@@MountainDrew2000 The pillow = Not worth it 😞

Did you test the GCHD MK2?

I have always wondered this but do you ever return the products you bought from GameStop in the past videos?

wait. the game boy advance is 170 while the gamecube is 130! how is the smaller handheld cost more?

170 for a game boy in that condition is wild

That’s why I rather buy from eBay

Their conditions are bullshit, they tell you nothing but give you vague idea for acceptable and cosmetically damaged but "refurbished" and "used" tell you NOTHING

​@@coolchannelize15 Agreed.

@@ArcaniaSkypirateDen9516Mercari has never let me down. As long as you make sure sellers are reputable you’re going to get what they’re advertising and it’s much more affordable and priced fairly in good condition most of the time.

@@coolchannelize15nothing beats ebay

And that's something DKO should be replacing if they claim their systems are refurbished even with cosmetically flawed ones.

Makes sense. I was thinking maybe it had been in storage forever and caked in dust that first blocked something before flying off, but that makes a lot more sense.

@@TailwindZ Too stupid.

Can you fix mine? That's exactly what mine does

Nerd alert 🚨

Gotta love growing up in a house with parents who chain-smoke inside. I was constantly pulling yellowish-brown dust bunnies out of my electronics. Yuk! Just imagine what my lungs look like...

I'm ordering a Game Bit screwdriver. Gotta see what the inside of this bad boy looks like.

​@@retrorebound8887 glad you are doing that. That was my biggest curiosity. I expect that it'll become clear they never opened it and refurbished it.

@@retrorebound8887 Honestly this was as pathetic as DKOldies “experience” with retro consoles. Retro Rebound knows about as much as any other casual retro gamer, which is to say not much at all. Was basically salivating at the chance to “gotcha” DKOldies and it was an epic failure. DKOldies sucks. They’re a commercial retailer that price gouges. That’s about as unexpected as politicians taking political donations or corporations making record profits during a recession. It’s capitalism being capitalism unfortunately. Seeing him jump on a dumb trend and practically itching to catch them making a mistake, and then failing to do so, is honestly just sad.

@@friedspacecowboy8760 why are you talking at him about him? And blatantly saying what everyone says about capitalism. Like dude find your own voice.

Dkoldies is a great small business

​​@@CANADIANLEGEND-ol6esDKOldies is anything but small, they have a huge warhouse I follow them for years and I was always sceptical of them even before big KZfaqrs started to expose them. They had a much smaller warhouse like a year ago, they moved to a much much bigger because of the amount of orders and items they are receiving and selling. They have like what? 30 or 40 employees, I remember in one short video they showed like 6 or 7 people just working in social media departments, just in that one department managing social media. DKOldies has over 3 million followers on TikTok and 1 million on KZfaq. Small retro business are your mom and paps shops, your 3 foot stores with 50 games inside. DKOldies is the largest retro gaming store.

I'm over it at this point. How many more of these videos are we gonna get? We get it. They suck. At this point the people exposing them are the ones that aren't on our side because they're only doing it for the views that they know they'll get.

I’m glad they are making videos so that more people see it before they buy from them. Yeah they aren’t on your side as you put it. They’re on the side of the people that are new to this hobby, or unaware they are being ripped off by DKOldies. This video shows how bad they are yet again, even with the positive spin. 3rd party controller yellowed GameCube, sticker on a GBA, it’s ludicrous.

I think these videos are important to put across the message that refurbished products should be what they advertise them to be. I’m fine with these videos, if you already get the message don’t watch them. I’d like higher standards in gaming and so should you.

I'm pretty sure the first videos I've seen covering this didn't have those sticker on consoles so if those videos were legitimate, it really feels like DK added those to try scaring the casual customer from opening the consoles.

It’s illegal to say if you remove the warranty sticker to void it. You can always open and remove the warranty sticker and get the warranty still as long as you do not destroy the inside part (filming opening doesn’t void it either as long as you’re in the US and it’s a us based company)

Imagine this is a Gamecube that was purchase from GameStop back when they sold them LOL

Corny

@@jetrifle4209 “cOrNy” thanks for the input dude sorry you hate yourself so much that you think anyone thinks you’re edgy and cool for your own corny ass comment. Prolly look just like eddy in your profile pic irl

@@jetrifle4209 joined KZfaq 9 months ago LOL you just turn 13 kiddo? Mommy finally let you get a grown up account?

@@Adam20622 dudes writing paragraphs 😂. Someone's parents don't give him any attention. I got you little guy

I noticed the GameCube they sent seemed smaller than his when they were side by side…. was that true of Japanese GameCubes?

@@GameKollector he has the gameboy player on his gamecube which adds to the height.

Yeah man I noticed that immediately. Apparently they do that with a lot of their consoles. It’s just cheaper to buy and sell the Japanese consoles but at the prices they’re selling them at it’s a scam. Not even getting the American consoles, that’s ridiculous.

@@TYxki we're talking depth not height. the dkoldies was slightly smaller.

@@TYxki It's kind of funny how the GameCube isn't actually cube shaped until you put on the Gameboy Player

The price is NOT a scam. Do you not know the definition of scam? I hate them just as much as anybody but just putting a price on something don't make it a scam. You have the choice to purchase it or not. The scam is claiming the shits refurbished and you buy it thinking you are buying refurbished and its not. If they were cleaned/refurbished there would be no scamming going on. It would be your stupidity for paying the prices they are asking.

I mean my local shop I bought a blue GBASP in good condition AGS100 for about the same price, but I was at least given a discount on games I bought there, plus a warranty.

@@cemepee great point

@@cemepee yeah i honestly find it stupid when people pay this much but its their money but if they wanna flex about it on social media you'll just get responses from people calling you an idiot for paying that much

@@cemepee I think generally people thinks it’s a ripoff but use the word “scam” to describe it.

yeah they call it their Proof of purchase sticker now after being called out for it

you're correct but you'd have to sue them for it.

@@rileyblair7273 or reverse your charges with the credit company considering it's a very well known law...

Yes, but they can say that by removing the sticker there’s no way of them knowing that you didn’t damage it and that such damages don’t fall under the warranty. So it would then be up to you to prove it was warranty covered damage. Look at the SteamDeck. Not only do they not have stickers on their devices, but they even support the right to repair. But many people have said how they took their device apart, then sent it in for warranty work, only to have the company come back and say they can tell the device was opened because the reflective tape they use was tampered with and because of that the damage was the result of the user and not covered under the warranty. It’s illegal for companies to void the warranty for removing the sticker. That doesn’t mean they can’t claim you caused the damage and say it’s not covered under the warranty. Those are two different things people try to lump into one.

It's my pleasure. I don't think what I got was actually that bad. I think DKO needs to take a look at their communication and pricing.

You will probably not get the exact same ones that you lost in the flood but maybe you will 😊

It's not easy to get taken advantage of

​@@leeartlee915 No shit. It's a rare console. Buy a Wii if you're that pressed about it.

@@TheSearchForTruth88 The Gamecube… is a rare console. Wow, that is just idiotic.

Handheld scene blew up during the pandemic. Prices rocketed.

Dk oldies sucks and overpriced their stuff I can get one for cheaper online or in person

It's more expensive than what GBAs go for in my country. With modded IPS screens and new shells.

​@@wooordwooord4712Which is weird.. people were home more than ever..why would they want handheld lol.

@@mjay6245don’t have to share screens

It's not illegal to use the sticker. It's illegal to enforce it.

Illegal to put stickers on consoles? What law is that breaking? The anti-sticker law? Sounds like we've got another KZfaq lawyer here.

Not illegal at all just illegal to enforce it

He even edited The comment and he’s still wrong lol

Oops, thanks for the correction

God bless your grandma dude.

Wow that's lucky anyone who pays more then like say $70 is being scammed as there market value is priced at $60 for used complete with tax it should be somewhere between $60-$70 but unless that things brand new and in box anything more is a rip off

@@Assassin-ys5vw Yeah I agree. I'd probably just go with a Wii or even better a Wii U and you can jail break it and it will play gamecube, wii and wii u and you have an hdmi out. Wii U's can be a bit pricey I guess but Wii's should be pretty cheap.

I remember paying $225 at a pawn shop like a year after they were released’ 😂

@@joshymcdaniel9233 yeah release back then was around that price so sounds about right

My mom bought this Silver GameCube from a neighbors yard sale. We already had like five black and purple ones but she wanted this one to gift to us cause one of them cracked. Well it was a absolute STEAL because in it was a game. Mario Kart Double Dash barely scratched.

The craziest Jacob R vid about them was the first motherboard Xbox 360 (the one infamous for hardware failures) that didn't have new thermal paste.

Agreed, these kind of videos are definitely not hurting but helping them haha

It's ironic because these channels keep calling them out for being scammers then continue to buy their stuff LOL

And GAME

@@gracekim25 yeah forgot about them - thanks! How much retro stuff do they do though?

I work at a cex and I love watching these vids about how dko costs so much for such low quality. We still charge more sometimes than we should in some ppl eyes, but the state of dko consoles and their constant high pricing is crazyyy to see compared to cex >_

Check capacitor c408 on the laser board 99% of the time is the bad capacitor

Your right but these guys don’t have the balls to do that

100% agree! If not brave enough to do a full deep clean at the very least cleaning all of the ports, disk readers, switches etc makes a massive difference. In the Gamecube's case I am not sure that it would help much I have a similar issue and did an external clean and it didn't fix colosseum.

I never clean my consoles. I wouldn't know what i'm doing. 😂

@@Sonic171K it’s quite simple especially if you don’t open them up just need some isopropyl alcohol and some q tips and I like to use an eyeglass cloth for the screens. Makes a huge difference in terms of the feel of the console and helps prolong its life

@@Sonic171K youtube is your best friend trust me i didn't know myself i don't do soldering or anything complex like thta i just open and clean my systems one of my first was an original xbox it seemed too tedious but once i watched videos on it it was easy as pie had my tablet next to me instructing me what to do next

Exactly. They think they're going to put DKOldies out of business with these videos designed just to get views, but DKOldies is actually making real money off of them. Pretty hilarious.

@@Mike__P You can't expose this type of thing if you don't put up the money to do it. It's not like they can ask them to send free stuff so they can use it to expose what they are doing in KZfaq videos. It's better to spend money to get this stuff out there to put a stop to them basically scamming people, than not doing it and letting them take advantage of people for as long as they want.

@@Mike__P it’s to prove that they’re lying there asses off

@@Mike__P but you right

@@envylol61303 it’s to inform people of the kind of ‘quality’ items they sell mate🤦‍♀️

Ikr! I don’t think it’s about exposing DKoldies anymore. It’s just content that guarantees more engagement and views.

Most of all. More $$$$

Your calling MR CLEAN a scam😞😞 he’s 1,000,000,000 times legit than DK OLDIES

They are still way cheaper than Amazon. Go look at the price of a Gamecube on that website. It’s obscene. And all those KZfaqrs who are flipping games to “fund” their retro hobby, they are selling their wares on Amazon (if they are selling on eBay, it’s only because they can’t currently sell on Amazon). That’s why I find this whole “DK Oldies are evil” kick that everyone’s on to be kind of pointless. So DK Oldies is bad, great. How about someone take on Amazon. Oh they won’t do that because Amazon is huge, owns Twitch, and is near impossible to avoid? Hmmm, guess it makes all these overtures a little less meaningful.

Rich is the G.O.A.T

He always talked about his slob while whispering to his chickens as there’s running horses as his desktop background once he started doing more videos in front of the camera. You mean before when he was talking on top of Xbox 360 gameplay and the only way people saw his face at the time was his pfp?

I bought 3 when you could find them for $25. People thought I was nuts. I like having back ups in came one dies I don't have to pay the prices they go for now for another one.

I did that with 3 playstation 2s I bought when I got my 1st job 7years ago.

They probably region swapped it. It’s an easy mod.

Everything he bought worked, what exactly is being exposed here

@@JBM1428 how DKOldies lies about refurbrishing their merchandise.. Someone cant ask 300 dollars for a Gamecube like that

@@JBM1428 they’re labelled as “refurbished” when they clearly are not

The Switch used costs the same as it new think about that for a moment

Retro games are a lot more expensive in the US. 80 USD is the least you can expect to pay for a 001 in ok condition.

@@shanez1215 it can be a mixed bag for us over here in australia, sometimes you get really good deals, others you get people trying to price gouge games into oblivion

Shouldn't have to do that with the amount of money he spent

@@coltonclark6373 I agree 100%, I just say what might be the problem. I agree if something is that expensive and advertised as "refurbished" the last thing we should talk about is a dirty or broken laser. Edit: someone mentioned that it could be a capacitor problem specifically C408. The person does seem to have more knowledge than me so yeah... Might be a capacitor problem.

all that bubble wrap costs them little to nothing. Plus, standard packaging is a given. It's like they're proud of how they ship their trash 😶‍🌫

Proof that people are stoopid. Just like this comment. Congratulations

These videos hurt DK a lot more than help them.

Thing is if it was in a smokers house you would smell the strong smoke smell as it will be impregnated in to the plastics and inside the console. So either if this guy is a smoker he would smell the smoke which he hasn’t. So most likely it’s sun damage. Lots of white plastic items has the yellow fade due to the type of plastic.

Exactly!

Yeah idk why people buy from them when it’s so expensive and you can literally get those games and system for way cheaper somewhere else tbh

Their*

if he opened them he would have found the problems, there is a reason they add the stickers...

@@theboone3848 is there a point to this comment, like were you attempting an while idea or did you stop halfway thru

@@battlericky17 Consider reading it again, I understand that reading comprehension comes with time....

@@theboone3848 i read it and understand. Not sure why you commented in the first place is what im saying.

@@battlericky17 He was chill because he didn't see the mess underneath the plastic. That was the point.

I've bought at least 6 gamecubes and everyone of them had bad lasers in them.(not from DKoldies) Just gave up on them and soft modded a wii instead.

@@mikel6989 bad luck Chuck