barc
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The ticket system is accurate, however make sure your local Best Buy has a plan, 2 years ago there was a mishap where they gave out tickets and placed items on the floor, so customers with tickets didnt get there products. It was a disaster to say the least.
I would think the store ate the cost of the mishap. I've had problems twice at BB where the store's staff screwed up and cost me getting something after being one of the first 20 people in line. Went to the manager both times and told them what happened and both times the manager gave me a similar item at a similar price (first time a desktop PC and second time a laptop). He sold me the items at their regular sale prices and then made up the difference in BB gift cards (basically he made up the difference by giving me free BB merchandise). If you get hosed, complain! The managers are too busy to sort through problems and will throw gift cards at you just to get you out of the store.
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Wow, I'm pleasantly surprised that BB is acutally doing something to help their customers.
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Last year WM was great. There were three of us though, so that made it much easier. It was a 24 hour WM, so they let us line up in front of the merchandise when we got there the night before, let us use their chairs to sit in and overall was the best experience we've ever had at WM. BB, one of the first to implement tickets continues to stink IMO. They just can't seem to control the crowds and leave it up to the crowd to enforce order themselves until the cops finally show up around 1 hour before opening. Luckily, they offer lots of stuff online now. I don't think I'll ever go to BB for BF again.
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I also predict a 2TB external HD by WD or seagate for $79. I gotta get me one of those if my crystal ball is correct.
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No doubt about it, WM. We got almost all of our shopping done there. Most disappointing was BB. Man, they really stunk last year.
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I..... I also think that you will see a good deal on video game systems again. Deals like the xbox 360 at walmart last year. It was 199 i believe w/a 100 gift card. This may have been one of the presales, not sure.....
Agreed. With Sony already looking at the PS4 and MS prototyping the xbox 720 for release late next year, I'd expect a lot of great deals on game systems and games. Also, the new xbox kinect and PS3 move will either be packaged with systems or help drive down the cost of systems to get the new products out the door before replaced with next generation hardware and games.
And it was a pre-BF sale at WM last year for an Arcade with $100 GC forr $199. Great Deal.
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Just talked to the wife. She's lined up with the $197 laptops (in the lawn and garden section) and has a cart with a few of the other 5:00 am deals in it. She's gotten 3 different stories from 3 Walmarters that she's talked to, so she's staying put by the laptops until someone tells her different.
She found a map that one of the managers put down and left on a counter so she knows what's in all the wrapped pallets.
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I like JasonAnna09's plan much better than mcmc's. Jason's allows you to get more than one thing while mcmc's make you stay in line and get only that one thing. My wife hopes Jason is right, but taking our 14 yo dd just in case.
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I'm in line right now: the line in front of my computer, where I just about finished off my shopping. I'll hit gamestop tomorrow for the PS3 deal and that's about it. There is nothing that is worth sitting out this long for. It's got to be the tradition of doing it for these kids.
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I bought the arcade on Amazon with the $100 promo credit. I went on ebay and got a 20gb hard drive for $29 shipped. I think my boys will be thrilled!! I bought them Halo 3 ODST for Christmas :)
To be fair to Jen, if you're paying full price for the Arcade, she is correct. It is probably worth it to go ahead and by the elite. However, as you point out, if you get the Arcade for $100, as many did from Walmart and Amazon, that is a much more cost effective way to go.
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You can't download maps or play certain parts of Halo 3 ODST. There are several other things I was told too by some college kids who are serious gamers. Why would you pay $200 anyway then another $60 or more when you can get an elite bundle w/Halo 3 ODST at Kmart on BF for $299?
It is your choice what you buy your kids but I personally know over 30 teenage boys and anyone of them will tell you they wouldn't want an Arcade Xbox360. I guess if their parents didn't have money and had to cut corners they'd be happy with anything though.
I wouldn't buy a hard drive on ebay either, I heard they are sellin banned/modded ones. Here is an article about it:
The bottom line is, if you buy an Arcade, you can expand it, for less cost, to be like the Elite, except the hard drive is external. You can download anything you want and store it on the hard drive, just like the elite. I just didn't want folks getting scared that they bought the "wrong" xbox. If you buy the Arcade now, you can get the hard drive in less than a week shipped to your house if you buy off ebay. Plenty of time before Christmas.
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I think they are talking about consoles with mod chips installed being banned. I'm pretty sure you would be safe buying a used xBox hdd...
Yep, that's what they're talking about. There is no modded hard drive, just consoles.
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What about the Radio Shack deal for the Xbox 360? Says $239 after rebate and 2 games. Anyone know details on the rebate or what games?
Looks like Pure and Batman Legos. These are the same games as many other package deals for BF. Don't know about the rebate other than what it says (mailed so you'll have to send in the receipt and proof of purchase and wait for the prepaid card). Hopefully it's not for RS use only. Still, not a bad deal and I doubt there's long lines at RS.
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Can you tell me how you can tell? The one I am looking at says "elite" it's this one:
http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_id=12517465
I am lost with these and need help so that I don't buy the wrong one.
Thanks!
That is an elite that you are looking at. Arcades are white, elites are black (or somtimes camo or silver or something else if you get a specially packaged xbox). There is no "wrong" one. There are advantages and disadvantages to both the Arcade (less expensive but no memory to store game plays) and the elite (more expensive but has an internal hard drive to save game plays). You can expand the Arcade through an external hard drive at less cost than buying an elite and have the same box. That's not much of a deal on the elite you're looking at IMO. Unless you are going to store tons of songs and videos on your xbox, you won't need a 250 Gb hard drive. Most folks who have a 20 Gb hard drive don't come close to filling it up.
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FYI, you can get an 120Gb xbox elite with two games (Batman Legos and something else I don't remember) for $293 right now at Costco. No lines, no getting up early. They had tons of them.
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Seriously, that's a bit overkill. My husband and I have the arcade version, we're avid gamers.. and it's just fine. It does everything the Elite does, it just does not come with a hard drive. It does have 256mb of internal memory for game saves (And that is enough for 2-3 games on one profile). Hard drives can be bought off of eBay for a dime a dozen. We got our 20gb hard drive for a whole $5.
120 Gb just sold on ebay for $58 with free shipping. If you got the Arcade at Walmart a couple of weeks ago for $199 with a $100 gift card, you could get the equivalent of a 120g Elite for $158. Pretty darn good deal.
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You can stream movies with the XBox using their Instant Watch choice. I know you can watch DVDs and BlueRays with the PS3.
And you can watch streaming movies too. I got the disk a few weeks ago. I put it in my PS3 (not an xbox) and stream movies.
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WTH is up with all the XBox deals being arcade versions???
It is driving me nuts! Not only do I think they are basically worthless unless you are spending even more money to get a hard drive but what about all those excited teen boys who want to play COD & Halo only to find out they really can't play everything??? How many parents don't know this and will think they are getting a great deal only to have disappointed kids? Even not counting online game play who wants to get really far in a game and not even be able to save it? I would think Walmart would have a had a good deal similar (maybe even better) to Kmart, but nope, they have the arcade version. So at this point I am either going to get it at Kmart....which I was hoping would come with COD:MW2 and not Halo, or hope for a good Amazon.com bundle deal.
I'm confused about all this bashing of the Arcade. Other than the hard drive it is the same box as the elite. You won't get an hdmi cable or upgraded wireless controller (but you still get a lower grade wireless one). Why don't people think it won't play Halo. It plays it just fine. You just can't save many game plays with it since it only has a couple hundred meg of internal storage. If that becomes a problem, you can get an external drive for less than $100.
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I did not think you could stream Netflix on the PS3. Am I wrong?
Thanks.
Yes, you are wrong. Netflix ships the disk and you put it in your PS3 and presto, you're streaming movies.
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Never mind Sorry
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OK, so the "o PS3, Xbox 360, and Wii - $119.00 plus $40 Walmart Gift Card" is a mistake right? I noticed that there is the same deal except for $199 a few lines down. The second deal is a great deal. The first deal would be an absolute steal.
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Arrival Time
in 2009
What time do you experts think I should realistically arrive at Best Buy if I wanted to get a Playstation 3 slim with the 2 free games? Thanks!!
Don't bother. Walmart just came out and they have 2 top of the line games for the same price and they throw in The Dark Knight blu ray DVD. You can show up after midnight Thursday night/Friday morning at WalMart and be pretty much be guaranteed that box instead of waiting outside all day Thursday for BB. Avoid BB like the plague I say
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Target just dropped to number two for me. The TomTom is too good to pass up. And that PS3 package is very nicely priced as well.
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Still looks like Office Max for me. No way is Best Buy worth a trip this year. I got the XBox deal at Walmart for the kids last weekend and that was about the only thing of interest in this ad. I guess the rumors regarding the netbooks were off, way way off.
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