Glut of banned Xbox 360 for sale on eBay
13/11/2009 at 19:18
What do you do when Microsoft have banned your modded Xbox 360 from Xbox Live? Flog it on eBay appears to be the answer judging by the number of chipped Xbox 360 listings on the site.
If you’re in the market for a cheap Xbox and have no intention of playing online a banned Xbox might be the answer for you. On the other hand if you’re hoping to use Xbox Live and are bidding on a 2nd hand machine make sure you read the sellers small print and that it’s not yet another of the 1 million XBox 360s Microsoft has just banned.
Many sellers are now stating if their machine is banned in the description but not the title, if in doubt check with the seller what the status of the machine is before bidding.
david says
7:55 pm on 13/11/2009
ps3 all the way for security and best exclusives
ebuyerfb says
3:17 am on November 14th, 2009
Modded systems are prohibited from sale on eBay. You can’t sell any game enhancers or anything that has a secondary use of piracy.
http://pages.ebay.com/help/policies/mod-chips.html
The sad part about that is there really are legitimate uses of such systems that don’t involve piracy. XBox 360 is a very good piece of hardware for the price. PS3 gets around the issue by allowing you to install Linux on it from the start.
Bigpoppa says
10:58 pm on 13/11/2009
Sellers of these consoles are not saying “banned from xbox live” because it has been banned.
Most are only saying that to let you know that it is a chipped console without saying “it’s a chipped console” for obvoius reasons.
EventHorizon1984 says
11:21 pm on 13/11/2009
There is the issue of downloaded firmware updates.
How hard is it for Microsoft to embed code that checks for valid systems? Like Windows software.
… and … well …
.
“Press this one, 30 seconds later, POOF!”
Montgomery Scott, Star Trek
Page Mage says
12:22 am on 14/11/2009
That stuff is crazy. All those Xbox 360′s got on eBay in a hurry. I saw a bunch the other day, but didn’t think anything of it. Now I know why. I hope no poor sap got suckered into buying one of those.
Leon Wolfeson says
4:28 am on 14/11/2009
ebuyerfb – Ebay’s policy is against banned systems. You can revert the mod, and sell it, under ebay’s rules. No grounds for the auctions to be pulled.
board_surfer says
11:22 am on November 14th, 2009
Of course you can but I bet you a penny to pound none of the listed ones have been reverted.
Ebay should pull every one of the listings.