During Ciruit Cities liquidation, many people gave back their PS3's and 360's. As a result the company had many consoles left, and CC sold them all to a facility, promising they where all in working condition. As it turned out, the consoles the facility received, half of them where broken. And even more interesting, a lot of them still had their credit card information on login ID on the system, some even contained home made porn. You can consider them lucky, or a really pissed off company.

Did you offload an Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3 at Circuit City while the retailer was imploding? If you did, we hope you wiped your personal details from the machine. Because Circuit City didn't.

Having read our post on GameStop's Texas refurbishment centre, we were contacted by a reader who works in a similar facility (though not one that services GameStop). And there, he claims, things were a little different.

See, this facility (doing work for a smaller retail chain) bought some of Circuit City's stock of pre-owned 360s, PS3s, DSs, PSPs and Wiis. And according to our tipster, didn't get what they paid for. The deal was that this company would be purchasing an allotment of consoles that would be pre-owned, though in working condition, and with maybe a few components missing.

Sayyed via kotaku.com »