For clarity's sake because I caught myself crossing the wires in the video a couple of times: Gamecube = $130, HDMI adapter = $20, Game Boy Advance = $170
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
@@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.
140 for a GameCube is insane. I bought a GameCube in good condition with all the cables including a controller, memory card and super smash bros brawl just for 70 bucks.
The GameCube and GBA are built like tanks. I've purchased over a dozen of each in the last few years and they rarely have any issues. You should give their phat PS3 a shot and really feel the hurt
That gc has been in a very smokey household dammmm. The disc reading thing is probably dust on the laser or whatever its truly called. A few spins and it works xD
I'd rather just buy a cheap console on eBay and restore it myself at this point. However, I would have never purchased a dk oldies product to begin with as their prices are outrageous and anybody who gives a sh*t will look elsewhere before spending THAT much.
Dude, you still have to look inside of the consuls. That’s what everybody was doing that were opening up the consuls to see how dirty they were because they are being sold as a refurbished, and they have not been cleaned.
Id like to see one more dkO pull in the future. I've noticed when there under a lot of light that dkO walks around on tip tows. When everything's quiets down the quality drops threw the flow.
The fact that they gave you a generic av composite to HDMI converter when for $20 you can just get component cables, and actual gcvideo products cost about $60, just shows how much they don't care and just want people to buy shit from them without having to look elsewhere and see it's a scam
I have repaired around 100+ gamecubes. The reason why it didn't read the disk i believe at first is due to failing capacitors. Once they warm up and the gamecube runs for a minute, you will notice the laser reading the disc faster. The typical problem child for this issue is capacitor c408
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.
@@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 RU-vidrs 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 RU-vid. 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.
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...
@@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.
@@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
What adds even more insult is they sold you a region modded Japanese gamecube which in its own isn’t bad but considering Japanese gamecubes, especially the standard color variants, are far cheaper than their US counterparts. What a scam they truely are, thanks for the video!
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.
If you charge more than the market price and say it’s because your product is refurbished but the product isn’t refurbished then it is 100% a scam. The fact that they put a sticker to say if you open console and look inside it voids your warranty baffles me. I think the main thing wasn’t whether or not they work but do they open them
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)
The price will always be a scam no matter if the console works or is in good condition or not. Charging $150 which is on “sale” no less for a non AGS 101 GBA SP is absurd
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 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
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 actually illegal to put a warranty sticker on the consoles now so feel free to open the consoles. And if DKOldies has an issue with that take em to court! 😏 (Under the 1975 Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act)
I paid $10 for an indigo gamecube from a thrift store not long ago. It didn't have a controller but was it was in a shoulder strap gamecube branded carrying case with the adapter and AV cable. I have my silver original GCN but had to grab the indigo. It's in a pretty good condition too.
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.
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.
Pretty sure Reviewtechusa just jumped on the bandwagon. He saw these videos get 100k views so now he does them every other day if not every day. He will watch this video and then make a video of it. He is annoying. I don't follow him but I watched 1 or 2 videos and now see him on the feed. Please make just this one and be done with it
I know a lot of RU-vidrs are doing DKOldies videos right but as a person who lost their consoles in Hurricane Katrina, I really appreciate you guys taking the time to do these videos because, for a person like me who has a strong emotional attachment to them and the circumstances in which I lost them, It's very easy to get taken advantage of and waste tons of money. So thank you to you and all of the other RU-vidrs for the time, effort and cost you've put into keeping us informed.
Glad I kept my platinum GameCube. My grandma bought it for me for Christmas right before Resident Evil 0 came out. She passed away the following December. Glad I kept it.
This is just another example of why I always look into a retro company before I buy. If I'm paying a premium... I'm expecting the hardware to look better than that, and run better than what you described. At least it looked like they cleaned out the console this time... Thank you for covering DK Oldies. Got a new sub from me -^_^-
Then what’s the best place to buy them ? Legit no scams ?? I hear everybody saying bad stuff about those retro games but nobody giving out best place to them ?
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 RU-vid 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.
The tests that some of the other channels were doing weren't just whether they work, it's whether the consoles have been refurbished and cleaned. Jacob R's vids show this the best I think (that fat ps3 vid lol). I've bought a lot of refurbished consoles on ebay and at a local shop near me and pay like a third of what Dkoldies charges, and they're in far better condition. Also I'm in Canada and our dollar is shit lol
Great video. When the fans are louder on a system, that usually means that the CPU is running hotter, which means there's probably a fuck ton of dust in there. I would fear opening that since it probably holds a sarcophagus of dust. I love your beanie btw
Did the listing specify that you would be receiving a Japanese gamecube? I know you can play North American games on it still, but i'm curious if the listing stated that.
I've followed Rich for a long time, before the bird and the cucumber eras. He's a youtube legend. I love this DK Oldies drama. Unlike some people, I'm not fine with their prices. They're scamming people who don't know any better. They're the type of people who would buy some rare NES games from old grannies with pennies and then resell the games for huge profits. "Non-functioning reset button" usually just means that the connecting surfaces are dirty, and we know they don't even clean the consoles. I understand that completely disassembling and refurbishing some PS4 is not the fastest job, but doing the same for an NES is like nothing. They're not willing to do any actual work, cause that would mean lower profits.
They are still way cheaper than Amazon. Go look at the price of a Gamecube on that website. It’s obscene. And all those RU-vidrs 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.
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?
So at the the end of the day, everything worked… how exactly is this a scam? A business overpricing things to make a profit is not a scam lol that’s just (unfortunately) normal business practices
Yes but the problem is you can easily go some where else and get a way better console for cheaper its not a good business practice for that reason because once you get exposed your gonna either have to clean the consoles or lower the prices or no one will buy from you.
I have a similar issue with one of my Gamecubes. I suspect that the capacitors in the disc drive are worn out, and thus need to 'warm up' by being powered for a couple minutes. All of my discs work just fine in my main cube, but on that one, they sometimes refuse to read, or at least take longer to read until I let it run for a while.
That GameCube is actually a Japan model at least that’s what the sticker on the bottom says. The GameCube is not region free so maybe the bottom case was switched out?
I haven't bought anything from DK oldies. But I did pay them to repair my ps2. It cost $80 total. A lot more than I thought. But the end result is my ps2 recognizes games immediately now. Rather than it being a 20% chance of the disc being recognized and 80% not. Now it recognizes 100% of the time. I'm satisfied with the fix they provided, but $80 was a bit much. Edit: Something else to note: They only gave me the price AFTER they had it. So keep that in mind.
My interest in playing "retro" games starts and ends with emulation. Actual hardware and game disc/cart are just too expensive. Too many scalpers in the field taking advantage of innocent nostalgia muddies the water.
I have watched this video and I think this presenter knows next to nothing about the consoles he is buying. Everything worked fine. Total over reaction when the GameCube didn't read the Pokémon collosum disc. Obviously doesn't know much about how a GameCube behaves.
DKOldies has a lot of problems, but i'm still impressed that they package stuff as well as they do. I'm used to sellers *cough gamestop* throwing things in without any packaging whatsoever.
Jesus, 170$ for a beat up 001 model? God I hate DKoldies. Such a scam in the prices alone. I just saw austins video of all the consoles he bought and they were "refurbished" and absolutely disgusting.
The thing is, like anything else if you don't use something it will get damaged anyway (and maybe even faster) than just overusing your consoles. That said the issue you had at the beggining with the gamecube that it didn't read the disc was just that the gamecube wasn't even tested before it was shipped to you, also meaning that the gamecube was unused for a VERY long time before you turned it on, and that's a scam move LOL.
heres a good idea,, get a load of youtubers to drop a crap load of cash to a scammer.... yes that works.... STOP GIVING THIS SCAMMER MONEY... sheesh...
Around six months ago I paid $109 dollars shipped for a black Gamecube with two OEM controllers, original cable, original power supply and Gamecube manual. Even came with an after market memory card. Everything worked, and still works. Nobody should be charging (or paying) these kinds of prices. But here we are.
So... You spend 300+ on products from a company that the world knows does bad business and then make a video complaining about it.. you might want to reevaluate yourself man... Its like giving money to phone solicitors with a bad reputation.... Doesnt change my opinion about you but it does seem like a stupid move... ill tell people i like when they do stupid stuff just as i will anyone else.
If i recieved a GC with a 3rd party controller for that price id send that shit back immediately. Literally got a black GC with the real controller for much less off ebay.
If you ever buy an old console like these, you really should open them just to clean them. Dedicated gaming consoles that utilize thermal paste should always be opened to change out thermal paste at the minimum to improve longevity
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.
@@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
I like you enough to be nice and watch a DKOldies video that you made. NGL I'm tired of hearing about them. But I haven't heard YOU talk about them. So ...
By law your allowed to open the consoles up because its illegal to put a sticker on them and void the warranty if you open it If they say the warranty is void after opening the console they can be sued and possibly shut down by the US government
@@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.
DKOldies Is getting sued for there untested consoles games they have to fix the consoles before they sell them if it’s broken and they don’t fix it before they sell it it’s illegal there laws on they have to fix it or it’s illegal to sell it
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.
That GBA SP costing 80 dollars more than launch price is insane. Edit: Also that Gamecube is feeling end of life. Spotty/slow disc read always seems to be the death knell for that era of disc based consoles, just slowly starts having more and more trouble reading until every disc you put in there gives an error.
the fact that I got two 001 model GBA SPs for $70AUD each at a pawnshop and they were both in a far better shape for also being cosmetically flawed really says alot about Dkoldies’s business model
@@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
Honestly it's probably the eye of the laser being a tad smudged plus the dirt both inside and out. Also if they are pulling this out of a random box of consoles, it's not entirely uncommon for cockroaches nests to be inside the guts of the console. It's just something you need to be aware of if you do open that console up.
I mean, flawed and used anything it’s a toss up. They even put a note saying they guarantee everything so idk what the problem is. And yes they’re expensive. If people didn’t pay it then they wouldn’t charge it. It’s literally simple supply and demand for finite assets
I'd still be more weary about that Gamecube. Yeah great Pokemon worked on the second try, but the fact that it said it couldn't read it at all likely means that would happen again. I'd turn the console off and back on again about 10 times and see if you can recreate the issue.
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 >_
