Comments on: Couriers Letting Powercare Down? A Local Tells Us His Story

By: IloveBobbyKotick

IloveBobbyKotick — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 08:21:54 +0000

Yeah BHW, I did the exact same thing, even added a new hard drive and a body mod. Of course, I won’t be going on live any more, but it’s no loss to me, my friend is setting up a network for our group of friends, we’re going to call it FU Live. Private xbox server.. YUM!

By: BHW

BHW — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 09:04:59 +0000

They wanted to charge me about 900 bucks and some change to have my RROD swapped out (Courier & handling fees). So I gave the machine to my old man who is still old school electronics (Ocilloscopes and circuit diagrams)He did some research on the web and fixed it in half an hour.The only money he spent was about R30 on a tube of thermal paste. Things been running for about a month now without any hassles.

By: gaius

gaius — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:21:15 +0000

The courier always gets the blame. It’s probably bad service from both sides and R250 to courier from jhb to pta… Really

By: Geoff

Geoff — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:18:56 +0000

680 ZAR.

Cash only.

By: Fox1

Fox1 — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:10:49 +0000

Anyone know whats the costs at the moment of getting an out of warranty XBox 360 replaced?

By: Aequitas

Aequitas — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 13:04:56 +0000

It really does suck that a courier can stuff up what should be a relatively painless swap-out process. Powercare should really consider changing to a courier that actually does their job.

By: Goose

Goose — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:34:47 +0000

Lulz, +1 for you sir =)

By: darthdad

darthdad — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:21:50 +0000

Did you go by boat?

By: Uncle

Uncle — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 11:58:20 +0000

I live in JHB so I just went to go pickup my Xbox, took me 2 days :(