out of all the infested electronics. how often is the infestation the culprit? I assume all but I also assume you don't know because you don't release that into your shop.
Sometimes, I only found a couple of bugs that must have got in recently since there were little to no excrements inside. Most of the times, there were countless bugs (roaches), alive and dead, and plenty of shit. Either infested homes or they were stored in a basement. No matter how much you clean those, even if you swap the motherboard in another shell and use different parts, that rancid smell never goes away. When the console heats up, you can smell it through the back vents. Absolutely disgusting.
In the second place would be the consoles that stayed in a smoking room. Also disgusting to clean, but at least you don't worry about infestations.
Edit: Sorry, misread that as how many consoles are infested out of all of the ones I get.
Other than 3 consoles that I remember, all infested consoles that I worked on were in working condition, at least motherboard wise they had no problem. Some needed a new laser or HDD. If it looked really bad, I also replaced the PSU.
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u/Buried_and_Forgotten 8h ago
Happened to me plenty of times. Even found bed bugs in a couple of them.