Used Price: $50 – $120 (Discontinued new) With Microsoft killing WMR support, prices have collapsed. Samsung Odyssey or Lenovo Explorer units are flooding eBay.
This involves buying "for parts/not working" HMDs. You buy three broken kits for $200 total and combine their working ribbons, screens, and motherboards to create one best cracked HMD device kit. This is for electronics masochists, but the savings are enormous. hmd device kit cracked best
The market for cracked HMDs is the Wild West. Avoid these specific traps: Used Price: $50 – $120 (Discontinued new) With
1. Proprietary Cable Damage If you buy a HP Reverb G2 or Samsung Odyssey+ with a "cracked connector" or "kinked wire," walk away. Replacement cables for these units cost more than a used working headset. The market for cracked HMDs is the Wild West
2. Water Damage Any HMD that smells like smoke or has corrosion on the USB port is dead. The traces inside the multi-layer board rot. You cannot fix this.
3. Account-Locked Standalones A "cracked" Meta Quest Pro for $200 sounds amazing. If the previous owner didn't factory reset, the device is activation-locked to their Meta account. You cannot bypass this without the original email. It is a brick.