Now that's commitment. A gamer managed to squirrel away enough tickets from his local Dave & Buster's to earn himself an Xbox 360. The total cost? 85,000 ticket. Let's see, when I ran an arcade with redemption, the formula was one penny for every ticket to calculate the price we were charging for an item. (Of course there was always a hefty mark-up: 20 to 200 percent, depending on how cheap the item was, I seem to recall.) So, that means, they charged $850 for the console, which would make for a...um... really big mark-up.

Well, what really matters is that he can lord it over all of his friends, family, neighbors and local D&B riffraff. If I were him I'd buy an extra thick security chain and just wear the console around my neck.

"See that? I bought it with tickets. TICKETS!"

Hmmm, I wonder how many tickets a PS3 will cost? Brian Crecente

What 85,000 Dave & Buster's tickets gets you... [Xbox 360 Fanboy]

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