Ok, so over Christmas vacation I racked up enough points to get a 360 controller, made the order on Christmas day and trolled around here enough to figure it will take a month for me to get my controller, I'm starting to get nervous because a month has just gone by since my order and I am moving...
They must have gone out of stock of Halo 3 with in an hour of the sale starting up. I'm on the east coast and due to me being an idiot with the different time zones. I ordered mine about 2 hours after the sale started and I still got the backordered email.
I think the XBOX 360 refurb may be even lower than that, I picked one up last weekend for 185, I also got a month of xbox live and my total was $207. I'll double check this weekend...I have to return that 360 already. It RROD'ed on the 2nd day.
Also the $30 Halo 3 only works if you buy brand...
http://www.hstrial-aschriefer.homestead.com/
They just posted today in Philadelphia Craigslist as I was trying to find a cheap 360 for the holidays.
They posted that they had xbox 360 with halo 3, and smackdown vs raw 2008 with 2 wireless controllers *brand new* for 275.00.
Now of course...
Do Refurbished Xbox 360s have the warranty stickers still on them?
I'm considering getting one from microcenter, and I would still like the safety net of Microsoft's 3 yr Warranty for the RRoD