Board Thread:General Nerf discussion/@comment-26431461-20190527025325/@comment-30049823-20190706051907

Salvation Army and Goodwill stores a lot of times will have stuff in opened boxes with SALVAGE stickers all over them. Basically, a retail or online store gets a return from an unsatidfied customer, and they don't have product experts on staff to verify whether it's defective or just "disappointing" to whoever bought it, so they stamp it SALVAGE, donate, and write it off on taxes or whatever.

That's how I got my $8 Nailbiter (didn't work, fix was easy tho), $15 AR-L, and $15 Evader, mostly complete but with beat-up boxes.

You don't always get so lucky, though. My $10 Accelerator has fried motors or electronics. But it came with $8 worth of fresh batteries still installed in it, so, haha!