Xbox Live, the addiction of the century. If your anything like me, you have no less then two active accounts at once. Most of the time you have at least 3 or 4 so that you can play online with a group of friends, but doing so can get quite expensive. I used to purchase my Xbox Live cards from the local Walmart for about $19.99 per three months. Over a year, this is costing me $80 per account. Seeing as I generally have 3-4 accounts, Xbox Live costs me anywhere from $240 – $320 in a year. After thinking about this for a while, I began to search for cheaper alternatives where I could get my Xbox Live Cards cheaper.
There were thousands of websites that claimed to give you free Xbox Live membership, but who wants to spend all day filling out surveys just to end up with a spammed email box, a poor credit report, and no Xbox live? I then started to search for a source of cheaper Xbox live cards, not free, but cheaper. Froogle, a shopping extension of Google, generated results from $.01 to $25, but nothing under $20 seemed to be what I wanted. I checked around Ebay, found some cards for just under $20, but not low enough to make it worth the risk of being scammed and the shipping time.
Next I checked Amazon.com, a very large, safe, online sales website. Here I found cards much cheaper then I could get them retail. For just $15.45, I could get a 3 month Xbox Live card for $15.49. At a $4 discount, over the year I am saving $48, not counting gas to Walmart and the time spent. Also, even though I almost never stick with an account for a year, Xbox Live 12+1 months could be bought very cheap also, at only $48.50. Almost $15 less then what Walmart sells them for.
These savings really add up over time, also having the cards shipped right to your house is very convenient. Just make sure to remember to order ahead, you don’t want to have to order it the day your Live runs out and then get it a few days later, a few long days with no Xbox Live.
Did you guys hear? Microsoft banned 1 million xbox live players for allegedly altering their consoles in order to play pirated games. Read it at cnet http://news.cnet.com/8301-13772_3-10395265-52.html