Is Strictly Apple a SCAM? 

Not necessarily stolen its not uncommon for a school to sell a bunch of used equipment to a recycler and forget to remove a few of them from DEP. You have to remember how poorly funded some schools IT are. And if your disposing of 2000 laptops its easy to miss a few.

@@bobothnyup my school did this back in 2014s

@@bobothn I work at an electronic recycler can confirm most of the computers we get still have bitlocker and or icloud still locked on the devices.

@@ItzSlushie We donated ~400 iPhones to a recyler charity a few years back. After having removed them all from DEP and some how missed ~20 of them. They asked us kindly and sent over the serials so we could release the rest. I work for a non profit its hard to have the time to not miss things but I don't want the phones to go to a land fill because we missed a few items.

Yeah, not an uncommon thing, I buy used computers/laptops from a nearby university on auction and refurbish them turn them into chromebooks and like emulator machines for cheap. Not unlikely places like this and plug tech are the reason I can never get my hands on apple products.

This is a HUGE issue with managed Apple devices. The companies wipe the device and sell it but forget to remove the remote management, whoever gets the device doesn't know it's a managed device unless they try to set up a new user. So resellers open it up turn it and see it's ready (supposedly) for a new user and then sell it. Then the person who bought it gets stuck with a brick because they don't have any way to remove it from a managed device system. The ONLY way to remove it is for the original owners that managed the device to go into their accounts and remove it as a managed device. As you can guess, most school IT and office IT departments aren't going to bother helping you with that. Especially since they can't confirm you bought it legit and aren't just trying to unlock one of their many computers to resell. They can't know if that one has been sold or not. Officially, they are supposed to remove any device they sell from their managed account before selling them, but they don't think of that when they wipe them.

But at least you can tip them

​@@CaseyDplays most school disttricts have to keep a log of what they surplus and what they sell, though - I know the one I work at keeps track for a year after it leaves our inventory. If you call to check, they should be able to check records by serial number and remove it from Apple School Management and their MDM.

@@CaseyDplayshowever, as a company they should be checking this

Thats besides the point who tf in there right mind said its a good idea to link an account to headphones

Or at the very least gets new earpads

my local pawnshop dont clean the earbuds... i bought samsung buds from them and i had to clean them with alchohol wipes.. and the airpods they had were really gross so gross that i buy the samsung ones...

who tf buys used earbuds?​@@dylanlindsay1993

or cashies

I mean, yeah if you buy it from a carrier they're about $460 w/cellular but they always are like $10 after promos 😅

@@MrCruciferyeah I just got one 50% off with cellular

Right I got one for my wife last Christmas for 200 from Walmart

Don’t forget to mention the AirPod max being called pro, dirty and paired to someone else’s account

@@Edgar.55 oh dang you're right, totally forgot about that one! Jeez what a fail...

Type C cables are gonna replace the lightning cables in certain regions.

@@ZaeOSWS the new ones not the old ones

@@ZaeOSWS Yeah in EU (already did), but not for iPhone 12 :)

Locked to Pasco or whatever doesn't mean stolen. Schools neglect to remove management from laptops all the time, ask anyone who deals in bulk laptops from schools or other institutions.

Fun fact: it’s illegal here im Europe. Item back, money back.

In Brazil that's illegal too

only a us problem lol

highly illegal actually, in EU countries companies can get huge fines for it, because it basically is like not providing money back. While it's legal to give store credit but only as an option the user selects!!​@@erebostd

Most people in the US don't know that their credit card protects them from all sorts of BS including only store credit. If you have the receipt they have to accept the return and refund for everything including shipping if the device isn't what they advertised.

Do a chargeback on your credit card, that is some BS

email them and tell them you’ll just dispute it through your bank, that’s a worse outcome than a return/exchange for them and has gotten the wheels turning for me a couple of times!

I would see if you can contact whoever it's locked/linked to, especially if there's still stuff on it like pictures that they might want. But yeah do a charge back with your credit card. Don't even tell them you're doing it, they deserve it.

You should have known this was a horrible company

Y’all need to report to the better business bureau.

they have deals with schools and but loads of their used crap

super not legal issues right there

no legal issues at all. I worked for apple and they don't care about stolen devices. it's just more customers for them

100% not a legal issue lol. We send thousands of apple devices back yearly to our vendors and we might miss a couple every now and than when we send this information to apple. Nothing a quick email or a call wont fix lol

​@@JavierPerez-xc6kgbut I've seen multiple people comment saying the same thing happened to them and strictly apple couldn't do anything about it. Didn't even take it back

It all looks very sus when peoples accounts aren't unlinked, everything is in garbage condition, and the customer service and return policies suck

I wonder if he's related to Mario Pierre lol

@@jsparrowthegamer7729maybe he is :)

As someone who deals with schools and e-waste it's pretty rare any of them unenroll, etc before throwing it in e-waste. Pasco County however may want to deal with their ecycler if this unit was ecycled and the vendor is improperly handling devices.

It had refunds

Chargeback go brrr

@@Zywashin store credit only

The tipping option was removed. I know the owner and he didn’t even know that it was on there to begin with. It was automatically put on there through the POS he uses

@@joshuamerritt8897 what

@@joshuamerritt8897 SURE it was

@@joshuamerritt8897 liar lol, they’d add maybe a shipping protection fee but not a tip fee😂

Shopify probably added it automatically

@@trex8135 Good to know thanks for the response. I wonder why it wasn't wiped or released or whatever they do with locked Chromebooks.

It's probably not stolen. Just wasn't removed from the school's MDM.

@@Garrettb214 my guess it's supposed to be destroyed but you know what's what..

@@Garrettb214in my experience (volunteering at a small school to fix their botched IT and looking at public school district procedures) no one bothers to remove things from MDM

He would do anything for attention that is true.

Where?

@@Humellski75 23:57 top left corner it says “Apparaten skall anslutas till jordat nätuttag”.

*ripoff not spinoff

welcome to youtube where people take ideas ans twist it. everyone, i mean even ltt is now doing it.

​​@@KontrolStyle i get what ur saying but its not necessarily a youtube thing its more like a business thing and sadly it works most of the time. I also really wouldn't say linus tech tips i really doing anything bad because there are only so many ideas you can do when you base your channel on a singular subject

@denki new mystery tech?

He is the punching bag

It’s called Matt

I'm sticking with eeBay. They send me holograms of Apple devices.

Yeah, this was more like "missing box". A showroom sample, and they didn't even try to locate the original package.

The is exactly it. I know the owner. This MacBook fell through the cracks

And you can find nice used one for way cheaper in better marketplaces too

Yes but it's Austin Evans so we already know his scam 🤣🤣🤣🤣 I had to

Most people I know still use their 2010-2013 MB Pros. I just upgraded to a 2015 because I needed Monterey. 2016-2020 intel Macs really don't have any advantages over older ones.

@IMAPRO9307 2 minutes ago love your content love when you do -> mastery tech

the clip where he was trying to open it the mac pro was in unlocked position. he must have just locked it when filming the clip with the other machine.

To be fair it looks like one

I can’t un-hear it now.

By the way, has he hit puberty yet?

Nope, I know the owner and have been to his warehouse. Stop spewing nonsense the only one copying is plug tech who is using the name that Landon Mooney aka owner of strictly Apple has built. They’re outpaying them on google seo therefore becoming the first result when strictly Apple is searched

Not exactly.

get to work bro 🫡

They probably don’t have any inventory lol, they just snatch something from the garbage or have someone steal them whenever there a new order

I am your friend

I am also your friend

I wish i had friends😢

@@venemaatjesNLi could be

i am your best freind

Is this even possible? But the MDM lock was from a US school

@@killerhakie Those iphones and packaging looked quite similar to what those Chinese resellers use. Plus the grammatical errors.

@@killerhakie Don't underestimate Chinese companies' ability and know-how to get things extremely cheap. They are masterminds of doing it, then they sell it cheaper than anyone else in bulk. That goes for a lot of different products.

No they are local to me and they don’t do that. They have a store front in Grove City, Ohio

what other store do they have

Dumb

I think he has already

Probably some registered adress only that is no😊t a store

The school system would have surplus'd the laptop, I'm sure they don't want it back.