Just when you thought you’d seen it all, Amazon launches a new promotion it calls Customer Votes in which you the customer get to vote on a huge discount it will offer for a very limited time. Three of the four options sound interesting: Mongoose Mountain Bike for $30, Barbie for $10, and Prime Membership + $100 Certificate for $40. But, the one that stands out, and clearly leads with nearly 87% of the votes is an Xbox 360 Core System (usually $300) for $100(!).

So, how do you get in on this deal? Well, first, go vote to ensure that the Xbox 360 wins (unless you prefer a $10 Barbie, of course). Then go to this page on Thursday, November 23, at 11 AM Pacific (that’s 2 PM Eastern) and try to be one of the first 1,000 to order. If it sounds to good to be true, that’s because it’s too good and it’s true. Good luck!

Links:  

• Amazon Customer Votes
• Xbox 360 on Amazon

GameFly is online video game rental service (think Netflix for video games). You can read more about them in one of our previous posts. But anyway, let’s get to the real story. From now until 11/30/06, GameFly is giving away one Nintendo Wii every day to its members.

Here is how it works. If you’re not a member, sign up for their service. Once you are logged in, look for the “PLAY NOW” button and click on it, at which point you will be immediately notified whether you won or not. If you won — feel free to gloat. If you didn’t, just click again the next day and every other day until 11/30 to see if you won.

Give it a shot and maybe you’ll be a winner. And as always, please make sure you read all the term and conditions.

Link:  GameFly Wii a Day Giveaway

Amazon will have the Nintendo Wii available for purchase the morning of Saturday 11/19 for $250. You can only purchase one and inventory will disappear very quickly. In fact, request for availability notices were 100 more than the number of consoles they’ll have.

Even though the first batch will disappear quickly, expect more inventory to arrive soon. To make sure you don’t miss out on these opportunities, we’ve embedded an Amazon Nintendo Wii product page and store in this post and at https://shopperism.com/wii. Bookmark either of these links and check often to see if available (I’m guessing you better get used to constantly hitting the refresh button). If it appears quickly click the buy button and it will take you through Amazon’s purchase process.

You may have learned something (or nothing) from all those campaign ads on TV, but we learned quite a bit, like:

• Nintendo Wii fever is here so pre-order now.
• If iTunes offered free music and you didn’t know about it then is it really free?
• I have number one movie in all of US of A, now I put CD in cassette tape.
• You don’t have to scoop a robotic dog‘s poop.
• Holiday shopping season 2006 is on!

October is almost over so don’t miss out on these soon expiring coupons from Buy.com. Act now as all the coupons below expire on 10/31/06 and as always make sure you read all the terms and conditions.

Also, don’t forget that Buy.com sells books for 10% off Amazon’s prices.

Links:  

• $10 off $30 when you use Google Checkout
• $10 off $175 in all stores
• $5 off $50 on electronics, computers, and clearance items
• $5 off $50 on software
• $5 off $50 on electronics
• $5 off $50 on music, movies, and games
• $10 off $150 on computers
• $10 off $100 on bags, sports, and toys
• $15 off $200 on computers, software, home networking, digital cameras, and electronics
• 10% off Amazon book prices

What’s the easiest way to describe GameFly? It’s Netflix for video games.

GameFly is the leading online video game rental service. With over 4,000 titles, GameFly delivers the widest selection and availability of games for the Xbox 360, Xbox, PlayStation 3 (coming soon), PlayStation 2, Xbox, Nintendo Wii (coming soon), GameCube, Game Boy Advance, Nintendo DS and PSP. Games arrive by mail in a prepaid return envelope and you can keep the games for as long as you want. Once you send a game out, the next one will be shipped to you.

You can choose between two membership plans: the first allows you to have one game at a time for $14.95 ($9.95 the first month); the second allows you to have two games at a time for $21.95 ($14.95 the first month). For a limited time, you can receive a free ten day trial of Gamefly. To redeem, click here and enter coupon code TENDAY.

If you just want to buy games for cheap (up to 50% off original price), GameFly also sells previously played games. All pre-played games are 100% guaranteed and come in their original case with manuals.

Link: Ten Free Days of GameFly. Click here and use coupon code TENDAY to redeem

Shopperism (the concept, not this website) has taken over our world and no where is that more evident than the new Monopoly Here and Now. The latest reissue of the classic Parker Brothers board game has been redesigned to what Hasbro considers “a representation of America in the 21st Century”. The game boasts five new tokens including a Toyota Prius Hybrid, New Balance running shoe, McDonald’s French Fries, a cup of Starbucks coffee, and a Motorola RAZR. The remaining three tokens are not branded and they include a Jet, a Labradoodle, and a laptop (couldn’t get Apple or Dell branding on this one?). It’s interesting that these products, representing the best and worst of mainstream American commercialism, were chosen. Despite their denials, I still suspect it has more to do with deals cut by the Hasbro team than anything else. Also, unlike the other products, Toyota is not an American company but they are the largest car company on the planet and if you look at the roads today, you’ll see that they are as American as Soccer and Gelato (meaning we’ve adopted them as our own).

Continuing the modernization of the game, which was based on Atlantic City real estate in the Great Depression, the new properties represent expensive real estate across the country. Boardwalk is now Times Square while Park Place was dropped for Fenway Park. How will kids ever know about Ventnor Avenue or Marvin Gardens? The four railroads were replaced by the four busiest airports in the country: Atlanta’s Hartsfield, Chicago’s O’Hare, LA’s LAX, and New York’s JFK. Also, inflation hurts, so dollar amounts are higher (pass “Go” get $2 million).

Monopoly Here and Now is available for around $30 from several online merchants including, Amazon, eToys and WalMart. Expect to see a significant advertising campaign in the near future. Those of you still craving for the original Monopoly (as designed in 1935) can continue to purchase the classic version and the many custom versions out there.

Links:

• Monopoly Here and Now
• Monopoly Here and Now (Limited Edition)
• Monopoly Here and Now (PC Game)
• Monopoly Classic Edition
• Monopoly 70th Anniversary Edition

Once again, Buy.com has extended its new customer coupons. All the coupons below now expire on 10/31/06.

• $10 off $175 in all stores
• $5 off $50 on electronics, computers, and clearance items
• $5 off $50 on software
• $5 off $50 on electronics
• $5 off $50 on music, movies, and games
• $10 off $150 on computers
• $10 off $100 on bags, sports, and toys
• $15 off $200 on computers, software, home networking, digital cameras, and electronics

If you are sick of browsing through the small hidden PC games section at your local big box electronics store then consider downloading some great games at Direct2Drive (D2D). D2D has an updated catalog of action, strategy, massive multiplayer, and role playing games including some of the hottest titles. Depending on your broadband connection, D2D‘s download manager will download games in 30 to 90 minutes. You can backup downloaded games to a CD and D2D‘s DRM server will validate the number of active licenses you have (meaning the number of copies you can run at the same time).

If you want to try it out, here some of the more popular titles available for download:

• Download World of Warcraft
• Download Civilization 4
• Download CivCity: Rome
• Download RollerCoaster Tycoon® 2: Combo Park Pack with Wacky Worlds Expansion