Is DKOldies REALLY a Scam?

Chapter Titles:
0:00 What is DKOldies?
1:55 "Refurbished"
2:39 Unboxing Dreamcast & Wii
4:34 Unboxing GameCube & PS3
6:00 Unboxing Xbox 360 & Game Boy Color
7:33 Testing Xbox 360
8:32 Testing PS3
9:03 Testing Wii & GameCube
10:10 Testing Game Boy & Dreamcast
11:19 Xbox 360 Teardown
14:38 PS3 Teardown
18:14 Is DKOldies a Scam?

[mattmanley]

There’s a difference between a store having overhead and straight up overpriced products that aren’t even cleaned much less in working order

[Just_a_turtle_chad]

Calling DKoldies a trustful company is like calling GameStop a great store.

[MathiasMaximus]

$180 for an OG 360 is absolutely insane. I see them in mom and pop stores for $30-40 all the time

[kuhneegit]

I remember when I was 18 I got a PS3 super slim refurbished for $55. It came with 6 controllers, 12 games, all of the cables, and each piece was individually cleaned.

[Mr_Mcfeely]

This is an absolute kill shot. All the negative press over the past few months and they get a relatively suspicious looking order asking for one of each of their consoles. Almost like someone might be gearing up for a massive review and they still send out worse than some of the original examples to start all of this. Gonna be hard to recover from these bigger channels calling them out.

[KarimJovian]

Thank to all these YouTubers they saved me so much money. I was so close to buying a TON from DK oldies

[GoldenPandoria]

I would dare to say this is a pretty final, ultimate nail in the DKOldies coffin, honestly. Thank you for covering the topic, guys.

[joelferguson]

If you don't disassemble, clean, repaste and reassemble properly it's not a refurbishment.

Ideally refurbish includes replacement of failing capacitors, batteries or other electronics.

[whydrah]

The most mind blowing fact about this is how not one person found it suspicious that someone ordered that many consoles and that MAYBE someone was going to review how well they 'refurbish' their consoles. I came across DKOldies a few months back and was going to order a couple retro consoles and with all the heat they're getting, I'm glad I did not.

[chrisg]

Shoutout to Rich from ReviewTech and ESPECIALLY Jacob R. For brining these issues to light. Y’all should definitely shoutout those channels cuz they did the hard work before anyone else

[profgoodfeels]

I've said it before and I'll say it again, DKOldies need to be held accountable for what they're doing to people. Not just the ridiculous pricing but the way they don't even touch the inside of their "Refurbished" consoles. Good to see Austin showing his viewers this!

[LOCKEYJ]

So much money for the consoles but don’t even come with cables. That’s disgusting

[BangHJL]

Well, goddamn. Even a big Techtuber like Austin is calling out DKOldies now. They really HAVE to straighten their business practice if they still want to stay... well, in business. No sweeping anything under the rag anymore, I'm afraid.

[dstr]

The worst part? The fact that they seem to be deliberately putting their own warranty stickers on to discourage people from doing exactly this, because if you do and it is like this? Guess what, they can basically tell you to beat it and run off with your money because you voided their warranty.

[jefftraboulsy]

Those super slim PS3s were actually cheaper than what theyre selling them for. When they were new.

[chanmantitans]

Saddest part of this video is it came a little after a ton of the backlash they were receiving and clearly they changed nothing. They could have such a thriving business if they just did what they said they would do. I was very close to buying from them till I heard about all of this a month or two ago.

[ShaqFuGuru]

DK Oldies have been around forever like Lukie Games and come up on Google searches for anything. Their target audience is casual nostalgia players that will never bother opening these up or comparing prices.

It’s still crazy that with all the negative videos about them, a huge order like this didn’t set off some red flag.

[seid]

Austin's reactions when tearing down the PS3 was easily the same as Gordon Ramsey in Kitchen Nightmares when investigating restauranta

[roarkeven]

You mentioned it in the beginning but the fact that there was a huge batch order on systems, which should've alerted them it was probably a content creator, and they still couldn't be bothered with refurbishing them is quite concerning.

[devilmikey]

Jacob R did an interview with an ex employee and he said they don't open them up unless you can hear something rattling around inside or it doesn't work so they have to look inside to try and see if it's something fixable. They basically do the shake test lol if it functions and they can shake it without hearing anything funny, it gets shipped with nothing more than an exterior cleaning.