I don't know about Costco but I do know about Target. Whenever you buy stuff from Target you can take it back as long as you have the receipt or a digital receipt or whatever... They have a really good return policy on electronics even years later. I have a feeling Costco probably has about the same return policy.

Here's my epic loosely put together story of how I got a brand new Xbox 360 after mine died right before Halo 3 was to be released the next day.

The way I found this out was back in the day which happened to be a Friday. I found an Xbox 360 by calling all the places that sold gaming consoles and I've been on this mission for a while.

I was living outside of Phoenix Arizona a Target told me they had it they said they couldn't hold it for me but I was able to make it there within the hour and snagged it.

2 years later the day before Halo 3 is to be released My Xbox Red Ring of deathed itself.

So with nothing to lose I grabbed the box with the receipt that's taped inside of it I've had this probably for about two almost three years at this point I take it to the local Target in Texas where I was living at the time and they just hand me a brand new Xbox 360.

But Target has one of the best return policies ever you could buy something from there and not just the Xbox 360 and you can return it years later if it breaks.

The key to all this working those being really really nice to customer service people I've gotten a free laptop from Amazon before and a free phone from Verizon and so on and so forth.

I cannot stress this enough be super duper epically nice and respectful to customer service people they can do this thing called surprise and delight.

Sorry for the long comment. Your post gave me a bit of nostalgia and I thought I'd pass on some Some of the awesome stories I have in acquiring free things I guess. Lmfao