Alby_da_Wolf on 22 May 2008
At least it wasn't a RRoD just out of the box... I know, I know, if this is optimism, what should pessimism look like? 
However play.com also sells in the USA, so an error in their warehouse could happen.
But as the error isn't a simple "picked the wrong box in the warehouse", instead it looks like the content is messed, with parts not mactching each other, as Arcturus said too, I'd check if something suggests it's a refurbished unit.
