Buying Used Parts from Jawa... will I get scammed?

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[Jayztwocents]

Hey guys, I hear your concerns about the Jawa sponsor on a Jawa purchase test. Let me try to clarify my thoughts on this concept

Jawa has two market places...
1) Jawa direct sales [products sold by Jawa directly]
2) Jawa Used Marketplace [Products not sold by Jawa]

My thoughts on this was to test the used market to see if I got anything defective or questionable from the people selling ON Jawa...

I can see how this can be viewed as a conflict of interest. I personally believe that if I bought direct from Jawa with the parts and systems they sell that would be a direct conflict, but I didnt see it that way buying from used resellers.

You are free to make up your mind however you see fit... There is no intention to deceive anyone here... my intent has always been to try and provide transparent and honest information to my viewers. That hasn't changed.

As mentioned in this video, part 2 will include unboxing and testing the parts I purchased to test the validity of their 3rd party sellers. And if I get scammed, or something went wrong, that is obviously going to be shown.

Oh, something else I need to note, Jawa did not know I was going to buy from their site, the sponsorship was for a site tour, the purchasing was my idea without approval. Just FYI

[RegenTonnenEnte]

Nah I'll just rent a PC from NZXT it's super easy and has no strings attached.

[fundays]

Wouldn't recommend Jawa. I bought an R5 unit from them, and it immediately blew its motivator. Had to settle for an older R2 unit instead.

[sbalke]

Jawas sold Luke's uncle Owen an R2 unit with a bad motivator!

[csjpokey]

Only thing to be careful of is buying more than one part. You want to make sure that you can test ALL the parts you buy within 48hrs otherwise you are stuck with it. So say you buy a motherboard and a cpu and the cpu comes 2 days after the motherboard and you had no way to test the motherboard and come to find out the motherboard is bad you are screwed. Just make sure you can test the parts immediately

[Jayrant]

How can we trust a video, sponsored by Jawa, trying to figure out if Jawa is to be trusted or not?

[WeisseningBlitz]

Feeling like the buyer side should be 4-5 days. In Jay's case, he ordered a motherboard and CPU obviously meant to work together. So let's say one part ships day 1 while the other ships day 3. Part 1 arrives on day 4, but part 2 comes in day 8. You obviously can't test part 1 without part 2 unless you have a part 2 alternative laying around. So while I understand the intent of not wanting to leave the sellers hanging, this system almost seems to discourage bulk buys and is more about individual part replacement/upgrades.

[ttcustompcs]

Few Notes from a Jawa seller.

Sellers have 3 business days to ship an Item and buyers (if you have only Jawa's standard buyer protection) have 48hrs upon delivery to review the item.

Many sellers like me have extended protections. 14 days for me, or 30 days for returns.

[CasualSAB]

Done 3 purchases through them so far and all ended well. 2/3 (7900 XTX and a Steam Deck went flawlessly), but 1 of the orders I had to use their buyer protection. Monitor was packaged poorly by the seller and damaged in transit, but Jawa handled everything perfectly and I got my money back right away.

Edit: Jawa covered return shipping for that last situation.

[Long_Shot_Media]

One thing to consider (perhaps on Jawas side) but if all parts are arriving from different locations & different dates, eg. CPU arrives & 3 days later motherboard arrives (outside of claim time for CPU), yes you can visually check the CPU but without the motherboard a regular customer wouldn't have a way to test it fully

[Sgt_SealCluber]

Like most online marketplaces, as long as the marketplace itself safeguards the transactions (ie against scams and broken/damaged products), you're pretty safe using them.

[smashed_penguin]

The fact that you sorted by lowest price and it wasn't just a bunch of $1 listings is already big 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

[ArdgalAlkeides]

What's up with the single farmers dating ad at 3:49 .. what is Jay browsing?

[ash]

NGL, and I don't imply any wrongdoing but if you ask a question phrased as though it's a review of Jawa and then have that sponsored by Jawa, it gives a different impression

[RunedGolem]

I do like the fact that they have the 48 hour window for testing because I've had someone wait over a week to try and return a Mac mini I sold online and when I asked them if everything was okay they went "well everything works perfectly, but Apple just announced the new version of it today so I want to buy that instead."

[Spiralem]

While I understand that there's escrow period of 48h, but because the parts arrive separately, it would be challenging to consolidate parts (i.e. CPU and Motherboard) to test.

[AirGunWeb]

Hey there Jay. Thank you for doing this video. I have a TON of pc gear and systems that I built for hobby use during covid and over the past two years of some serious health related issues. I need to clear the shelves. I may have 15 systems to move and a ton of loose GPUs and CPUs. I opened an account on their site and have been dragging my feet to get started. I’ve been burned on both ends of the transaction with eBay and simply don’t have the energy to deal with that again. So if this site is as easy to use as you have just demonstrated, I feel a lot better about listing my stuff and getting started. Thanks again.

Cheers
Rick

[TheTodd]

Thanks Jay and crew. Was recently looking at the site and thinking the same things about it that you addressed. Appreciate the time and effort.

[Voldson]

Politely disagree with the approach. Sponsorships and reviews should be separate content no matter the intent and/or legitimacy of both parties. The reason being the user has no guarantee of fair and unbiased information and shouldn't be expected to believe so, because it shouldn't happen in the first place. The Internet is too deceitful nowadays with ads and sponsors to expect viewers trust when conflict is possible/in place.

[jordanhart]

I've actually been upgrading my CPU platform from first gen Ryzen to AM5, giving my old stuff to my grandpa who's PSU just died in an old HP Pavilion (i5 4590, 12GB DDR3, 1TB HDD, GT635, and an optical drive, so desperate need of an upgrade).

I used Jawa, FB Marketplace, eBay, ect, comparing prices... I actually found a few items with the best prices on Jawa (700W EVGA BQ, ASUS 2060 Dual, and R7 7700). Motherboard I got the best price on eBay (MSI B650 Tomahawk). Case, RAM and cooler I bought new. DDR4 can be found at decent prices, where as DDR5 is rather difficult finding good prices used that are worth the discount over new.

Edit: To be clear, the 2060 and 700W EVGA psu is for him. I'm taking the 7700 and the Tomahawk. I've got a new case and a pack of fans (case only came with one) for him, and a new cooler and 32GB of DDR5 6000 CL30 RAM for me. Yes, that's part of why I'd call BULLSHIT on Jay's characteristic of 6000 CL36 being "aggressive".