Hacking Are these worth buying? (Broken PSP 2000s)

[Flights]

I occasionally see some PSP 2000s that are in pretty decent physical condition go on sale online, and they are always like 5 or 6 dollars with extremely vague descriptions, like "Does not work, think of this as junk". I want to get into softmodding and emulation with PSPs, would buying a sketchy PSP like this be a plausible fix with the correct parts, or is it a lost cause?

 

[Ryccardo]

The price is honest for a genuine defective PSP (even 3rd party shell replacements are more expensive), and all software bricks are easily fixable on older motherboards (which also support the best coldboot entrypoint), now if they were custom assembled "missing chips, stuck umd drive, shorted battery, cracked screen"...

But if you want to start and don't have much troubleshooting epxerience, better to just buy a working one for less than 45, and an original 32 GB memory stick for ~20 (or failing that a black 1-slot microSD converter and quality card for it)