Relic

Technically, the GameCrazy in my area closed a few weeks back, but the
Hollywood Video adjoining it closed Friday. Anyway, I went back there
(had been there twice earlier in the week and picked up some things,
including KoF 12 360 used for 80% off on Monday) on Friday, and HV
closed early because they sold out of everything. There was an
older guy in the GameCrazy side, looked like the building's owner,
doing what looked like final paperwork.

Apparently he had been cleaning out whatever the GC people had left
and simply disposing of it in the trash out back (which is next to the
road at the mall). I noticed a lot of stuff, so, my curiosity
piqued, I look.

Well, among the stuff I see several 360s (the boxes marked DEF
for defective), hundreds of 1, 3 and 12-month XBL cards and
Wii points (of course, unusable, since you need to activate those
at the register before you can use them), and other stuff. One
of the defective 360s has a 120GB HDD still attached to it.

I take one of the 360 boxes home (I have another RRoD system
I found in the trash awhile back and figured I could use it for parts)
and the HDD. Once home, I check it out and discover the box has
the power brick (which didn't fit onto the unit), a wireless control
(has the batteries, but not the rechargeable battery) and the hookup.
So since I couldn't use the brick, I hookup the HDD to the system and
use my own brick to hook it up.

To my surprise it fired up fine. I reestablished connection to the
controller and it works fine. And the HDD? Works fine too (had some
demo games on it, which I deleted (had most of them as full games
anyway). Put a demo disc into it, worked flawlessly.

Since I had to go back yesterday anyway to get groceries, I went
back to their trash (figured anything else would have been taken,
but...), and no one had been there. So I take a couple more defective
360s (I was hoping there would be another power brick that would
work with the earlier system). I was even more pleasantly surprised
to find a PSP (1001; it had the toggle switch busted, but the stick
moved okay) with the recharge plug, crammed in a Hanna Montana
box. I take that too.

After checking the stuff out at home, one 360 had the dreaded
E74 error and the other fires up, but sounds like it needs a new
dvd-rom. One of those had a plug I could use with the earlier one
(btw all of these were made in 2008, and have the HDMI output).
Figure after more testing, I'll let my niece have it.

And the PSP? it worked fine too (it had the battery, and it holds
a charge fine). I signed up to for the PlayStation Store and dled
a Lunar demo and converted a few AMVs, and updated the firmware.
Figure when I go back next week I'll buy a cheap game and see if
the drive works too.

But yeah, I was surprised that this was simply trashed and not
sold off (even if they didn't work I'm sure someone would have
bought them for parts for a few bucks).

Probably got them as returns shortly before they announced they
were going out of business and couldn't return them. But still,
really surprising.