[Thanks to everyone and their dog for sending this in!]
[Thanks to everyone and their dog for sending this in!]
Reader Comments (49)
Posted: Jan 18th 2009 1:16PM tann said
This is a steal=P
Posted: Jan 18th 2009 1:25PM mlg rules said
I honestly think that MS is gonna make live free now. I mean, why else would buy and amazon make it 30 bucks? Unless its.............competitivness *shocker* (sorry for the bad spelling
Posted: Jan 18th 2009 5:45PM thor79 said
Yeah I won't be surprised if they make it go free...Major Nelson is even promoting it. That tells me they are urging a lot of people to get them now before they drop the bomb and make it free. They're hooking me with this one...the deal is too good to pass up.
I ordered 2 yesterday from Buy.com but got a notice today saying they won't ship to unverified addresses with Paypal...oh well...I save on shipping I guess...bought 2 from Amazon instead...free 2 day shipping with Amazon Prime (which has definitely paid for itself since I started it).
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I ordered 2 yesterday from Buy.com but got a notice today saying they won't ship to unverified addresses with Paypal...oh well...I save on shipping I guess...bought 2 from Amazon instead...free 2 day shipping with Amazon Prime (which has definitely paid for itself since I started it).
Posted: Jan 18th 2009 6:58PM (Unverified) said
If MS does make LIVE free, they will probably compensate people that still have outstanding months of LIVE purchased, probably in the form of MS Points I suppose. They sure as hell better, as I just bought 2 of those LIVE cards. If they leave us high and dry I'm never buying another piece of MS hardware, and I love my 360.
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Posted: Jan 19th 2009 9:12PM Special Agent Steve said
I'm guessing, if Live ever did go free, MS would give you points per month. One month= 100 points, it wouldn't be full price, but 26,000 points would be pretty sick.
(12 months+1 month)x2
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(12 months+1 month)x2
Posted: Jan 18th 2009 1:36PM (Unverified) said
Awesome! Thanks 360 Fanboy, I missed out on the buy.com deal yesterday.
Posted: Jan 18th 2009 1:37PM (Unverified) said
I just bought one to add. I'm setfor two years. Thx.
Posted: Jan 18th 2009 1:43PM UNSCleric said
I'm glad so many places had sales on it now, now all these scalpers aren't going to get shit for them on eBay. Too bad losers, time to get a life and a real job.
Posted: Jan 18th 2009 1:50PM emirabal said
Yeah, i bought four of them, i will be reselling a few of them, but most likely i will just keep 1 for myself and 1 for my buddy and sell it at cost. The other two if i make it back wit some extra all cool but wit all these deals im not even gonna get my money back. Oh well.
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Posted: Jan 18th 2009 1:49PM (Unverified) said
Just orderd mine thanks 360 fanboys!
Posted: Jan 18th 2009 1:50PM (Unverified) said
Does anyone know if Best Buy will match Amazon. I would rather use my gift card there than spend real money?
Posted: Jan 18th 2009 1:53PM Anticrawl said
I'll wait til I need one. A well informed consumer can find them from 28 to 35 all year round.
Posted: Jan 18th 2009 1:58PM refinedsugar said
Dang! Doesn't appear to be open to Canada (like most of their video game listings).
Posted: Jan 18th 2009 2:09PM Gizmalien said
Nice, just wish they would do the same for the 4000 points card as well.
Posted: Jan 18th 2009 2:26PM (Unverified) said
OMFG its $0.03 cheaper than BUY.com!
Posted: Jan 18th 2009 2:31PM JAmerican said
I got 4!
Posted: Jan 18th 2009 2:40PM DarkNightRJ said
I hate being completely broke.
Posted: Jan 18th 2009 2:57PM Hunter2223 said
I've never had gold outside of the 1 month free trial... At this price I figure it's worth the try. Who knows maybe I'll find some decent people online :)
Posted: Jan 18th 2009 4:08PM Capitalist Pig said
Yeah hunter, go for it!! Even though Live is full of morons, there's quite a few decent people on it too. It just requires digging REEEEEEEAAAAALLL deep to find them.
Anyways, I'm not sure what to think of these deals all popping up within days of each other. MS is going to do something to Live soon, I can feel it in me bones.
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Anyways, I'm not sure what to think of these deals all popping up within days of each other. MS is going to do something to Live soon, I can feel it in me bones.
Posted: Jan 18th 2009 2:57PM (Unverified) said
i bought it from walmart earlier this week for the same price online!
Posted: Jan 18th 2009 3:23PM Van Faulk said
Does this work for canada as well?
Posted: Jan 18th 2009 3:25PM (Unverified) said
Aww we UK still have to pay £30 on Amazon, which is just over $50!
Posted: Jan 18th 2009 4:46PM Muckrak3r said
I just picked up another one. The last one I got was from buy.com for $38 a couple months ago. So I'm already good through December of this year, I figured I might as well stack another on there and keep my live account paid for until the beginning of 2011.
$30, with no tax and free shipping is as good as it gets.
$30, with no tax and free shipping is as good as it gets.
Posted: Jan 18th 2009 5:01PM miro said
Just picked mine up... thanks for the heads up! I've seen this deal at Amazon one before but I wasn't on gold then.
Why would MS stop charging if people are still willing to pay? It's pretty cheap and it seems like they would just expand silver to allow some gaming (arcade titles)... I think they started this already, right?
Why would MS stop charging if people are still willing to pay? It's pretty cheap and it seems like they would just expand silver to allow some gaming (arcade titles)... I think they started this already, right?
Posted: Jan 18th 2009 5:14PM (Unverified) said
It is odd that they're selling so low. I still bought one anyways.
Posted: Jan 18th 2009 5:41PM (Unverified) said
can i use these cards in europe?
Posted: Jan 18th 2009 6:59PM (Unverified) said
Thanks 4 the heads up, saved me 40 bucks. I was just about 2 head 2 gamestop 2 pick up a couple of 12 month cards for my brothers.
Posted: Jan 18th 2009 7:52PM R0B3RT said
What sucks is I bought mine 3 days ago and since amazon lost it's price assurance I won't get my price matched dammit !!!!
Posted: Jan 18th 2009 8:24PM (Unverified) said
Picked one of these up online tonight. Thanks for the heads up!
Posted: Jan 18th 2009 8:49PM (Unverified) said
Thanks guys, just got my order in.
Posted: Jan 19th 2009 2:26PM (Unverified) said
I would love someone to run a steal of a price on a 120GB HD for the 360
Posted: Jan 18th 2009 9:31PM StStephen said
Thanks just picked mine up. My auto renewal is set for Feb. 7. Anyone know how I use this card and keep them from charging my credit card automatically? Thanks X3F.
Posted: Jan 18th 2009 10:24PM Torch Red said
In for one. Can't pass up this deal.
Posted: Jan 18th 2009 11:54PM (Unverified) said
I didn't miss it this time!
Posted: Jan 19th 2009 1:03AM (Unverified) said
no canada :(
Posted: Jan 19th 2009 3:04AM (Unverified) said
Thank you so much X3F, I also missed the buy.com deal.
I was already going to purchase a $50 at target today too :P
I was already going to purchase a $50 at target today too :P
Posted: Jan 19th 2009 5:09AM xboxsonic said
thanks you X3F, just bought one for a friend.
Posted: Jan 19th 2009 10:42AM Doorey said
Yeah, well that's nice and all for you Americans. For me it's still 59€ (67$) and what they offer in live here (Finland) is just shit. For example there's no video store..
Posted: Jan 19th 2009 12:11PM (Unverified) said
Yeah great and here in germany its still 60 euro.... thats more than 60US$... just SAD
Posted: Jan 19th 2009 12:14PM (Unverified) said
Greatness, I'm from Europe, but I'll order this sweet card to a good friend in the US, she'll rub the code free and voila, I've got 13 months for about 23 Euro, thanks Amazon:)
Posted: Jan 19th 2009 1:43PM (Unverified) said
No i don't think MS will make live free.. come on is MS... but i do think that they lowering the price to get more ppl on gold so they can enjoy the NXE like netflix, buy movies mucic game etc.. as you know they have a great success on the market place.. so they think they have 20 million console sold and only about 12 million live? why not get more ppl in so they can buy more from market place.. you know everyone is going to buy something someday lol.. but the deal is great. good for us the resallers lol..
Posted: Jan 19th 2009 6:37PM (Unverified) said
The sale is done its back up to 43 bucks
Posted: Jan 20th 2009 12:07AM megapenguinx said
I picked one up for my bro and sis. I won't get to enjoy the benefits of live until I get back from school though (in 4 months) :/
Posted: Jan 22nd 2009 11:13AM mikepaul said
Two comments.
I think these pre-paid cards are a drain on the resources of the stores that bought them from Microsoft, and now they are dumping them to recoup cash. The cards that are activated at checkout were not marked down at WalMart since (I guess) there's no real investment in them. I think the pre-paid cards will die off in favor of the activated ones, but maybe just at WalMart.
Xbox LIVE won't accept more than 3 years worth of paid membership at once. I only found that out when trying to add my 3 freshly purchased cards and only one would work. Apparently I'll have to wait till like July to add the second card (hopefully the failure to credit the account this time didn't waste the card!!!) to completely fill that 3-years, then wait another whole 13 months before the last card...
I think these pre-paid cards are a drain on the resources of the stores that bought them from Microsoft, and now they are dumping them to recoup cash. The cards that are activated at checkout were not marked down at WalMart since (I guess) there's no real investment in them. I think the pre-paid cards will die off in favor of the activated ones, but maybe just at WalMart.
Xbox LIVE won't accept more than 3 years worth of paid membership at once. I only found that out when trying to add my 3 freshly purchased cards and only one would work. Apparently I'll have to wait till like July to add the second card (hopefully the failure to credit the account this time didn't waste the card!!!) to completely fill that 3-years, then wait another whole 13 months before the last card...
