Is Newegg "Refreshed" a SCAM?

[@freshvintage]

I really am starting to think Overclock Media is single handedly keeping these refurbishing companies in business 😂😂

[@joeschmoe5009]

And helping new companies decide to dive into it! 🤣

[@adityapratapsingh8106]

What if Austin was bought from newegg

[@johnd5740]

It was an experiment Paul and Kyle tried years ago. They created a monster and had to quit.

[@earlygrayce3200]

It's more likely they found him on Temu

[@87gg]

That's called Linus Tech Tips jk jk 😂😂😂

[@Bananaeeee-e-eeeeee]

Dam

[@joeybebop]

Depends if they refreshed him or not

[@aruce9]

I hope they don’t sell him a motherboard with broken pins and refuse a refund because he didn’t prove that when he got it was broken

[@southernpanda33]

Nah, they only do that to Gamers Nexus. It’s a deal they worked out.

[@johnseagraves1485]

Hey thats what Asus did to me on a 2 day old motherboard!

[@RECTANGLESWITHEYES]

really enjoying all these "is this refurbishing a scam" videos. I just love second hand tech being bought and talked about. Calms me down in this highly stressful life.. Thank you Austin and everyone on the team.. much love.

[@Zenoff64]

AUSTIN IS INSIDE OF YOUR WALLS

[@kyleanderson2415]

Its the top seller because people use the old intel mac minis for plex servers. Its about the same price of a raspberry pi but it has intel quick sync which is amazing for transcoding 4k media.

[@clarinetJWD]

I'm... Going to go buy one now.

[@tz8785]

And probably because this is the last Mac Mini with replaceable SSD (although RAM was already soldered).

[@Mzuch14]

As a Canadian, even though our phone plans are outrageously expensive. The one thing I do like over here is if you buy a phone with your carrier it is unlocked and not locked to that carrier

[@Thrashifice]

You can actually pay around $10 for the code to unlock your phone if it is tied to a carrier.

[@Mzuch14]

@@Thrashifice ya but then you gotta call your carrier. You gotta do all this process. Meanwhile, here in Canada you literally can just get a contract with your phone or buy the phone without a contract and it’s all unlocked. So if you choose to buy a phone with your provider and then all of a sudden you choose to switch to another provider, you can switch to different provider, Sim card into that phone free of charge

[@jaeehovaa]

So they don't blacklist it if you don't pay it off ?​@@Mzuch14

[@TheRoughGo]

Yeah almost 200 bucks for two phones and phone plans kinda makes me wanna die lol

[@ayrproductions]

Get that in Australia too.

[@packerfan10]

I bought a refurbished Seagate external hard drive around 2009. It has outlasted every other flash drive/hard drive I have ever bought to this day. Still works like a charm.

[@hiRyan329329]

Last year I bought 3 12tb seagate hard drives off them for $80 each and they are all still going strong af

[@Psi-Storm]

I bought a new internal hard drive some years ago in a local store. It had a bunch of porn on it and a few weeks of runtime according to smart stats.

[@kelownatechkid]

I buy refurb hdds all the time and shockingly they are actually pretty reliable. Gotta make sure they're seagate refurbs and not third party tho lol.

[@hiRyan329329]

@kelownatechkid I mean even if a few are DOA or die quicker than new, the fact that I am spending ⅓ or less the amount of a new hard drive means I can have 3x the capacity and honeslty with redundancies in place I trust 3 used drives more than a single new one (also for DOAs most sellers if good accept returns/refunds)

[@alexandercatterson223]

​@@Psi-Storm You should be happy that the videos weren't something illegal

[@Hrethgir]

Our work phones were originally on Sprint, and after the merger with T-Mobile, all we had to do was put in a new SIM card, no problems.

[@TQDigitalMod]

can confirm ABS is one of Neweggs brands

[@Squilliam-Fancyson]

so it breaks little by little?

[@ciksura1904]

@@Squilliam-Fancysonboth my PC's i bought prebuilt were ABS's, both were phenomenal PC's for the price. Second one i basically gutted though and made my own because i had more money later on but never had an issue with them, never felt like i got scammed out of my money, don't knock it till u try it

[@pixelchomis5773]

I found a Asus rog laptop for 100 dollars and it has an intel i9 14th gen and a 4050 on new egg but I don't trust it

[@ijsantos28]

Is anyone else bothered by Austin being idle in counter strike? Poor teammates.

[@techwithbenefits]

Fun Fact Austin! That Z Flip you bought is an internal Samsung sample. Made before retail units and used as a training unit most likely. Final hardware definitely! I have had a fair share few of those in my time

[@baoquoc3710]

you're from sammobile right? I actually saw you made some samsung contents for that if I remembered correctly. And yes, I have seen some samsungs with id number etched on the back cover

[@uhm175]

I actually got it too, and mine had numbers attached on it, i ended up giving it to a friend of mine because i just didn't like the phone lol

[@matttypes2695]

Personally, I only trust refurbished if it’s from the manufacturer. Companies like Apple and Nintendo have rigorous refurbished standards. You often end up with a practically brand new device.

[@tim3172]

2:35 Walmart also offers 90-day returns on its "Walmart Restored" products. Walmart's "Premium Restored" products only have 30-day returns. but come with a 1-year warranty.

[@THEJake829]

I used to work for a warehouse that threw in all those advertising leaflets into their orders, if we dropped the leaflets or they weren't in with the order slips it wasn't something we were supposed to follow up with because it was more important to complete the other orders. I quite often "accidentally" lost the leaflets that were in with the ordered I was fulfilling. It's tragic how many people didn't get adverts for wine and "you're gonna die, so get life insurance."

[@kakashi99908]

The Z-flip depreciation is crazy but it looks like the folds still hold their value better.

[@jumju11]

I was yelling at the screen when Austin got the bomb and was just talking 12:57

[@classical_madness5926]

Lol I was about to comment the same thing

[@TrenchNerd]

I'm convinced it's been Austin this entire time when someone abruptly goes AFK in my games.

[@Goldenkitten1]

I couldn't focus on the video, just sitting there screaming in my brain.

[@Alexander-bx4ut]

Loved one of his team just coming up and poking him in the face during it.

[@matthewhilty4209]

My "refreshed" Intel NUC did NOT come with a power supply and they never responded to my requests for one. Newegg is still Newegg no matter how much they say they have changed. Bravo Newegg you fooled me again. Never Again.

[@jocking0]

Austin that’s not a corporate galaxy fold that is in fact, a pre production unit.

[@baoquoc3710]

oh sheeeet, still carrier locked tho

[@jocking0]

He won't be able to unlock it

[@rnewman9365]

I love the way you guys play off each other and so I watch you for hours and don’t get tired,so keep it up.

[@panfilip9963]

11:33 "It's a nice set-up for more budget systems" Me watching that video on my my Philips 222E for $6: "yeah, budget systems"

[@deathfromabove616420]

Newegg screwed me hard on my return policy I bought a PC from them I had 30 days to return it got lost in the mail showed up 34 days after ordering Newegg refused to take it back because they included the 30 days in the shipping time and they refused to do anything literally told me I was shit out of luck

[@EvilTurkeySlices]

You definitely can update the Mac mini to modern macOS. Put an ssd in, make an opencore patcher installer, and install Sonoma. It will run fine.

[@sgdorin]

For 17:15 you don't have to tear apart the mac mini! Just buy an external ssd or make your own with a usb 3 rack and install the OS on the external SSD. Now you have a super cheap and fast mac mini with an extra super slow 1tb hdd for storage. I bought that same model ages ago and it could handle all office tasks even do some After Effects and Photoshop/Illustrator.

[@uhm175]

I have that same mac, it's slow as hell with Adobe photoshop since i do some illustration i couldn't deal with it, so i ended up returning it, i would honestly not buy this piece of garbage, even if it were given to me for free

[@razzle1140]

yo Austin thanks for helping me build my first custom built pc back in July 2023 really helped since i didnt know to much about pc's internal componets

[@Ranger7Studios]

New egg is sketchy. Last black Friday, they jacked up all their prices and then discounted them back to the regular prices, pretending that this was a sale price. I thought that was pretty disgusting. I would never buy from them.

[@logan62097]

Most places did that last Black Friday, there was hardly any sales that were compelling, almost all of them were just the same sales price that has happened throughout the year. Newegg is sketchy as hell but everywhere else was too.

[@joeschmoe5009]

ABS is neweggs in house prebuilding department

[@DirtyDan77-]

It seems to have mixed reviews on them, I got one of em and it’s absolutely fantastic, but people with 4090 builds seem to have a 50/50 chance of it being DOA. I wonder if it’s a 4090 issue instead of an ABS issue

[@tpate123345]

My 4080 abs absolutely sings, I hope other people can have the great experience I had

[@justingayman1704]

I bought a portable monitor on newegg, and it was stated as refurbished but stated in the listing that: [Attention]: menu/button abnormal (Minor Flaws), the screen display is normal. Does not affect basic use, but when I got the monitor, the power button did not work at all. The monitor was stuck in the on position.

[@Dan-Simms]

Well, better than in the off position lol

[@justingayman1704]

@@Dan-Simms true

[@clarinetJWD]

I assume the Mac Mini is selling because Apple gates so many things to require their own devices. As a software developer, if I want to make an iPhone app, I need to own a Mac. But I don't want a Mac. $150 is cheap enough to not care.

[@NightFoxZero]

Also I got an iphone SE 3rd gen, brand new from Target for $100 and I was carrier locked to Total by Verizon but they only have a 30-day lock on their phones which is still easily worth it.

[@syedhassaanmujtababokhari6199]

Bro dished hard on plug but is giving a pass on the surface

[@Dynamicdrifting]

The price of the surface is now going to skyrocket isnt it 🙃

[@kelownatechkid]

Great video guys. This was a surprisingly interesting set of random tests lol

[@FLOPE_PLAYS]

Is nobody gonna talk about the mouse he's using through out the video

[@BillyBobDingledorf]

Over the last 20 years, I've purchased a number of third party refurbished workstations (e.g. HP zSeries) off Newegg and have been very happy.

[@reinaweis]

For the mac-mini if I had to guess, they put in the #1 best seller section to get rid of inventory that nobody will buy.

[@biggiesmalls7939]

19:05 - Did you really just compare $170 for an unlocked SE to a locked-in plan with a carrier for "$15"? Those carrier plans are absolute shyte. And $174 is still the same price you can pick those up from Best Buy refurb.

[@tylercoombs1]

Upgrading from a 3060 to a 3070 TI is an excellent upgrade, you get about a 40-50% uptick on performance and you can get the 3070 TI used for about the same price of a 3060 sold new back in the day.

[@pvt-backpassage9843]

I think a literal archive of scam tech exists somewhere in the office, just to know where to go for future crappy tech

[@Hurricane047]

Seeing a $900 pc with a 3060 and a new gen i5 being considered "low value" in america blows my mind since in my country the GPU alone costs like $600

[@zmite6114]

I will tell you the mac mini being the number one seller is quite accurate and deserved, ive used a mac mini 2014 since 2014 and only with a ram and ssd upgrade and it has worked beautifilly ever since it came out, only recently got a new mac mini

[@GuardianAngelX72]

So, the "Advanced Battlestations" moniker is relatively new, it originally meant "Always Better Service" and is Newegg's in-house System Integrator. Chances are, I wouldn't be surprised if the system you received is either New-Old-Stock as you suspect or a system that was returned to ABS due to defect or the customer no longer wanting it and they can't sell it as new, so they replaced any broken parts, re-burned the system, then listed it as a Refurb.

[@mithilagrawal6444]

Keep up the good informative work in between video like the pc 2024 explainationnpart and aslo seeing that steam page open tell me how recently this video was shot so great work and keep the grind and hard work on Austin and team

[@e-ric3052]

One of the best moments in this video was when Austin declares he has, "backlight bleed"!

[@Kevinaya]

10:46 bro wtf is that mouse

[@mountednoble]

Dude, I’m still rocking the iPhone SE 2020 four years later! My phone is down to 90% capacity after FOUR YEARS!

[@ZachAttacksTech]

Okay best ending for one of your videos in a while hahaha

[@TENGILL]

Warning, when the did the "Add gold" filter to the screen, my windows HDR went nuts and turned up the brightness to max. I had to go into settings and turn off and then back on windows HDR to fix it. Might have something to do with NVidia's new video HDR system.

[@TheTruthDragonNJ09]

It was definitely a scam when I bought a "B-Grade Refurbished" laptop that had obvious fall damage and cracks along the edge of the screen, a completely broken divider in the pcmcia card bay, a malfunctioning fingerprint scanner, and an EOL battery that only lasted for an hour. Every order was for new, in-box items since then because trust was shattered on the "refurbished" front.

[@Bicada]

The video from the iPhone looks better than the studio cameras 😂

[@robertwilson8939]

ABS isnt too bad but the ones you really want to buy have the exact model of whatever part they use in the build, vs just saying the generic "1 tb ssd, 2060 ti, etc"

[@EdHadder]

Great Video Austin 👌🏻

[@outofammo247]

I am curious what you doo with all the items you purchase for all of your videos. Huge fan keep it up

[@eugenemaurice]

Austin, you single handedly made me start liking flip phones so I'd like to humbly say that your Z Flip deal is not the cheapest folding phone on the internet because i bought a Z Flip 3 from Facebook Marketplace a month ago for $120 Australian dollars. And that according to google converts to $77 USD. The only caveat was a single dead pixel

[@homermorisson9135]

Did you have the Surface connected to the net from the getgo while talking about the screen BLB and specs? Cause the 16% CPU use while seemingly only Task Manager is open seems sus as hell... unless of course if it wasn't WinUp in the background.

[@seanvot]

I fall asleep to your videos most nights. Idk if that’s a compliment or insult but thankyou

[@bigmantech2671]

Did you 3d print the Optimum Tech mouse shell?

[@aurorablaize]

"You can't update these mac mini's to the latest Mac OS" Open Core Legacy Patcher: "Am I a joke to you?" Seriously, I bought a 2012 mini off ebay a few months ago with an SSD and maxed ram for about $100 and it's running Sonoma just fine.

[@CREATERpl]

It's very weird for me, that there are still locked phones sold in USA... I haven't seen a locked phone for about 8-10 years...

[@TheCoolDave]

Newegg ? I used to spend thousands there.... TILL they started charging TAX and send me a bill of like $800 (I was using them for my corporate parts and personal PC builds), I closed all my accounts and from that time I never picked up even a 0.10 item from them and never will...

[@tpate123345]

Just bought a 4080 PC for less than the price of the GPU itself. I didn't know how if I got lucky but this was by far the best value I've ever seen for a desktop

[@stevenmilsom1]

What do you do with all these products after you buy them and do a video on them ? Do you send them back ? Do you keep them ? Do you give them to your staff as perks ?

[@EdHadder]

I Love Austin Evans Videos 💜

[@ruekurei88]

So, you can upgrade the memory on that Surface laptop though right? Because I think you said it's 8GB, and while you can maybe get away with it on MacOS, Windows doesn't really allow you the same luxury. As a Linux PC, it'd be excellent though. Because at $350, I'd rather buy a different refurbished laptop. The non-upgradeable path is putting some of these laptops into junk status for me personally.

[@luisaranda9954]

Austin what is the cheapest site that you’ve reviewed?

[@C_C-]

'If you can look past the filthy exterior, what you'll find is a heart of gold inside' same

[@apollolux]

Other than the "Refreshed" name I knew about Newegg Refurbished for years, got a 3rd gen Surface Pro tablet refurbished from Newegg a few years ago that I only stopped using because the battery puffed up and I was too cheap to get it replaced at the time.

[@kgoodfarms]

The tmobile switch for sprint phones is super easy, definitely still a good value.

[@softybun]

the day Austin doesn't waste money on something he knows is a scam is the day the world ends.

[@ipooptherhythm]

Austin, you should try a bunch of Woot refurbs, scratch & dents, and tech mystery boxes. Be a good episode.

[@samuelevans8378]

Not sure about refreshed. I been scammed through their third party sellers. Newegg refused to back me up or refund me.

[@FormulaGuppy]

Hey ive had the 2nd generation iPhone SE2020 since day1 as my daily work phone and battery hasnt been an issue once.

[@gopxrock4950]

I purchase a 2nd hand motherboard from Newegg. It went through their standard test before they release it for sale. First time buying a used board from them. It turn out a lot of CPU pin was bent. No dual channel because of the damaged part. Yeah, it went through their test. Not promising at all, since it past their test. Concerning on their statement and test on used board.

[@tonyw.707]

If anyone is wondering, ABS is owned by Newegg. Relaunched in October 2020

[@ZachBora]

The extra 4 pin is for people doing overclocking, you won't get that 4pin on cheap power supplies

[@кяуртіс]

Honestly, that fold... even if its network locked that's a good ass deal. You can also just pay a bit to unlock it.

[@BucketOfFail]

The new system you looked at that was the same price as the ABS not only had a newer gpu, but also had DDR5 ram instead of the DDR4 in the ABS. That system is a ripoff.

[@CR0WYT]

"You were right" She's not afraid to get fired bruh.

[@MikeBeeTV]

Asking if anything associated with Newegg is a scam is like asking if Sir Liar Lies McLiarpants III is telling the truth.

[@maniacusgames3621]

the gpu currently in my deskt5op is a newegg refurbished rog strix 980 oc 8gb which I picked up in 2022 for only $120ish. it was a significant upgrade from my EVGA 1050 ti FTW which I originally used when building the system in late 2017 to comply with the 4K Netflix specs at the time.

[@t3knosoulz]

"What the hell happened here???" when the mac mini decided to take a personality shift had me almost fall out my seat

[@miinyoo]

I treat Newegg like I treat Amazon. Last resorts. It's so much more value intensive to take a few minutes and explore the land. It might take a few months but the good deals are out there and they are not in obvious places.

[@vishalkalicharan7710]

Can you do AliBaba tech?

[@Treychik]

Got myself a refurbished Quest 3 like $140 cheaper than the regular price. The only downside was (besides the headset smelling like woman's perfume) - minor scuff on the top resin(plastic?) of the controller...the rest - great quality!

[@Morboeatspeople]

4:48 Before you gave it a pass, you should have run a video fullscreen.

[@spacer125]

My dad got a Gainward 3070 Newegg refreshed and it was not refurbished and was quite dusty and had strange behavior.

[@jimmywoods7404]

If the device is locked to Sprint, T-Mobile will most likely authorize an unlock, or right now, goto settings, press temp unlock, then perm unlock and itll unlock!

[@Natestaffismyking]

Hey Austin’s how cupertino this time of year

[@TheSlothNerd64]

That locked Z Flip should work with t-mobile. My Note 10+ was originally from Sprint. But I put my t-mobile Sim in it and immediately worked.

[@theaveragegamerguy5989]

Just bought a skytech pre build from Amazon 800 bucks and it is brand new with a rtx 4060 and a i5-13400k runs all games no problem at max settings so far

[@Cherubim666999]

I have spent over 500k with newegg over the years..have had 3..THREE minor issues. Amazon however? 275k spent with them buying things for my new home....they tried hard to screw me, and i ended up needing a lawyer

[@кяуртіс]

ABS is air braking system or Anti-lock Braking System is were talking about cars.

[@TheZoenGaming]

No mention of the cost of the monitor? Really? *_sigh_* Okay, so just a quick sanity check, it's $900 for the PC and $350 for the 3070 Ti totalling $1380, including the monitor. I can buy the parts of this system, with a 3070 Ti instead of the 3060, and a BenQ 240 Hz gaming monitor, all new, for $1280 USD. It's absolutely not worth it to buy the refurbished PC on Newegg. The 3070 Ti is about 55% of the price new, so that's potentially a good value, but by the same token you can buy a used 3090 for the price of a new 3070 TI.

[@lintlicker96]

The Z edge monitor ? He legit says it’s $130 after testing if pc turned on

[@TheZoenGaming]

@@lintlicker96I didn't hear that. I guess I was already digging into the cost of a new system. I'll edit my post to reflect that in the cost of the used system.

[@AwakenEnforcer]

Used to work at new egg as a builder for their inhouse PC ABS also known to the staff as A Bunch of Shit

[@Lachlan.N93]

that se video quality looked better then the studio camera tbh

[@dontplayw_thme595]

“Ain’t buying shit” 💀💀💀 you didn’t have to flame abs so hard Austin 🤣🤣🤣

[@natev7870]

I just bought a used unlocked Galaxy Z Flip 5 "refurbished" on eBay for $450, partially due to his review. It has a tiny scratch on the back but other than that is perfect

[@khozemavakil2606]

What was that mouse while playing CS2???

[@PSVITAanything]

If you want a monitor that is multi purpose and pretty decent at fps games, any early 2010s Toshiba 19 inch still holds up.

[@mostlyghostly6615]

No reason to avoid upgrading that Mac Mini with OpenCore Patcher.

[@trevormurphy7041]

If you can’t take the item you just bought and you can’t sell it for at least 90% of what you paid you got ripped off remember a Pawn shop will only give roughly around 30% of what the item is worth so if it’s worth 100 bucks I’ll only give you 30 keep that in mind when you’re buying something