What's the deal with bay area xbox 360s?

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Old Mar 20, 2006 | 12:37 PM
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What's the deal with bay area xbox 360s?

You can only get them from gougers on ebay and craigslist right now, and rumors have it that BB has some but saves them for launch events. WTF?

Are store employees grabbing them all and hocking them or what? You can't find them outside of a bundle online, either. I'm so irritated I may just put a deposit on PS3.
Old Mar 20, 2006 | 12:38 PM
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I see them in stock at the Costco in Concord every time I go there.
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I see them in stock at the Costco in Concord every time I go there.
Really? I called Costo in Fremont and those *astards say "we don't carry the 360 anymore."
Old Mar 20, 2006 | 01:15 PM
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You see the 360's around...eh, I'm waiting for the PS3's.
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You see the 360's around...eh, I'm waiting for the PS3's.

heard it's been pushed to november... sigh... i was hoping to have a blu-ray player around summer...
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i work at Costco in South San Francisco, we only received one shipment which was right after the 360 released everywhere else. sold out in an hour. nothing since then, so most costcos id think are probably teh same
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Costco had a bundle for about 10 minutes on their site... $489 including xtra controller, PGR3, charge and play... and $20 for shipping... I decided NOT to get it.

I'll wait until I can get a premium alone... I already have Ghost Recon 3 sitting at home .
Old Mar 20, 2006 | 02:33 PM
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Originally Posted by HellaDumb
Costco had a bundle for about 10 minutes on their site... $489 including xtra controller, PGR3, charge and play... and $20 for shipping... I decided NOT to get it.

I'll wait until I can get a premium alone... I already have Ghost Recon 3 sitting at home .
yea came out to like 520 total at the store. you could have always tried to trade PGR3 for another game on craigslist i thought it was a pretty good deal
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I work at a best buy, and sometimes we get some in but it's only like 4-5 a week and they are always gone in a few minutes. Employees are not allowed to buy them, kinda sucks for me.
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Originally Posted by HellaDumb
You can only get them from gougers on ebay and craigslist right now, and rumors have it that BB has some but saves them for launch events. WTF?

Are store employees grabbing them all and hocking them or what? You can't find them outside of a bundle online, either. I'm so irritated I may just put a deposit on PS3.

first off i work at best buy and i can tell you that we don't take all the x box 360's we are not evan alowed to buy them at all!!! thatr is right we can't buy them, and yes we do get them in, like 10 at a time but microsoft is gay and wants to keep the demand up and the price high!!
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Consoles are sooooo 1996.


Unless its Nintendo and Zelda.


All other games are better on PC... I dont understand why people use consoles for FPS and such.

I understand Nintendo since they do their own thing... and maybe PS for Gran Turismo... But XBox just seems like a waste for me. My graphics and controls are better on my PC and I dont have to tie up the TV to play games... *shrug*
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Originally Posted by 04caliwrx
first off i work at best buy and i can tell you that we don't take all the x box 360's we are not evan alowed to buy them at all!!! thatr is right we can't buy them, and yes we do get them in, like 10 at a time but microsoft is gay and wants to keep the demand up and the price high!!
So what does that mean. Is Best Buy hoarding them?
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Originally Posted by brucelee
Consoles are sooooo 1996.


Unless its Nintendo and Zelda.


All other games are better on PC... I dont understand why people use consoles for FPS and such.

I understand Nintendo since they do their own thing... and maybe PS for Gran Turismo... But XBox just seems like a waste for me. My graphics and controls are better on my PC and I dont have to tie up the TV to play games... *shrug*

Damn dude, your PC outperformes a 3 core 3.2ghz PPC chip and runs higher resolution (720) and at a higher framerate? What the hell kind of computer are you running? I'm not trying to be a smart ***, I seriously want to know.

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Originally Posted by HellaDumb
You can only get them from gougers on ebay and craigslist right now, and rumors have it that BB has some but saves them for launch events. WTF?

Are store employees grabbing them all and hocking them or what? You can't find them outside of a bundle online, either. I'm so irritated I may just put a deposit on PS3.

I saw a couple at Target in Tanforan about a week ago. The Walmart in Mountain View had some as well when I strolled in on a work break.



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