My vote is for the 360 (fortunately, I already have a Wii)

Ben, Any chance you would tell us how this came about? When you say we "are guaranteed to receive this money without fail", I don't think The Consumerist would be that trusting of other sites -- is the site operator someone you know?

(FYI I've purchased on this site -- I view it as a gamble -- they have only been in business since November and seem to be a very small operation that could sink like a rock if this pyramid breaks.)

Thanks

Well Aaron from Jellyfish approached me and we talked about it in email and over the phone. They've got national press, their reviews are positive, and other Consumerist readers in the comments have said they've used the place to great success. Having no reason to suspect otherwise, I trust these guys.

As I've said before, there's no money changing hands on the backend. We just wanted this to be a cool thing for Consumerist readers.

I don't really see it as a pyramid, Jellyfish get their merchants to supply x number of units at depreciated cost because the merchant knows y will be sold at full cost during the auction. Basically you're looking at an order with a bulk discount and parts of that discount are applied increasingly to the items sold at the end of the auction.

So the k790a will actually be listed? Because I'd absolutely love to own one.

I'm pulling for the 360, but may find a nice home for some of the other items.

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with other words jellyfish.com will happily get commission to point you to a "wallmart" quality merchant, willing to sell at the cheapest possible price just to make the sale and god forbid anything should go wrong. DO THIS AT YOUR OWN RISK... you know those auctions on ebay selling you information on how to save a shit load of money on whatever product? this is the same thing, just marketed in a nice corporate package.

ps. how much are you getting paid per referral ben?

* Those are pretty standard waivers of liability.

* We get nothing per referral. It was offered but I turned it down.

Sweet, I love smack. Any chance for some surgical tubing or Velvet Underground cd's? Defibrilator might be a nice coffee table item.

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The verification email is broken for me. Guess no smack for the frog!

Heh, just won a t-shirt over there for guessing the percentage off on an item. Beginner's luck.

I'm not sure I understand what Consumerist readers (and editors) are getting out of this. Assuming Ben is really not getting any kind of commission or anything...

Other than that "we" voted for the merchandise (we did? ack, I missed it!), why, exactly, should we go shop at Jellyfish? Because they put the word "Consumerist" up? Is there an extra discount or something? Because if not, it looks like the jellyfish people just talked the editors here into sending them god knows how many new customers, taking advantage of the fact that we trust Consumerist not to, you know, send us to a dealer where the deals may not be that great or something (I have no idea if they are or not at jellyfish. i haven't checked).

Just playing devil's advocate, here. And if this has already been explained and I managed to miss it, my apologies and feel free to throw tomatoes at me.

they may be standard waivers, but isn't that the whole point of this place, to help consumers at the very least with the most information possible?

also, attaching the consumerist.com name says that you endorse jellyfish.com. that's a bit hypocritical for this site isn't it?

Guess us Canadian Consumers aren't allowed to join in the fun, eh, Ben??

Hey, I'm happy that I'd get any chance to possibly purchase a Wii for a discounted price, so I don't care! Consumerist, THANK YOU!

Yeah, we're full of shit. Don't win a Wii, don't get 80% off an iPod.

GAME ON!

lol ben, now that's honesty :)

I must admit, I'm enjoying the site.

Thanks for the midday fun, Consumerist.

Xbox 360 is up NOW

xbox 360 is up right now...31% off so far

The comment system is way, way too annoying. I will not be returning to said site again...

Thanks though Ben!

What did the xbox 360's end up going for? (Just so I can kick the @$$ of the person in my office who had a tech issue that needed "fixing" while the sale was going on...)

I didn't buy anything, but it was actually fun. I enjoyed guessing the winning percent.

Aw, damnit, the 360 comes up after I leave to go look for a 360.

I keep getting an error message: our tenticles are tangled.

I am confused!