I am in tears through anger!

At the time live was up & running,no service alert.

Sounds like it's a problem at your end: meaning it's probably a problem at your end but not 100% definitely a problem at your end.

You still haven't pointed out where I said if it's working for me then it must be working for everyone!

Not going to explain it to you anymore.This thread has served it's purpose so i'm done now.

3 1/2 days later and I still get the same error...

You can play games offline you know.

Microsoft are under no obligation to give you anything when xbox live goes down,you agreed to this when you agreed to the ToU.

The total downtime would amount to about 5 pence anyway.

Right,you still haven't pointed out the part where I said if it's alright for me it must be alright for everyone else.

Oh wait,you can't because that's not what I said.

This thread is about the issues with live on the 360 during the week,not the xbox one.

Do feel free to point out where I said if it's working for me it must be working for everyone else.

I said "it sounds like a problem at the users end", I didn't say "it must be"