Comments on: A Tale of Two 360’s http://www.seanobrien.org/2006/04/a-tale-of-two-360s.html seanobrien.org Sat, 20 Feb 2010 19:13:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: OB1og » Blog Archive » No Perfect Circle http://www.seanobrien.org/2006/04/a-tale-of-two-360s.html#comment-10 OB1og » Blog Archive » No Perfect Circle Tue, 11 Apr 2006 07:17:18 +0000 http://www.seanobrien.org/2006/04/a-tale-of-two-360s.html#comment-10 [...] I took delivery of the Xbox 360 almost a month ago and so ended a four month quest to obtain the sacred ivory gaming crack. I cataloged that adventure in a previous post titled A Tale of Two 360’s. That was only half the story. Okay, really it was like 2/3 of the story because it was so frickin long. Here’s the rest. Maybe… [...] [...] I took delivery of the Xbox 360 almost a month ago and so ended a four month quest to obtain the sacred ivory gaming crack. I cataloged that adventure in a previous post titled A Tale of Two 360’s. That was only half the story. Okay, really it was like 2/3 of the story because it was so frickin long. Here’s the rest. Maybe… [...]

]]> By: Ed http://www.seanobrien.org/2006/04/a-tale-of-two-360s.html#comment-3 Ed Fri, 07 Apr 2006 13:36:17 +0000 http://www.seanobrien.org/2006/04/a-tale-of-two-360s.html#comment-3 Sean wrote: "I checked in with Ed on numerous times to see if we should pre-order. Nope, we were both pretty confident we’d obtain one without giving our local EB a short-term loan." I still stand by that. From the horror stories I read on various forums, we ended up getting ours just about the same time as those that pre-ordered. So unless we had pre-ordered in 2004, we would have been stuck waiting just as long. The benefit to us this way - $50 in our pockets to splurge on lighters and spatulas. D'oh!!! Sean wrote:
“I checked in with Ed on numerous times to see if we should pre-order. Nope, we were both pretty confident we’d obtain one without giving our local EB a short-term loan.”

I still stand by that. From the horror stories I read on various forums, we ended up getting ours just about the same time as those that pre-ordered. So unless we had pre-ordered in 2004, we would have been stuck waiting just as long. The benefit to us this way – $50 in our pockets to splurge on lighters and spatulas. D’oh!!!

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