I recently bought the Halo 3 Collector's Edition (Tin Case) from bestbuy.com becasue it was only $40. Well I opened it up and found that both discs were scratched. I did some research and found that this problem is rather common and I cant ship the discs back to microsoft becasue it's too late. I have yet to get an XBOX 360 too. I just thought that the deal was sweet and I didnt want to lose out on it. Anyway is there anyone else that had the scratched disc problem? If you did then my main question to you is, do the discs still read and play? They look like there still readable but I dont know, any input is appreciated. Thank you.

They didn't extend the warranty for the game if the discs are scratched? That is ridiculous.

I know someone who bought the game, had the scratched disc, but it still played fine.

Why not exchange the discs at Best Buy?  They sold you a defective product.

Yeah I bought the LE back at launch and  the same thing happened. I open it up and both of the disks come flying out, having various scratch marks on each disk. Went to return it only to find 10 other people waiting in line with the same problem.

I'm pretty sure best buy would let you trade for another copy, but I'm surprised you haven't heard of this until now.

Well for one, I dont own a 360 yet so I never kept up on 360 info. And two, I bought it off bestbuy.com, not the actual store.

It's ok, you can return or exchange stuff bought on Bestbuy.com at Best Buy stores. 

"It's ok, you can return or exchange stuff bought on Bestbuy.com at Best Buy stores. "

"MB said:

"It's ok, you can return or exchange stuff bought on Bestbuy.com at Best Buy stores. "

Yea, but they probably dont have the same product in the store considering the LE is like a year old now. But i'll call around though."

Yea but I dont want my money back I want a Limited Edition of Halo 3. When I get my 360 I'm just going to try the discs and see if they work, if they do thats awesome but if they don't then I guess i'll go buy a standard edition disc and put it into the tin case. I tried playing the DVD on my PS3 and comp and both times a message popped up saying I had to insert the disc into an Xbox 360 console so I guess only time will tell.

"Yea but I dont want my money back I want a Limited Edition of Halo 3. When I get my 360 I'm just going to try the discs and see if they work, if they do thats awesome but if they don't then I guess i'll go buy a standard edition disc and put it into the tin case. I tried playing the DVD on my PS3 and comp and both times a message popped up saying I had to insert the disc into an Xbox 360 console so I guess only time will tell."

"DrPepper1990 said:

"Yea but I dont want my money back I want a Limited Edition of Halo 3. When I get my 360 I'm just going to try the discs and see if they work, if they do thats awesome but if they don't then I guess i'll go buy a standard edition disc and put it into the tin case. I tried playing the DVD on my PS3 and comp and both times a message popped up saying I had to insert the disc into an Xbox 360 console so I guess only time will tell."

I wouldn't call the CE all that, there's really nothing that you're missing out on."

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I recently bought the Halo 3 Collector's Edition (Tin Case) from bestbuy.com becasue it was only $40. Well I opened it up and found that both discs were scratched. I did some research and found that this problem is rather common and I cant ship the discs back to microsoft becasue it's too late. I have yet to get an XBOX 360 too. I just thought that the deal was sweet and I didnt want to lose out on it. Anyway is there anyone else that had the scratched disc problem? If you did then my main question to you is, do the discs still read and play? They look like there still readable but I dont know, any input is appreciated. Thank you.

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I recently bought the Halo 3 Collector's Edition (Tin Case) from bestbuy.com becasue it was only $40. Well I opened it up and found that both discs were scratched. I did some research and found that this problem is rather common and I cant ship the discs back to microsoft becasue it's too late. I have yet to get an XBOX 360 too. I just thought that the deal was sweet and I didnt want to lose out on it. Anyway is there anyone else that had the scratched disc problem? If you did then my main question to you is, do the discs still read and play? They look like there still readable but I dont know, any input is appreciated. Thank you.

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um if you have the receipt you can get a replacement/refund? if not send a tenner and your broken disk to MS and they'll send you back a shiny new disk and no ten pound note. my halo 3 disk broke and i did this. they also give you a weird new instruction manual with cheif holding a sniper in the jungle and johnson peering from behind with a BR.

Ahh my friend got a scratched disc from CE also, its pretty common

Limited edition is not worthwhile you get nothing you wouldn't with the regular edition, as for that if it dont work get it resurfaced.

"Limited edition is not worthwhile you get nothing you wouldn't with the regular edition, as for that if it dont work get it resurfaced."

"DrPepper1990 said:

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I recently bought the Halo 3 Collector's Edition (Tin Case) from bestbuy.com becasue it was only $40. Well I opened it up and found that both discs were scratched. I did some research and found that this problem is rather common and I cant ship the discs back to microsoft becasue it's too late. I have yet to get an XBOX 360 too. I just thought that the deal was sweet and I didnt want to lose out on it. Anyway is there anyone else that had the scratched disc problem? If you did then my main question to you is, do the discs still read and play? They look like there still readable but I dont know, any input is appreciated. Thank you.

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Banjo."

Just go and try and get it exchanged, stop arguing against it. Just try it, you have no way of knowing what will happen unless you just go there and see for yourself.

"Just go and try and get it exchanged, stop arguing against it. Just try it, you have no way of knowing what will happen unless you just go there and see for yourself."

return it.. they allow you to.
edit: return, say it was scratched,
get a regular edition,
there is not much in that bonus cd.

I opened the box in the store the day Halo 3 came out just to make sure they weren't scratched, but they were fine. However one of the discs has developed a ring around it from the Xbox, but it still works like a charm.