The most recent “gamer gets screwed” story hitting the nets lately is that *** purchased a 360 at their local Target along with a copy of Grand Theft Auto IV, but was surprised to find that their 360 wasn’t working upon opening the box. Why you might ask? The Xbox was gutted and instead of fun giving microchips and circuits there was a book:
The book inside was the children’s book, “A Series of Unfortunate Events”, so whomever had done this must have had a sense of humor while both stealing and f-ing another person over.
You might ask how this might have happened. I used to work at a retail store and this kind of thing is all too common. I’m guessing that whoever originally bought the Xbox 360 gutted it and returned the item and the return/exchange desk only performed a cursory glance at the Xbox. The worst […]
Original post by Paul and software by Elliott Back
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