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Just spent the better part of 2 hours utilizing my supal33t photoshop skillz to falsify a receipt.  Any of you who have followed my previous travails with my 360 know that I've had issues with it.  I was willing to slap on D-Skins to keep my games from getting scratched, but tonight it stopped reading games altogether and I started to get the red ring of death.  Alrighty, went to my spare bedroom where all my extraneous computer parts, boxes, etc go to die searching for my original Gamestop receipt.  No dice.  I did, however, find an old receipt from Target.

Long story short, I scanned that fucker and went to work on it in Photoshop.  It was a thing of beauty, no one could tell that this thing has been forged.  I think in my previous life I was one of those guys from The Great Escape who just worked day and night creating Nazi passports.  Anyway, printed out my new masterpiece and it's flawless.  Now I just have to call up MS and get this bitch sent back.

Isn't there a reference number on the recipe for cross referencing purpose?

Bar code and receipt ID#, but I figure what are the chances that those get scanned in?  With the amount of 360's they have sent in there's no way they can be checking them all, right?

Ordinarily I'd feel guilty, but hell, I did buy this thing in June, so I'm well under the year mark they just extended it out to.  I was just a dumbass and lost my original receipt.

Uh? Gamestop can just print you another receipt. I think all they need is your serial number and credit card. Or you can call the central office and get one.

Woohoo!  Great idea, man.  I'd have never even thought of that.  Much less dicey than my forgery method.

See kids, when you live at Gamestop you pick up some knowledge.

Heh

Its better than all this forgery stuff anyway. Its like onanism, as the great escape told us you eventually become blind from it.

Or you could finally make that jump over the fence...   Steve just needed a longer run at it.

Always check with Schild if you have a problem with consoles and console games... playing and purchasing.  He's the expert.  I don't make a console move without him.  Don't, however, ask him advice about your love life.  He'll just tell you which game to buy.

Crappy game tee shirt questions should be directed to Strazos.

He also loves it when people call to check on Wiivailability.  Call early, call often!

They're still calling!

This is while we have a few 60GB PS3s sitting in the back.

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This is why my 360 receipt is sitting taped to my 360 box which for some reason still sits in the living room ghettoing it up. 
(As if all the Transformers didn't make it look like loser central (or as I call it "The Birth Control Living Room") already!)

Paranoia can be useful.  Doesn't hurt that Microsoft gave (almost) everyone a year's warranty either.  Though knowing my luck my March system will die out in April.  Probably whenever Settlers of Catan gets put on Live...

Well, you're a damned dirty liar, Schild   :-D 

According to the Gamestop drone at my local store they can't give me a replacement receipt.  Do you know for a fact that I can get one reprinted?  Do I need to call their headquarters, or should I go with my forged Target masterpiece?

The drone IS lying. Call head office as they have to keep track of all hardware sold. If you call customer service and give them your 360 serial number they can track down the transaction. The store might not be able to because (at least with EB) the computer only holds transactions for 3 months and then they're deleted, but archived at head office. Good luck.

There was no joy in Mudville.  They found my order via my credit card number, but told me they couldn't send me anything, even an email so I could print the fucking thing out.  I got into a wee bit of a tiff with the phone support douchebag.

Gamestop is now on my (Schild patented) boycott list, and I'll be going with the faked Target receipt.

Target scans receipts. be extra careful.

Wait a minute. When you made the purchase at Gamestop, did they fill out that little carbon copied PRP sheet? I'm gonna stop by my Gamestop tonight and get corporate policy on this shit. Your experience does not seem normal.

I'll ask today when I go in, but I've never even seen this "PRP carbon copy sheet" you speak of. This may or may not be true depending on where you are.

Heck, we just print out a receipt for the purchase, and the PRP itself, staple them together, and put them in the little PRP pamphlet. And we've been out of pamphlets for awhile.

Will do, and thanks a lot man.  They've been next to useless for me.  I mean, shit, they've got all my information right there.  Dude at corporate headquarters even knew I bought Chromehounds when I bought my 360.  They knew exactly how much I paid, on what date, and even on what credit card #.  Then they tell me they can't give me anything to show MS?  That just seems like they're going out of their way to be unhelpful.