This does remind of the wii days with all the shortages and ebay scalping.
BTW, you can get text alerts for online stock availability for the kinect from wiialerts.com . This was a pretty useful site to get items like the wii, fightsticks etc when they only last a short time in stock.
In my experience FR is a very big hit or miss. Maybe 1 every 4-5 times I might've gotten lucky. But even otherwise GF turnaround times arent too shabby.
I've shopped at Monoprice for more than 4 years, and I've for accessories and cables, is a no-brainer place. Just ordered a HDMI switch http://www.monoprice.com/products/product.asp?c_id=101&cp_id=10110&cs_id=1011002&p_id=6415&seq=1&format=2 and a zillion cables last week for under 100 bucks...
Thanks OP. I don't usually like selling anything to these guys because they lowball atrociously. But with a discount like this, I can pick up some good values. Theres a store not too far from my place.
Google checkout with the $10 back at buy.com etc. was a goldmine. You got free stuff for every free email address you could create.. Paypal cashback deals are so not cool compared to that.
Yeah, Bing was like giving away free money. I got so much back I was starting to feel guilty. No wonder they folded it up. Even M$ft can only give so much free money before it starts to hurt ?! 8-)