I recently purchased a used XBox360 on Ebay (it was advertised as having a faulty DVD drive, which was apparently damaging disks).
I have fixed this well known problem and it now plays DVDs fine but it won't play games.
When I put a games disk in, it comes up with a message saying that "this disk can only be played on an Xbox360 console" (??go figure???).
Anyway,it works very well as a media centre (you can connect it to your home network and stream movies / music / pics / etc) or play games that you can download from XBox Live.
Alternatively, if you're technically minded, perhaps it can be fixed?
It comes with console, power brick, ethernet cable, composite video cable, VGA video cable, 20Gb hard disk.
You can pick controllers up very cheaply from
www.dealextreme.com.
I'm asking $175 +p&h.
I'll give it a week or 2 before I list it back on ebay.
Cheers
Matt