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Target discounting one-year Xbox Live cards with CoD: Black Ops purchase

by Ben Gilbert on Nov 4th 2010 3:00PM

Starting this Sunday (Nov. 7) and running through the following Saturday (Nov. 13), Call of Duty: Black Ops buyers at Target are being offered a little something extra with their game purchase: an Xbox Live one-year subscription card for half price. As sent over by some Target-employed tipsters, the forthcoming week's advertisement flyer reveals the Black Ops-branded Xbox Live cards to be just $30 when purchased alongside next week's big release.

Just think of all the things you can do with that extra $30! You could get, like, a whole bunch of really delicious frozen yogurt! Or you could use it towards Microsoft Points -- sure to be useful when DLC for Black Ops inevitably arrives with a $15 price point per map pack. The choice is yours!

[Thanks to everyone who sent this in!]

Tags: activision, Call-of-Duty-Black-Ops, microsoft, target, treyarch, xbl, xbox, xbox-live, xbox-live-gold

Reader Comments (31)

Wonder if they'll keep it like this. & have it so that you could leave you house & buy a card that cost less or pay 60 bucks without leaving your home. I think that's a great incentive to get people outdoors

pretty good deal, too bad i already pre ordered it at Best Buy

@AplusM

Fascinating. Anyways, pretty good deal at Burger King today, too bad i had already eaten lunch

@AplusM What's stopping you from canceling your preorder with Best Buy?

@AplusM won't they match the deal?

@thisredengine - What's stopping you from regurgitating that lunch?

Any other games with this offer? I just bought my Xbox 360, and I have zero desire to play Black Ops ... but I wouldn't mind a cheap gold subscription.

@Epoque

LOL I'm in the reverse situation. I want Black Ops but already bought a years worth of gold a month ago. Maybe we can work something out :P

@philmcfail I want black ops and just bought a year sub yesterday.

@ben linus

Good luck with that.

Thats a good price for the one year. And it should be the price of it in general.

Amazon's deal is slightly better. 60 for the game, with a twenty dollar credit. Since a 12 month Xbox Live card is like 40 dollars on Amazon, that comes out to 80 for both with the credit (assuming you can use it on Xbox Live cards). You'd save ten bucks, plus tax doing it that way.

I'm glad I bought surplus cards when they were on sale.

@BananaBoat

How long do those Amazon Credit Points last?

@philmcfail - The end of November. The deal is only helpful if there is something else you want within the month.

@BananaBoat

Your Amazon credit for BO only lasts til the end of the month??? Are you sure? Because when I bought Halo Reach, the expiration date on my credit was January 2011 (which gave me 4 months to use).

@BananaBoat

3. To redeem your promotional credit, add an item from the Amazon Video Games store sold and shipped by Amazon.com to your shopping cart and proceed to checkout. The discount from the promotional credit will be visible after you have reached the final checkout stage. The promotional credit must be used by its expiration date, 11/30/2011

Did they make a mistake? This was under the terms/conditions.

@philmcfail - My eyes are going. I could have sworn I saw 11/30/2010, but you are correct, it is 11/30/2011

@BananaBoat

I've just ordered, how long before they sent you the credit?

@philmcfail - According to the terms, the credit will arrive when the game ships. Hopefully that will be the case.

@BananaBoat - I should mention that the credit is just applied to your account. They don't actually send you anything (except for an e-mail perhaps)

@BananaBoat

Thanks!

@BananaBoat
u had me amped...but, no...the amazon gold subs are still $60...i just checked

@ben linus

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hfYJsQAhl0&sns=fb

i'm getting a bucket of KFC with my preorder can't beat that

@ben linus

I'm with you. To all the naysayers: Activision has already announced they are releasing CoD games once a year. You obviously don't hear much about it now because they want you to spend your $$ on BO. Next year MW3 (or some variation of it) will be out. And some of us are patient enough to wait for it.

Dammit, just payed off the game yesterday at GameStop, shoud've waited 1 more day :(

@ThatAntiHero

You paid it off but didn't pick it up so you can go back in and get your money or see if gamestop will price match it for you. I had them do this with the best buy offer for Halo: Reach. Hope this works for you.

Not a bad deal if you plan to buy it. I am renting it.

I was in target and saw this on the paper. I also saw that they had GT5 ads said to be released tuesday*

*date is subject to change lol

I'd love another year of live for 29.99, but I'm not interested in the Vietnam mod for MW2.

@FlashJS

All you guys are doing is missing out on a great game so in the end, it's your loss. I'm pretty sure Activision isn't going to feel the effects of a few people not buying Black Ops but you guys go ahead and keep riding the high and mighty road and keep on truckin' ;-p

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