View Full Version : So what do I do with this Xbox I'm getting...?
abcdefz
12-22-2005, 01:48 PM
It's the Xbox 360, and we're each getting one as a Christmas bonus whenever they arrive. (I don't know what that means, or when they were ordered, etc.)
1) Any idea when Xbox 360's are available again?
2) Let's assume there's no gift receipt. Ebay, Craigslist, or what? And does the price depend on when mine arrives?
3) What would you ask for it?
It's this one. (http://www.xbox.com/NR/rdonlyres/56DA078D-93A8-4E9C-8E9F-E40E6B59D073/0/SGRProSku.jpg)
do you have a nephew or neice that may want it?
maybe you should find a car that is unlocked and put it in there with a note.....
ASsman
12-22-2005, 01:52 PM
Average price on the on ebay is 800$, remember this being an average. I'd ask atleast twice the reail value being around 800$ :D . Atleast you could probably get around a grand or more. Some have gone for 2 grand, depending when you sell it and if Microsoft recalls them or not.
Word on the street is there are some more coming in this week, but that might just be saved stock from the first delivery...
I would sell it while it's hot, no pun intended... Before they get recalled cause they are POS's.
abcdefz
12-22-2005, 01:52 PM
try and sell it on ebay.
I might have to do it that way.
do you have a nephew or neice that may want it?
maybe you should find a car that is unlocked and put it in there with a note.....
Bah. Nephews and nieces! Pffffft!
Bah! Cars! Humbug! :mad:
abcdefz
12-22-2005, 01:53 PM
Average price on the on ebay is 800$, remember this being an average. I'd ask atleast twice the reail value being around 800$ :D . Atleast you could probably get around a grand or more. Some have gone for 2 grand, depending when you sell it and if Microsoft recalls them or not.
Word on the street is there are some more coming in this week, but that might just be saved stock from the first delivery...
I would sell it while it's hot, no pun intended... Before they get recalled cause they are POS's.
....I wouldn't charge over retail, actually.... :o
abcdefz
12-22-2005, 01:54 PM
I would sell it while it's hot, no pun intended... Before they get recalled cause they are POS's.
...so I hear.
See? They should've used our software on the cell design.... :rolleyes:
ASsman
12-22-2005, 01:54 PM
....I wouldn't charge over retail, actually.... :o
Pfff, what a gip, supply and demand. Overcharging isn't any different than what retailers do. Capitalism rules!
The one at my work stopped working and started freezing up a week after we got it. It seems to work now....
Ill be waiting on my PS3.. so that I may sell it on ebay and buy myself a luxury sedan.
abcdefz
12-22-2005, 01:55 PM
Capitalism rules!
I get pretty humorless about this stuff, dude. :)
ASsman
12-22-2005, 01:57 PM
Buh, if you just gonna sell it for retail, 300-400$. Give it to some kid with cancer then, or something crazy like Toys for Tots. That would kick ass.
Buh, if you just gonna sell it for retail, 300-400$. Give it to some kid with cancer then, or something crazy like Toys for Tots. That would kick ass.
I agree.
abcdefz
12-22-2005, 01:59 PM
Buh, if you just gonna sell it for retail, 300-400$. Give it to some kid with cancer then, or something crazy like Toys for Tots. That would kick ass.
You're Binary Man!
Off.
On.
...there is no other.
abcdefz
12-22-2005, 02:01 PM
I agree.
Yeesh. You guys make it sound like I couldn't use cash this Christmas.
That's the thing that bugs me about semi-silly, expensive gifts. I know of at least three of the seven people on staff really, really could have used a cash Christmas bonus instead of this.
It's kind of a "let them eat cake!" thing.
ASsman
12-22-2005, 02:03 PM
That's part of the joy of Christmas, get drunk enough to forget about the whoes in the world...
And it comes back to my original plan.... You could help a lot more with 2 grand, than with some stupid rare console.... Help yourself out, give someone a secret gift (someone that needs it most) buy some toys and drop them off at one of those boxes.
TurdBerglar
12-22-2005, 02:06 PM
what a fucked up bonus
why couldn't they just give you the cash
ASsman
12-22-2005, 02:07 PM
what a fucked up bonus
why couldn't they just give you the cash
I'd rather get something I could capitalize on, but that's just me.
TurdBerglar
12-22-2005, 02:10 PM
well that fact that it's a new xbox he can make a fortune ebaying it. but imagine if it were some other $400 useless hunk of plastic. it may not be useless to a lot of people but it sure seems useless to a-z. useless hunk of plastic? or cash? i'd take cash. it just seems like a dumb bonus.
ASsman
12-22-2005, 02:12 PM
I guess their intent was to give them something that's worth a little more than what they actually paid for it. A newly released console being just that... silly yes, but I believe that was their intention.
abcdefz
12-22-2005, 02:14 PM
what a fucked up bonus
why couldn't they just give you the cash
The owner/boss has lots and lots and lots of money. So do his main guys here. And they love toys. This really is a full-on gesture of love from him; he just doesn't understand what it's like to not be one of the very-well-paid.
I know, when I got my brand new used bike a few months ago after another got ripped off, one of the guys here looked at it and said, "(Boss) really doesn't pay you much, does he?" and was kind of shocked.
Well, to me, I get paid okay, but not the kind of money this guy -- the AE who looked at my bike -- has. To wit: in my office, behind my cubicle area, he has stashed FOUR --- FOUR -- world class touring bikes, one ridden by a former tour de whatever winner -- witha total value of roughly $13,000.
He doesn't ride them. They've been gathering dust for a couple years.
He sees it as an "investment." :rolleyes:
TurdBerglar
12-22-2005, 02:19 PM
maybe you can gank on of those bikes and he won't notice
abcdefz
12-22-2005, 02:24 PM
don't get me started
TurdBerglar
12-22-2005, 02:27 PM
buy me a plane ticket and i'll gank if for ya. we can split the profits.
or i'll just take the fuckn' bike for myself
abcdefz
12-22-2005, 02:33 PM
....send me your credit card with a minimum credit limit of $5k and a document of authorization and I'll buy you a ticket.
TurdBerglar
12-22-2005, 02:35 PM
HA
i don't even have a credit card
abcdefz
12-22-2005, 02:36 PM
....waaaaallllll then, you can just forget about that plane ticket and any subsequent ganking, then, sir.
TurdBerglar
12-22-2005, 02:38 PM
fuck you
i don't even need you to gank
abcdefz
12-22-2005, 02:41 PM
fuck you
i don't even need you to gank
I'm sure you practice a lot when you're alone.
TurdBerglar
12-22-2005, 02:42 PM
wait
you need to practice?
abcdefz
12-22-2005, 02:52 PM
Try the one lower, one higher/overhand grip. It's got a name, but I can't remember what it's called. But anyway, it could change your wife.
Life. Change your life.
TurdBerglar
12-22-2005, 02:54 PM
you ever wrap the shower curtain around your hand so it feels more slippery?
abcdefz
12-22-2005, 02:55 PM
I use eel sauce.
TurdBerglar
12-22-2005, 02:56 PM
i let my eel suace go down the drain
abcdefz
12-22-2005, 02:58 PM
...you don't press it between wax paper in your family album? :confused:
TurdBerglar
12-22-2005, 03:00 PM
now im lost
abcdefz
12-22-2005, 03:07 PM
I WIN
ScarySquirrel
12-22-2005, 03:19 PM
I'll give you $100 for it.
abcdefz
12-22-2005, 03:22 PM
$OLiD
vanillgorilla
12-22-2005, 03:46 PM
Play the fucker....thats what I did. And as for them being shit, I disagree ive played the shit out of mine and still works the same as when I got it...But if you are in the look out for a quick buck I'd go classifieds, I dont know about your area but around hear there going for like a grand and higher and dont stay in the paper for more than a couple of days..
abcdefz
12-23-2005, 09:10 AM
Play the fucker....thats what I did.
...it's not worth my time to get sucked into a computer dexterity-skillz opiate.
You have no idea how little interest I have in this. Tickets to some formula one race would have registered just slightly higher on my scale of interest -- right under synchronized swimming and basket weaving.
vanillgorilla
12-23-2005, 09:36 AM
true....then just put it in the paper, itll go fast trust me. Old people dont know how to use ebay, and they want a 360 for there grandkids.
abcdefz
12-23-2005, 10:46 AM
...hopefully we'll get ours soon.
If our shipment doesn't arrive until, say, 2007, people will probably have their own by then.
ASsman
12-23-2005, 01:32 PM
Retailers are gonna start getting them stocked..... Expect prices to go down on ebay almost imediatly...
abcdefz
12-23-2005, 01:37 PM
That's what I figure. That's why I'm guessing I'm lucky to get $200-$300 for it when it finally shows up at my door.
Post-Christmas; XBoxes are back in stock everywhere.... pfft.
I hope he gives us gift receipts. :o
ASsman
12-23-2005, 01:39 PM
That's what I figure. That's why I'm guessing I'm lucky to get $200-$300 for it when it finally shows up at my door.
Post-Christmas; XBoxes are back in stock everywhere.... pfft.
I hope he gives us gift receipts. :o
There is still a chance if you get it on the incoming shipment, being today... Strike a few more, cause it's still only like double digits at stores... 20-40 at most...
It's only after christmas that there will be loodles of defective XBOX's..
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