$0 to $10,000 Repaired in Less Than A Year? - Month 12

[@TwoHandStan]

And I reeeeeaaaaally hope there's a season 2 of $0 to $10,000

[@gamejaeger]

...we will see. I need a bit of a break for the time being lol.

[@rorykelly8275]

Very well done though for sure

[@gamejaeger]

Thanks! Glad you enjoyed!

[@cr_tech2000]

Congrats on completing this series! Been following since month 3 I think. This series has helped me gather some more knowledge on especially the OG xbox consoles. Hope to keep seeing more repairs on this channel in the future :)

[@gamejaeger]

Awesome, glad I could help! There will be more to come for sure!

[@shanebarnes4622]

Congrats! Thanks for lettings us follow along! It was very inspiring to me!

[@hasiconejito]

great series! thank you for the content and your dedication! hopeful to see more!

[@gamejaeger]

More to come thanks!

[@SgtNibblerI]

Thank you man! I only came into this series at month 10 i think? but have loved every episode and has been very inspirational to me and will be looking into starting to teach myself alot of this stuff in 2025! Cant wait to see what you have in store for the new year!

[@gamejaeger]

No, thank you for watching and commenting! It means a lot to have random people being inspired by something I posted. Thanks for coming along in the journey!

[@kalligula2063]

Great series. I enjoyed the entire thing. It got me brave enough to try and in a couple cases fail at repairing systems myself

[@gamejaeger]

That’s ok, practice makes perfect!

[@grzegorzzukowski9908]

Great series! Now we are waiting for Season 2 :)

[@gamejaeger]

Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it!

[@mano_zuerin]

I just discovered your channel and I LOVE video game repair videos so mutch that I want to do it myself, but I don't know were to start. I would really like if you did a video where you explain how did you learn to fix video games and what tools do you need to start. (awesome video, really like it)

[@gamejaeger]

Glad you liked it and welcome! That’s not a bad idea about the video though, a few others have asked about similar stuff and I think it would be easier to address in a larger format. Thanks for the idea!

[@FilipTenev]

respect for the side hustle

[@gamejaeger]

I appreciate it!

[@TwoHandStan]

Oh man I got so excited when I saw you posted

[@gamejaeger]

LOL! I hope you enjoy!

[@ileox4170]

Final Episode

[@gamejaeger]

Thank you, Merry Christmas to you as well! And thanks for coming along on the journey, I couldn't have done it without all of the support!

[@Schmeck626]

It was fun to see you though this journey. I hope you continue in 2025.

[@gamejaeger]

Thank you! Glad to have the support!

[@davidlukerice]

Really enjoyed watching the whole process! I have picked up broken electronics from time to time to fix and sell and have always wondered what it could come out to try and do as a side gig. How did this go from a youtube perspective? How long did it take to shoot/edit videos, and how did this challenge grow your channel and add revenue?

[@gamejaeger]

Thanks! Having the videos coming out each month gave me a lot of motivation to continue the work and there were sometimes I just really didn’t want to lol. I would say the shooting of the videos did cause the repair times to become slightly longer than if I would have just fixed an item right away too. So that can probably be factored into the totals a bit. But KZbin has been great! About 50 new subs per video so it’s a nice boost each month! And the repair suggestions have been great too, lots of good help here!

[@Pickle136]

look into low melt solder for the cpu replacement on the snes

[@gamejaeger]

I’ve seen those, I think it’s called chipquik if I remember correctly?

[@Pickle136]

@@gamejaeger right, it works pretty good at removing chips without needing to heat the whole board.

[@gamejaeger]

Good to know!

[@calebkleven614]

I know you said you paid bills with the profit but you should also really look into getting yourself a hot air station. It's a life changer for some connectors and especially removing surface mount caps.

[@gamejaeger]

Thanks, I know I really need one. I was looking into it but I haven’t pulled the trigger on buying one yet.

[@cy8646]

I've just got and 360 Slim that isn't recognising discs. Do you have any tips for this? By the way I cleared my KZbin history to try to reset some of the junk KZbin were suggesting on my home feed and I think I've missed a video. Did that capacitor on the PS1 Slim help?

[@gamejaeger]

Honestly haven’t tried it yet so you probably didn’t miss anything. I ordered the kits late so they didn’t arrive until about a week ago. I’d still like to try it though, maybe a future video? Unfortunately I don’t have much info on Xbox 360 though. I have limited knowledge about that system so it might have the same issues as the original Xbox but I’m not 100% about it unfortunately.

[@AF-lt2fr]

Congrats. Do you jave a rough breakdown of the most profitable items - obviously it'll be a moxture of bad caps, cables, cleaning to just unrepairable - hopefully you jave enough datapoints to average this out though and get a general overview. Hopefully you'll get a hot air station and take things up a notch. I was surprised you tested the psu with the case removed rather than just probing the output though? The screen ribbon replacement you did in this episode was very good, even if it didn't quite work in the end.

[@gamejaeger]

Thank you! I know nothing about ps3 units so it was kind of an exploration of how it’s all put together as well as testing. But as far as the most profitable items… it really depends on how much you’re picking the items up for. I would say fixing games is probably the lowest tier profitably and the highest is consoles for sure as a general category separation. But rather than looking at it from a strictly best item to do for highest revenue, I would suggest buying and fixing the items that bring you the greatest enjoyment to fix. Because if you run into problems with an item you like to fix then, talking from personal experience, you’re more apt to look for solutions rather than move on to the next one. Which also equals more money in the long run since you can probably fix more of the ones you like to do then ones you’re just not as interested in.

[@thrasher888565]

can do some shell swap, transparent orange game grear, probably install hdmi/rgb kits are probably were the moeny at. maybe console mods. could try some retro bright. maybe snes,nes button swaps, maybe even molding buttons? or 3d print some stuff.

[@gamejaeger]

Could be, mods are a big deal but you need working units for a lot of the stuff so it adds more cost in the long run too. But worth it if they can sell for more too.

[@thrasher888565]

@@gamejaeger ya i like the videos only thing i dont like is the music looping hours at a time when binge watching fine for once a moth. you have a good setup documentation is good. i think if you do a season 2 just more documentation of problems with other things would be good. also like there a more in depth video of the fix. im guessing video editing took more then an hour a day? w/e the case i like the content keep it up. switch/lite shell swap is a pita and requires heating the screen to swap i would pay to have it done but also you might not like working on small handhelds? shells are fairly cheap to buy thow. just ideas. also thow dreaded drifting joycons and switch lite...adding things like argb/rgb can also boost cost and might not be too much work. i remember back in the day of the nes led logo mod and now we got argb kits things have changed.

[@gamejaeger]

Thanks, yeah editing takes a lot of time. Never really measured it but it’s hours and hours per video for sure. And I’ve never worked on switch stuff before. Never really wanted to honestly. I like the older stuff and want to try to get more of that back into circulation and working again. The new stuff would probably be more money in some ways but I’m not sure I’d enjoy it as much.

[@frankurmom8741]

I can do that snes cpu for you if you feel like sending it to a stranger in NJ. Great videos, keep it up!

[@gamejaeger]

Lol thank you

[@Sneakyfox2862]

I really dislike how xyab is selective on who they sell to and ask for proof of business that must meet their satisfaction of sales quantity.

[@gamejaeger]

I haven't heard of any issues with them, even with smaller sellers that I've talked with too. They accepted me right away but I also sell a lot of stuff too. I'm not sure what their threshold is for selling though. I know it's a pretty common thing in the wholesale arena but I can understand the frustration with it for sure.