My 'free' Xbox 360

[JohnW]

So, I am the owner of a new 'free' Xbox 360 Platinum bundle. If anyone is interested, heres what I did.

I went to gadgetcity.com after a friend told me they got an Ipod Nano free from them.

I chose the Xbox360 offer and gave them my email address and home address and such. You have to complete 4 offers for the Xbox360.

I did one where you sign up for a new Ebay acct and use Buy It Now within a week on any item (doesn't matter the cost of the item), so that one was easy. I signed up for netflix and blockbuster for 9.95 or somethign each which you can cancel after a month but I kept them cuz it's really damned cheap and convienient. I signed up for a free trial of some vitamins which I paid like 4 dollars shipping for. And thats It.

Now heres the fun part. The netflix was confimed right away, the blockbuster took a little longer, the ebay I had to call gadgetcity and give them my new ebay account details along with the item number I purchased using buyit now. The vitamins was the kicker as that didn't get automatically confimed so I had to send them the order confirmation email and it took a few weeks for them to manually confim it.

After I got all 4 offers completed I had to print out a certificate and mail it in to them. A week later I got a w-9 in the mail to fill out and send back, I did. Then the real waiting began.

They are supposed to ship out the stuff 6-8 weeks after the offers are completed but the company that they get the xboxen from (techdepot) pulled the 360s they had because of the revision and it took them a loooong time to get them back in. But I waited.. and waited.. and now finally I have an Xbox 360. Ok so it wasn't free, but pretty damned cheap and I now have blockbuster and netflix which is a bonus.

It usually doesn't take as long as it did for me so give it a try, but be warned, for me it look from 1/22/06 till today, so it may take a while.

Im not advertising or anything, and you don't need any referals or any crap like that, I just thought it was a cool deal that I actually got the 360.

[94NDTA]

86fc3s wrote:
So, I am the owner of a new 'free' Xbox 360 Platinum bundle. If anyone is interested, heres what I did.

I went to gadgetcity.com after a friend told me they got an Ipod Nano free from them.

I chose the Xbox360 offer and gave them my email address and home address and such. You have to complete 4 offers for the Xbox360.

I did one where you sign up for a new Ebay acct and use Buy It Now within a week on any item (doesn't matter the cost of the item), so that one was easy. I signed up for netflix and blockbuster for 9.95 or somethign each which you can cancel after a month but I kept them cuz it's really damned cheap and convienient. I signed up for a free trial of some vitamins which I paid like 4 dollars shipping for. And thats It.

Now heres the fun part. The netflix was confimed right away, the blockbuster took a little longer, the ebay I had to call gadgetcity and give them my new ebay account details along with the item number I purchased using buyit now. The vitamins was the kicker as that didn't get automatically confimed so I had to send them the order confirmation email and it took a few weeks for them to manually confim it.

After I got all 4 offers completed I had to print out a certificate and mail it in to them. A week later I got a w-9 in the mail to fill out and send back, I did. Then the real waiting began.

They are supposed to ship out the stuff 6-8 weeks after the offers are completed but the company that they get the xboxen from (techdepot) pulled the 360s they had because of the revision and it took them a loooong time to get them back in. But I waited.. and waited.. and now finally I have an Xbox 360. Ok so it wasn't free, but pretty damned cheap and I now have blockbuster and netflix which is a bonus.

It usually doesn't take as long as it did for me so give it a try, but be warned, for me it look from 1/22/06 till today, so it may take a while.

Im not advertising or anything, and you don't need any referals or any crap like that, I just thought it was a cool deal that I actually got the 360.
So how long did you wait, and how much did it end up costing?

[JohnW]

it took a total of about 6 months because of availibility issues with the 360. techdepot i guess sent back all of thier stock of the original model with the overheating problems and then had to wait for the new revision which was sent out on a first come, first served basis and there were alot of people waiting. during the meantime though I was offered a check for $300 instead of the 360 but I didn't take it because 360s are $399 and I just wanted to wait for the 360. total cost? 9.95 for blockbuster, 9.95 for netflix, 5.00 shipping for vitamins, and the ebay acct was free but I had to buy something using buy it now within 1 week. So total with say a $5.00 ebay purchase was about 30-40 bux. not bad eh?

[Guest]

I just won mine through Mountain Dew.