I have what I believe to be an original Xbox360 (got it late in 2005), and it lasted up until a few days ago.

I had read everywhere that MS will send me a pre-paid label, but the agent I spoke to insisted that it’s standard for me to pay for shipping to the repair depot.

Did I get cheated? Or is this normal?

Check this out, my friend:
http://isnoop.net/tracking/?t=1z05w3588966410652

PackageMapper is another one. That one doesn’t support UPS, but it does FedEx, USPS, and DHL:

http://packagemapper.com/

I never joke.

You’re joking right? You’ll just have to use the tracking number like the rest of us and see where it goes!

Where in Texas, Kevin? I’ll keep an eye out for it.

Quite a few of the first batch Xbox 360’s are experiencing screen freezes. I find it interesting that it’s only the first batch and the only technical solution to try in the Xbox KB is to ensure the system date and time are correct. I was asked the same on the phone from an Xbox 360 rep. My take: there’s something date driven in the system that’s causing the glitch since waves of the first batch are all dying at the same time. I was not asked to send in my hard drive or anything else other than the main console. My console made it to Philly last night and should be somewhere between there and Texas today.

I just got an XBox360 back, and like the other 5 that I have sent back, I got it within a week of them receiving it, 3-5 days. They always tell you on the phone the process can take two weeks but it’s always been good timing and this time I have a roommate with one so there was no worries, but I’m getting fed up with the returning for freezing. This last time they actually requested the hard drive, did you have to do the same? Usually they took both separately, either one or the other and for the 5 I’ve returned I’ve always used the same hard drive but I can’t tell if this one I got back is a replacement or not. Hopefully I don’t have to return anymore…

Weird… my 360 died this week as well.

Ahh….I tried to keep it simple for folks who don’t use Bloglines, but good point. Let’s make it even better: since the HDTV isn’t getting used by the 360, I can use the free Newsgator MCX plugin for Windows Media Center and track the package via RSS on the high def set. See: http://jkontherun.blogs.com/jkontherun/2006/05/read_rss_feeds_.html

Bloglines has built in tracking – just pop in the number (UPS, FedEx, DHL, USPS), no SimpleTracking.com needed.