Really it’s CEX who are the issue here.
Either they are selling consoles that don’t work or they are selling discs that don’t read or some combinantion thereof.
If the next round of disc swaps don’t work I may press for a refund (their policy is to do this in vouchers rather than cash which probably means ending up with something else that doesn’t work).
Annoyingly the shop I bought the console in is in the town I live in not the town I work in and it was an impulse piece of retail therapy that just backfired terribly.
Should have got a Wii U or a PS3 somewhere else.
The shame is what plays, plays well but most of the games I’ve held off playing for years now will not. So no Bioshock, no GTA, No Red Dead Redemption, No Portal 2, I can’t even play the South Park game. I hate confrontations of any kind. I feel really tense takig these things back. The staff are really nice but the end effect is exactly the same.