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starcraft on 12 July 2008
makingmusic476 said:
starcraft said:
I dont get it. What does Microsoft get out of it?

They're basically paying people to use Live instead of Yahoo. lulz

Yeah I know, but how do they lock you in?  And even if they did, $100 discounts are enormous, they wouldnt make it back on all but a few customers.

 



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alucardremixed on 12 July 2008

This is cool, but maybe the catch is your ps3 will RROD in a while



sieanr on 12 July 2008
makingmusic476 said:
I did this a few weeks ago when I bought Ico. The game goes for $90-100 new. I found one that had just gone up for $80, and it cost me $52 after the discount. Such an awesome deal. :D

Of course, I won't be able to collect my $28 until August.

Yet you can buy this used at gamestop for 15 bucks or so. And Amazons resellers are going for under $30.

You didn't get an awesome deal.



Leo-j said: If a dvd for a pc game holds what? Crysis at 3000p or something, why in the world cant a blu-ray disc do the same?

ssj12 said: Player specific decoders are nothing more than specialized GPUs. Gran Turismo is the trust driving simulator of them all. 

"Why do they call it the xbox 360? Because when you see it, you'll turn 360 degrees and walk away" 

makingmusic476 on 12 July 2008
sieanr said:
makingmusic476 said:
I did this a few weeks ago when I bought Ico. The game goes for $90-100 new. I found one that had just gone up for $80, and it cost me $52 after the discount. Such an awesome deal. :D

Of course, I won't be able to collect my $28 until August.

Yet you can buy this used at gamestop for 15 bucks or so. And Amazons resellers are going for under $30.

You didn't get an awesome deal.

 

If you can find it at GameStop.

And I wanted it new.  Not like new, not used, brand freakin' new.  Still sealed.



MrBubbles on 12 July 2008

This doesnt make sense.....



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i love xbox360 on 12 July 2008

is this just in america???





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sieanr on 12 July 2008
makingmusic476 said:
sieanr said:
makingmusic476 said:
I did this a few weeks ago when I bought Ico. The game goes for $90-100 new. I found one that had just gone up for $80, and it cost me $52 after the discount. Such an awesome deal. :D

Of course, I won't be able to collect my $28 until August.

Yet you can buy this used at gamestop for 15 bucks or so. And Amazons resellers are going for under $30.

You didn't get an awesome deal.

 

If you can find it at GameStop.

And I wanted it new.  Not like new, not used, brand freakin' new.  Still sealed.


I've seen the game there plenty of times and it can be had ordered off their website. Plus its not that rare, certainly not enough to justify 90-100 new, or even 50 new.



Leo-j said: If a dvd for a pc game holds what? Crysis at 3000p or something, why in the world cant a blu-ray disc do the same?

ssj12 said: Player specific decoders are nothing more than specialized GPUs. Gran Turismo is the trust driving simulator of them all. 

"Why do they call it the xbox 360? Because when you see it, you'll turn 360 degrees and walk away" 

Hephaestos on 12 July 2008

Learn to read.....

unless your PS3 is under $250 that thing won't work


"The Cashback Rewards that you are eligible to obtain from Microsoft will be disclosed to you on www.eBay.com and will be equal to a percentage of the final sale price of the first item purchased during an Online Session (excluding shipping and handling fees, insurance fees and other such fees), for up to a maximum of $250.00 per Online Session. "



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Impulsivity on 13 July 2008

thats 250 in reward money NOT 250 in price of item. You can get up to 250 cash back in a single purchase which means that you are limited, but only to things costing around 1300 (at which point you're maxed out at 250).

I think Microsoft thinks that bribing people not to use google will pay off long term. Honestly I still hate Live search and will never use it regularly except for the handful of instances I can get a lot of money off of MS while giving them little in return. This smells like another profitable Zune style idea. By profitable when dealing with MS regarding anything other then Windows and Office I of course mean it won't lose much more then a billion dollars per year on average.

As far as using it for anything but the Ebay deal most discounts are like 2%-5% which means you save like 2 bucks using the live search and can't get that two bucks for a month. In those cases Amazon probably has a lower price anyway (and doesn't use live.com) especially if you have amazon prime and don't pay for shipping. Ebay is the only live.com deal I've seen that really pays off.




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