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| - It is what it is. Mostly broken PC components that were too old to bother with even if they did work. The few reasonable things they had, like decent AMD chips and motherboards, were massively overpriced. They were selling one decent AMD CPU+motherboard for $200, whereas you could easily buy the same set off eBay for well under $50. Hell, you could get a brand new and higher clocked newer generation set for under $200, if you shopped around. They were selling ancient(barely usable) Intel chips for $20 that normally go for $3(free shipping) on eBay.
This place may be good if you are looking for a cheap PC to mess around with Arch Linux on, or something along those lines (where you don't even need/want to use a GUI), or to build a server or LAN on, just to get a feel for the process(just for self teaching). Also, some of the old heat sinks and power supplies look really cool, even if they are worthless for practical use. I bought one of both for art display in my home. You could also buy a $15 unusable or broken PC just to take it apart and get a look at how everything works. I may come back to spend $15 for those purposes. Maybe they usually have decent stuff for decent prices, but certainly not when I went in. Based on my visit: Arch Linux, teaching hardware for server or LAN setup(not for real work), heatsink art, cheap ancient PC's to pull apart for fun.
EDIT: I think that you could probably build a very low budget gaming or media workstation from parts found here, but you have to be creative, and check new parts as often as possible. I have also noticed people buying RAM sticks on the cheap, so a fever whose only cure is more DDR3 could be another reason to come. My only concern was that they were rather vague when I asked about how they test their components, whereas you know that a highly rated eBay seller will test the crap out of their components in order to retain their high rating.
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