As The Casket Turns
(When we last left our intrepid hero, he spent over half an hour on the phone with Microsoft support.)
Coming home tonight, I noticed a small white box sitting in front of our door. It was obviously damaged.
"That's odd," I thought to myself, "I don't remember ordering any pa...oh, don't tell me that's..."
Sure enough, it was my Xbox 360 return box - or as it has affectionately been termed (and reviewed), the 360 casket. And it was in bad shape.
Multiple edges torn, corners bashed in. Why? Because the box was single-ply, with no re-enforcements. The protection the 360 gets is limited to a plastic bag with multi-lingual statements of "WELCOME" all over it and two pieces of fairly squishy foam core.
Arne, "Xbox Community Manager", decided to accuse me of scapegoating Microsoft for the box damage, so while I was taking him to task, I conducted the true method of discerning which of two boxes was better: I let Buttons decide.
The casket - which has been re-enforced with about 8 pieces of weatherproofing tape - will make its way to a UPS store over the next few days.
But I'm not too sad - as I found out today that I'm in the Warhawk beta.
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Dan Dickinson is a 28 year old living in Jersey City, New Jersey. He works in the strange intersection of collaborative technologies, education, and medicine. His passions include finding unexpected paths and connections, music/rhythm video games, and backchannels. This has been his primary (vivid) weblog since February of 2000, seeing infrequent but overzealous updates. [more]
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When mine died, a courier came to pick it up. I had already repackaged my Xbox inside its original box, and the courier just put that box into another box and took it away. The box he used was just big enough for the original box - so they expect you to use it!
Oh crap, not you too, Dan. My Xbox 360 is starting to give up the ghost, too and exhibiting the dreaded cold boot problem. I’m just trying to hold out a bit longer..