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WTF I spent over $1k on xbox's the past 24 hours!

04-06-2009, 02:58 AM

I've been buying up a ton of them that are broken and I just pulled an all nighter and fixed 20 systems that I can turn around and sell now LOL

Now I can't do anything else until I get more parts in the mail LOL What a mess all over the place I haven't put the cases back together yet... I took them all apart and just started tossing the pieces all over! Anybody want to have an X clamp fight? They're like ninja stars. Some of them are even sharp as hell! I sliced my thumb yanking on one of them and it gushed ALL over the place for a while. After my wife put a Hello Kitty bandaid on it I went back to work after popping a vicodin...

Now its 7AM and I'm eating cap'n crunch while some systems sit there playing some game demos to make sure they're stable and burn them in a lil

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04-06-2009, 03:02 AM

funny how many people give up on their dead xbox when they can be so easy to fix...
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04-06-2009, 03:06 AM

Originally posted by Angry Jew Cat

funny how many people give up on their dead xbox when they can be so easy to fix...

Why is that funny?

Some people just don't care, same as they trade in their new 7 series after a year. (also with a big loss ofcourse)

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04-06-2009, 03:08 AM

I've bought some locally for as little as $10! power brick, cables too.... Most I'll pay for a dead system is $35 and I'll toss in extra for cables but I always lowball the shit out of people at first. the $10 systems + 45 minutes of work then a quick profit

The best con is the "trade-in" where I give them like $20 for their system only and then get another $60 out of them for the console I repaired...

I've been working things out with some small gamestop wannabe stores and getting a bunch from those places.

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04-06-2009, 03:12 AM

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Why is that funny?

Some people just don't care, same as they trade in their new 7 series after a year. (also with a big loss ofcourse)

the fact is the repair isn't the easiest thing in the world, although I taught my wife how to disassemble them to the point where I can just flip over the mobo and pull off the Xclamps. The screws/washers are a weird enough size that I'm having trouble keeping them in stock around here! Tonights long night of work chewed through all of my surplus! I have amazon prime and ordered a bunch of screws that won't be here till tuesday so I'm shut down till then as far as repairs go so I guess I'll just have to focus on moving units for now.

Amazon dealers are out of stock of the screws I need both cheesehead and pan head. spent some time searching but didn't really find any others that would work and are eligible for prime 2 day free shipping. I might just have to order a bunch from some other sources and just wait for them to come in.

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04-06-2009, 03:13 AM

Yea I give props to ya farkedup for being able to do this, its a niche

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04-06-2009, 03:27 AM

Originally posted by farkedup

I've bought some locally for as little as $10! power brick, cables too.... Most I'll pay for a dead system is $35 and I'll toss in extra for cables but I always lowball the shit out of people at first. the $10 systems + 45 minutes of work then a quick profit

The best con is the "trade-in" where I give them like $20 for their system only and then get another $60 out of them for the console I repaired...

I've been working things out with some small gamestop wannabe stores and getting a bunch from those places.
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04-06-2009, 03:40 AM

my fingertips hurts like hell and my soft computer guy hands aren't really made for messing with so much solid steel LOL.

I ended up getting pretty lucky and actually got some Lite-on drives in todays haul which is odd, those drives I thought were only used in the latest revision that isn't very old.

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04-06-2009, 03:53 AM

this thread is useless without pics
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04-06-2009, 04:04 AM

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this thread is useless without pics

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04-06-2009, 04:38 AM

yea I been fixing Wii's for a little while now I got one off ebay 'disc read error' plugged it in and it worked fine. twilight hack with the legend of zelda game for the wii gets you every single nintendo and snes game ever made.

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04-06-2009, 04:48 AM

I actually had 2 of them that I had demo's running a solid hour and never found a problem with! I put a sticky note on them that says WTF! I'll just have to use it as an excuse to play a few hours of rock band 2 on it

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04-06-2009, 04:51 AM

That is pretty cool actually. We had ours (have 2) fixed a couple times and usually doesn't take much to get them back and working. Twice MS did it for free with a fast turnaround too.
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04-06-2009, 04:51 AM

there is few things more satisfying then disassembling something and putting it back together in working order.

same reason i started to do all my own car repairs.
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04-06-2009, 04:59 AM

I've always got a pile of broken 360s on hand. There's a pile of 6 of them sitting here next to me now.

Put an ad on craigslist saying that you buy the broken one and see how many calls you get.

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04-06-2009, 05:01 AM

Wiis and DSs are the worst to open and put back together. The 360 is a snap.

You have the little tool you can use to crack them open in about 30 seconds right?

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04-06-2009, 05:02 AM

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04-06-2009, 05:04 AM

ive had my xbox 360 elite for just over a year now, no problems yet

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04-06-2009, 05:06 AM

Originally posted by fris

ive had my xbox 360 elite for just over a year now, no problems yet

I've had 1 since launch day that still works no problem. Never had an issue. I just fixed one for a buddy this weekend. He's had it 3 months.

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04-06-2009, 07:01 AM

What's usually busted in them? same thing each time?

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04-06-2009, 07:02 AM

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04-06-2009, 07:10 AM

glad you dropped the programming lol

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04-06-2009, 08:23 AM

Originally posted by farkedup

I've been buying up a ton of them that are broken and I just pulled an all nighter and fixed 20 systems that I can turn around and sell now LOL

Now I can't do anything else until I get more parts in the mail LOL What a mess all over the place I haven't put the cases back together yet... I took them all apart and just started tossing the pieces all over! Anybody want to have an X clamp fight? They're like ninja stars. Some of them are even sharp as hell! I sliced my thumb yanking on one of them and it gushed ALL over the place for a while. After my wife put a Hello Kitty bandaid on it I went back to work after popping a vicodin...

Now its 7AM and I'm eating cap'n crunch while some systems sit there playing some game demos to make sure they're stable and burn them in a lil

I have a friend that was buying broken Xbox's like he was eating them.

Then a year later he bought a Porsche GT3 and said "See I told you guys i'd have a Porsche in a year."

and it all made sense.
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04-06-2009, 08:30 AM

Originally posted by woj

What's usually busted in them? same thing each time?

There are a few different errors that involve the unit overheating. Some hardware failures.

The most common is the Red Ring of Death. It's not too difficult to fix though. And can make for a nice side business.

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04-06-2009, 08:32 AM

Originally posted by Ozarkz

I have a friend that was buying broken Xbox's like he was eating them.

Then a year later he bought a Porsche GT3 and said "See I told you guys i'd have a Porsche in a year."

and it all made sense.

Wow, nice !!

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04-06-2009, 12:13 PM

I want some broken ps3 money. I like taking stuff apart - farked, hit me up! wolfyman aT gmail
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04-06-2009, 12:14 PM

errrr xbox 360 I mean. Typing faster than I'm thinking here :D
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04-06-2009, 12:16 PM

damn, good turnaround right there
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04-06-2009, 12:17 PM

Originally posted by Wolfy

errrr xbox 360 I mean. Typing faster than I'm thinking here :D

Find a tutorial on how to fix them and put an ad on craigslist. That's all it takes.

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04-06-2009, 12:29 PM

Originally posted by Ozarkz

I have a friend that was buying broken Xbox's like he was eating them.

Then a year later he bought a Porsche GT3 and said "See I told you guys i'd have a Porsche in a year."

and it all made sense.

thats a lot of fucking xboxs
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04-07-2009, 12:43 PM

Originally posted by candyflip

Find a tutorial on how to fix them and put an ad on craigslist. That's all it takes.

Fedex came today and brought me a ton of screws LOL

Basically the key is finding a few people to buy bulk broken 360's from. A guy within driving distance from me gets them from all kinds of weird places and sells them to me so SOMEWHERE there's a supplier selling them way cheaper than I'm currently buying them for LOL

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04-07-2009, 01:14 PM

Do you just buy a bunch then mix and match parts to get them working?

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04-07-2009, 02:16 PM

Originally posted by farkedup

Fedex came today and brought me a ton of screws LOL

Basically the key is finding a few people to buy bulk broken 360's from. A guy within driving distance from me gets them from all kinds of weird places and sells them to me so SOMEWHERE there's a supplier selling them way cheaper than I'm currently buying them for LOL

I have a buddy with a used game shop and he can't be assed to bother with them or even put shit on eBay. He just called today with another 5 for me to take.

I make some nice extra cash marking up his old NES and SNES games to resell on eBay.

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04-07-2009, 02:18 PM

Good job dude, there's a lot of money in modding existing and working 360's.

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04-07-2009, 02:58 PM

Originally posted by candyflip

I have a buddy with a used game shop and he can't be assed to bother with them or even put shit on eBay. He just called today with another 5 for me to take.

I make some nice extra cash marking up his old NES and SNES games to resell on eBay.

there was a shop like that here in my lil town on the block down from the middle school... The people were rude and asking WAAAAAY too much for stuff. Needless to say I don't think it was even open a year! Every time somebody finds me off of craigslist they bring FRIENDS with them and end up sending me a few more people pretty quickly. Basically I tell them come back in an hour and it'll be ready OR here play my xbox on my 100" projection screen while I fix yours...

Being able to get them fixed up in under an hour is a nice selling point. I should charge more for instant service LOL

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04-07-2009, 03:02 PM

oh and I found another dealer within driving distance of me... Basically I can get my hands on about 70 a week now without having to deal with ebay at all!

I think I'll probably still troll around ebay for broken elite systems with all the parts.

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04-07-2009, 05:21 PM

oh good, the credit card finally shut down LMAO I think I won't call on it for a few days... Not being able to order more shit is probably a good thing.

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04-07-2009, 05:24 PM

Originally posted by Manowar

thats a lot of fucking xboxs

It was an incredible site, I will try and find the picture of all of them. He had to rent warehouse space.

another guy on a forum i'm on was buying up all of our stock Ford radios nobody knew why until one day he posted about buying a new Viper or Corvette turned out he sold them back to Ford.

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04-07-2009, 05:46 PM

Originally posted by Ozarkz

It was an incredible site, I will try and find the picture of all of them. He had to rent warehouse space.

another guy on a forum i'm on was buying up all of our stock Ford radios nobody knew why until one day he posted about buying a new Viper or Corvette turned out he sold them back to Ford.

O snap.... incredible.

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04-07-2009, 06:38 PM

Originally posted by Ozarkz

It was an incredible site, I will try and find the picture of all of them. He had to rent warehouse space.

another guy on a forum i'm on was buying up all of our stock Ford radios nobody knew why until one day he posted about buying a new Viper or Corvette turned out he sold them back to Ford.

so ford bought the guy a Viper....

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04-07-2009, 08:44 PM

I wonder if PS2s and PS3s are easy to fix?

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