My dead Xbox 360, Steering wheel and TV

I spent a fortune on these three items, the Xbox 360, the wireless steering wheel and the CRT TV. Now they’re all dead. I bought the Xbox for nearly P28,000, then the steering wheel (which I had to order from abroad) for P8,000, then the 32″ CRT TV for P12,000 (got it from the old stock of Japanese-imported surplus TVs from Pier). In just about a year, they died. The TV died within 6 months of use. You’d expect that from a machine that was thrown out by its Japanese owner because it was just freaking heavy. Expect such appliances to die soon. You buy trash, you get trash.

Well, the Xbox 360 got resurrected twice already, courtesy of some wily Filipino repairmen. The steering wheel was the biggest headach. I had such high expectations for that thing and now it’s dead. I even reviewed it for Hackenslash.net last year. The thing just died and according to Microsoft, the problem was in its force feedback engine. They did give repair/replacement assistance to owners but even those who applied for it didn’t get their full money’s back. In fact, some of them never had their units fixed. Talk about bad customer service huh?