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MS selling old consoles as 'new' in Europe - buyers beware

Max Console reports that Fench website logic-sunrise who is usually pretty clued up on these things indicates that Microsoft's new 199 Euro's Xbox 360 packs with 2 games and 2 wireless controllers are in fact OLD machines. After opening 10 of them, they found that the machines have been converted to new and all have non-falcon motherboards, old Hitachi 47 or Samsung MS25 drives and the repair center sticker on them.

They suggest that you do not buy these packs and if you want a brand new machine, then fork out 199 Euro's for the arcade pack or 269 Euro's for the premium pack."
Updates:
Here is the French source:

http://www.logic-sunrise.com/news-6827-les-nouveaux-packs-xbox-360-de-demain-neuf-mais-d-occasion.html
Alternative Sources:
Original Source in French [... - logic-sunrise.com | By: fury
Google Translation of the O... - translate.google.de | By: fury
MS selling old consoles as ... - loftygaming.com | By: loftydj
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Zarfoz - 593 days 7 hours ago
1.1 solidjun5 | 593 days 7 hours ago - deleted by mod -
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Zarfoz - 593 days 7 hours ago
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Hoping that your customers happily will buy used consoles for full price shouldn't end up in any other way than a bad.
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sonarus - 593 days 6 hours ago
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Are they allowed to do that? Sell refurbished stuff without a refurbished sticker or somthing
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Fishy Fingers - 593 days 6 hours ago
1.4 - ^
Legally I believe if you are selling anything refurbished, even if that was carried out by the manufacturer, the customer must be made aware before purchase.
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crck - 593 days 6 hours ago
1.5 - Believe it people. I posted about this a couple of months ago
I bought a sealed 360 and I found out it was a refurb. No writing on the box that stated it was a refurb either. How did I know? There was tape residue left in the area where the tamper sticker was. On top of that residue was a new tamper sticker with 2 black dots on it. Probably to signify to the repair centers that it was a refurb. It also had a manufacture date of 08/2006. But when I shined a light into the vents I saw the extra heat sink that only old consoles that have been repaired received. There were also obvious marks on the back from someone removing the shell. That being said I got it dirt cheap and it works so I just kept it.
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DARKKNIGHT - 593 days 6 hours ago
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wow, i see now why some people get upset when ms is talked about....i dont come here often but everytime ms is brought up, its not in a positive manner.

nevertheless if noone raises counter evidence to this article by the end of the day, ------------------------------ ------.

there i hope i didnt offend anyone.
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fox02 - 593 days 6 hours ago
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if this is true, then my Premium 360 would be be the last thing i'll buy that has a Microsoft logo on it.

Shame on you microsoft
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marinelife9 - 593 days 6 hours ago
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Selling refurb as new is illegal in the states. I don't know maybe France has different laws.
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Silellak - 593 days 6 hours ago
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Before we all grab our torches and pitchforks, can we get someone who knows French go to http://www.logic-sunrise.co... and find the article that Maxconsole is talking about?

I ran it through Babelfish and found no such thing. All I see is an article announcing the pack.
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ukilnme - 593 days 6 hours ago
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@ fox02

I'm with you on that one and I live in the US.
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FAT MAN GO BOOM - 593 days 6 hours ago
1.11 - I agree it would be hard
I agree It would be Hard to buy anything from MS without knowing if you are get a faulty system or refurbished one... Either way this is a bad thing for all gamers because if this does become the norm we will all have a problem...
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fury - 593 days 6 hours ago
1.12 - @ Silellak
I've submitted the original source.
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Silellak - 593 days 5 hours ago
1.13 - @1.12
Great, thank you!

Please resume your regularly scheduled torching and pitchforking.
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ericnellie - 593 days 5 hours ago
1.14 - If this is true --
That's hella shady and can you say "class action law suit" in french...someone better learn real fast =) LOL
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power of Green - 593 days 5 hours ago
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Nonesense.

PS3 fans are in top gear now with their anti MSFT smear campaign as of late due to more and more news coming out for the 360's year I suppose.

Used 360's for full price? lol.

Gimmy real proof and real sources then this post will be worthy of debate untill then its just some cooked up Sony fanboy pipe dream.
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fury - 593 days 5 hours ago
1.16 - @ poG
So why shouldn't this be true? We need M$ to make an official statement on this matter. Until then we can only speculate how widespread the issue with repacked refurbished consoles is.
This is not so far off, even if you don't want to believe it.
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marinelife9 - 593 days 4 hours ago
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LOL what did everyone think MS was going to do with all those broken Xbox's?

Sadly many of these refurbished units will go on to Red Ring and will be Revived, Resuscitated, and Reincarnated once again on somebody's store shelf in Pakistan.
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power of Green - 593 days 4 hours ago
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I don't believe this news. Why would MSFT hurt themselfs like that?.

My comment got deleted because somebody flamed it and it got deleted and to be fair mine was too?. What the heck. I'm sure there's plenty of posts that actually need to be deleted this thread is full of them.

EDIT below: at what cost" discrimination?. I'm not shocked by your remark/opinion/point of view.
This isn't the first time, I'v made peacefull comments in threads where there should have been no PS3 fans they flamed my comments and the mods removed my comments like I was personally fighting with the reply-er.

Its getting so bad now that I can comment in the gamerzone I'v been saving all my comment to give other members to prove my point and they compare them to the PS3 fans comments.

On toppic One would have to be crazzy to think MSFT would do this(wishfull thinking is the foundation of this post by the competition).
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The Wood - 593 days 3 hours ago
1.21 - what did you say POG
things like that happen from time to time it seems and for no good reason to be fair to ya.

On topic If this type of thing has happened at least once then it can happen again, simple.

@marinelife9

you're right. what did people expect MS to do with all those dead shells
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blindfromthesun - 593 days 3 hours ago
1.22 - I want some pictures
And THEN...I'll believe it. Hard to imagine, a refurbished console is repackaged as new. If true, I would be outraged. Until proven otherwise, this article is just flamebait. The bundled deal sounds pretty good to me despite being refurbished; BUT they need to be marked as such.
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Tmac - 593 days 3 hours ago
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I requested your comment to be deleted because you were attacking people in the Gamer Zone. Next Microsoft shot themselves in the foot. Being disorganized or whatever the reason maybe doesn't warrant them to sell used Xbox 360's in the market and sell them as new.
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FreedomReign - 593 days 2 hours ago
1.24 - What the...
After reading the source. I fail to see where MaxConsole derived the 10 number from as the original post makes no mention of the number of consoles they've opened, where they purchased the console, when they purchased the console or anything, other than:

We opened up a 'brand new' xbox console today to find a Hitachi 47 DVD drive, and a white SAV sticker.

So where are the numbers spoken of in Maxconsole? 'neuf' in the text actually refers to 'new' not 9. I guess Maxconsole can't bother fact checking, and uses bablefish to do their translating. Great look at the 'ish storm started because of a bad translation. Now I know what Kojima was talking about.
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Xiphos - 593 days 1 hour ago
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I feel bad for European gamers.

Aside from higher prices and standard delays for all platforms, they get nonsense store updates and penis thumb advertisements from Sony, and refurbished 360's sold as brand new from Microsoft.

In regards solely to this story: I'm not sure if this is illegal in the European countries where this is occurring, but I know for a fact that if they tried to pull this crap in the United States, they'd get slapped in the face with a lawsuit before they even had a chance to spin this in their favor.
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mhr512 - 593 days ago
1.26 - I have seen refurbs for sale here
In Austin, TX at our frys.... They had them for $199.
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Venomous - 592 days 23 hours ago
1.27 - Tards love to flock together dont they?
Its already been proven that some stores like Costco, EB games and others have taken returns from scammers who make the 360 appear to have never been open. The store unknowingly re-sale a system they believe to be brand new. They have even re-stocked the steering wheel that customers tried out and returned, just to have some other guy buy it thinking it was brand new. This has happend to every system. somthing tells me the FUD mongers already know that. N4G..needs to change its name to rumors 4 gayfanboys
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Lifendz - 592 days 20 hours ago
1.28 - And you say I'm biased for not buying a MS console
the first Xbox was a quality machine. My friend stepped on it by accident and it works just fine. In fact, it didn't even crack. And a standard HDD, the ability to save music to the HDD, etc. I was all pysched to get the next installation. Then...oh then....then came the 360 hardware failures. Then came almost everyone that owns the system saying they're on their second one. No thanks. And now this. Comical. 360s break at Gaming conventions. C'mon guys, you blame the consumers for the breaking 360s yet the consoles MS pulls out for gaming events break.

This is beyond sad. This is flat out incredulous. The 360 could've been the machine that put Sony away. Instead it's reduced to a machine that could've been but was held back by hardware failures and a desire to build a console that could sell at a lower price point than PS3.
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samfk - 592 days 18 hours ago
1.29 - DID YOU MENTION WHEN PEOPLES PS3 BREAK?
THAT ALOT OF THE TIME THEY GET RECONDITONED ONES THIS SITE IS FAR FROM IMPARTIAL !!
1.30 madmike | 592 days 16 hours ago - User only got 1 bubble - Show
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RememberThe357 - 592 days 16 hours ago
1.31 - @Madmike
just stop. What the hell? MS did something funked up and people call them out on it and you get pissed? Dude, (I'm assuming your a guy cuz your me is Mike) you calling some one a fanboy is a little funny when you just before say your going to xboxkings.com.ps
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Capt CHAOS - 592 days 11 hours ago
2.1 - You kidding right?
Australia regarded as europe???
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Condoleezza Rice - 593 days 7 hours ago
3 - Sigh
What a way to show love to EU gamers
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green - 593 days 7 hours ago
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Microsoft what are you doing?Expect a press release soon.
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sonarus - 593 days 6 hours ago
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I doubt it stuff like this is usually swept under the rug.
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KingME - 593 days 6 hours ago
4.2 - Wow
If this true, MS needs their A$$ES kicked (HARD).

However, if this is not true and I were MS, after investigating this story I would sue the acusers into non-existence.
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fenderputty - 593 days 6 hours ago
4.3 - ^^^
If this catches wind on the internet and, has any base what so ever, this won't be easily swept under the rug.
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Fishy Fingers - 593 days 7 hours ago
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If this turns out true it will not spell good news for MicroSoft, this would be extremely foolish.

Especially after them reassuring customers that the "new" models dont have the well publicized RRoD problems. Not good.
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Cyrus365 - 593 days 7 hours ago
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This seems to be only for the "Bundled" version and not the standalone models.
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Vip3r - 593 days 6 hours ago
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This is beyond pathetic. Microsoft, you should be ashamed of yourselves.
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juuken - 593 days 6 hours ago
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...This IS MS we're talking about here.
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fenderputty - 593 days 6 hours ago
8.2 - ^^^
This goes beyond intestinal fortitude. This is downright suicidal. Somehow, I doubt this is true. If, this does hold water, this would easily be one of the stupidest things MS could do.
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juuken - 593 days 6 hours ago
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You forgot illegal.
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fenderputty - 593 days 5 hours ago
8.4 - ^^^
I don't know what French Law is.
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poeo - 593 days 3 hours ago
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big companies break laws all the time, and often even get punished for it. read up on corporate crime.
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