November 2014 - Recently Added to Collection/Recently Purchased

[fighterpilot562]

Its dec but.....

[devancowan]

Picked up Hitman 2: Silent Assassin (Black Label. I don't want none of that "greatest hits" garbage!) and Hitman: Blood money. Only cost me 2.50 each so how could I not!

[Warmsignal]

Just picked up a FREE Xbox 360 from the dumpster. I already have a 360 - the second wave white tank edition I believe, in particular. But the one I picked up tonight is a black tank, and I believe it is of the "Jasper" chip era, supposedly less prone to red ring, manufactured Nov 09. Only problem with it really, was the stuck CD tray issue. I figured out the repair for this tray issue, it basically amounts to pulling a small belt off of the CD drive, rubbing it down with alcohol to clean it, and re-installing it. Sure enough, that fixed it. The machine seems to work fine.

Just one catch... when I was cleaning it, I spotted a figging TICK inside the CD drive!  Tried to grab him out, but failed. Not sure if he could damage the system or what. Never expected that, though I should've, the thing was in a dumpster after all.

Overall, I like it. I see it as an upgrade from my old white tank which has miraculously never red ringed on me. I was basically just waiting for the day it did, but now I feel more at ease with this black tank. Xbox 360 for free? Sure, why not. 

[jcalder8]

Xbox 360 for free? Sure, why not. 

Can't beat that price!

[maximo310]

Just picked up a FREE Xbox 360 from the dumpster. I already have a 360 - the second wave white tank edition I believe, in particular. But the one I picked up tonight is a black tank, and I believe it is of the "Jasper" chip era, supposedly less prone to red ring, manufactured Nov 09. Only problem with it really, was the stuck CD tray issue. I figured out the repair for this tray issue, it basically amounts to pulling a small belt off of the CD drive, rubbing it down with alcohol to clean it, and re-installing it. Sure enough, that fixed it. The machine seems to work fine.

Just one catch... when I was cleaning it, I spotted a figging TICK inside the CD drive!  Tried to grab him out, but failed. Not sure if he could damage the system or what. Never expected that, though I should've, the thing was in a dumpster after all.

Overall, I like it. I see it as an upgrade from my old white tank which has miraculously never red ringed on me. I was basically just waiting for the day it did, but now I feel more at ease with this black tank. Xbox 360 for free? Sure, why not. 

That's pretty great especially since its the final Elite model with a 250 gb hdd so you're pretty much set on storage capacity, and those are apparently harder to find since those were only available in limited/special edition bundles so that's a pretty great deal you got for free, especially since all you had to do was fix the disk drive tray.

[foxhack]

Allright... today was a pretty good day for my shop, but I also found two boxes full of old PC games. None were boxed, so I left behind several... but managed to grab some interesting things, anyhoo.


Mary Kate and Ashley: Crush Course (shut up) - $1
SpyHunter (PC+Mac, disc in case) - $1.25
Postal 2 (European release) - $1.25
Postal 2: Share the Pain Multiplayer Edition - $1.25

The PS1 game was found at a booth with tons and tons of CDs. This was the only PS1 game, though. SpyHunter and both Postal 2s were bought as part of a lot that cost me $10 which included some stuff for reselling. I wasn't going to buy them until I saw the inside...



... it has notes from Vince Desiderio. And an autograph. I'm not sure where he did this, but hell, I'll take this for the oddities collection.

[abe]

It's December already... why are people still posting in this thread?

[exonerator]

Oops! Thanks for reminding me.