Yea, that's a good idea, committing warranty fraud, which you claim that everybody on this board has done at one point and is against the forums' rules to even suggest, but I have yet to do it. You opened the 360, you assumed the risk knowing all to well what might happen. By following your way of thinking, that would be the same as saying "it's all right to break into a store late at night to take stuff. every body has done it at some point in their life."
Also, by saying that its no big deal to return it under false pretense is also not a good idea. Take a look at how many people ended up with banned boxes right from the store, because somebody got banned, and returned it with some lame excuse. IF you do try to return it, I myself hope you do end up with the luck of getting a banned xbox back in return. The point of this site and its forums is for learning from the 360 and finding ways of protecting our purchases, in this case, modifying the DVD rom's FW so we can play our own backed up games, not to give out advice on how to commit fraud or piracy.
You broke the warranty seal, you knew the risks, you should now live with your $350 mistake and look at it as a learning experience.
This post has been edited by BlackWar: Apr 13 2009, 06:02 PM