Brandy the crazy eBay saleswoman strikes again!

Yesterday I posted a series of e-mails that went back and forth between myself and a saleswoman on eBay. As a quick recap if you don’t want to read through them (pretty funny and might as well check it out – Check out part 1 here) I purchased a very cheap pair of ear bud headsets for my iPhone from her and it broke in a week. I left a neutral, not a negative, but neutral review stating, “Get what you pay for, broke in a week”. Brandy then felt the need to pursue a change of review form from me in exchange for a bribe.. or 3 pairs of her crappy ear buds.I simply told her I didn’t want to change the review and her product stunk – she then wrote me two pages of b.s. I guess trying to persuade me into changing my review still in exchange for garbage. Now it seems she thinks she is a part of a special eBay underground market that controls all of the eBay sellers. She also thinks she has blacklisted me from eBay, little does she know that I too am an eBay seller and know very well that this does not exist. Although I must say these very e-mails of her insanity should one-up her bogus threat and let her potential buyers know what a nutjob she is. Now I’m not telling you to not purchase items from her, please do, but make sure your terrorize her as well.

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Xbox 360 ‘Ring of Death’ can’t defeat Play This

Ring of Death

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The most infamous of issues that have become known about the Xbox 360 has finally directly affected (or attempted to affect) one of our writers while reviewing Fallout 3.

This heavy set game, which uses quite a large amount of memory and processing speed had temporary caused the Ring of Death, or the three red lights, which basically means you need to send it back to Mircosoft for your free repair.

This is not your friend

Here are your options upon getting the Ring of Death:

Trash:

If you have tinkered with your Xbox before (modded it) or broke the Microsoft seal on the actual console you might as well throw it out now or try selling it for scrap metal on Ebay.

Back to Microsoft:

If you have never messed with your Xbox 360, Microsoft has decided to do a free repair on this issue alone; however it takes supposedly three weeks at the max.

The Towel Trick:

Another suggested idea is that by wrapping a towel around the Xbox 360 while on, that for some magical reason it will become functional once again. Here are the steps and suggestions required of this, as it has now become a proven temporary fix.  It can fix the Xbox for a few hours up to a weeks worth of additional play.

What is required: 30 minutes of waiting time while on, 15 minutes of cool down time and two or more towels (must be completely dry). It would be ideal to also have a fire extinguisher handy.

-WARNING THIS IS A FIRE HAZARD-

First step:

Remove everything from the Xbox (hard drive, network cable, wireless network adaptor, controllers, etc…) everything except the faceplate and power cable.

Second step:

Place the Xbox on one towel and turn it on. Wrap the towel all the way around it and continue to wrap the other towels around the system.

Third step:

Wait 30-45 minutes for the system to temporarly overheat.

MAKE SURE YOU WATCH THIS SYSTEM IT CAN CAUSE A FIRE

Fourth step:

Unwrap the system, turn it off and let it cool down for 15 minutes. Do not place it in your freezer as the moisture could cause serious issues. You can place this near a window as it’s currently Winter and it may cool down faster.

Fifth step:

Turn on the Xbox in well ventillated area and it should work until the next meltdown.

That’s should have you up and running again, but remember this is only a temporary fix so we do suggest that you send your system back to Microsoft.

This issue is due to poor circutry in the console and by super heating it, it causes the conductors to weld together a bit stronger, but with each towel repair it’s bound to cause long term damage.