Is DKOldies REALLY a Scam? 

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Yeah, their prices are absolutely insane. They're selling PS2 slim models for $185. I have multiple slims I spent no more than 40-50 on per console on (locally, online, marketplace), which came with games, memory cards and multiple official controllers. I have no idea how DKOldies even lists their consoles for that much but people still buy them

See this is the thing. They buy their consoles and games in lots and yard sales and save BIG on it. They have absolutely no issues with profit margins. This is just laziness and greed from the owner.

Not a scam

The games seem fine, it's just the consoles

@@plasterchief9582 They’re still overpriced. Plus, it’s known that they, as a company, would use bots on eBay and buy up every console, game, etc for cheap, and resell them on their site for a huge markup. It’s caused the market prices for retro items to drastically increase. So yes it’s a scam and they are scumbags.

@@thickgirlsneedlove2190 It is a scam. If they actually refurbished everything they had and sold it would be overpriced and bad value but not a scam. But the fact that they claim that everything is refurbished when they do not refurbish anything at all, and put in stickers to scare away people that do not know any better from opening it (so they dont find out that it is in fact not refurbished) IS a scam. They dont give you what they sell you. Simple as that

​@PlasterChief something other posters haven't mentioned is dk oldies resurfaces all disks regardless of amount of scratches or if there working which decreases the lifespan

In 2012 my mom had a fit that I asked for an Xbox 360 that costed a whole $90 used

​​@@ethanrosnow7874when I needed a new controller. I had to fight my parents to not get the cheaper knock off controllers lmao

I got a 350 for $75 refurbished had it for bout 3 years then red ring of death hit me but it was the same came with all pieces and was cleaned

that's not true, that was made illegal a couple years ago. Warranty stickers mean nothing. Many people don't know that though.

@@wiltisdabest Most people don't do anything... because good fucking luck getting the company to budge on it. Yes, it is not legal... but you'd have to drag the company through court in order to cash in most the time. Which, would be exceedingly expensive. Way more expensive than your warranty's worth. That's why nobody goes through with it. And trust me, companies will just make a BS reason why anyways.

@@Xyler94 It's worth pointing out it would be incredibly easy to get those stickers off without tearing them with a scalpel, save them and just reapply them once you've poked around inside. Most are barely hanging on to begin with. I guess you could see that as being dishonest but I think they lost the right to complain about dishonesty when they started charging triple what these are worth and don't even properly refurbish them.

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Like saying GameStop gives best value for trade-ins

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Bro is literally everywhere.

For other stuff it's pretty great tbh. Just don't try to trade in games. But they have some nice clothes and figures in there

i have 3 of them just sitting around in drawers

You also should go get them at flea markets as well, as I have seen them sell for good prices. I also highly recommend that you get PS1 and PS2 stuff from them as well. I managed to snag a copy of Fire Pro Wrestling R/Returns for $ USD 8 once from a flea market.

Like three years in a row GameStop was doing $50 360s in a row with a 49.99 instant rebate on black Fridays, this was around the time of the slim PS4/spiderman deal iirc

@@funderburke43 yup I remember that deal. I bought a super slim 360 for my nephew and it even came with the official camo controller. They were basically giving them away. Probably to clean out their overstock. Everybody had a 360 back in the day. they are easy to find

I could MAYBE understand if they were selling the 250gb slim with 2 controllers. MAYBE.

Especially with how one of their ex-employees called them out on an interview with Rich from review tech recently in that they play favorites with repeat / high order customers. So if what they gave Austin was the premium treatment then just imagine regular customers lol.

It will be game over when mrwhosetheboss and mkbhd reviews them.

Probably not mrwhosetheboss because he's in UK.

​@@degenerate8228 or LinusTechTips

@@katsudon2048 I know he's not in the UK, but TheRetroFuture just did a video on them as well. It's entirely possible for someone in Europe to get an order from them, I wouldn't be surprised to see MrWhoseTheBoss make a video on them in the future.

They arent going anywhere they have thosands of customers who dont follow troll on uoutube

If I bought a "refurbished" console for more than it cost new 15 years ago and it was a fucking rustbucket I wouldn't be buying from them anymore

If Unbox therapy refuted the scam claims then that would be the final nail 😂😂😂

@@RowanBird779 15 years ago refurbished consoles were 10 to 50 bucks cheaper then used. So I'm calling bullshit on you.

@@RowanBird779 I bought most of my super slim ps3s from gamestop around that time and it was less then used and new. Powergamer same thing. Regular used 64 in my area was 40. Refurbished was only 30. So you're lying

i bet that reviewDKOLDIESusa will be reacting to this video tomorrow

For real Jacob R is the one who started this smh

Out of all the small channels covering this in depth Austin shoutouts to Charlie, the guy who clicked through a youtube video for 10 minutes and called it a day. 😐

​@@randomname2308 lol try today

Nah

What was going through your mind when you considered buying from them ?? Did you not realize the huge price difference from literally everywhere else on online ?? 🤦🏼‍♂️😂

@@markus7166 I didn't buy from them, I was considering it. I had assumed, like many others, that when they offer them refurbished that they're in a 'like new' condition. Ordering retro consoles is iffy because you never know what you're going to get when you buy from a private seller.

​@@whydrah where did I say you bought from them ?? Even considering is idiotic when you can get on Facebook marketplace and find them for a fraction of the price in better condition. I've had no problem at all finding anything and everything on there and ebay in like new condition. You'd have to be a real sucker to even consider buying from someone who charges double the normal asking price 🤦🏼‍♂️😂

Same with me for the purchase thing. Ill trust my local places or Facebook market

@@markus7166Because some people have more money than time and would rather just order something rather than go around hunting for one. That’s just a thought.

a scam

Nope. Those stickers don't legally mean anything at all. If they wanna deny your warranty they gotta prove you broke it.

@@saybrowtur wrong an employee that worked there did an interview an he said it himself that’s why they do that , definitely a scam

Those stickers don't do jack anymore. That became illegal a few years ago. It's why you don't see them much anymore.

worst part is the whole video

Although people often do not know this, and they are genuinely afraid of breaking those stickers

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Depends how you define "scam". I would personally call it a "rip-off" instead.

Unfortunately I don’t see that happening, I think the owner of dk has to much pride for that

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There are too many casuals. So unless an anti-DKOldies video goes trending, and a lot of their casuals watch it, not likely for now.

@@jaimerosas5998 agreed. He’s very egotistical and will ride DKOldies into the ground.

The only way to hurt DKOldies is to not give them your money. Take your business elsewhere! (Not you, you. The general you.)

Agreed they should be held accountable it's good to see more people showing what dk does.

Ask yourself, if the second hand store or donations fixed and cleaned every product you buy, you think they’ll sell for cheap? When I did appliance deliveries I never understood how some people would buy “refurbished” and then start complaining when we’d deliver about scuffs and dents etc like.... didn’t you know this when you bought it? Or you just wanted the refurbished priced with a like new appliance? He’s not going to be splitting machines open to clean them when you won’t do it yourself (or you may, but majority won’t risk it) and then expect to pay the same price. Yes they’re high, but that’s anywhere you go. If you have a decent pc then emulate what you can but if you don’t you’re only option is one of these consoles like it or not, the supply isn’t growing after 12-20 years for some consoles. Then again, everyone buys half assed stuff, so why wouldn’t the next guy decide to do the same? Sadly the people being honest and nice don’t make money, and those stingy and deceitful make bank. So if you want better prices do the work to find them, check second hand stores or ask older folks who no longer have their children around if they have any old consoles, you might just get lucky - otherwise unfortunately or fortunately it’s one these guys we have to deal with!

Lol calm down.

@@hakasonma8588 what about ebay or all the others means of acquiring 2nd hand items online? craiglist, facebook etc etc. i mostly bought my retrogaming stuff from ebay in the last 15 years and i never ever spent anything remotely close to the price ranges of DKOldies, and eBay is known to be littered with stupidly expensive listings and rigged auctions to push your bids higher and yet i never got in any proximity of those price tags!

@@lurch1539see I don’t think this order got any special treatment. Which means they didn’t realize it was going to a reviewer. Which means either someone isn’t paying attention or they don’t care, either situation sucks for the customer.

Issue is that you need to actually service consoles for people like this because they don't know much about it, they won't be servicing them themselves, and in the case with more modern consoles (like early PS3s and xbox 360s) that will lead to the disaster. On top of that, it's really immoral in my opinion to take money from people who don't know any better.

And that's why they can say whatever they want on their site knowing the average Joe won't be opening it. Whether that's legal to lie about refurbishing wel......just my thoughts

@@hikkamorii most nostalgics are collectors and do the maintance service them selfs they even prefer it like that bcz they are basically odl tech junkies

@@notoriousbig3k I agree, but I get why not everyone would want it, and so the service that they provide makes sense. To bad they don't do it...

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I agree, I was debating about buying a second hand refurbished console, but I recently decided to just buy parts and building it up my self

It's been months since they said they would fix it. They had a huge order of a ton of consoles. They knew the order was important and prob a youtuber. They clearly don't care.

They expecting the one who buy their products are stupid and only care about the outside and spend a stupid amount of money for it

​@@EllRiver yeah that was silly to buy so much in a single order AND using his real name apparently..

@@ashadowintime7305 dude literally says “I did not order these, and my name is not on this packaging”.

They have a very thriving business clearly if all these RU-vidrs are buying their stock to do “check” videos lmao. Marketing W

i mean that’s exactly how warranty stickers work 😂. it’s to prove that you didn’t mess with stuff inside and therefore the warranty is still valid

@@gotmilk20091 yeah but what I mean by that is that they know they’re not cleaning the insides of these consoles, and are using warranty stickers in an attempt to cover their lazy “refurbishing”. And people go and open them up anyways and now all dkoldies has to do is basically say “well you voided the warranty, nothing we can do”

@@gotmilk20091you’re slow

@@gotmilk20091 Also, atleast in the USA, voiding warranty because of stickers like these is illegal. You still have your warranty if you open up your electronics.

@@xacvhFAs yo moma slow, she had you after all

Cause the employees don’t care, they want this company to go down as much as everybody else, this has been going on for about 2+ months with no changes soon they’ll go out of business

They only take care for repeat customers it seems. But even then it's a stretch.

You have to pay attention to the DKoldies stickers. Its straight dishonest how they sell you the thing as having a warranty then the stick those where the screws or the seams are so you can't open it without voiding the warranty. They fully expect you to not attempt to open them at all so they don't bother with the inside. They insidiously hold the implied value of the warranty which is their entire selling point at those exorbitant prices over you, so you reasonably as a consumer will simply take them as is and not check the inside.

​@Alexis Rivera not many people know that those warranty stickers don't mean shit in the USA, you can open and explore all you want, as long as your attempt doesn't directly cause a malfunction

@@alexisrivera200xable Which is hilarious because you can't legally void warranty in the US because of warranty stickers being torn anyways lol Maybe if the customer legitimately damaged the consoles

That's not a good idea business wise. They are deceiving their customers in buying consoles that are supposed to be "refurbished." Having big channels like Austin Evans call them out will definitely put the nail in the coffin on their business.

Then how did they ship that 360 without replacing the disk drive. You heard the sound it made when he put a game in it? Like what kills me about this is they aren't doing the bare minimum. Like local shops will refurbish stuff, open it up and clean it really well. Idk why these guys can't.

@@GundamGokuTV he can only Tell how things were done when he was working there. Between when he left and the present maybe they got even lazier. 🤷

The Xbox 360 was literally rattling and they still didn't open it up

@@jacobperez8921 you would think so, but watch it only boost their popularity due to exposure 🤦🏼‍♂️

The clowns still backing up DKOldies are pathetic. Lol

Think the real scam is that nobody cared til 25 year old RU-vidrs started posting 300 videos about them

​@@nicholasharron3325 not everyone opens their consoles to check the fans and thermal paste. Gotta think 99% of people just stick it on their TV stand and play. They're not seeing the clumps of dust, thermal paste damage, and everything else inside. If you're charging premium price for a refurbished unit that thing better be as close to new as possible

@@brandonosborne2007 buy it in person then and not online! Let’s just ship everything anyway, so I can sit home and collect some more diabetes. This isn’t NEW NEWS!!!

​@@nicholasharron3325That argument holds no weight. Not everyone lives within 30 minutes of a retro game store. Plus if a site says their products are refurbished and charges more than top dollar, then the products need to be damn near perfect.

​@@nicholasharron3325dkoldies wasn't even that popular until they started bringing it up

In an interview a previous employee stated their refurbished consoles are all previously returned "used" consoles that had since been repaired.

😂😂😂 funny you mean business it's called supply and demand if you can find it cheap stfu and go get it stop batching about prices you can't afford or are not willing to pay bc guess what someone else will pay it 😂😂 every retro store does this shit no one is innocent and if you think some are your funny

TronicsFix also exposed them as well.

Your definition isn’t legal, is it? Without a legal definition, there is no real footing to say what these words mean in context.

Technically, there is no "LEGAL" standpoint definition for the word "Refurbished". Refurbished is a synonym for reconditioned in which is under the entitlement (or definition) of pre-owned. As Americans, since we use fancy words to make things sound better and appealing, there are expectation behind those words. In the end, DK Oldies are running a legal business and advertising correctly. Is it still overpriced and taking advantage of old school gamers, YES. Are they breaking any laws or scamming anyone, NO. You are getting what you paid for a working old console.

Did it work doe

@@AshVsEvilFred doesn’t matter if it works, they monetize, refurbish, clean consoles. I didn’t pay for dirty consoles with a new screen protector

@@AshVsEvilFred Was it refurbished "doe"

@@AshVsEvilFred They payed extra for a working console.

Refurbished consoles are honestly a scam anywhere

Yeah but the reason you're paying premium here is for the console being refurbished and cleaned, the PS3 you got could have dust bunnies and who knows what inside. Average joe doesn't know nor do they want to bother with cleaning up the console. Edit because some people think I'm defending DKOldies somehow which I'm not, I was just trying to say the REASON DKO charges premium prices is because they claim they do refurbishment and cleaning which clearly they don't. But if they did all that then the premium prices would be ok.

@@BenjaminHari yeah but that wasn’t done to the PS3 on the video was it? So that point is null and void.

@@BenjaminHariyea but dk Oldies is charging $500 for ps3s and they don’t even touch the inside of it and barely even clean the outside and you get an off brand controller

@@BenjaminHari yeah but dkscammies aint doing nothing

@@kanggoo57 exactly, that's the whole point of the video and why they are a scam.

That's really cool actually.

@Lurch I wasn’t aware! Thanks for the info

Fun fact about the gamecube is Japan and USA are the same region and japanese gamecubes play US games just fine with no mods. Dkoldies did not install shit.

I didn't know about this. That's pretty dope. I miss my purple GameCube now 😅

Ohio vendors be like

Scalpers in a *nutshell*

@@hemmed32 man shut up

Reminds me of the people who go to yardsales and take advantage of homeowners' lack of knowledge of what their goods are actually worth and resale them online 3x the amount.

@@donlalo2002 That's just good business. It's their fault if they don't know the value of what they're selling

Well they clearly weren't cautious here so I would hate to see what a normal order would look like.

If this is what they do for a suspected content creator then half their consoles must not work.

If this is DKOldies working with caution then I hate to see the shit they throw at other people.... Clearly they weren't "alerted".

Exactly what I thought. Maybe not a content creator, but they definitely would be more "careful" if one guy buys like 10 consoles for himself from them.

I never trade my consoles, I just wait a few years until I have the money to buy the next gen

Sameee.

I'm sad cuz my dad made me give my ps1 to my cousin who destroyed it by the time we went back to his house already. A former friend stole my DS and pokemon game in it. My ps2 fell like 20 yrs ago and only reads ps1 games and my mom forced me to trade in my 360. I wanna buy a ds but I haven't seen any anywhere near as pristine as I keep my shit for sale. My gameboy advance sp doesn't even have scratches, and I got it in 2003 or 2004 whenever it launched

​​@@Rspsand07hat's sad I only sold my old stuff so I could buy the new stuff coming out, later i knew that what i was doing was a mistake since when i sold my ps3 to buy a ps4 i had to give up the ps3 for 100 bucks and still give 300 more Then the same game shop was selling my ps3 for 200 bucks

Only consoles I care about LOOKING good is handhelds. So honestly the Xbox and PlayStations were overcharged just for that tbh.

Now you have me worried, I have played my Dreamcast for hours on end (finished sa1 in one sitting due to lack of vmu). It terribly heats up but I never had this problem before. I bought it used.

Update: days later my disk drive stopped working properly. I've owned this for almost 6 years and it spent the last six months in a box and has somehow become yellow.

@@rishavganguly92 it is sad the plastics have a self life of 15 years and they yellow quickly, especially under UV lights and sunlight.

Not to mention the lasers that are on their way out that will play Crazy Taxi but other games have textures disappearing and stuff lol.

@the Game, Review and Reallife Channel becuz it does not work.

I blocked them on RU-vid and tiktok and they’re still coming up

Indeed he will be!

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Stay away… you can find better deals nearly anywhere else if you search.

Also Someordinarygamers as well

Maybe the courts when they get sued for fraud.

Average buyers by not buying this shit

Imagine major news outlets talking about Dk oldies scummy tactics

Don't forget TronicsFix

The magic eraser part of their video gave me anxiety. Magic Erasers are basically sandpaper, they're SO abrasive. I'd be willing to bet that's why the finish on the PS3 in this video looks so bad. Its already easily scratched and they clean things with a magic eraser 😭

Yea me too hell I had a PS5 that went up I’m smoke when they first came out sent it back to Sony took them like 5 months to give it back I almost bought another one

@@brendonwallace6640 Damn man thats crazy, at least MS returned mine in a week after i had to argue with them about the warranty.

I think most people prefer Dkoldies gone forever

​@@fjrqjadlrns Exactly. You cant fix stupid, and for sure can't fix a scammer

Lol they wont see a dip in their sales if everyone keeps buying from them just to review how shitty they did lmao this video is a classic example. He paid 1000$+ for those console and all the ones he did open up were not clean.

@@shaggy1hp200 I’d be getting a full refund 🤷‍♂️

@@ohigedid91xbox9 publicity is publicity. But yeah you right

For how much he paid for that ps3 I would've done the same 😂😂 Basically water damaged at that point lol

Idk what you mean because Austin's order had plenty negative to mention that culminates in an absolutely disgusting Playstation. Austin's order seems to be plenty like other orders.

Probably why they ordered it under a different name

​@MrMcFeely this could easily be the better batch. A large order of every console after they got called out is always suspicious.

@@CookieByNature i missed that part, dkoldies does give preferential treatment to large orders so that the same customer can buy more large orders from them in the future.

@@Mr_Mcfeely remember Autrin never used his name. Someone else used their name. So DK Oldies probably didn't even have a clue it was even for Austin. That's why DK Oldies didn't give him special treatment.

So much this. I'm betting it was a shell swap. Probably got an as is to try to mod it and swapped the shell

It's just a jumper on the ic it's a 3 minute fix

Its a jpn console with a region mod edit jumping R5 on the mainboard. Google: "jpn to us gamecube"

That's the standard for most places. It turned on.

Honestly disgraceful, especially when they (DKOldies and probably GameStop) demonstrate their ability to actually restore consoles properly, but no, gotta make them profit margins with as little effort as possible

Refurbished, Repaired, Used. Now if it said restored..... then it should look clean and new.

​@@Joosher56 hi breadbug

@Chuck Buskee it is because they actually think items delivered by mail in a package mean it is new im their tiny minds.

That’s my thing, they THROW everything………

not everyone's like them I ordered a refurbished gpu off amazon, amazon will test it themselves and if it doesn't function like its brand new they wont allow it to be sold.

I once got a refurbished Wii U from Ebay & I still have that Wii U, it's in great shape & is working perfectly!

So you have NEVER bought anything refurbished because of a company you heard of a week ago? The math dont be mathing.

You'd probably get a good quality product if you bought from a trusted and good company. The issue is that DKoldies is not one of those companies.

@@legoyoda9782 my cousin bought a PS4 Refurbished from GameStop, the top was scratched to hell, I had to add thermal paste for him since it came with literally none, and the fan was caked in dust. My girlfriend bought a refurbished monitor from Amazon, the backlights in it were bad. The screen word turn on but it was so dim you couldn’t see. Had to replace those too. I rather just pay the few extra bucks and get new. Companies “refurbished” is slang for “might work” and I don’t like gambling

I just wanna know why almost all their PS3 consoles look similar once you start to disassemble them. If they were truly refurbished, we shouldn't be greeted by dust.

Yeah dude, it’s not gonna be long until DK is run down