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$100 Xbox 360 deal sells out in seconds!

2:21 PM on 11.23.2006, Niero 12 comments

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You snooze, you lose! Despite setting up 1-click shopping, storing my credit card info, and hitting refresh a billion times I now count myself among the thousands, perhaps millions of people that rushed Amazon.com's $100 Xbox 360 sale and was refused -- the sale was pretty much over before it even started. A more 1000 lucky snipers were able to save $200 off the core system, making it the lowest priced next-gen system sale ever made. Other retailers have jumped on the 360 discount bandwagon and you may see core systems as low as $200 in select stores. If Sony is reportedly losing $300 on each console and Microsoft is making $76 on theirs, logic would dictate that the big M may apply the pressure and permanently drop prices soon to slaughter PS3 sales. Elsewhere, Nintendo is sitting pretty at $250 counting their money...


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HighVoltage at 11/23/2006 14:59
I was on the site half an hour before 2. As soon as 2 came, the site was done. I was able to get the page loaded by 2:01, but it was already sold out. My mom did have me pick up the bike and Barbie doll though, although even she was pissed we didn't get the 360.
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gamehunter101 at 11/23/2006 15:27
lucky bastard
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Niero at 11/23/2006 15:45
I'm guessing anyone on the east coast didn't have a chance in hell. The guys that got it were probably on solid 6mb connections close to their web servers.
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Azrael at 11/23/2006 16:11
Where are the xbox 360 at $200? I still have that cash around here.
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Blaine at 11/23/2006 16:27
The only thing worse than not getting a chance to win one (which is my beef, not that I didn't get one... it's that I never had a shot) is the magnamimous assholes who are going on about how it's fair and it's Thanksgiving and what not.

As if Amazon didn't do it for their own benefit.

Shoulda just been a lottery. Everyone in, draw 1000, thanks for playing. Otherwise it just leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
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Danzuke at 11/23/2006 16:35
same exact thing happened on Costco's website when they sold the PS3...
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Woverine at 11/23/2006 19:16
yeah, go look at the amazon message boards.. that place is a war zone.. people are PISSED.
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Dexter345 at 11/23/2006 23:07
Same story for me. I'm on a wireless connection on the east coast... I had no chance. I shouldn't have even bothered trying.
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