Amazon.com is bringing back their holiday Customers Vote Program this year, where they pit three product deals against eachother and have customers vote on which they want. And this year they want to know which gaming offer is more popular, a $79 Wii, a $139 PS3 (40GB) or a $99 Xbox 360 Arcade.And since this is X3F, our vote and cash goes towards the uber cheap Xbox 360. So, this is how it works. Only one super-discounted-deal will "win" and be offered. To figure that out simply head over to this page, click the "Get started" button, sign into your Amazon.com account and place your customer vote on whichever you choose (ahem, Xbox 360). Then, later in the week, all the votes will be tallied and the winning product will be discounted to its "Winning Price" on November 22nd. It's quite simple. Oh, but there's one other wrench in your $99 Xbox 360 plan ... the consoles will be limited. Even if the Xbox 360 Arcade wins in the votes and becomes $99 there will only be 1,000 consoles made available for purchase. So, you'll have to be hella' quick on the Amazon.com ordering come Thursday. You've got the game plan, now go get 'em!
[Via Game Stooge]
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11-18-2007 @ 12:10PM
BluesmanTLU said...
I have absolutely no doubt that the Wii will win this, deserving or no. But I'd buy a $79 dollar Wii, so eh.
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11-18-2007 @ 12:20PM
David said...
It says on the page amazon will randomly select people who voted for the winning item and email them a link to buy the item no more page crashing.
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11-18-2007 @ 1:06PM
Mr Cool said...
^I remember trying to get that uber cheap 360 last year...
It was almost the end of the world when t3h intranetz crashed
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11-18-2007 @ 1:16PM
joemc72 said...
I actually got one of the 360's Amazon sold last year, but this year I have no doubt the Wii will win. That and the $700 46" 1080p Samsung that's offered as well.
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11-18-2007 @ 1:27PM
Andrew said...
The Wii will surely win this, in spite of the fact that they could get away with selling their surely limited stock for $279, rather than $79.
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11-18-2007 @ 1:32PM
Jonah Falcon said...
Check this out:
$99 Arcade + $179 120 GB HD = $268 Elite, since the Arcade has the HDMI port.
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11-18-2007 @ 1:32PM
elmersglue said...
X3F, I'm disappointed in you. Not only is this news a few days old already, but you didn't even bother getting down the details of it correctly (as everyone else has already mentioned, its a lottery, so you wont need to have a "gameplan"). Oh, and, you article doesn't bother mentioning that the 360 has no chance in hell to win...
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11-18-2007 @ 1:36PM
Bill said...
Yes, the Wii is already leading votes, followed by the PS3. The 360 has about 19% right now. But I'd probably buy any of them at those prices...
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11-18-2007 @ 1:57PM
mattclarkie said...
One Trillion Dollars says the Wiii wins.
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11-18-2007 @ 1:58PM
Jonah Falcon said...
"Second and third place products will be offered at a less discounted price."
You still get a deal if you buy the Arcade.
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11-18-2007 @ 2:13PM
Charles said...
It will not matter if you are "hella" quick. The 1000 systems will be randomly offered to voters who chose the winner. This is most likely to keep their servers up for other customers to do their thing while this goes on, unlike last year when everyone nearly crashed the internets trying to get at a $100 XBox.
Wii will be the winner easily. I wouldn't mond an $80 Wii myself.
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11-18-2007 @ 2:25PM
NuAngel said...
#11 is exactly correct. It's not a 'limited time offer.' It's only open to a randomly selected group of voters. To find out if you're allowed to buy, you have to come back on "buying day" - which, for this deal, is the 22nd.
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11-18-2007 @ 2:46PM
h0mi said...
Amazon will sell 0 360s at this price because the 360 is losing this contest and losing it badly. But then, it's a bit easier to justify the extra $180 for the 360 than it is to justify the $250 extra on the ps3. And the wii... everyone seems to want one anyway.
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11-18-2007 @ 3:04PM
Zack said...
I did this last year and '"won" a Core for 100 bucks =). They're doing it a bit differently this time, though. Instead of first come, first serve (which was fucking insane, the server was so slow), they're randomly selecting 1,000 people that voted for that certain product.
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11-18-2007 @ 3:07PM
violenceinhd said...
I'd LOVE a PS3 for that price. No reason for me to get a Wii because I like playing fun games.
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11-18-2007 @ 4:06PM
Grant said...
i think thats the price point i'd actually buy a PS3 at!
i mean the games are finally trickling out for it...
but alas, the wii will almost definitely take the cake.
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11-18-2007 @ 4:08PM
Grant said...
From amazon:
"Round 1 deals will be offered to randomly selected customers on Thursday, Nov. 22 (Pacific time)."
hm, i didn't know that there was a difference between Nov. 22 EST and PST.
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11-18-2007 @ 4:48PM
David W. said...
I already have a Wii...I already have a 360...I voted for the PS3...what the hell, there might be some games I might want...and what the hell, might as well have a Blue Ray player...I don't think it's reaaaaaaaaally stupid there's no backwards computability though...
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11-18-2007 @ 5:12PM
BowserUSC said...
thanks to everyone for not reading previous comments and saying the same exact thing about the lottery over and over again.
Also if you look at the price break, the Wii is a better deal then the rest.
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11-18-2007 @ 6:03PM
jkdoug said...
I voted for the Wii. Question is, though: where are they getting 1,000 Wiis when no one else ever has any in stock? I'm such a sad panda...
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