[identity profile] dogofthefuture.livejournal.com 2007-08-16 07:22 am (UTC)(link)
A person I know (not me, really) once bought a VCR for 50 bucks (back when VCRs usually ran from 300-400 bucks) "off the back of a truck" that turned out to be, literally, two bricks in VCR box. Ah, good times, good times.