i updated my xbox 360 account and i have paid for my xbox live but its not going through it says that its updated but des not let me play online

To date I have had 7 faults with my consoles, 1 machine scratched discs, 3 died of separate software failures, 1 had the power pack go down, 2 died from the red ring of death, I also had an aerial cable stop working for no reason, luckily I managed to get a new machine in all but 1 case, the last time it broke was told it was out of warranty so would have to pay around £100 to have it picked up and repaired, thats more than the original price I paid!, got a 2nd hand 1 for £60, dont get me wrong I love my 360 but isnt there something that can be done about selling a machine that is defective and the company knows its defective but continues to make it defects and all.

We purchased an xbox 360 in November of 2007.On may 4, 2008 the unit stopped working.Because unit was well within the warranty time frame we called. They instructed us to be looking for a prepaid box to send unit out to be repaired.When we received unit some 2 weeks later not only did it not work, but it was a different unit. We verified this 2 ways, one serial numbers of originally purchased unit wasn't the same, two we spoke to repair center and they admitted that unit sent back was indeed a refurbished unit. On original call when problem first occurred at no time were we told that a replacement unit would be sent. They had us believe that our original unit would be repaired and sent back.We sent back replacement unit and some two weeks later we received the unit we now are having problems with. It only worked for 3 weeks this time. We called back to customer service and spoke to yet another manager. They are now telling us that all they can do is have us send this refurbished unit back and they will send us another replacement unit. This will be a total of 3 attempts to rectify issue with no luck. I feel that we've been more than fair in letting them take care of this warranty issue, and now its time for them to stand behind their product or give me my money back so that I can replace unit myself. Ive provided them with all the necessary paperwork and have told them I can provide proof of purchase.There has been no mention of at this point sending us a new unit to take care of issue of replacements not working at which they have tried 3 times to correct. Please can someone help or guide us to see what is our next course of action.

Xbox has been a terrible waste of money. I've had problems with both the Original Xbox and the Xbox 360, and it's been going on for years. I've spent thousands, and all they gave me was one month of free Xbox Live.

Why doesn't the RICH corporation, Microsoft, recall it's inferior product XBOX 360? We are on our 4th one. Microsoft knows that there is an overheating problem on ALL of their XBOX 360's. Sure, you can keep returning it to them to fix (or not). You have to wait 4-6 weeks to see if they return one that works or not. I just returned a refurbished one today, to where I purchased it from. We had for less than 1 month before it experienced the overheating problems. The store I got it from has an exchange policy if anything should happen within 30 days. I swapped it for a "used" one, hoping the same thing doesn't happen again. My son is actually using one that had the "red ring of death" to experiment with. It seems as though there are several cheap things that can be done to alleviate the overheating of the unit. If all else fails, I guess it would make a nice door stop. Microsoft should be ashamed. They had to hurry and get it out before PlayStation 3. Unfortunately, my son wanted one right away and he saved up his own money for it, so he got the dreaded XBOX 360. PlayStation 3 held off releasing their system early because they experienced the same problem but took the time to fix it before releasing it. I know I won't be getting any Microsoft products in the near future.