If your Xbox is sitting around unused, you might be getting an email from Microsoft.

With the RAMpocalypse causing console stock to dwindle and prices to rise, it's not a great time to buy an Xbox. Moreover, if you already have the latest Xbox model, you won't be met with a deluge of exclusives. Microsoft's historic multi-platform strategy (despite its upsides) has the console lagging behind even Sony in this regard. However, Microsoft has seemingly devised a campaign to increase supply while offering an out to dissatisfied customers.

As a result of the continued demand for RAM from the AI sector (caused in no small part by Microsoft itself), another price hike was announced for Xbox Series X and S consoles in June — right off the back of a price increase last October. In that same announcement, Microsoft listed a number of measures it would be taking to soften the blow. One such item is just now starting to manifest, with Microsoft campaigning to get users to trade in their unused consoles.

Earlier this month, as first covered by PowerUpGaming, Xbox has started emailing certain users about an opportunity to trade in their Series X and S console. These emails read, "Haven't played on your console in a while?" and go on to reference trading in to Best Buy for "up to $375 back."

Best Buy's trade-in page does show that $375 is indeed the best offer you can receive for a good-condition Series X console (so long as you have a working controller, power cord, and docking station).

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