....
    
    Still, it hurts both EB and MS....EB/Gamestop has a good sized pocket to itself, being a major international chain of stores, though MS has way deeper pockets...
    
    MS might want to do something to rectify this prob >_>
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  Dance Floor Killah | January 30, 2008
  I'm sure they could find SOMETHING to do with all those broken consoles. They could always make a pyramid.
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  Play ISDF | January 30, 2008
  It does sound like EB Games set themselves up to be stuffed. They offer extended warranty right? This is not under Microsoft's warranty plan and thus they have no responsibility to repair them. It's EB's warranty, and thus their responsibility. I understand why they are pissed, $10 mil in wasted consoles is a lot of cash and I'd want something done about it if I were them, but Microsoft has no obligation and dropping the 360 is going to hurt EB more then Microsoft.
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    Cdemon | January 30, 2008
    Ex-*bleep*ing-actly. Couldn't have said it any better.
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  forahobby | January 30, 2008
  This story is a rumour..
  
  Get the facts on 360-hq.com:
  http://www.360-hq.com/article-2316-thread-1-0.html
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  Sort | January 31, 2008
  This story quotes a chat log from a Kotaku reader and everyone is taking it as fact.
  
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