Cheap Xbox Live Gold at Sears and Kmart this week [update: Starts Nov 18]

Couldn't you buy this and save it for your next renewal? AFAIK if you add this to your account it'll just pile on top of your existing membership. So if you have 10 months left you'll have 22 months left of gold membership.

yup. That's the way I've had it work. It's not like they truncate the months between when you add the months, and when your original time is due to expire. They could, anything is technically possible, but I've never experienced that.

I got a great deal on live cards a few years back, paid $30.00 for the 12 month Live kits, picked up two of them, added them to my account and it extended my service two years past my expiration date. Since then, I've picked up a card or two whenever they are on the cheap and add them to my account or give them out as gifts. Don't pass this deal up.

I got my 12+1 card January 17 this year for $29.99 (no tax - buy.com). Waitin for that one to drop, hopefully before Christmas instead of after.

Yes.

Either the deal is really well hidden, or it simply isn't live yet. I'll keep refreshing the Sears page and see if the price drops. I can't even find a 12 month card on Kmart's website.

No, Sears seems like it still has the 12 month at $50 and the 3 month at $20, and I can't even find the 12 month on Kmart's site

Very well put. Those were my exact same concerns. I checked Sears website again today and the price still hasn't dropped. Lovely. I hope we get another update to this article and this time with some sort of indication of source or evidence. Watch: They'll come back and say that the sale starts tomorrow.

Maybe the sale will start the 18th... but they didn't say what month and Joystiq assumed it meant this month. Maybe it will be the a18th of September, next year or the year after that. (I had a boss who would do that to us...he's say, sure you can have a raise on Sunday. But he would fail to say which Sunday.)

That worked for me. I talked to a lady on the phone with sears.com and she was able to lookup the item# in their internal product listings and found the sale price. She was able to adjust the price after the order has been placed. Their online website has not been updated yet, but the Sears.com rep was able to confirm the price and was able to adjust my order accordingly. She was very helpful and pleasant too which surprised me.

Just called customer service is not having this sale

I did call the sears.com at 1-800-697-3277 and I pushed the option to place a new order and I chose the electronics department. I talked to Suzzanne ID# 083779 from the Tucson AZ call center. I explained that I had heard about a sale price on the sears item# 05891866000 that was not showing up on their website. She checked the website and then she checked an internal database of some sort (something customers don't have access to) and she found that item number in her internal database with a promotion date of today (18th) through sometime in December (I don't remember the end date) with a price of $34.99. Since she found it in there, she had me place the order online and she credited back $15 per card that I ordered. There was a limit of 2 cards per order, so I placed two orders for a total of 4 cards. I received 2 credits back on my credit card of $30 each or a total of $60 off of 4 cards.

They have the promotional price in their system, it just isn't on the public website yet. If you get someone who is friendly/helpful and you are nice to them then you too can get these cards for $35+tax w/ free shipping.

So for those that called and failed to get the price honored, you didn't try hard enough or you just didn't get someone on the phone that felt like helping you, or something else caused you to not get the same service that I received.