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Great story. How were sales? Did anyone else on campus compete with your business?
by rdbell 6y ago
Great story. How were sales? Did anyone else on campus compete with your business?
- vict00ms 6y agoI had a friend in undergrad that was moving a pretty significant number of modded (original) XBoxes at a pretty significant markup...but it turned out that he also offered a particular service that was largely driving sales: a larger hard drive filled with ripped DVDs from the 'Red Light District' adult film studio.
- joshuamcginnis 6y agoI did maybe a half dozen or so - nothing crazy. A lot of people were understandably scared to entrust me with a soldering iron on their expensive toy. Then PS2 came out and modding became much more complex. I do miss the satisfaction of putting in a chip, loading a burned game and seeing it load after a long anxiety-provoking black screen.
- _notreallyme_ 6y agoI did the same while in high school. Someone asked me to mod his PS1 so I copied the pic12c508 he provided to me so I could do it again for cheaper. For the sales, it was actually a rather good business, I had between 1 and 3 console a week to mod, for almost a year, and I didn't even put an ad. It ended because someone with the latest model (SCPH 8xxx if memory serves) inisted I try to mod his PS1 despite me not having proper equipement to solder at the needed accuracy. It did failed obviously. I had a hard time making it work again, it was so stressful that I ended up stopping it altogether except 2 or 3 times after that for some close friends.