This is ridiculous. Why do stores have sales at all if not to get you in the building and buying other things? Am I to believe that cigarettes actually cost me 15 dollars because the retailer makes me buy additional goods. That is insane.

In fact, the whole premise is ridiculous. I don't know where you came up with it. It's a bundle with 3 free games and 70$ worth of anything else you want from the store. You can even give the giftcard as a present. It's value on top of value. Slow it down.

The goal of this thread was to let people know there was a good deal for an XBOX One if people wanted to buy one. I was going to make another one on Nintendo ones, but I think I'll lay off the controversial topics for now... I (no sarcasm) seriously should have known better.

Intellectual conversation ????? 

Giving a non-cash gift or award to an employee

An employer can give an employee an unlimited number of non-cash gifts and awards in the course of a calendar year without incurring a taxable benefit, provided the cumulative value of those gifts and awards does not exceed $500.00. This applies to non-cash gifts given for a special occasion, such as a religious holiday, birthday, wedding, or the birth of a child; and non-cash awards given as recognition of an employee’s overall contribution to the workplace, and not as recognition of job performance.  Where the cumulative value of gifts and awards received by an employee exceeds $500 in a calendar year, the excess amount will be treated as a taxable benefit.

The gift card would be concidered near cash and has a 70$ value. The $350 was spent on a Xbox One and 70$ gift card. Gift card value is $70, therefore the Xbox one value is $280.

Both of you drop this issue and get back to OP topic.  

This deal officially make the Xbox one at $280 cheaper then a WiiU Deluxe ($299).

What's Nintendo doing for crying out loud.... for every system sold they will sell 5-7 software made by Nintendo .....
They should be even more desperate then Microsoft. Some moron at Nintendo probably thought Amiibo was going to save the system.

Hey, why argue with Microsoft's logic, they're selling XBones!

firesale? dumping excess inventory prior to Cmas?

If you can't comment on the points he is making without attempting to lump other ficticious people in with your own personal opinion then you have no point to make. Also if you are warned not to call people a fanboy, following it up with something on the lines of... I'd call you a fanboy but I've been told not to is still calling them it, or can you not see that?

I wouldn't call this type of thread controversial btw... not even close.

Indeed what was being outsold 2 to 1 by the ps4 is now back neck and neck for the most important time of the year, absolutely amazing job by Microsoft pulling this gen back with agressive sales rather than letting it linger into nothingness like it could well have with its poor start.

Um...many other people on the thread have said getting a 70 dollar gift card is as good as cash to them.  I'm...not sure what point you're tryingto make.

The thread is not controversial.  That was sarcasm.  

I also find it rather odd that it is ok to call people stupid, but if you call someone a fanboy you are akin to a demon or something.  That is something I sincerly did not know.  I will be more careful in the future.

Target has a deal for a Wii U for 250 dollars right now.  No gift card in that amount either!  (I'd actually like to get one, but I already have the other 2, so I'm not sure...)