Huh I just checked it out, interesting compromise between milling a SIM card slot and just soldering the SIM reader back on to the logic board. But it doesn't look as simple as the 14 Pro/Max where there was just a plastic block in place of where the SIM reader would be in international models. The US SIM-less iPhones have a completely different logic board design where the SIM card slot would normally be.
Yeah, and the extra stuff in the status bar looks like someone took a screenshot of a screenshot of a screenshot with the status bar still visible. Why? Who knows.
The strangest thing I had come across was a listing for a coffin...slightly used. This was like 15 or so years ago on eBay but yes it was a coffin and it was used as a display for some people who would later cremate the person. When you are cremated it is often placed in a cardboard box.
I just had one this week actually. I bought a Galaxy S20 FE that was claimed to have a non working display for $30 US. It came a few days ago, and I plugged it into the charger only to find out the screen actually did work! I turn it on as well to also discover it’s a global version of the phone on Verizon & is locked. But the craziest thing was it still had the original seller’s eBay account & Gmail account STILL LOGGED IN! Luckily it was a chain pawn shop I could easily get the phone number to & let them know of the situation & factory reset the phone so their stuff was no longer on it. But hey, I’ll gladly take a perfectly functioning S20 FE with a perfectly good display for $30 any day!
The FB marketplace is a wild west, i once bought a complete in box first gen MacBook for $50, then the next day another listing sell 2010 "vintage" MacBook for $350, another listing sold an entire warehouse stock full of unsold Chinese knock off cellphone from 2000s for 50 grand, yes, sold, someone though its a good idea to buy about twenty thousand pieces of e-waste for three dollar each
A sealed iPhone 5 16gb on ios 6, the man that was selling it had absolutely no idea and took it out of the box and updated it to ios 10 so it could be more "functional" It happened like a week ago :(
Ebay's "crazy" filter crashed year & years ago! I think they actually like hosting crazy sellers - more fees for them to collect and it gets more traffic to their platform!
Sometimes I think those high priced items are just there to trick people that use sniping or automatic purchasing services if something specific they like pops up.
I once bought a super rare iPod 5th gen with a ‘national semiconductor the sight of sound and information’ engraving on it on a chinese website. Upon further research me I found out that only 8500 were made with that special engraving.
I had to replace the battery twice, and I even had to replace the battery management IC on the motherboard (board level micro soldering repair), but it was worth it
Norm like your videos but this one was trash like that phone. Little thought put into it, no repair, you bought an obvious scam item and pawn it off as content. Do better.
Probably the strangest thing I came across on eBay was a iPod touch 2 that had a hole near where the camera is on prototype iPod touch 3’s. It also didn’t show up in the AppleCare database so I bought it immediately; it doesn’t seem to be a prototype, chances are it’s a QA unit, still cool considering I paid US$12 for it.
Strangest deal I found was when I was looking for memory modules for my classic Mac Pro. Someone on FB Marketplace advertised some of the type I wanted, at 8 GB, for just $10 each. I agreed to buy four and went to see them. It was in an inner-city office where a business was vacating. Office equipment and computer parts were strewn all over the room; they were clearly eager to leave as fast as possible. When I noticed they had more such modules on offer, they said "How about eight modules for $50?" My eyes light up. "And we'll add this Apple Pro Keyboard as well." And that's how my Mac Pro now sports 64 GB of memory, plus a new keyboard, for just $50. Comparing prices for similar modules on eBay, I effectively got eight for the price of two. May we all find sellers so desperate.
A vehicle in compton absolutely destroyed, the government was asking $10 for it, seriously no one in california would buy it for parts since its that worthless old and destroyed and in a sus area. Though the most strangest was an actual emissions testing for the state, yes an emissions testing for vehicles, bid on one until I found out you need to sign transfer of property and I backed off.
My favorite are 80’s & 90’s stereos being sold as “classic”. No, it’s just old electronics that doesn’t even have Bluetooth. The same goes for your 45 year old Bose 901’s. Speaker technology has come a long way.
Whats the strangest thing I've purchased? You might not want to know the answer to that question. I used to hang out in the medical section of ebay....
Why oh why do people refer to apple's devices by the product name (iPhone) and other manufacturer's products by the manufacturer name? Apple have really programmed their iSheep via marketing
I've seen a lot of brain-melting listings on Facebook. Like one for "Mechanical parts board" with a photo that looked like it could be the entire inside of medical appliance, with pumps, tubing and circuit boards, in what looked a bit like a PC case. I have so many questions!
This iPhone 15 is a Chinese mod. The reseller imported the E-sim only, locked iPhone from the States, however the grey market price dropped significantly, and ppl just modded the phone by “implanting” a physical sim inside the phone and sold it in half price. If you can bear the risk, you can get a modded iphone 15/pro for about US $550 or even cheaper.
I cannot STAND when I see someone's listing on Ebay that says "mint" or "like new" and they then show pictures of scratches and dents in the images and the description says "device shows minor wear and tear" - PISS OFF! 😆
I once bought a "Not For Resale" copy of Test Drive Unlimited 2 for the Xbox 360 just for the sake of it. As for tech, brand new in box and box still in plastic Motorola RAZR 2019 for like a 5th the original price
6:56 Gorenje WA65145 washing machine. Those are really rare and that is the strangest and rarest thing I found in my country. I live close to Slovenia (the place where they're made) but they are still rare. An other one is a really old but brand new Hungarian made Hajdu washer. I didn't get it. But I also found an old iPhone 4S 64GB and was never used. It's box and paperwork was missing. It was for a price of 2 used iPhone 4S 16GB models. Again, I didn't get it.
I'm constantly buying replacement cases for games so I can have clean looking games, it's a weird thing to alot of people I know. But the best thing I've seen is someone selling "genuine PS4 games cases" that are clearly just FIFA cases from a second hand store for 4-8 times the price of the game
Dear Hugh, greetings from the USA! I watch, like, and ENJOY all of your excellent videos every week! Quick question: what’s the best way to find and order a case/cover for a MacBook Air M1 in Australia? My friend moved there with her family from Bhutan and needs to purchase a case for her daughter’s school computer! Can you recommend a brand and possibly a store? Is Amazon a good option in Australia? Many thanks!
I've been trying to find an old broken Nokia 9 Pureview that I can use for parts, but have had no luck unfortunately. I wonder how he finds all this stuff? What exactly are his search terms?
Hi Hugh. Not sure if this would be of interest to you but I have an iPhone 3Gs in very good condition with the original box and paper work. No charger unfortunately. The phone is yours if you want it.Cheers
Most overpriced thing I've seen online lately is a particular model of device that's important to a community I'm in. It's a weather alert radio from about 20 years ago that in actuality is worth probably $40 US, but because someone bought one at this price, they are now consistently listed on eBay and not selling for anywhere from $800 to $1,200, and as a result no one can get them anymore.
II came across a listing of three Sony Ericsson prototypes for about 13 USD, including an Xperia play prototype. I was the only bidder and i got them all.
I bought a bunch of old iPod 6 and 7 gens in 2017-2018 to use for lossless audio since they were cheap and easy to mod to make 1tb. Back then they would go for 40-60$ I didnt know they go for over 200$ nowadays, that is just insane lol
i bought a lot of 7 iphones, 1 iphone 5, 1 iphone 5s, 4 iphone 6 and 1 iphone 7, and most of them had a slight old iOS (making it slightly more rare) the iphone 5s in iOS 11, 1 iphone 6 had iOS 12, another one had iOS 10 (turned off to never turn back on) and a iPhone 7 on iOS 12, the iPhone 5 had iOS 10.2, one iphone 6 didnt boot to the os so i had to reset it and another 6 didnt turn on at all
Funny enough the Google pixel I'm using was only a $3.25 eBay bid plus $6.16 shipping only issue was software needed a restore look very closely at bids and the descriptions
the strangest thing id have to say i bought was a lot of 25 iphones ranging from the iphones 6,7,se and one 8 and 5 and a couple of trash screens and two xs max housings i paid $40 and while there was many good parts and i thought it was cheap i hadn’t realized the seller repaired phones themselves and resold them so after getting them i discovered that they were all icloud locked and most of them didnt have many good parts because they had been salvaged of about anything good of the 4 iphone 7s 3 of the boards were no good and there was no good batterys of the 4 iphone se and one eight none of them had a functioning motherboard their was 3 6s plus only one turned on and there was 4 iphone 7 only one had a good motherboard once again so the seller knew the motherboard in most of them were dead and salvaged most of the good batterys and screens so while probably worth what i paid definitely not a bargain
Bro i have OnePlus 7t im from india idk what happened to it it got bootlooped or something the service centers are asking more than the price of that phone please help 😢
The only thing worth buying on that list was the iPhone 15 with the pins on the side, as that would have been intriguing as to why they do that. Everything else, including the burned iPhone, was not worth it. If someone destroyed their phone by removing the battery, then the battery was held in with far too much glue.
Accidentally poking a hole in a lithium battery with a screwdriver is a mistake i will hopefully only make once. It's quick, dirty, violent, and there isn't much you can do about it. That one looks like it was closed when the battery cooked off.
Bro i have a doubt can i use a iphone 12 pro full back panel replacement and iphone. 12 pro camara into a iphone 12 let i make sense pls try aa video about it pls
1:03 I came across the same lot quite some time ago. These phones must have sat in some old shed for years... The only phone of value is the Motorola A835.
On Ebay I came across a Dell laptop from around 2007. The seller wants $2,000 for it. I bought the same laptop at an estate sale for $50. I'm using it right now.
