I Bought a 'Refurbished' Xbox 360 from Lukie Games for $140…

There's a lot to unpack with this refurbished Xbox 360 from Lukie Games... good stuff and bad stuff. Let me know what you think about this refurbished Xbox 360 from Lukie Games - do you think it's better than the Xbox 360 consoles I've purchased from DKOldies?

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My Equipment:

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[jrob]

There’s a lot going on with this console… what do you guys think?

[rp]

I also have no idea how these companies stay in business because they should be facing chargebacks on every one of these mistakes. They must sell enough to people who just think this is the experience of all used items, and don't ask questions.

[Tropixify]

Imagine some mother wants to buy their kid an Xbox 360 and it comes with the wrong power cord and they didnt know it was the wrong one

[LNGHRNS]

These are mistakes that shouldn’t happen at all. They’re so simple that it should be required to do checks for this stuff without hesitation. They’re just losing money having to ship people new things or do refunds. Do it nice or do it twice.

[rp]

All of these companies deserve to be barred from selling used items until they get their act together. Sending items that are incompatible with each other is inexcusable, especially since they charge a premium over something like Ebay, Craigslist or Facebook.

[Cybercx]

Assuming they were the ones who did the paste job. It won't dry out instantly, so it's entirely possible it was done a couple years before it made its way to their stockpile. Extremely likely, given how old the firmware is and the sticking issues with the drive - Couple other things that should have been addressed in a proper refurb.

They refurbish their consoles much the same as DKO - That is, not at all. They're just lucky enough to be getting better quality stock.

Edit - Although in the case of the firmware, it's something you wouldn't want to be updating since it gives it a higher street value. But if Lukiegames knew that, they'd be slapping 'Comes with NXE!' on the sale page and charging more for it.

[Flegz]

Bruh. They send you the wrong power supply 💀 I mean it is cheaper than DKOldies, but that's a L for Lukie Games.

[danielsongomes]

I bought a 360, 15 games, 3 original controllers with rechargeable batteries ( 1 halo reach edition), turtle beach wireless headset with receiver, all cables, wifi dongle, 60GB external hard drive and fiber optic cable for 50$ off craiglist.

[Thee_Dr_Evil]

Any console sold used and refurbished should have an accurate and complete description. Sending you a non HDMI (even though it might have the Falcon based Opus board) console is crap without outlining it and including the wrong PSU is even worse, what if you don't have component on your TV? I will say that I experienced the same lack of fan ramping with my Falcon after a re-paste. That poor thing has been abused, but still works, knocked a resistor off when removing the x-clamps to preemptively bolt mod it which I've since removed, then pulling up a trace when trying to jtag it when drinking.

[LoricElf]

I made the mistake of ordering tons of NES games from them in 05 or 06 and before buying I talked to them and confirmed they understood I wanted decent condition games, etc. I got crappy label games and was missing some too. So frustrating when I go the extra mile to talk to them in advance and had it worked out with them.

[MasterJustino]

Those dirt streaks you saw on the inside of the bottom shell probably aren't from cleaning solution dripping into the chassis, but from the fluid blown out of Air Duster cans.

[missedgames]

It's still amusing how EASY it was to play music while gaming on the 360. Something no console has been able to do as easily since

[rwdplz]

I would imagine any company selling used 360's tries to get rid of the super-early ones that still work as quickly as possible.

The X-Clamps are easier to remove with the special tools. That thermal paste HAS been replaced before, but hard to tell how old, but looks recent. Overall a lot cleaner than 360's I've taken apart and repaired.

[UltraPokeZ]

This definitely brings back memories I bought a 360 when it came out. That dashboard was amazing for the time. I remember playing a game and all of a sudden red ring of death very annoying.

[whiskywaters]

Also that thermal paste is pretty fresh for this model of 360

[GlycerinZ]

13:03 you could tell right here that the boltmod was not performed. If it was, those eight screws in the middle would not be there. I did the boltmod on many 360s, and became a master at taking them apart without even scratching the plastics.
Lukie fails though. NO Xbox should be shipped without an HDMI port, and every controller should be OEM. Not to mention they couldn't even include the correct AC adapter.
I was not a fan of the Hitachi drives. The LiteOn drives were my fave but were a PITA to flash.

[ChrisEpp]

I’ve taken off lots of X-clamps, best and easiest method I’ve found is using angled tweezers and squeezing in the end indented area while moving upward and it pops right out. A little hard to explain without showing but it’s a great method!

[Gundam_Rusty]

That NXE dashboard is the second best dash after the blades. Every dash after was unnecessarily slow and clunky.

[cheesepizzarat]

Blades is super nostalgic and I loved the way I could customize the colors, but NXE is by far the cleanest one. Looks very premium and stylish. They went overboard with the simplicity in the new one and honestly looks extremely low res now that you look at it closely. The low res text is so much more apparent with the solid black on solid white, ultra simplistic look they have with the newest dashboard. I h*te it

[Viper-jrsp]

i'd say its better than dkoldies but them forgetting what power supply is used for it is a bit of a disapointment but they are easy to fine anywhere else they probably don't pay attention to the specific one for each revision and the ps3 you got from before i'm really starting to think that any place like lukie games or dkoldies don't wanna bother with the original ps3's since they are too tedious to deal with but in the end i would say this is much better than dkoldies or the ps3 you got from lukie as well i will always like lukie games also getting a xb360 with the NXE is a bonus