A poster on the official Xbox forums has uploaded what looks to be an authentic Best Buy Retail Insider flier verifying the coming of a third Xbox 360 shipment to the national retailer. (We first mentioned this on Sunday.)

According to the flier, the 360s will arrive sometime this week (we heard Dec. 22) and will be put on sale the day after it arrives. Store managers have been warned not to put out any signs and not to hold the inventory any longer than necessary to staff adequately for the sale.

On the day of the sale the manager on duty has to do door duty. He or she has to ask every customer as them come in "What brings you in today?" at which point if the customer replies "The Xbox 360" they get a ticket to the fabled land of high def gaming. What? No secret handshake?

Once you get the ticket an employee walks you to the "controlled sales area" where the employee will try to get you to buy everything in the store.

Best Buy corporate says there will be absolutely no rainchecks, no holds, no wait lists, no lines and absolutely no employee sales until after Jan. 1. (That's on and off-duty employees bucko)

It sounds like Best Buy is finally starting to get it's collective shit together. Now lets hope they have enough 360s on hand to avoid riots.

Insider [Put File, thanks Josh]

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