Banned/Modded Xbox 360, loaded- $140

Fri,13 Nov 2009 05:39 GMT -4:00 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/30976

- As many as 600,000 gamers may have been cut off from Xbox Live for modding their consoles, posted yesterday, going on:

“Or as Spong puts it, ‘Xbox Live Gamer Culling Season Starts’.”



Now, “I’m selling my flashed Xbox 360 and all the things I’ve collected for it over the years since it was banned last week,” says a Craigslist post cited by CNet News, continuing »»»

Sorry, folks, but I’m not interested in any trades or straight-up swaps. I want to move EVERYTHING for this price, so I’m also not willing to sell you bits and pieces. It’s $140 for everything.

Remember, since the console is banned, you will not be able to connect to the Xbox Live service. Therefore, this posting is for those of you who don’t care if you can play online or not.

Nor is this pissed-off gamer alone.

“Thanks to a recent decision by Microsoft to ban as many as a million players from Xbox Live for illegally modifying their consoles to run pirated games, there is now an absolute glut of ‘modded’ Xboxes for sale on Craigslist,” says the story.

“And while a brand-new Xbox Arcade — the lowest-price version of the console — sells for $200 with no free games, it is now possible to spend as little as $100 for a used, modded Xbox that comes with a slew of hit titles. You just have to be willing to give up using Xbox Live and be OK with your new game collection including mainly pirated titles.”

The Craigslist XBox-for-saledeal mentioned above goes like this »»»

360 Arcade Console w/ HDMI capability

20 GB HDD + 256 MB memory card

Black Xbox 360 controller w/ USB recharge cord

Xbox 360 DVD Remote

Games

Borderlands; Brutal Legend; Dirt 2; Forza 3; Grand Theft Auto 4 (with Lost and the Damned and Ballad of Gay Tony on HDD); Madden 2010; Modern Warfare 2; NBA 2K10; NHL 2010; Prototype; Red Faction Guerilla; WWE Smackdown vs. Raw 2010; and, Tekken 6

HD DVD movies

300; American Gangster; Batman Begins; Children of Men; Goodfellas; Happy Gilmore; Hot Fuzz; I Am Legend; Jarhead; King Kong; Knocked Up; Meet the Parents; Meet the Fockers; Ray; Superman Returns; Talk to Me;

“Everything works perfectly,” says the ad.

“The 360 was treated better than I treat most people. Pictures can be made available upon request. I work in East Midtown Manhattan. For the extra paranoid/apprehensive — no concerns: we will meet at a very public place in New York City, during the day.”

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First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win ~ Mahatma Gandhi

– Microsoft ‘Xbox Live banning spree’, November 11, 2009

CNet News – Craigslist brimming with banned, ‘modded’ Xboxes, November 11, 2009




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