a tragedy

what was the name of the store? or was it like a small electronic stall in the mall?

murt

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[QUOTE="opiep333"]rgsniper...what actually happened to you?opiep333

I'd love to tell you, but it's so embarrassing that I got scammed I'm afraid I could never come back to the forums. Trust me, I went around calling myself a tool for about the next two months.

this story is about a close friend of mine. this is not a personal experience.

so a few months ago, my friend and are are racing on burnout via live, and he disconnects. I call him up and harass him for quitting when i was winning. He informs me that his game is scratched. So he takes it back, has to buy a new copy. We are playing again, and once more it disconnects. He says screw this and isnt gonna buy another copy.

He calls up MS thinking something is wrong, and they say its cause his sub is too close to his 360 and its shaking the disc. He takes his 360 downstairs cause he is moving his room to the basement. Madden is now scratched (no it was not in the 360 when he carried it).

HE takes his 360 back to where he purchased it and the guy tells him he will ship it back to MS for free and get it repaired/replaced.

 about a month passes and he thinks, my 360 should be coming back soon... He goes to the shop to find no one there. THe store has moved. All his contacts are disconnected, the mall has no info as to where he went and MS has no record of recieving the 360. The police wont deal with it because he gave him the 360 willingly, so its not a robbery.

My mom works for the better business beareu and said that there are 3 other complaints of the exact same thing happening.

 Now my friend is 360-less and down over 500 dollars.

 what a tragedy.

opiep333

I was waiting for...."and then he died."Haphilli

True... forward this post to 100 people or you'll die too.

Whoa, that sucks big time. But the 3 other complaints have to be a coincidence. I mean, that's a pretty big "scam" to have. Open up a shop and close it down just to make 500 bucks? It's probably just bad luck, not a scam.C0nky

I live just south of columbus, Ohio and the mall he is talking about is just shoe stores and hat stores and is all run down with small shops that i have never heard of. And im actually afraid to go into Westland malljmoney3600

so an update:

 My friend somehow got a hold of one of the guys friends that worked at the shop and it turns out that the guy was talking about commiting suicide because his business went under and his wife filed for divorce. this may be the weirdest 360 situation ive ever heard of.

That sucks...don't know what else to say.fore_runner

so an update:

My friend somehow got a hold of one of the guys friends that worked at the shop and it turns out that the guy was talking about commiting suicide because his business went under and his wife filed for divorce. this may be the weirdest 360 situation ive ever heard of.

opiep333

So what about the 360?