The $99 Xbox 360 On Sale Now at Best Buy, GameStop

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sales2099 said:

killerzX said:

sales2099 said:
Many people dont see that this mirrors that of buying a house......you pay more with a downpayment then you do when you pay for the whole thing upfront.

A downpayment now and paying off later costs more in the end because of interest.

So offcourse many people here dont see this as a deal. Because its not meant for them, as we are too used to buying consoles upfront.

This deal is meant for lower income families. They would end up paying more in the end, but the payment plan is done so that instalments are affordable to them.

is the price of a house affordable enough for the average person to be able to buy it in full upfront. NO

same thing with cars.

you you dont take out a loan to pay for everyday "cheap" things like this.

could you imagine if you bought your groceries like this. Filet mignon, only $5!!!... with 24 easy payments of $4.99

Clearly you have zero concept of how a poor family functions. Well....neither do I, but I know they literally have to pinch every penny.

However even poor families want to have fun. This deal makes gaming more affordable. They pay more long run but the monthly price is doable.

This whole thing is an experiment. And you left of cell phones, which is more comparable to this then car/house buying. 

As you admit, clearly you don't  know how poor families function. Because this isn't aimed at poor families.

Poor families don't really have $15 a month spare to be paying off a 360, and if for argument's sake they did manage to scrape up $15 per month to pay the monthly 360 bill they certainly have nothing left to buy that one thing which is essential for making a game console worth having: games. I suppose the poor family gets Kinect Adventures with the deal, so they are faced with only being able to play Kinect Adventures for the next 2 years. Not a prospect I'd be looking forward to.

And poor families don't have internet, so even the service they are paying for is useless to them. Lots of poor families don't have TVs either.

This isn't a deal for minimum wage / welfare families, this is more a deal for median / average wage families.