Live Cashback is Good
I’ve known about Live Cashback for a while now but haven’t had a real need to utilize it. I’ve seen 20% and 30% back on eBay purchases.
Well, recently my wife and I decided we’d get a Wii for the family for Christmas (something I was dead set against getting – but if that’s what the family wants – who am I to argue) with our rewards points from our credit card.
So I began my deal hunt. I bounced around from site to site, check the tracker sites and ended up at eBay trying find a new multi-player bundle.
I almost bought a bundle this weekend at Circuit City for $359 (wii, extra controller + nunchuck, charger, + $50 game). I had a “friends and family” coupon for 15% off, but they wouldn’t take the coupon (even through it doesn’t exclude consoles – at least I couldn’t find that clause) plus they didn’t have Wii Play w/controller.
Over at CAG (cheapassgamer.com) they had a thread alerting to the Cashback bonus at eBay being 30%. So I figured I’d do some hunting there.
I managed to find a new Wii + Wii Play w/controller + nunchuck + free shipping for $400. So with 30% cashback I take off $120 making it about $280. Not too bad. However, I know that those eBay sellers are 1. milking the Wii market, 2. Also milking the current cashback promo. Either way, I’m still getting a good deal after all is said and done.
I’m just nervous about blowing $300 on game console that will ultimately get played heavily for a month or so then forgotten about. I have no plans on stocking up on a ton of games and if I do pick up any, they’ll be on the pre-owned market.
As of this morning the seller already shipped (made good on his promise to ship next day) and even sent me the UPS tracking code.
Now to come up with some good Christmas morning drama since this is the only thing the kids will be opening.
April 5th, 2010 at 11:57 am
For those that think XBL is too expensive, check out this new facebook app: http://rewardsrave.com They let you earn free gold coins which you can use to get free XBL points. There’s 3 and 12 month Gold subscriptions, and 1600 or 4000 microsoft point cards. Just thought I’d share since a lot of people have been complaining since the new mappack for MW2 came out.