{"id":1273,"date":"2008-08-09T08:54:08","date_gmt":"2008-08-09T13:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2008\/08\/09\/madden-09-countdown-3-days\/"},"modified":"2010-06-02T06:14:29","modified_gmt":"2010-06-02T11:14:29","slug":"madden-09-countdown-3-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2008\/08\/09\/madden-09-countdown-3-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Madden 09 Countdown (3 days)."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/cgblog\/images\/videogames\/ps3\/madden09\/madden_09_boxart_02.jpg\" alt=\"Madden 09\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"5\" \/>I was just about to pre-order the Madden 09 Collectors Edition from ebgames, but decided against it because the total price was a shocking $108.58 ($89.99 + $11.49 Next Day Shipping + $7.10 Tax).  I decided that I did not need the game next day <em>that<\/em> bad.  Seriously, there was a time and a place where I <em>had<\/em> to have games on the release day, but it is not like I am doing the Madden Holiday thing.<\/p>\n<p>At any rate I decided to take my shopping pleasures over to Amazon.  After all, I have the Prime thing going for me, so next day shipping is cheap (forget the exact amount \u2013 something under $4).  Plus Amazon does not charge sales tax.  The only downside of using Amazon for videogames is that you never get them on release day.  Hey, I am sensible; I just talked myself out of needed games on the release day.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine my surprise to see a new shipping option (automatically selected for my happy self):  \u201cRelease-Date Delivery Aug 12.\u201d  That is not the kicker; release-date delivery is free.  Wow!  You have to love Amazon Prime.  I just saved 18.58, which absolutely makes me giddy.<\/p>\n<p>In three days Madden 09 Collectors Edition will show up on my front porch for $89.99.  No shipping charges, no tax, no wasted gas going to a brick-and-mortar, no waiting.  It is all about me.<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was just about to pre-order the Madden 09 Collectors Edition from ebgames, but decided against it because the total price was a shocking $108.58 ($89.99 + $11.49 Next Day Shipping + $7.10 Tax). I decided that I did not need the game next day that bad. Seriously, there was a time and a place &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2008\/08\/09\/madden-09-countdown-3-days\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Madden 09 Countdown (3 days).<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[30,21,9],"class_list":["post-1273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive","tag-football","tag-madden","tag-ps3"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1273"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2689,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1273\/revisions\/2689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}