800 Xbox Live Point Cards

According to gamertell you can now purchase 800 Xbox Live Point Cardsfor $9.99 from various retailers

Ever want to buy something on Xbox Live Arcade that costs only 800 Microsoft points but you lack a credit card to get more points directly and dreaded spending the extra dough on a 1600 Microsoft point card that’s just 800 points too many? Never fear little precise friend.

Microsoft is beginning to roll out 800 Point cards to retailers at a reasonable (depending on what you consider the value of virtual “point” to be) cost of just $9.99.

So now you have your brick-and-mortar options between a $19.99 1600 point card and a $9.99 800 Point card.

In these trying times, it’s nice to know that the big guys are watching out for my thinning wallet. Sure they are still taking my money but at least I have the option to save a little, especially if I’m just buying a stocking stuffer (hint, hint) for a bratty nephew.

According to gamertell you can now purchase 800 Xbox Live Point Cardsfor $9.99 from various retailers

Ever want to buy something on Xbox Live Arcade that costs only 800 Microsoft points but you lack a credit card to get more points directly and dreaded spending the extra dough on a 1600 Microsoft point card that’s just 800 points too many? Never fear little precise friend.

Microsoft is beginning to roll out 800 Point cards to retailers at a reasonable (depending on what you consider the value of virtual “point” to be) cost of just $9.99.

So now you have your brick-and-mortar options between a $19.99 1600 point card and a $9.99 800 Point card.

In these trying times, it’s nice to know that the big guys are watching out for my thinning wallet. Sure they are still taking my money but at least I have the option to save a little, especially if I’m just buying a stocking stuffer (hint, hint) for a bratty nephew.

Buying 2 800 point cards is cheaper than buying 1 1600 point card. My "that's not how it's supposed to work" sense is tingling.

I've also seen 4,000 point cards around for $49.99

"Buying 2 800 point cards is cheaper than buying 1 1600 point card. My "that's not how it's supposed to work" sense is tingling."

Actually buying two of those 800 Xbox live point cards costs ya $19.98 , so the difference is merely 1 cent

"Jayge said:

"Buying 2 800 point cards is cheaper than buying 1 1600 point card. My "that's not how it's supposed to work" sense is tingling."

Actually buying two of those 800 Xbox live point cards costs ya $19.98 , so the difference is merely 1 cent

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"In these trying times, it’s nice to know that the big guys are watching out for my thinning wallet."

It's not really such a big deal for me, because there's usually several games that I'll buy at once, anyways.  It's actually pretty good for a gift, though.

800 point cards? Whatever, I guess that is good for the one-time buyer of XBL stuff, but I still usually buy cards by the 4000. A lot of RB songs and XBLA games to buy, sir.

Thats great , its the sweet spot for me.

Thats some good news. Now lets hope they start letting you buy 800 points on the marketplace.

oh nice.

is this for tha UK as well?

"daniel_beck_90 said:

"Jayge said:

"Buying 2 800 point cards is cheaper than buying 1 1600 point card. My "that's not how it's supposed to work" sense is tingling."

Actually buying two of those 800 Xbox live point cards costs ya $19.98 , so the difference is merely 1 cent

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+ Tax. So it's more."

wow jayge seems to me a minus magnet :S

Finally, MS has let off some of the darkness around their body.  I can't beleive they actually did this, I thought they would have increased the price for the 1600 cards.

Finally! Not having to pay $20 just for one thing!

2 800 points cards in Texas:

it's still just so much easier to buy them over the marketplace. 

"2 800 points cards in Texas:

$19.98 + tax (at 8.25 cents) = $21.62

1 1600 points card in Texas:

$19.99 + tax (at 8.25 cents) = $21.63

Yes, it does cost more...by a penny.  However, knowing all this, I would still buy 2 800 point cards rather than a 1600 point card, as in the scheme of a bigger total purchase (say a couple of games or something), that 1 penny savings can actually turn into a maximum of 5 to 6 cents.

For the average gamer, that may not be a huge difference...but where I work, I can guarantee we'll stock up on 800 points cards to save a buck or two rather than stocking up on 1600 points cards.

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"Buying 2 800 point cards is cheaper than buying 1 1600 point card. My "that's not how it's supposed to work" sense is tingling."

"it's still just so much easier to buy them over the marketplace. "

so is this for the UK as well or what

so is this for the UK as well or what

^ No as far as I know  800 points card is meant to be for the US market . though I think it may eventually come to UK as well some time in future .

"so is this for the UK as well or what"

i check on gameointexpress.com 800 point only sell for 9.50 and provide 5% discount until end of this month , if i am not wrong coupon code is GPX5% 

" crunchUK said:

"so is this for the UK as well or what"

I'm sure if you bought them online at an online website and they ship worldwide, you could do it. Probably the only circumstance, however. "