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@aroundtheblockwithbrock4799

Жыл бұрын

Hell no 400 is wayyyy to much especially since it’s not cleaned 🤮

@jrob0021

Жыл бұрын

@@aroundtheblockwithbrock4799 yeh I could have just bought it from the guy on eBay for $200 or so lol

@roomofcybertron6380

Жыл бұрын

I cant wait for the video of DKOldies getting lawsuit

@ibapreppie

Жыл бұрын

I got a CECHA01 (Hardware backwards compatible ps3) for 250. Was delidded and thoroughly cleaned. I'll always trust ebay over anyone.

@KitsuneCiel

Жыл бұрын

SO, I've recently bought a Xbox Original, Wii(GameCube Compatible), Wii U, PS2, PS3(Super Slim), and Xbox 360( Slim with 250 or something i forgot) ALL for 370 dollars All of these had OEM controller and 2 each, but for the Original Xbox, and it came with a OEM and 1 generic knock off..... which is honesty better. So no

Retro vGames having a 121 day warranty while DKOldies has a 120 day warranty is literally just that SpongeBob episode where The Krusty Krab is open for 24 hours because The Chum Bucket is open for 23 hours.

@IBrianrish

Жыл бұрын

💀💀

@AzumiRM

Жыл бұрын

No it's not. They are two different things all together. One is an episode of a cartoon and one is a shop. Please don't use the word "literally" if you actually mean "figuratively"

@jamirimaj6880

Жыл бұрын

Great comparison. Both the Krusty Krab and the Chum Bucket are sketchy, greedy companies too.

@shaungreer3350

Жыл бұрын

@@AzumiRM you are so fun at parties!!!

@MCRAVAGE54

Жыл бұрын

Azum read what you said again before speaking

if dk oldies is terrible i wasn’t expecting a knock off to be any better

@DubberRucks

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, to be fair if you're comparing anyone to DKOldies, you're not setting the bar very high

@xLazarusEnvy

Жыл бұрын

RIght? Like the knock off is aiming to be bad / worse than what its copying lol

I sell on eBay from time to time, and I have to be honest, if someone buys something from me and asks me to send it to anywhere other than the registered address for that account, I would refuse. Opens you up to all sorts of risk.

@DubberRucks

Жыл бұрын

That's so sketch when they do that. Sure there might be genuine reasons but you do right to protect yourself and your eBay rep against the negative feedback 👍

$400 for a PS3 is just insane! Who would pay that this day in age

@DubberRucks

Жыл бұрын

Someone with an excess in money but a lack in sense lol

@plan7a

Жыл бұрын

Well, it is a backwards compatible and original controller; so it is kind of worth more to some, I'd guess? (Not that much though, maybe; unless boxed?

@fishguru2576

Жыл бұрын

Wasn't the ps3 $500 when it debuted?

@LostClowder

Жыл бұрын

$400 for ANY used console is just ridiculous. Is the seller throwing in some gold and diamonds with it?

@allxtend4005

Жыл бұрын

@@fishguru2576 599$ or even 699$ not sure but at the price of a ps5 the last years. worth the price ? no not at all, go buy a 60$ ps3 and let someone clean it for another 50/100$ then you have it 3x cheaper or do it by yourself.

I bought a backward compatible 80GB PS3 in march. 200$, did deepclean/repaste and put a SSD in it. For less than 260$, it was an amazing deal on my side. Plus, the exterior looks mint.

@Gecko730

Жыл бұрын

Nice !

@jrob0021

Жыл бұрын

That’s the way to do it 👍

@OsmanHasan98

Жыл бұрын

Nice! Any recommendations for an SSD? Got a 60GB recently.

@katsudon2048

Жыл бұрын

All PS3 models are backwards compatible with PS1 games tho

@TheSupermuffin12

Жыл бұрын

​@@katsudon2048Only the older ps3 models are backwards compatable with ps2 games

Well , if they are trying to copy DKOldies I think they are doing a pretty good job .

@julieboruta

Жыл бұрын

It’s not copying dkoldies it’s doing it better by drop shipping using eBay. Better in since of not having to have a console to sell in store but that’s just as bad if not worse than dkoldies. I think it’s a worse situation than dkoldies coping the idea ten times worse than dkoldies.

Dropshipping with no contact when it's advertised as refurbished is definitely a case for false advertising, not that anything will be done, places like this and dk oldies are starting to give retro gaming resellers a bad look. Tbh I'm sticking to Cashies and Ebay cause at least I know what I'm getting into for the most part

@Silenc3WillFall

Жыл бұрын

lawsuit time. They were false advertising and thats grounds for a lawsuit

i knew there would be a day when we finally found bugs inside the consoles. today is finally that day and i'm shocked that someone could willingly sell that at that price as "refurbished" and be ok with themselves 😵‍💫

@Gatorade69

Жыл бұрын

To be fair maybe the original seller never claimed it was refurbished ? Dropshipping is a scummy thing, especially from just random e-bay listings.

@ralex3697

6 ай бұрын

So many are like that which is why I avoid this old stuff like the plague. Just gross

Your videos always reinforces the dread of remembering I still need to repaste my ps3.

@jean-baptisteminaud9164

Жыл бұрын

I would recommend to De-lid (there’s thermal paste above but also under the lid of both Cell and RSX chips) to get thermal conductivity back to normal. NSC Modz explains how to on youtube.

@kenabi

Жыл бұрын

@@thomasandrews9355 psx-place has a nice tutorial on how to do it using cutting wire and a folded piece of aluminum that prevents the edge used to cut from going in further than it needs to. the spatula method can lead to chip death with the slightest slip. the psx-place method works a treat. that said, if your unit isn't overheating (after repasting the top of the heat spreaders), then don't delid. it should only be a last resort option. and should always be done as slowly as you can manage, to minimize any possible chance of problems.

@Gatorade69

Жыл бұрын

@@jean-baptisteminaud9164 As someone who has built many computers and even fixed some consoles before even I'm scared of trying to de-lid a CPU. :/

@Gatorade69

Жыл бұрын

Is that a Tomba! (or Tombi) avatar ?

@ParasiteAdam666

Жыл бұрын

@@Gatorade69 it is

Jacob is gonna have some new disease no one has ever heard of from opening all those consoles.

@plan7a

Жыл бұрын

I apologise for my the following comment; Specialist Doctor: 'It's a bug of *some* kind! How did you get it?'.👾👾👾👾

Y'know when a store is trying to be DkOldies, y'know it's GOOD :)

@Idk12575

Жыл бұрын

Fr

@DubberRucks

Жыл бұрын

Yup, if someone thinks DK are a gold standard competitor they must really be aiming to succeed at business. 🤔😁

400 for a PS3!!!???

@vizioax2

Жыл бұрын

It's insane retro gaming company's have inflated the prices so much.

7:15 when that tail looking thing flew out I couldn't believe it haha, so many retro scam companies these days... it's such a shame

@plan7a

Жыл бұрын

I imagined a 'free, yippee' sound effect; as per some previous videos, I must say!

These videos are making me consider making my own DKOldies "knockoff" except I actually do the physical labor required to call something refurbished. I do it for fun already and feel like people would love a seller who has respect for the hardware.

@SoulforSale

Жыл бұрын

Try it.

@Jonqen

Жыл бұрын

You would make the retro collecting hobby a great favour. We need more passion

that smile when Jacob saw the warranty seal intact XD "You know what that means!" 😂

Seeing that dead bug fall across the base actually scared me too! I'm not good when it comes to things with more than 4 legs. :)

Interesting story... I got a game from them. An N64 game... and they sent me a bootleg game with alot of the hallmarks of it being a bootleg game.

@jrob0021

Жыл бұрын

Yikes 😬

TO be honest you can run a hairdryer over the warranty sticker and get it loose enough to peel it back and re-stick it later. BTW I like your foreshadowing subtitles, cracks me up lol

Great content Jacob, and at 7:20 what came out of your ps3 was one of the legs of a centipede. Crazy lol

I hope you gave it the cleaning it deserves, i hate to see a good working console stay nasty.

bothering to get 40gb hardrives is probably not worth their time so they probably hope people select the 80gb option at the least and pay a bit more. who has ever complained about having a bigger hd

LOL I’m from Allentown and I’ve only heard bad things about them. Cool to see them get called out on their bullshit

Drop shipping is perfectly legal. The problem is when it comes to things that might get dirty... like a video game console. What if the console you're drop shipping doesn't work? Who's gonna take the blame?

Ok let's talk about that ad read though. That transition was pretty amazingly thought out though!

All that dust seems to transfer heat fairly well.

A big issue with consoles and they still do it to this day is negative air pressure for cooling. No matter how hard you try to keep the house and console clean, when they're using a pull method rather than a positive push, you will end up with caked dust everywhere. It pulls air from every little gap rather than pushing through one inlet

I agree, absolutely disgusting and shameful.. (company even more than the console.) After seeing a few of your videos, I definitely feel the console conditions are worse in the US than the UK after the years (probably different climate w/ bugs etc.) with preowned consoles, unless I've gotten really lucky and the consoles I order second hand and from shops have been looked after by previous owner. The listing says "discounted" (idk) but turns up in nice condition.

I bought a 360 Slim from Ebay because I was interested in refurbishing consoles, and it will filled with black dust (it was mainly on the plastic cover inside). My first assumption was that it was inside a building that was on fire but the strangest thing is that it didn't smell or anything. The funniest thing is that it worked, I had to change the thermal paste which is expected but I had no idea what that black dust was from.

@ralex3697

6 ай бұрын

Dirt accumulation

Untill I found your channel I didn't even know about thermal paste or opening up consoles. I would have just checked the outside and made sure it ran. Now I inspect everything, so thanks for that. This PS3 is absolutely vile

What do you do with all these consoles after the video? Do you clean them and put new thermal paste on and sell them?

hey Jacob, do you know if xbox 360 servers shut down, can i still buy discs and play them if they require internet connection?

Reasons I've never wanted to open old electronics:

Dropshipping in this case is illegal as they are stating you are reciving a "refurbished" product but they have no way to verfiy if it is actually been refurbished by the seller which they are buying then reshelling to you.

Checking out this video after I bought a ps3 and this prices have dropped so I don’t think they’re down shipping or getting paid more but now I’m very worried that I won’t get what I paid for, any tips for if it’s a lil fucked?

Thank you so much. I was going to buy a Vita from these guys but after I watched the DKoldies videos I was skeptical. I looked for videos and there wasn’t any till now. Thank you

@Gatorade69

Жыл бұрын

Just buy one from eBay.

@ralex3697

6 ай бұрын

Just emulate and avoid old technology

I live about 10 minutes from DK Oldies, all of us in the greater Philly Metro know this place is a scam we’ve known for years. Crazy how big this got out of nowhere

Maybe some employees Dkoldies broke away from the store and got a bit of inventory to set up another shop across the street without joey's influence.

@DubberRucks

Жыл бұрын

Toxic workplace much? 🤔 You never know lol

@vigilantbruiser1119

Жыл бұрын

@@DubberRucks Family is involved too I bet, I wouldn't tarnish my relationship with them for joey's meager restitution.

The very first consoles that were 40 gb , 60 gb and 80gb came later, there are 3 models that have tbe 4 usbs in the front that run ps1 and ps2 games.

That was a dead house centipede in it I'm pretty sure, but I would call this Desert PS3 2

I just cleaned out a 3000 ps3 and it was 200% more clogged than that one.

That bug in there is disgusting!

How is not illegal to claim something is refurbished when it isn’t? Surely there should be consumer protection laws to prevent that?

You know it's a top tier establishment when they send you your gaming console in a Delta Sink box.

"One of its legs flew out." Bruh. ☠️

I have a question, and its something that always gets me and I bet I'm not the first: WHY DONT YOU HAVE VACUUM CLEANER NEARBY??! pleeaaaseee show us a quick effort on the video man, its so easy!!

Because of all the horror I have witnessed on your channel, you better believe if I want an older game or console I will be heading straight to your website

I miss your foreign discs video. When can you do those again?

Drop shipping is usually good until one time a stolen credit card was used to make the product purchase and ship the product to me. Talk about a mess makes an innocent buyer look guilty. Took months to resolve.

That tail that came out of the PS3 was definitely a scorpion tail. Wonder where the rest of it went...

Wonder if it’s a backup business for when DKOldies goes out of business they can run operations under that one?

Jacob I really appreciate that you reviewed this console risking your lungs and health

I always wondered what my ps4 looked like inside. I owned it for 6 years and smoked bud and dabs all day while playing. The vents had stuff that looked like fur in it before I sold it lol

Anybody who continues to buy from these companies who claim to refurbish their consoles is crazy. If you wanna collect or play older systems you really need to learn to refurbish and upkeep your own electronics.

Seller should have also ran the fan test to kick some extra dust out. For these E models, turn the console on it's side (warranty sticker facing the sky), then power the console on and hold it for 1 minute.

@plan7a

Жыл бұрын

You can put the fan on max for a short period; that could help to clear a bit, perhaps? [I forget how it works, at the moment, but it does].

@rodneyevans3848

Жыл бұрын

To be fair he was selling as is condition.

Thanks Jacob R for risking your lungs and respiratory system to give us this content

@jrob0021

Жыл бұрын

😳

They could be bundles for your stock queries at 4:07 there is 6 bundles with the game and 15 without. The 2nd one you added did not have the game ticked. Adding the basket might not take away from stock that is just a process flaw.

I wonder how dirty my dads day one ps2 is

Honestly I think most KZreadrs milked the “refurbished” but actually not console vids, but I still enjoy watching them since it’s entertaining during my lunch break. I also prefer hearing Jacobs ASMR type voice over my co-workers 😂

Jacob R: *gets package thats slightly dented* Jacob R: "I hope this console works"

My friend once bought me a "working" "refurbished" ps3 controller from RetroVgames. It was a real ps3 dualshock.. But.... there was issues. I dont fully know how to explain it. But it seems like they opened the controller and somehow wired the RB button to Square on the controller. While playing RE5 a game you aim with RB with if i presser Sqaure my character would aim.... yeah we returned that controller.

I wanna get a gamecube but it seems all these sellers are unreliable. Where should i buy one from?

omg. i have never seen this before at all. the worst dusty console i have ever seen. keep up the good work. your dkoldies videos are so intresting to me along with your i bought a something series. keep it up

I don't think these companies know what "refurbished" means

Why wouldn’t he rub off that dust on the hard drive before putting it in 😣

That’s not a business that straight up crime

So that retro video games store just do dropshipping huh ???

Btw that dead bug you found is a house centipede😂

Imagine paying more than ebay just to find out the quality RNG is the same as theirs

That my friend is a cellar centipede....crazy.

7:20 my eyes about bulged out of my head when I realized that looked like a Scorpion tail

I'm going to assume that dkoldies buys retrovgames inventory when it comes to dirty consoles at a low price

OMG was that a Scorpion Tail?

This behaviour and business practice just hurts me so much

$404?! BC PS3s are pricey but I wouldn't expect to see them over $350 (usually closer to $300).

Is it me or did backwards compatible PS3's used to be more expensive? I'm looking right now on ebay and they seem to be floating around the $200 mark, which has me pretty suprised tbh.

@nickypoundtown9568

Жыл бұрын

And strangely the new owner posts on Reddit saying they got it for 40

My Fat BC 60GB has NO scratches. I used car wax on it since it was new and a microfiber towel.

Personally the whole warranty sticker is *very* sketchy, and basically is there to make sure you can’t open the console, find that they scammed you, and then get your money back because of the fact you voided their warranty. Absolute bull****.

I got my PS3 and PS4 with 6 games total from a retro store for less than $500. They work great, granted they sound like trains but an effort was made to keep them in as good a shape as possible. The PS3 was also listed as 120gb but is about 240gb instead so that's a bonus point.

It’s mind boggling that after all these years and decades of Consoles we’ve never seen a PlayStation, Nintendo, and or Xbox designed with something so simple as basic dust filters for the fan intakes and then we’d never have dust inside Our Consoles as we’d simply remove the dust filter every few months wipe it off and put it back in ! Many Pc cases have had dust filters built in for a long time, and even some power supply units have dust filters and you’d think that Console manufacturers would wanna go the extra mile for Us and design the systems with dust filters

Ive never had a system with bugs but ive had systems with so much dust that you could pull it off the psu like lint in a dryer

I got my ps3 backwards on day one 599.99 I wonder if it’s dirty inside. I have never opened it but clean it a lot and it hardly has any scratches. I’m afraid to take it apart and clean it.

They took the crown from the DKOldies like it's nothing

the tail that came from the ps3 looked like a scorpion tail.

That’s just ridiculously bad, it’s DKScamies all over again! 😮

You should try dkoldies wii u, 1 wii u out of 3 has a faulty nand (storage) chip from the brand hynix that has a very hight failure rate, if they send a faulty one that should definitely be considered a scam because all hynix wii u have a limited lifespan. It would be really interesting if dkoldies at least checked the nand, and in order to do this you either need to take it apart or mod it, and since dkoldies are "refurbishing" them they should know the brand. At the very least they should clarify if the console has the faulty chip and discounting it.

This was clearly dropshipped if it came from two wildly different locations.

Geez. I've got a brand new PS4 Piano Black 80Gb (non BC) model. I might have opened it to make sure it powered on at the time- but I can't remember. .. I'd be more than happy to sell it for 400. I also have an unopened PS2 Slim. At the time, I picked them up (at diff times obv.) when they were deeply price cut as their support was ending (The PS3 fat was when the slims were around and nobody wanted the fats).

I wish I still had my PlayStation 3 but the power supply went out on it so it won't turn on.

Guess people are making money off that brand, huh. Time to start my own shop called Diddy's Classics.

Thank god I saw this video I was almost about to buy a new 3ds from there

bro my body is still tingling that is disgusting.

This is just a scapegoat by DK Oldies. Joey himself set this up. Just so he and DK Oldies can say things like “Hey guys, we’re not trash. Just look at DiddyK Newies here and their scams!”

I don’t even wanna imagine what it would be like if this RetroVGames sold iPhones. I would have wasted $300 on a bent iPhone 6 with activation lock.

The background tho😭😂

A scorpionstail?? 🤦🏻‍♂️

The Desert PS3 still takes the icing on the cake

Way worse than DKO. Really, really scary, the amount of disease contained in that console.

6 left with uncharted checked off... 15left with no game checked off...

The memes to fit the video On the TV screen😂