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Posted at 8:53 AM on Thursday 07/10/08 by
Ben
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Buy.com has the refurbished Xbox 360 Platinum System (with 20GB Hard Drive) for $200 + $0 shipping = $200 shipped. Xbox 360 Platinum includes system with hardrive, headset, and one wireless controller. Appears to be a non-HDMI version. The retail new Xbox 360 will be dropping to $300 MSRP. [BizRate]
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    CleftonTwain - Posted 8:59 am PDT 07/10/08 (370 Posts)  Report Spam

    Rumor has it a 60 GB Xbox 360 is going to hit store shelves soon. Of course they'll also probably (later) sell the 60 GB hard drives separately.

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    TexasFury - Posted 9:02 am PDT 07/10/08 (654 Posts)  Report Spam

    MESSAGE DELETED BY THE N DUE TO VIOLATION OF THE INTERPOL DECENCY EDICT.

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    SpacemanSpiff - Posted 9:11 am PDT 07/10/08 (299 Posts)  Report Spam

    Drugs are bad, mmkay?

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    std - Posted 9:29 am PDT 07/10/08 (74 Posts)  Report Spam

    Good price, but considering this an refurbished Xbox 360, and that the new systems will probably have a more reliable chipset, it might be worth waiting and paying more for the upcoming 60 GB systems.

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    milf_hunter - Posted 10:04 am PDT 07/10/08 (2886 Posts)  Report Spam

    RIP, Sony.

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    florida - Posted 10:39 am PDT 07/10/08 (327 Posts)  Report Spam

    Price drop rumored for right after E3 on all versions

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    the lawyer - Posted 10:46 am PDT 07/10/08 (4118 Posts)  Report Spam

    I may just buy another 360 once it hits 300.

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    Wand - Posted 11:01 am PDT 07/10/08 (1417 Posts)  Report Spam

    #2, are you also in an illusion that Austin is the capital United States?

    Or you think you live in United State of Texas?

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    Mommy - Posted 1:36 pm PDT 07/10/08 (7 Posts)  Report Spam

    Wait Till After Next week (07/15) Once MS and Sony's Big announcements are done at E3 - Major price drops rumored.

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    adg - Posted 4:39 am PDT 07/12/08 (735 Posts)  Report Spam

    Rumor has it you're a tool

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    jaylord - Posted 8:15 pm PDT 07/13/08 (3 Posts)  Report Spam

    DO NOT FALL FOR THIS SCAM! I ordered one of these and it died with the Red Ring of Death (RRoD) after one week (4 days /< 20 hours playing time). They are probably all units that were gotten to work for a short time using the "towel fix", so croaking after 4 days is about right.

    YOU CANNOT RETURN THEM! They have 60 day limited warranty with a "Special Returns Policy" slapped on them. This means that the only recourse you have is to call an outside "tech support" number that never connects you to anything (endless hold). Of course, <a rel="nofollow" href="/merchants/buy-com-coupons-96/jump/" target="_new">Buy.com's website doesn't tell you what "Special Returns Policy" means.

    THE 60 DAY WARRANTY STARTS FROM THE DAY YOU PLACE THE ORDER! Not from the day you receive it or even the day they ship it. So the clock is ticking...

    THE WARRANTY IS NOT EXTENDED IF YOU NEED A REPLACEMENT UNIT! So if after waiting 4-6 weeks (if you're lucky), the second unit could croak within a week and too bad, you might as well flushed your $200 down the toilet. My guess is that they'll just hold on to the unit until the 60 days expires, ship back the same unit without touching it, and laugh all the way to the bank. If I ever get through to them and get an RMA number all I'll get for my trouble is an outrageous charge for "Shipping & Handling".

    Do the math:
    DAYS
    Time from placing the order until you receive it: 7-10
    Time for the first unit to RRoD 7-14
    Time to get through to them to get an RMA 2-5
    Time for it to get it to them w/o paying $30 shipping: 5-7
    Time for them to turn it around (being optimistic): 21-35
    Time for it to be shipped back to you: 5-7
    Time for the second unit to RRoD (probably DOA): 0-14
    Time to get through to them to get an RMA 2-5

    Total 49-97

    If I'm real "lucky... [Truncated]

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    jaylord - Posted 8:21 pm PDT 07/13/08 (3 Posts)  Report Spam

    DO NOT FALL FOR THIS SCAM! I ordered one of these and it died with the Red Ring of Death (RRoD) after one week (4 days /< 20 hours playing time). They are probably all units that were gotten to work for a short time using the "towel fix", so croaking after 4 days is about right.

    YOU CANNOT RETURN THEM! They have 60 day limited warranty with a "Special Returns Policy" slapped on them. This means that the only recourse you have is to call an outside "tech support" number that never connects you to anything (endless hold). Of course, <a rel="nofollow" href="/merchants/buy-com-coupons-96/jump/" target="_new">Buy.com's website doesn't tell you what "Special Returns Policy" means.

    THE 60 DAY WARRANTY STARTS FROM THE DAY YOU PLACE THE ORDER! Not from the day you receive it or even the day they ship it. So the clock is ticking...

    THE WARRANTY IS NOT EXTENDED IF YOU NEED A REPLACEMENT UNIT! So if after waiting 4-6 weeks (if you're lucky), the second unit could croak within a week and too bad, you might as well flushed your $200 down the toilet. My guess is that they'll just hold on to the unit until the 60 days expires, ship back the same unit without touching it, and laugh all the way to the bank. If I ever get through to them and get an RMA number all I'll get for my trouble is an outrageous charge for "Shipping & Handling".

    Do the math:
    DAYS
    Time from placing the order until you receive it: 7-10
    Time for the first unit to RRoD 7-14
    Time to get through to them to get an RMA 2-5
    Time for it to get it to them w/o paying $30 shipping: 5-7
    Time for them to turn it around (being optimistic): 21-35
    Time for it to be shipped back to you: 5-7
    Time for the second unit to RRoD (probably DOA): 0-14
    Time to get through to them to get an RMA 2-5

    Total 49-97

    If I'm real "lucky... [Truncated]

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    jaylord - Posted 8:23 pm PDT 07/13/08 (3 Posts)  Report Spam

    Sorry for the double post. I hit the reload button and it posted it again. Eek!

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    TexasFury - Posted 3:37 am PDT 07/14/08 (654 Posts)  Report Spam

    One word: chargeback

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