You never quite know what you're going to get when you crack open a pallet of mystery returns, yet one YouTuber was left stunned when he revealed the items hidden inside a package worth over $15,950.
People return their gadgets for a wide variety of reasons, as while some are sent back because they're not up to scratch, others are simply due to the customer changing their mind with the product itself being left in perfect condition.
If you look hard enough you can find returns like these packed up into 'mystery' pallets that are sold on the estimated value of what's inside, yet you don't quite know what you're going to get until the packaging is removed.
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Most people wouldn't want to run the risk of this – especially as you also have to deal with the hassle of reselling the items afterwards to your money back – but if there's one thing we can always rely on it's YouTubers, and one creator was left gobsmacked after discovering what was inside the lot he'd purchased.
YouTuber Harrison Nevel has made a name for himself by opening these sorts of mystery packages, as you can't deny the appeal of seeing the highs and lows of what's hidden inside.
One of the most fascinating videos he has uploaded in recent months was one focusing on a Apple returns pallet worth around $15,950, but he managed to snag it for just $1,383 in total.
Every item hidden inside here had been returned untested and was guaranteed to be genuine Apple products, and the understanding was that everything would be like-new condition and thus viable for reselling.
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Upon breaking open the packaging he immediately struck gold, as a MacBook Air with a perfect screen was the first product he picked up — something that could theoretically be sold for around $850, which makes up 61 percent of what he paid for the whole pallet.
That soon turned to disappointment though, as the thrill of discovering another laptop box – this time for an even more expensive 16-inch Macbook Pro – turned sour when he realized that the box was filled with books and stickers, indicating that it had been stolen.
Depending on the specs of the Macbook Pro this could have easily made him back double, if not triple of what he had originally paid, so it was certainly a major let down that this didn't come through.
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"Whoever wrapped that pallet took that 5k MacBook," speculated one commenter, and it's hard to not feel done by when you see what you could have got.
There were plenty of other valuable accessories among the rest of the pallet's contents though, and Harrison estimated that he'd be able to sell it all for around $5,792 in total, making between $2,500 and $3,000 in profit after taking fees, packaging, and delivery into account.
Certainly a worthy purchase and a success when it comes to these mystery boxes, but it could have been so much more if the MacBook was there for real.