I get knocked down, but get up again....wait....nvm

Wait a few days after Christmas........and early January, after the predicted drop in retail this year, stores country wide will be dumping inventory like mad.

Mmmm Fuming triangle, my favorite

We have bought 3 Xbox 360s since the product was first released. One has been sent in twice for repair, and is broken again and out of warranty now. I bought another 360 around the time the first one failed, for the downstairs game room, it died and is out of warranty. They offered to fix it for 150.00, but I refused. I bought my son a 360 last Xmas, it stopped working and we just sent it in. So we are 3 for 3 in failures. With two being out of warranty,I bought a Elite 360 to replace the gameroom unit that broke down and put it in a wide open area for cooling. If/when it breaks down, I will not* buy another 360. From my experience I am willing to bet the failure rate is quite high. Microsoft has* to know what the failure rate is. Nothing short of a class action lawsuit will entice them to change/improve their system.
We don't abuse our systems, or put them in areas with no air flow. In 30 years of buying consoles, I have never experienced a failure rate like I have with these machines. My son loves to play the 360 and I do to. But I am not going to continue to support a company that is making a product that, imho, they know has a fairly high failure rate.