Best Buy: Xbox live 12months subscription -- $30+a little bit of effort

Saw this on CAG and didn't see it posted here. Basically you get a text message that will get you $20 off the normal price of $50. For more details/discussion, you can check CAG and/or SD.

What you will need:
Reward Zone membership (free)
Cell phone with text message

Legitimate way to do this:
-Text "Gamer" to 332211. This signs you up to Best Buy reward zone alert thingy. I think they text you game related deals.
-Once signed up, within a few hours, you should get a text saying:
Show this msg & Save $20 on XBox Live 12 Month Card. Sku: 9636222 Expires 11/14 Rz Members Only. Limit 1.-Go to BB, pick up a subscription card, have them scan your Reward Zone card, then show them this text message.

Shortcut way to do this (avoid signing up for alert system):
*Many people on other forums reported this to work*
-Send YOURSELF the text message:
Show this msg & Save $20 on XBox Live 12 Month Card. Sku: 9636222 Expires 11/14 Rz Members Only. Limit 1.-Go to BB, pick up a subscription card, have them scan your Reward Zone card, then show them this text message.

EDIT: Some people apparently have had luck getting them to apply this to the ModernWarfare2 12-month subscription card, which comes with a MW2 t-shirt. Probably YMMV.

i am getting an xbox360 from the deal on saturday.. what's a good deal for this xbox live price? i think this is awesome as it's about 40% off retail normal price right? how much should i be looking to pay for xbox live as a FW addict member?

$30 is the cheapest (legitimate deal) I've seen. Amazon and Newegg almost always has these for $40. Most retail stores normally sells for $50.

OP does the deal have an expiration date in particular? i've never done xbox live so i don't know if i should sign up at all, after all my console doesn't even come with any games.. (but i did hear xbox live is awesome!)

I'm already in for 2 years on a previous deal which included some stuff in a kit. I might just have to get this though for my 2nd Xbox that we use as an extender.

Yuyak said: monvivant said: OP does the deal have an expiration date in particular? i've never done xbox live so i don't know if i should sign up at all, after all my console doesn't even come with any games.. (but i did hear xbox live is awesome!)
The text says it expires on 11/14. Basically with your xbox, you get free xbox live Silver membership. That gives you access to downloadable content like music, movies, add-ons, demo. Gold membership (which is what this is) gives you the ability to play games against other people online. If that's something you're not interested in, you probably don't need it.

One thing you can do is to buy this now, but don't activate it. Once you get your xbox, I think they give you like a few days or few weeks (I can't remember for sure) of free xbox live gold subscription. If you like it, you can activate it. if you feel like you don't need it, you can return this card or sell it on craigslist or something.

thank you OP! i'm sold!

I kept getting a bunch of spam texts, and I never used text anyway, so I had it disabled on my phone awhile back to avoid the charges each spam cost me. If I just typed up that msg on my phone as if I were going to text someone and showed them that, do you think that would work?

Thanks OP! In for one tonight - went up to the register and the cashier looked like she'd never heard of such a promotion (through text). She had scanned the Xbox Live card and saw that the SKU in the text differed from that on the card (as though they should have matched). Took her calling two people over who were equally befuddled before one suggested typing in the SKU in the text, which of course did apply the discount.

I never got the text with xbox promoting. Can someone verify the SKU number. I am going to BB and show them the SKU. I need the exact number from the text. Did anyone received the text from BB?

vixer03 said: I never got the text with xbox promoting. Can someone verify the SKU number. I am going to BB and show them the SKU. I need the exact number from the text. Did anyone received the text from BB?

I didn't get one either, been about 12 hrs so far

Thanks I'll give this a try over the weekend. I'm going to go with the shortcut way of doing this. I don't want spam texts.

vixer03 said: Well, I couldn't wait anymore for the text to come. I text the message myself and went to best buy and bought 2. They didnt say much. they punch the sku number and it show the $20 off.

So, there's no limit on the deal? Interesting...

thanks op...got my text within15 minutes.

I signed up and I got the SKU about 5 to 10 minutes after i signed up. You can just text "stop" to the same number and it removes you from the spam list.

Glad it's working for everyone. I actually haven't tried it yet because my subscription goes out til May 2011 as is, though I'm tempted to try for the MW2 tshirt bundle. I love free shirts!

Yuyak said: Glad it's working for everyone. I actually haven't tried it yet because my subscription goes out til May 2011 as is, though I'm tempted to try for the MW2 tshirt bundle. I love free shirts!

Funny you mention this but I did get the shirt bundle. The MW2 that is.......

I was able to get the shirt bundle as well after txting myself the sku; you don't need to be all cloak and dagger about it, just give them the sku and it'll work fine with or without the txt msg.

ARRRGGGHHH! Bummer, I finally got the text and completely forgot to go. Maybe they'll still take it tomorrow?! Guess I'll give it a whirl. Stll green for you OP!

I grabbed one of the bundles at the BB near Queens Center tonight but as an FYI the discount didn't apply until the cashier entered my RZ number.

I didn't bother waiting for the text to come. (though I did sign up) I just had my wife send me the text, changed her name to "Best Buy" for good measure, and took the card to the cashier. She rang in the card, then I showed her the text. She punched in the sku and bam... $20 bucks off. It's not like the employee is going to look closely at all the different cell phones, trying to figure out where the text came from. They just read the number off your screen.

It was very easy, and holy cow is this cheap. As we left Best Buy, my wife said "If $30 is the cheapest you can get it, why don't I sign up for a RZ account myself and grab another to tape under the xbox until we need it?".. I love this woman.

Thank you so much OP. Just got my xbox for my birthday, and this was another great gift.

Boom

dam anyone else having luck with this?
i need to buy it but i was out of town so didnt get a chance too, any more deals?