Whenever I bought them, I input them immediately, so I don’t know if they expire or not Robert. Because I usually pounce on really good bargain on cards, or even free cards, I’m paid up to sometime in 2011, so I’ll skip this particular deal.
sinfony
3082
I got a three month Live card way back in 2004 that I didn’t use until about a year ago, and it worked just fine. For whatever it’s worth.
Stopped in at Best Buy today to look for an LG BH200 (I just missed the last one by a day or two, and it was only $100! Damn it!) and walked out with The Simpsons Game for the 360 for $9.99.
I didn’t dig the demo that much, but for that price, I’ll give the game another shot.
Xaroc
3084
Damn, that’s some sweet action right there. I heard the demo really didn’t do the game justice, and I’m a huge Simpsons fan. Is that a general price right now?
Cubit
3086
The store I work at has stacks of them for $9.99. Its a get them all out of here price. Bestbuy.com doesn’t even have The Simpsons Game for sale anymore.
Yeah, that was sticker price.
shift6
3088
Nice purchase, video game guy!
ZekeDMS
3089
For that price, it’s well worth it. The game itself still came out a bit lacking (and made me miss the brawler of old), but as a Simpson’s episode, hilarious.
Dark Messiah of M&M Elements for 360 is the Deal of the Day at Amazon (less than $10). I loved the PC original, unlike most people here. It was one of my favorite games of 2006. But so many people hated it. So it was tough for me to tell if people hated the 360 version because they would have also hated the original, or if it was because it was a bad port.
ZekeDMS
3091
I loved the PC version, and I cannot express my pure hatred of the 360 version enough.
Wretched, absolutely WRETCHED. All RPG elements cut, combat totally fucked, clipping boned, levels recut into bland ultra-linear affairs with much less depth and variety.
The first sword you get hits people 20 feet away. If you’re a warrior. Did I mention you’re forced into one of four classes and they’re all full of mutual exclusivity? IE, only sword, staves, daggers, or bow/arrow.
Unbelievably bad port, just avoid it entirely.
Thanks for the heads up Zeke. That does sound terrible.
In other bargain news, The Complete Sopranos on DVD is on sale today for $150 on Amazon.
Cubit
3093
ZekeDMS
3094
Yeah. That’s not even half of it, the graphics are horrid (Monster Jam level bad), view distortion, a bad linear levelling system, etc. etc. Hell, the great tutorial level even got a massive revamp. Yech.
I really enjoyed the PC version, but this an absolute stinker. There’s more on my site, but I think you get the idea. Avoid!
Amazon’s deals of the day have been garbage lately, but I did stumble across this today: Xbox 360 wireless controllers for $34.99.
JonRowe
3097
This is what most liquidators do.
They raise prices, then make cuts. Most of the times things are cheaper… but not by much. I was watching one of those secret camera style shows, and they peeled off tags and saw that the price had increased. Sure everything was 25%, but after the markup… things were MORE expensive. Liquidators are not CC, and they aim to make a profit. They are a business, and they don’t care if they screw over customers. No returns, who cares.
RickH
3098
Video card prices are dropping a bit. Faced with a dead card in the kids’ system, I decided to snag a new one for myself and let them have the older card.
I ordered an EVGA 9800 GTX+ card for $160 shipped with a $20 rebate from newegg. Other GTX cards are still at the $200-plus range.
RickH
3099
No kidding. These no-recourse sales are often a far worse deal than you can get from a going concern with actual return policies and customer service.
With the liquidation sales you usually have to wait until the prices are at least 30% off on the item you want before it becomes a decent deal. Problem is, most places will claim “40% off everything!” and then you get there and only a few useless things are 40% off and most of the good stuff is 10%-20% off MSRP, which equals what you’d pay at the competition on a normal weekend.
The vast majority of people don’t understand this though, and they clean the place out when stuff is 10% or 20% off and think they’re getting a deal. That’s what the liquidation company counts on. The liquidation company also knows it can resell certain items like laptops, desktops and TVs through other channels at set prices, so the discounts on those items never make it past the 25% off MRSP phase. Thus by the time the store actually has everything at 30%-50% off you’re looking at items they couldn’t resell anywhere else and that nobody in the 3-4 weeks previously thought was a good enough deal to buy at a lower discount. In other words, JUNK.
I have picked up some good deals at liquidations before, but only on exotic items or things that other people wouldn’t think to buy. Stuff like specialty cables, print cartridges for uncommon printers, fax cartridges for business fax machines, software of various sorts (including the occasional older but decent game) and printed materials like computer books and video game strategy guides. I usually dump most of it on Ebay and make a 50-100% profit, then use the money to fund my video game addiction. When Media Play went out of business several years ago I went there on the last day of liquidation and bought dozens of brand new strategy guides for Halo 2, Pirates! and other games for 25 cents each which I then sold over the next few months on Ebay for $4-$6 a pop.
