I Paid $220/£170 For A PS5 Digital From Facebook With "DROP DAMAGE"... And I Think I Got SCAMMED! 

Sponsorship isn't free money, it's a recognition of your skill and viewer base that promotes the products directly to your viewers. Don't under value your worth, you absolutely are providing a valid service to both your viewers and the sponsors. I get you're an honest and unfiltered individual, just don't sell yourself short! Keep up the sterling content mate.

As soon as I saw that the warranty seal had been purposely removed/replaced in a way to look like it hadn't I knew this was going to be bad news. Also the title helped. Great video as always.

Proud of you mate for getting that sponsor 👍 I've learned a lot from you for just basic repairs on my game collection! Keep up the good work

If it was sold as having never been opened before, but just not working or if a repair attempt was made (especially a reflow) and not stated in the ad listing, then yes, I would say scam.

I've came across your channel randomly and had no interest in this sort of stuff but this is top notch and makes me want to repair things! How did you learn to do all this it's class

Ive been scammed about 10 times now on ebay. It happens but it still feels like shit. At least I have a fair few donor boards now! Still amazing content mate, you're literally the reason I started repairing things again!

glad your getting sponsers bro you deserve it

Great video. I really feel for you in this one. Some people are scumbags.

enjoy the videos man, good investigating here

I'm glad I found you, someone I can ask question about ps5s in the near future , great watch and insight many thanks bro ✌

enjoying your videos. Binge watching your old posts.

solder under APU capapcitor nets was "eaten" by liquid metal - 99% previous user was trying to replace it and didnt clean it (what is very hard to do)

Love watching your repair videos even though I would never have a clue how to do any of it myself 🙈 Awesome stuff

Mate, I stumbled across your channel and already watched many of your videos, I'm dumbfounded on I've NEVER been interested in fixing anything electrical; doubt i ever will but Jesus Christ, I find what you can do so interesting! Keep e'm coming mate!

You would think if they go to the effort of carefully removing the warranty seal and replacing it that they would put the bloody screw back!

It’s common for people to advertise things as drop damaged because it makes people think that a connecter has popped out and its an easy fix, gamble worth taking if you can salvage parts because sometimes it can be, but you gotta take some L’s along the way I suppose! Great vid mate 👍

Just glad you have the means and knowhow to strip it down and get your money back. Small saving grace someone with less experience could have ended up with a £170 paperweight. Some ppl have no shame, but top job on your side 👍

These videos have been helping me through the not to be named illness. Think I've watched a lot of your content inc the 6 part series, and I don't even do any of this! The most I have done is modded a Megadrive to run japanese/60hz

New sub here, loving your work dude 👍🏻

I don't understand why someone would claim it was just dropped. If it doesn't work, at least provide all the information you have for the next owner.

Great video you are doing a great job keep fixing mate

You won't fix them all But you will always learn Along the way Keep your head up lad Great content 😎

I have a ps5 with a error code CE-108255-1 I have tryed everything even factory reset it and still dosent play some games I have contacted sony and they had me do everything changed a lot of setting but they couldn't fix it so before I return it to the shop do you have any idea what might fix this

You should put a led beside the multimeter's screen to light the characters up.

I think the "drop damage" might have been real. The liquid metal must have spilled onto the capacitors and the previous technician probably tried replacing them using a donor board. Either this, or they did try reflowing it entirely.

eBay has tons of dishonest sellers of "for repair" electronics. I've seen sellers cherry pick broken components and toss them together for an impossibly faulty item where essentially every component of any value is faulty. Very common with PSP sellers but I've seen suspicious DS Lites like this as well.

Your videos are awesome! Do you do general PS5 servicing? I'm from telford and mine could use a good internal clean but I don't trust myself to open it up 😂 warranty expired over a year ago so it's fine to open 😎 had it since day 1 and I wanna treat her to a proper service

Great content... subbed :)

hello, ling time viewer first time commenter. Love your videos, dude, interesting to see how incompetent either repair shops or DIYers can be. glad you are getting recognition for sponsorship, you deserve it. keep up the good work.

I do as well because the seller made it look like it was not been opened and they would of been honest upfront if they were not scaming someone.

Saw your vid , count me as a new Sub. Love and appreciate your work

Pet peeve that always bothers me with repairs where someone else has opened it in the past: How F@#$ing hard is it to keep track of all the screws? Every system I have ever disassembled, I put the screws in a little baggie and seal it. That baggie gets set aside. When I reassemble it, I have all the screws!

what happened here was the IHS was RE liquid metaled and the liquid metal ate some of the IHS capacitors Solder and came loose , so they opened it up again and tried too re solder the Capacitors back on and failed because they didn't have the right equipment or knowledge too put those tiny Capacitors back then re assembled the PS 5 as best they could and prayed it worked and when it didn't they decided too sell it and make it some one else problem ... !!! yes liquid metal eats Solder and stuff over time thats why their is a barrier of fine foam too keep the liquid metal off the rest of the board ... this is a rookie mistake and has happened with Graphics cards as well that i have gotten .. luckily if your skilled , it is fixable !!! and hey Clear nail polish protects the Caps very well ...

It amazes me that consuls that have only been out for a matter of a few months and cost hundreds need repairing I’ve still got a ps1 in as new working order as well as newer models Xbox 360 blah blah all still working and my ps1 has got a chip box plugged in the back that required a spring in the cd drive to disc swap still working Great content as always

Enjoying your content, satisfying seeing you give CPR to broken gear

Think I may have seen a bridged cap just before you removed it from the microscope. Revisit the caps. One of them also looks like it might be slid far enough some of the pins may not be properly connected.

now a new thermopad PTM7950 has come out and you can safely put it on the core and it dissipates heat very well, instead of liquid metal

Love your channel Well done

I hope you get a partial refund. It has happened to me when buying electronic devices on ebay. Keep up with the videos, truly enjoy watching then here in Canada.

I have a question (((on the APU there are few empty places for caps or what ever them name are/WHY there is an empty places and can we add caps if some gets damaged or we add more get better preformance???) CUZ I've seem that on so many laptops cpu or gpu's.

Jeez my hands are sweating 😓 for you 😂 dang I can't even tell witch compositor or whatever you did. Pretty damn good 👍

What is liquid metal? How would it get there? Where is it from?

I think somebody messed with it until it would turn on even though it would turn off right away just so that way it would look like an easy fix or fixable.

Just found your channel, good content just wondering are old consoles harder to fix like mega drive etc

Hi, do you fix graphics cards thanks???

I don’t understand or I get it… but I can’t stop watching your content 🙏

Phil, id like to see you re-ball that APU when you get a stencil, a further repair attempt will make a good video.

new sub ! you know why ? you are real.

The amount of residue around the CPU/APU shows that it was definitely messed with, and that sort of residue looks to me like flux. I'd say you got scammed.

It's still not a failure to me as a learned so much

Camera quality is amazing, such a good camera

My biggest bug bear is people selling items that they know have issues other than what they describe, why cant people just be honest when selling something, i for one could never sell something i knew to be faulty unless i told the buyer. By the wsy you seem a genuine guy just trying to make a living doing something you enjoy and helping us not so tech savvy folks out for that you get a sub from me and gl in the future.

PS5 is such expensive. A failature will never be fixed with reflowing the APU. That's a real dirty trick to call that "drop damage".

so sorry to see this brother, you'll catch another W somewhere. It's part of the game unfortunately, there's dishonest people out there. You are still The man! keep it going, I'll be sure to put the twitch prime subscription in

You realise when you showing the voltages we can’t seen on Multimeter as screen is dirty and the lights on it 😂

Depending on where you live you can actually buy PS5s brand new close to retail price on offer up. I got a brand new in box sealed digital ps5 for $550 on offer up sure I paid 100 dollars over retail but that's still a pretty good price. I live in California.

Great videos still cant find a new ps5 to buy still, bostin work on the repairs

Any recommendations for repairs for a noisy ps4 pro ?

If it seems to good to be true , it most likely is and in this case , it was too good to be true. Sorry you were the one that got scammed. That’s why I don’t buy from eBay or Facebook. Very hard to get a truthful seller from both of those sites. 👍👍👍✌️✌️✌️

Unlucky Phil, you win some you lose some, there are some dishonest people out there, I wish people would just tell the truth about items they are selling, at least then the buyer can make an informed decision about the purchase knowing the facts instead of having to find out that the seller is dishonest. Been there and done that. I'm sure you can claw some money back on parts and even things out when you get an easy win.

I just paid 270 for one like this, minus the controller and the og boxing. Wish me luck.

Hello, Phil does isopropyl alcohol have an odour to it like normal alcohol I bought some from ebay and it just smells like water no smell to it at all?

Probably could have run a big solder blob on iron across caps to reflow them....... Should instead of balling the chip normal way have heat pad just under solder melt level then use a syringe needle with ball on it bring over a heat gun chip melt ball on With dead board and apu and other chips u should try some techniques like with a spacer on iron an blob u might be able to flow molten solder onto the chip pads at right amount and other physics tricks to work.......... Can also turn dead board into stencil drill out pcb use it as one Take screen shot of pcb and print it drill out the pic in material make stencil Etc

Are you sure you haven't just reconnected a shorted cap? Seems odd that it worked (kind of) before you re-flowed.

I feel your pain bro!

U can use a gpu from a donor board and replace it if u think that was the issue and have spare time to fix it

I try and steer clear of Facebook Marketplace normally but spotted a fairly decent Yamaha AV Receiver that was listed as faulty for £20 which was up in your neck of the woods the other day, got it back and there’s nothing wrong with it, Doesn’t have the Remote & Setup Mic but you can control it with the App, I think the guy must have plugged his Speakers in to Zone 2 and they won’t work if you don’t turn Zone 2 on anyway, So that was one deal that I’m chuffed to bits about! 🙂

Hey, do you have a link for those alternate power cords you use?

Just a piece of advice. Before you power the board. First check the board thoroughly under microscope. Check the resistances on the power lines. Or critical datalines. (The ones often fail) Just to prevent further damages by turning the equipment ON. That gives you a clue if there is something major going ON. If you are fixing the same boards. Just record the resistances on a good equipment. Every day is a school.

Just wanted to see how important those caps on the cpu are lol

Another awesome video !! Sorry that it turned out the way it did, just some people really suck and don't care who they screw over just as long as they get ahead. Can't wait for the next one !!

in the us it doesn't matter if the sticker is gone they have to fix it anyways. lol

hi Mate, do you fix laptops as well? I got an old msi gt72 been sitting for awhile. I sent to 2 companies, neither could repair it. There is a fault on the motherboard. I suspect it will be a challenge. Are you interested(I will pay) ?

Surely this was in the Sony warranty period? Why didn't the original owner do a warranty claim

It’s repairable, removed that liquid metal and clean it up and reflow it. It’s that simple. Must make sure it’s clean for reflow.

Unlucky on this one mate :-(

I dont know what the pins on the little apu things are made of but liquid metal has gallium in it so if they are aluminum it will destroy it if it got on them. Im not even slightly knowledgeable about electronics just a random guess

If the seller / previous technician had put the screw back under the sticker, do you think you would have known it was tinkered with? I guess the missing APU shield would have been another red flag.

Dude was speechless 😂😭

Usually when something seems too good to be true, it generally is.

Never realised pS5 had an APU always thought the CPU and GPU were seperate, It looks like someone got to the APU before you and tried to fix it, the drop would have had cracks and other components out of place, so yeah scammed by the looks of it or wanted you to fail because you fix EVERYTHING! Maybe try bring you down a notch as your abilities are getting noticed more and more. I had a asus laptop with APU A9 I think it was few ago was a decent laptop just for making Unity games, got a new Asus TUF F17 Gaming laptop which has the right specs for my new future UE5 game making, only thing is though the screen flickers now and again, never had that problem before, any idea what might be causing it?, it has an i7-11800H, RTX 3060 8GB, 16GB RAM, 1TB SSD, 17.3 inch screen @144Hz with Windows 10 home, hoping my screen doesn't pack in as it's brand new, hopefully it dies down, thinking of just getting a Desktop PC next time and a Macbook Pro once I can afford it once my games come out which are taking AGES to finish lol started off 2D android then done some Google daydream until it shut the server so moved to 3D android and now 3D PC steam games, hopefully console once I see how my Steam game does but freemium in android is annoying way to make income if any, things change too fast, was thinking moving into web or going bk to my uni routes and some microcontroller work, done some Analogue electronics as well wanted to further that, Electromagnetism is fascinating etc but the Analogue Electronics was all ADC stuff and other stuff not explained properly like it never connected to other coursework unlike the digital side which connected with the computer science stuff hardware/software, my course felt biased towards digital which I can understand but was more programming than hardware and building testing only tiny amounts of soldering which was on the Analogue electronics side, and wish I had been doing things like what you are doing, microcontrollers were as close as I got and some sensors programming in Assembly and C. I did fix my Samsung lcd once though replaced about 6 capacitors all fine but 1, couldnt find I think was a long time ago a 100uf and used a 10uf instead, tv worked but the scart buzzed lol never realised just a small difference in capacitors made a big difference, those values might be wrong but they weren't that far off that I thought na won't matter, the tv worked that's all that mattered. Handed it in to cash gen years ago after about 5 years use, they never checked the scart lol just the ariel to pick up freeview lol nice wee Samsung was sad to see it go but needed the cash got 125 for it(wasn't too happy but knew it wasn't 100% so let it slide) was 300 new and a little cracker at the time 2007. Anyway love the channel subbed. ✌

Loving your content. Like a few people in the comments, I just stumbled across your channel on RU-vid. If circumstances were different, I would certainly take this up as a hobby. Keep up the good vids. Have you tried messaging the person on Facebook and sending them this vid? See what their reply is.

I'm speechless. Wow man.

Like the most important caps , i don't knowhow u did that without throwing up from tension and stress.

You should make merch. A shirt that says "Shut up Multimeter"

I've noticed i have this habit of instantly pressing the like button on everything I watch :P

Are you working in a loft, it must be so hot come the summer 👍👍

I have noticed that cpu chip it should say Sony Entertainment Network do think the chip been change at all ? Love your video buddy keep good qork I got scam for ps5 2 weeks ago the guy said bring to me never showed up got my money ran

How much for the controller

At 29.23 You can see die itself has damaged corner. So apu likely been killed by wrong heatsing removal/replacement :/

They pulled a fast one on you but sometimes it happens unfortunately. We live in a scammed world, too bad you didn’t meet the seller yourself. If it were me I would have contacted the seller or report him as a scam seller on the Facebook market group.

When you say liquid metal do you mean solder?

If the price is to good to be true there is always a reason why.

This is why I don’t trust buying from people these days unless there’s coverage for money back when they lie.

LOL every time I see a PS5 it reminds me of those "fancy" routers from like 2005. It seriously looks like there should be a TP-Link badge on it or something!

Did you have to fix the sorry camera 🤣

Your friend could have switched motherboards where doubts come in and that’s why you always buy thee item in person! Sorry for you loss!

Isn’t it under warranty still?

yes you did get scammed there so many dishonest people online i would rather buy from electonics store or gamestop or walmart or from directly from sony that gives buyers protection if indeed it broken sony can fix it send it back to you or give you brand a new console

Wow they have catch you bro that really messed up that PS5 was DOA 😭