You might want to check your paypal balance.

The link you provided automatically is using your paypal account to purchase things.

MikeDaddy said:What's the best deal on an xbox 360 20 of 60GB right now?
if you see a 20GB, don't buy it, unless it is heavily discounted. They are all guaranteed to be older motherboards, not the Jasper boards that everybody hopes has fixed the reliability issues.
In fact, you probably ought to wait until the fall if you can, as rumor has it the 60GBs are going to be discontinued, with the Elites taking their place, and getting a price drop.
If you can't wait, you could always get an arcade, and then buy a cheap hard drive for it, such as this used 120GB:
http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.21431
$62.37 delivered. so for about $265, you get an Arcade edition Xbox 360, which at this point is all but guaranteed to have a Jasper motherboard, and a 120GB hard drive, which will remain the largest Xbox 360 hard drive for the foreseeable future. Of course if the current bundles interest you, like getting Halo 3 and Fable II, then just buying an Elite might be worth it. the Elites also come with about every proprietary cable you could ever need.

The paypal address listed on the top when you purchase things is the email address of the person who is selling the cards.

I think the chances that these codes were bought from Amazon with stolen credit cards = very high.

Amazon sells the digital codes online (AFAIK they are the only retailer who sell the redemption codes by themselves without a card), and the 4000 Live points code has been #1 on their bestsellers list in the video games section for a long time. If anyone follows the trends for video games sales, you'd know there's no reason it should be that high on their sales list unless something unnatural was going on (i.e. people are buying a lot of these codes with stolen credit cards). The highest ranking non-digital code for any Xbox 360-related items is #19, and somehow the 4000 points code is #1 in sales above the Wii.

jbigboote said:[If you can't wait, you could always get an arcade, and then buy a cheap hard drive for it, such as this used 120GB:
http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.21431
$62.37 delivered.
Those are not genuine drives, they are hacked with non-standard hard drives. It doesn't seem that they have, but Microsoft could ban users based on the fact that your hard drive does not have a valid unique serial number. So just keep that in mind with these "used/refurb" 360 hard drive deals.

jbigboote said:Toddler said:jbigboote said:[If you can't wait, you could always get an arcade, and then buy a cheap hard drive for it, such as this used 120GB:
http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.21431
$62.37 delivered.
Those are not genuine drives, they are hacked with non-standard hard drives. It doesn't seem that they have, but Microsoft could ban users based on the fact that your hard drive does not have a valid unique serial number. So just keep that in mind with these "used/refurb" 360 hard drive deals.

Spend $90 and get a genuine used one then.
I'm content with my 20GB, but how do you suggest knowing exactly which "used" ones are "genuine" anyway? I'd rather spend $135 and get a brand new one, it's cheaper than getting banned.

goog40 said:I think the chances that these codes were bought from Amazon with stolen credit cards = very high.

Amazon sells the digital codes online (AFAIK they are the only retailer who sell the redemption codes by themselves without a card), and the 4000 Live points code has been #1 on their bestsellers list in the video games section for a long time. If anyone follows the trends for video games sales, you'd know there's no reason it should be that high on their sales list unless something unnatural was going on (i.e. people are buying a lot of these codes with stolen credit cards). The highest ranking non-digital code for any Xbox 360-related items is #19, and somehow the 4000 points code is #1 in sales above the Wii.

I was trying to figure out how a college student can have all these points and sell them so cheap. How can he get it cheaper than Amazon and sell it for a profit? That explains a lot. The cost is ZERO

I got a working code when it was first posted on CAG, I received the code within 2 minutes or so, entered it in via XBL and voila, 4000 points.

I feel a little dirty now reading that he may have gotten them from stolen CC numbers, hopefully that's not true.

Keep in mind that the Amazon thing comes solely from one person's imagination, no matter how much it must seem like the only answer to that one person. Amazon isn't selling these things without markup.