# $1600 and Rising: Xbox 360 Insanity **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 22, 2005, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1600-and-rising-xbox-360-insanity/332333 "2005-11-22T21:52:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2005, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1600-and-rising-xbox-360-insanity/332333/1 "2005-11-22T21:52:46Z")
Can’t find the Xbox 360 you wanted at the store…try [eBay](http://cgi.ebay.com/XBOX-360-PREMIUM-BUNDLE-WITH-3-GAMES-EXTRA-CONTROLLER_W0QQitemZ8235491211QQcategoryZ62054QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem). ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2005, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1600-and-rising-xbox-360-insanity/332333/2 "2005-11-22T22:31:43Z")
> [@Gangster Octopus](#): > > Can’t find the Xbox 360 you wanted at the store…try [eBay](http://cgi.ebay.com/XBOX-360-PREMIUM-BUNDLE-WITH-3-GAMES-EXTRA-CONTROLLER_W0QQitemZ8235491211QQcategoryZ62054QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem). Your link doesn’t go anywhere anymore. The same thing happened a few years ago with the PS2. You know folks, the Xbox 360 you can buy next spring when supplies are up to normal will be exactly the same as the one you can pay 2-4 times for now. What’s that sound? Just Barnum laughing his dead ass off. ---
**Author:** ![iamthewalrus\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/258eb7/32.png) [@iamthewalrus\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamthewalrus_3)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2005, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1600-and-rising-xbox-360-insanity/332333/3 "2005-11-22T23:09:14Z")
This is why I need to remember to get a preorder in for the next big system. So _I_ can get a cut of this. ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2005, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1600-and-rising-xbox-360-insanity/332333/4 "2005-11-22T23:39:57Z")
> [@Mr. Blue Sky](#): > > Your link doesn’t go anywhere anymore. It’s not that it doesn’t go anywhere, it’s just that apparently eBay removed the listing presumably for a TOS violation of some sort. Of course, there’s tons of others out there, like [this one](http://cgi.ebay.com/Xbox-360-Game-Console-Bundle-6-Games-L-K_W0QQitemZ8236191203QQcategoryZ62054QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem). One born every minute, indeed! ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2005, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1600-and-rising-xbox-360-insanity/332333/5 "2005-11-22T23:45:46Z")
> [@Q.E.D.](#): > > It’s not that it doesn’t go anywhere, it’s just that apparently eBay removed the listing presumably for a TOS violation of some sort. Of course, there’s tons of others out there, like [this one](http://cgi.ebay.com/Xbox-360-Game-Console-Bundle-6-Games-L-K_W0QQitemZ8236191203QQcategoryZ62054QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem). One born every minute, indeed! It’s [these types](http://cgi.ebay.com/Microsoft-Xbox-360-Game-console_W0QQitemZ8236336050QQcategoryZ62054QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem) that kill me. Hmmmm…the seller has a zero rating, the opening bid is set at $10,000 AND it’s got a reserve. Oh, yeah, where’s my Mastercard? ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2005, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1600-and-rising-xbox-360-insanity/332333/6 "2005-11-22T23:49:18Z")
> [@Mr. Blue Sky](#): > > Hmmmm…the seller has a zero rating, the opening bid is set at $10,000 AND it’s got a reserve. So…I shouldn’t buy it? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2005, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1600-and-rising-xbox-360-insanity/332333/7 "2005-11-22T23:56:04Z")
> [@Q.E.D.](#): > > So…I shouldn’t buy it? 😃 Go ahead and try. I’ll outbid you. 😃 I wonder if anyone will try the old “sell the box the game came in and rip somebody off” trick like they did when the PS2 was hot? ---
**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2005, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1600-and-rising-xbox-360-insanity/332333/8 "2005-11-23T00:07:59Z")
For $10,000, I’d expect them to be on the next flight out with it to deliver in person. Instead, they can’t even be bothered to take it to Kinkos to have it shipped? ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2005, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1600-and-rising-xbox-360-insanity/332333/9 "2005-11-23T01:49:03Z")
> [@Mr. Blue Sky](#): > > I wonder if anyone will try the old “sell the box the game came in and rip somebody off” trick like they did when the PS2 was hot? [Yep](http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=8235917501) The ad IS plain as day. If you can’t figure out that you’re getting a box ONLY, you deserve to ripped off. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2005, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1600-and-rising-xbox-360-insanity/332333/10 "2005-11-23T01:51:01Z")
> [@Mr. Blue Sky](#): > > [Yep](http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=8235917501) > The ad IS plain as day. If you can’t figure out that you’re getting a box ONLY, you deserve to ripped off. :smack: …GET ripped off… ---
**Author:** ![interface2x](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@interface2x](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/interface2x)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2005, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1600-and-rising-xbox-360-insanity/332333/11 "2005-11-23T01:53:45Z")
> [@iamthewalrus(:3=](#): > > This is why I need to remember to get a preorder in for the next big system. > > So _I_ can get a cut of this. Took the words right out of my …keyboard. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2005, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1600-and-rising-xbox-360-insanity/332333/12 "2005-11-23T01:54:08Z")
Upon closer inspection, notice the name of the “winning” bidder: **whataripoffyouare**. ---
**Author:** ![Jayn\_Newell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Jayn\_Newell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jayn_Newell)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2005, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1600-and-rising-xbox-360-insanity/332333/13 "2005-11-23T03:12:51Z")
> [@Mr. Blue Sky](#): > > [Yep](http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=8235917501) > The ad IS plain as day. If you can’t figure out that you’re getting a box ONLY, you deserve to ripped off. Whoa. I need to try that when the PS3 comes out. Get the system and everything that came with it, then sell just the box for possibly more than I paid in the first place? Where can I place that pre-order again? ---
**Author:** ![qubed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/f07891/32.png) [@qubed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/qubed)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2005, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1600-and-rising-xbox-360-insanity/332333/14 "2005-11-23T05:53:37Z")
> [@Mr. Blue Sky](#): > > The same thing happened a few years ago with the PS2. I don’t believe it hit this high of a price. I think $1000 tops and only for a couple of days, and after that it settled to about $500. ---
**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2005, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1600-and-rising-xbox-360-insanity/332333/15 "2005-11-23T16:36:34Z")
I’m just amazed that someone’s going to pay $2750 for one of those things. What really amazes me is that people are selling empty boxes for double the retail price of the actual item which will include the box for free.