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Don't worry, it'll be on sale again. At least a few weeks before Block Party Twenty-Oh-Eleven!

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I actually already traded with Gooter, but I'm still glad you won all the same!

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Awesome. Now I don't feel like I'm as much of a dipshit as I did before.

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I won 800 points last night too. Can you win more than one code from the same phone?

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The wife was able to score an X-Box arcade through some deal because I had mentioned how I sorta regretted selling off our original X-Box. But my understanding is that the Arcade model doesn't have a hard-drive which is necessary to download the patches needed to play original Xbox games on the 360. Are we basically getting a doorstop?

Not to mention we hardly have time to play our PS3, Wii, DS and all our other older systems, if it's going to take much effort to get up and running on this thing, it's just going straight to Craigslist.

thanks in advance for any suggestions....

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It shouldn't be hard at all to find a separate hard drive to attach to an Arcade. Many people are selling theirs for a larger model or to get the new 360 with the internal one. You can check at Game Stop since many have turned them in for an upgrade or try your luck on ebay.

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Wow, I'm the person to always advocate used DVDs and such, but I never even considered it for the hard drive.

Just to be clear, it has to be the X-Box brand hard drive right? You can't do an off the shelf like the PS3?

thank you

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Yeah. It's proprietary. It sounds like a 20GB hard drive would be fine for your needs. Looks like they're going for around $25 on eBay.

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Yes he did! Thanks again Wizard!

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I won 800 MS Pts today too. :up:

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Anyone else get an email with a free 400 pts?

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Just sent in my Arcade (HDMI) unit to get it repaired. This will be my fifth 360 since launch. Can say honestly I'm not very happy with MS at the moment. Surprisingly when I received my unit back it was a Brand NEW PRO. While I am disappointed that I had to be without my XBOX I am very happy that they upgraded me. Hopefully this one lasts for longer than a year and a half.

Ian

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How long were you writing that post?

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Apparently you can also text "GM" to 74139 as well for a possible 400 points. This is the same number as shot3, so don't know how they affect one another.

(A few reports have trickled in of people winning 400 points from texting "GM" to 75920 as well.)

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Woo-hoo, I just won 800 points!

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Same here :)

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Luckily for everyone, my finder's fee is only 5%. :-)

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:lol:

Incredible turnaround!

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No problem, once 5% of my winnings adds up to 4000 points (my minimum payout) I'll send it your way!

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I received messages saying something to the effect of "sorry, we could not understand your message" after texting GM to both of those numbers just now. They both worked just fine the last couple of days.

I'm guessing it's because this is a new month, and those promotions have expired. Hope I'm wrong--love those free points!

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Nice! I recommend you buy 99 more cell phones.

Got those same responses. Looks like it may be dead, but let's hope not!

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I never win anything :(

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+1

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I've got an extra Toy Story 3 free movie ticket code, if anyone wants to trade a 360-related code for it.

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<s>Looks like the first Alan Wake DLC is up two weeks early: http://marketplace.xbox.com/en-US/ga...0805?cid=SLink

As far as I can tell it's currently free for everyone. I thought you had to have the code in the new copy of the retail game. Queue it up now and ask questions later since it's probably a mistake that'll be fixed soon.

I'm posting this here in case you're interested in the game in the future but you may not visit the thread.</s>

Just a teaser video. Too early in the morning for me to be fact-checking other sites' content.