OT: Microsoft replacing xbox power cables

[guddler]

[ukvac] OT: Microsoft replacing xbox power cables

Yes, it's true, if your box is older than about a year and a bit they're
doing a safety replacement...

http://replacements.webprogram.com/en-gb/programoverview.asp

I havent tapped in my serial number and manufacture date yet (cause i
haven't looked it up yet) so i don't know if it's 100% free including
postage and everything, but all it said on the news website i saw this on
was that it was a free replacment.

All 14.1million of them.

That's gotta hurt!!

Aparently worldwide there has been something like 30 cases of the cable
catching fire due to a defect...

Martin.

 

[Madjock]

Re: [ukvac] OT: Microsoft replacing xbox power cables

It's free, I put in my serial number and date last night and its ready
to be dispatched.

On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 11:56:12 -0000, Martin White <martin@guddler.co.uk> wrote:
> Yes, it's true, if your box is older than about a year and a bit they're
> doing a safety replacement...
>
> http://replacements.webprogram.com/en-gb/programoverview.asp
>
> I havent tapped in my serial number and manufacture date yet (cause i
> haven't looked it up yet) so i don't know if it's 100% free including
> postage and everything, but all it said on the news website i saw this on
> was that it was a free replacment.
>
> All 14.1million of them.
>
> That's gotta hurt!!
>
> Aparently worldwide there has been something like 30 cases of the cable
> catching fire due to a defect...
>
> Martin.
>
>
>

 

[guddler]

RE: [ukvac] OT: Microsoft replacing xbox power cables

Very odd, my manufacture date is june 2002 yet it says it doesn't need one


Let's try that again in a Microsoft Browser!!

 

[tombakeriii]

Re: [ukvac] OT: Microsoft replacing xbox power cables

If the box could actually hold onto the date and time for more than 2 minutes
after being unplugged from the mains then they wouldn't need to be plugged
in permanently and would save power.
I know it doesn't excuse faulty cables but come on, in this day and age a
cr2032 isn't that hard to build in..
If it's for a safety replacement then they should do something about that
faulty ethernet port at the same time, seems to be leaking information again.

Ed
>-- Original Message --
>To: ukvac@yahoogroups.com
>From: Paul McGunnigle <madjock@gmail.com>
>Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 12:00:09 +0000
>Subject: Re: [ukvac] OT: Microsoft replacing xbox power cables
>Reply-To: ukvac@yahoogroups.com
>
>
>
>It's free, I put in my serial number and date last night and its ready
>to be dispatched.
>
>
>On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 11:56:12 -0000, Martin White <martin@guddler.co.uk>
wrote:
>> Yes, it's true, if your box is older than about a year and a bit they're
>> doing a safety replacement...
>>
>> http://replacements.webprogram.com/en-gb/programoverview.asp
>>
>> I havent tapped in my serial number and manufacture date yet (cause i
>> haven't looked it up yet) so i don't know if it's 100% free including
>> postage and everything, but all it said on the news website i saw this
>on
>> was that it was a free replacment.
>>
>> All 14.1million of them.
>>
>> That's gotta hurt!!
>>
>> Aparently worldwide there has been something like 30 cases of the cable
>> catching fire due to a defect...
>>
>> Martin.
>>
>>
>>

 

[guddler]

RE: [ukvac] OT: Microsoft replacing xbox power cables

Amazing how well it works when you get the date and serial number correct
)

Apologies if that's old news BTW, but I hadn't heard of it before...

 

[andyrcole]

RE: [ukvac] OT: Microsoft replacing xbox power cables

Ooh, yes, I'm sure MS will go bankrupt! Not.

 

[pauljhuk]

Re: [ukvac] OT: Microsoft replacing xbox power cables

I've heard the "rumor" is that the cables aren't faulty, but infact
Microsoft just want the names/addresses of everyone with an Xbox so
they can directly sell to them the Xbox 2 as an upgrade path. Also
Aliens visited us 40 years ago, and no-one has ever landed on the
moon.

On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 12:15:42 -0000, Andy Cole <andy.cole@arqadia.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Ooh, yes, I'm sure MS will go bankrupt! Not.
>
>
>

 

[guddler]

RE: [ukvac] OT: Microsoft replacing xbox power cables

Quite possibly, but a) too late for that now I've already filled it in! b)
I'm a sucker for new consoles anyway

Seems like a pretty expensive way to go about getting name and adress
details...

I know a cable doesn't cost much but bad publicity, postage and distribution
costs don't come cheap, so there have to be cheaper ways of getting names
and addresses.

Like from the post office?

And, yes, I know Microsoft won't even feel a dent. So what?

Martin.

 

[arcadeheavenuk]

[ukvac] Re: OT: Microsoft replacing xbox power cables

As long as the co. involved mailsorts there mass delivery then
postage costs would be very very small, I did some work for a large
bulk mailer, letters cost a couple of pence to send. So to f**k them
up just dont give them your postcode, then they cant mailsort them,
although you only need to mailsort 80%ish to qualify.

I must admit when I read the story it did sound like a marketing scam
to get names and addresses, how could MS screw up all power cables
across the world? how can you screw up a standard power cable anyway??

 

[guddler]

RE: [ukvac] Re: OT: Microsoft replacing xbox power cables

Does mailsort even apply to packages / parcels?

I spent over 12 years doing mailsort programming and the like for a bulk
mailer but it was all financial documents - invoices and mobile file bills
and the like (and council tax bills come to think of it!) so I don't know if
it does.

I guess there must be an equivalent.

Yep, all sounds a bit iffy to me but at the least if it get me a free power
cable

Martin.

 

[arcadeheavenuk]

[ukvac] Re: OT: Microsoft replacing xbox power cables

yep, we used to send out those 'free' boxed dummy hearing aids, small
boxies granted, but how big can a power lead be.

 

[drallsopp]

Re: [ukvac] Re: OT: Microsoft replacing xbox power cables

Well dell couriered one out to me in a box 31cm x 24cm x 12cm!!

http://www.aplacetoleave.com/CIMG8826.JPG

Mad.

On 18/02/2005 15:06:43, ukvac@yahoogroups.com wrote:
> yep, we used to send out those 'free' boxed dummy hearing aids, small
>
> boxies granted, but how big can a power lead be.
>
>
>
>

 

[andyrcole]

RE: [ukvac] Re: OT: Microsoft replacing xbox power cables

LOL, I think that's a standard Dell 'small' box! I remember a magazine article commenting about them sending warranty certificates (or some other paperwork) in the same boxes.

Andy.

 

[Madjock]

Re: [ukvac] Re: OT: Microsoft replacing xbox power cables

Hold up, thats the replacement cable? Already? In that big box?

On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 15:20:02 -0000, UKVAC Stu
<ukvac@asteroids.fsnet.co.uk> wrote:
> Well dell couriered one out to me in a box 31cm x 24cm x 12cm!!
>
> http://www.aplacetoleave.com/CIMG8826.JPG
>
> Mad.
>
> On 18/02/2005 15:06:43, ukvac@yahoogroups.com wrote:
> > yep, we used to send out those 'free' boxed dummy hearing aids, small
> >
> > boxies granted, but how big can a power lead be.
> >
> >
> >
> >

 

[Madjock]

Re: [ukvac] Re: OT: Microsoft replacing xbox power cables

Ah please ignore my comment, I totally bypassed the word Dell.

On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 15:25:37 -0000, Andy Cole <andy.cole@arqadia.co.uk> wrote:
> LOL, I think that's a standard Dell 'small' box! I remember a magazine
> article commenting about them sending warranty certificates (or some other
> paperwork) in the same boxes.
>
> Andy.
>
>