Xbox 360 price drop info, with pics

[kickingtotalass]

Originally Posted by chaz

MGS4 was the most expensive at $60 for a single disc.

LoL that was good.

Originally Posted by maley

I haven't paid over $25 for a Blu-ray movie and I now own 28 or so, and have been buying them for over a year. Learn to shop.

When the internet was less used for buying back when DVDs came out I was buying DVDs for $39.99 as well. It's the way the system works.

I said retails, not "I pay", besides what makes you think you get to tell me how to shop. You do not get to tell me how to shop ~ School of RRS.

Furthermore you're telling me how to shop but you paid 39.99 for DVD's?!?

I know how to shop, got a TON of 1080p content when HD-DVD died for 8 bucks a pop. i've paid 30 bucks for a few movies when you add in tax or amazon shipping (when i didn't use SS ship).

Regardless the retail price is absurd. How people price match/sift doesn't change this.

[chaz]

Originally Posted by maley

I haven't paid over $25 for a Blu-ray movie and I now own 28 or so, and have been buying them for over a year. Learn to shop.

When the internet was less used for buying back when DVDs came out I was buying DVDs for $39.99 as well. It's the way the system works.

I like renting BDs and getting HD DVDs for around $5 a pop. Just got Children of Men.

[maley]

When DVDs first came out you couldn't get them online at cheap from places like Amazon Marketplace. You could only find them @ retail for the most part which had them at a huge premium over VHS when they first came out.

[kickingtotalass]

Originally Posted by maley

When DVDs first came out you couldn't get them online at cheap from places like Amazon Marketplace. You could only find them @ retail for the most part which had them at a huge premium over VHS when they first came out.

No there was a site I used to get them from cheap. I want to say 800.com or something along those lines. I actually think they merged with a site later like amazon or amazon themselves.

I don't think BB has ever retailed DVD movies that expensive no matter what time it was.

Suncoast yeah, but then you're just asking for it going there unless it's obscure as hell.

[IceNine]

Originally Posted by maley

...That's just ridiculous. I could understand maybe if you lived with someone that played the same game as you heavily.

ex) I played Socom 1 and 2 w/ a 2 brothers. We were in the same clan/team or w/e so they needed 2 PS2s. But just so you don't have to go to the family rooom / living room just seems like absurd spending to me.

By the way... my son and I play games online together all the time. What sucks is that I have to buy two copies of each game, but it is still fun and he likes it a lot.

[IceNine]

Originally Posted by kickingtotalass

OR if you're uber nerdy like me set up a mini lan with my extra PC monitor and VGA connection. Awesome for side by side play with no split screen!

Consider me a big dork then, as I just ran cat 5e cable through the house and set everything up with a 24-port gigabit switch. I have only run 10 ports right now, but I will be doing the drops in other rooms soon.

My son's Xbox is set up next to mine upstairs... he has a 40" LCD and I have a 73" DLP and we play side-by-side. It is a lot of fun.

[kickingtotalass]

Originally Posted by IceNine

By the way... my son and I play games online together all the time. What sucks is that I have to buy two copies of each game, but it is still fun and he likes it a lot.

Tough one, likely never getting around that. I hope your son doesn't share you cannibal corpse CD.

My room mate loved them in college. He always wore this killer zombie shirt, something about eatin back to life or something.

[IceNine]

Originally Posted by maley

When DVDs first came out you couldn't get them online at cheap from places like Amazon Marketplace. You could only find them @ retail for the most part which had them at a huge premium over VHS when they first came out.

Actually, Ken Crane's Laserdisc was the place to buy them at the time... that's where I ordered all my laserdiscs and then they moved to DVD and became DVD Planet. Their prices are not as good as Amazon now, but they were the only way to go in the old days.

[kickingtotalass]

Originally Posted by IceNine

Consider me a big dork then, as I just ran cat 5e cable through the house and set everything up with a 24-port gigabit switch. I have only run 10 ports right now, but I will be doing the drops in other rooms soon.

Nice, sounds like a blast. I to pride myself on being the biggest bodybuilding nerd known to man.

I'm addicted to Fable 2 pub games. First i just wanted to earn some extra creds for the game.

But now I want to destroy the game. I've gotten really good at keystone and tower.

[IceNine]

Originally Posted by kickingtotalass

Nice, sounds like a blast. I to pride myself on being the biggest bodybuilding nerd known to man.

I'm addicted to Fable 2 pub games. First i just wanted to earn some extra creds for the game.

But now I want to destroy the game. I've gotten really good at keystone and tower.

I am SHITTY at Pub Games... I am REALLY far in debt.

[IceNine]

Originally Posted by kickingtotalass

No way man look up my thread on RRoD just recently (hell it's on page 2 i think)

Call THAT number with your case ticket.

I got my 360 back within 3 business days of shipping it. Excellent CS on this end.

My total downtime was a week and a half.

866-506-3826... gotcha.

I'll call those guys on Monday and see if they can't fix the problem.

THANKS!

[kickingtotalass]

Originally Posted by IceNine

I am SHITTY at Pub Games... I am REALLY far in debt.

You just gotta learn the system.

Keystone:
arch bet 8, 9, 12, 14 (Hit LB to auto max).

And pretty much bet even, odd, 4 - 9 & 12 - 17. They only time you get screwed is when you roll and 10 or 11.

doing those center bids pretty much leaves you to "free" bid at random. I dunno if it's just my button combo timing but I roll 9's, 8's, and 12's all the time. So i bet those often and win big usually.

Then i'll "free bet" trips for fun and will hit as well.

Tower:
as soon as you use your top card take the winnings (even if its a minor loss).

Otherwise go till you get 20 something or above. If you make it to the bottom with "knights" and luck without using your tower card you get the entire decks points.

I sucked like you at first. Once you learn it though it's addicting and easy imo. The key to Tower is conservation IMO. Risks don't often pay off, and when they do you likely lost more on prior risks, take the sure thing and play it safe with trips and doubles when you get them.

Except the triangle game. It's pretty much random, timing can help i think (1 second pauses in buttons work for me) but you need money to win money in that game. I'd been down 10 grand on won back up to 25 in that game.

[kickingtotalass]

Originally Posted by IceNine

866-506-3826... gotcha.

I'll call those guys on Monday and see if they can't fix the problem.

THANKS!

Let them know you've been waiting forever, I had a box 1 biz day after the call, had ANOTHER xbox back 3 biz days later. I got RRoD on a thursday though, didn't call till friday so I got them on a monday. (you need a case ticket first)

They will hook you up. They're american!

[UraMallas]

Originally Posted by Onslaught X

At least give him the title of "Poseidon" or King of the Sea.

Ooh, I like.

[miDnIghtEr]

which one of you is gene on my site?