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Xbox 360 Live 12-Month Gold Membership Subscription Card
2x 12 Month XBL $34.99 = $69.98 - $15 = $54.98
Use code get15ce to get $15 off any order over $50 for first time customers.

Xbox 360 Live 4000 Points Card
Add $3 filler and use get15ce for total of $37.22

xbox live been on sale so much lately i dont think it will work or it will be free on next xbox but good deal 27.50 / yr if you're still going to play 360 games online when next xbox is out

If it's cheap now, it's probably because Microsoft wants people to buy enough membership to last until 2016, then poof, you buy an Xbox 720 and they've got you for the next generation.

i don't see where i can enter that code.

What is Ratuken.com? Never heard of it.

^ Ratuken bought Buy.com and is apparently a big Japanese company.

I don't think Microsoft is going to isolate itself from the competitors and abandon backwards compatibility on "720." If anything these sales could be a clever ploy to give them a more favorable standing with players to seduce them to buy "720"... or in regards to the subscriptions, maybe they figure if people buy a year or two now, they'll just buy the "720" because they know they already have gold access.

Originally Posted by Gamer SDP ^ Ratuken bought Buy.com and is apparently a big Japanese company.

Totally stupid to change the name. Buy.com is an amazing domain to have.

They didn't change their name, Rakuten bought Buy.com (methinks they took the website's name a bit too literally).

From 2 seconds of Googling, it seems that Rakuten is Amazonian big in Japan. Kaiju Pacific Rim Job big...

Great price on the points, but I don't think anyone should buy excess Gold subs until we know what's really going on.

Originally Posted by Kerig They didn't change their name, Rakuten bought Buy.com (methinks they took the website's name a bit too literally). From 2 seconds of Googling, it seems that Rakuten is Amazonian big in Japan. Kaiju Pacific Rim Job big... Great price on the points, but I don't think anyone should buy excess Gold subs until we know what's really going on.

What I mean is- Buy.com just straight redirects to Rakuten without any masking. It's good for the Japanese buyers, but for American buyers it's hard to remember "Rakuten." Much better marketing to just be like "yeah you want to buy something? Go to buy.com."

Buy.com have some of the worst CS and system that I have seen, don't know if they cleaned it up now. They do not regulate their third party sellers at all, I have bought both CDs and games that arrived as bootleg copies.

Coupon is only taking off $10 and there were shipping charges. The website is impossible to search as well.

This is not the deal I was expecting when I came into this thread. I was about to be all over some points cards at that price but there isn't a deal on the card. Besides that, so many of us have already made purchases from buy.com in the past that this deal does not apply to the masses.

It might also be worth noting that you could get the xbox live messenger starter kit bundle for around 45 before taxes with the 15 off promo if I am not mistaken.
http://www.rakuten.com/prod/xbox-360...218861061.html
Seems to be a solid deal as it includes a year of live, 400 MSP plus a chat pad and headset combo.

Originally Posted by TooPoor Buy.com have some of the worst CS and system that I have seen, don't know if they cleaned it up now. They do not regulate their third party sellers at all, I have bought both CDs and games that arrived as bootleg copies.

Worse yet, in the open-letter about the transition to Rakuten, they made it pretty clear that the emphasis is greatly focused on third-party sellers, and if what I've seen is any indicator, it seems like the majority of their inventory is no longer their own, blegh.

Originally Posted by Sanges99 Worse yet, in the open-letter about the transition to Rakuten, they made it pretty clear that the emphasis is greatly focused on third-party sellers, and if what I've seen is any indicator, it seems like the majority of their inventory is no longer their own, blegh.

Sounds like an 'avoid' to me.

Originally Posted by sonnyforple Coupon is only taking off $10 and there were shipping charges. The website is impossible to search as well.

The 4k points are sold out from buy.com, what you're seeing is from TigerDirect. The thought of buying from TigerDirect through Rakuten gives me goosebumps.

I'm still not entirely sure what's going on here, their website logo clearly states:
<---yuk...ok, not so clearly: "formerly Buy.com"

yet when I want to buy something directly from them it says "ships from/sold by buy.com"

Not so sure they understand the meaning of formerly...

Originally Posted by mossfan563 i don't see where i can enter that code.

Same here.

A 1600 point card is $19.99 + $6.18 shipping from Buy.com, or $22.31 + $2.68 shipping from the cheapest third party.

I think I've bought from Buy.com twice since I had a problem with them dating back to the Dreamcast era. I won't miss any change in format.

You have to go all the way through the payment option (I used paypal) and then it redirects back to there site before you finally place the order.

There is a $5 shipping charge though so it makes it $60... not much cheaper than normal.