Incredible Xbox Series X Deal Found at Pawn Shop

Summary

Gamer found damaged Xbox Series X at pawn shop for just over $100.
After cleaning and repair, console worked flawlessly.
Fans impressed by great find, shows value in exploring pawn stores.

A gamer found an incredible deal on an Xbox Series X at a pawn shop and ended up going home with the system for just over $100. The find has impressed fellow Xbox Series X fans and shows that it’s worth giving pawn and thrift stores a look for items like these.

Gaming can easily become an expensive hobby, with the potential for hundreds of dollars being spent on a console, thousands on a PC, and much more across a game catalog. It’s no surprise, then, that gamers look for good deals when buying anything related to the hobby, but finding a functional current-gen console for a cheap price is hard to come by.

Xbox Revokes Access to Free Game

Unfortunately for Xbox gamers, the platform is revoking access to a game that was accidentally given away for free.

On Reddit, user general_musician shared the chance they took on a damaged Xbox Series X that cost them just over $100 with tax. General_musician says that they found the console being sold in a pawn store as-is, with the label noting that the HDMI connector was damaged. The OP investigated, and found that the pins on the HDMI were bent out of place, and that there was a considerable amount of dust inside the console. Nonetheless, they took the chance and took it home, cleaned up the interior, and carefully bent the pins to put them back into the proper position. General_musician was expecting they would need to send it in for repairs, but found that it worked flawlessly once this little bit of TLC had been administered to the system. It turned out to be a 1TB model of the console.

Xbox Series X Fans Congratulate Lucky Find

As one might expect, other fans of the console family are extremely impressed at this lucky discovery. The OP already owns an Xbox Series S, and users are suggesting that they switch to using the Xbox Series X and use their comparatively weaker system for streaming and old games. General_musician notes that they expect that the system may need proper repairs in the future, as any further movement impacting the HDMI port could potentially cause the connection to no longer work. However, for the moment at least, they have an excellent gaming system for roughly $300 less than they would have spent on a brand-new one. Even if it needs repairs later on, the cost will surely remain beneath buying an Xbox Series X off the shelf.

Gamers sometimes get lucky with finds like these at pawn stores. While this gamer was lucky to get a modern system capable of playing some great games, in another case, one fan discovered an extremely limited edition Xbox 360 that they took home for $40. Only a few hundred units of the particular design were produced, making it an incredible find.