GameStop should be EMBARRASSED selling Xbox 360s like this...

[@anbbbe]

Having 🌽 on a game console is crazy 💀

[@craftomania]

hi

[@austintalkstech]

It’s corn! A big lump of knobs it has the juice…

[@10Piece1]

@@austintalkstech I cant imagine a more beautiful thing!

[@Lizard_of_Linux_Lane]

I had some music from KoRn on my Xbox 360 back in the day.

[@randomnobody5074]

It’s corn but in 3D

[@DAcubsfan2]

$75 for a working halo 3 console is nuts. and since its been refurbished by microsoft after 2008 it probably has a good gpu

[@superstar64]

I emailed this guy about the updated names of the console motherboards and he's still using the old chart.

[@jrob0021]

​@@superstar64 I didn't remember this at all, so I searched through my emails and sure enough found where you sent me some info in 2023. I apologize, but I get so many emails on a weekly basis from people wanting to show me or sell me stuff that I can't possibly remember everything I get. Does the chart say something about xenons being refurbished after 2008 having a specific better GPU? I don't see anything in your email referencing that and the chart is so low res that I can't read it lol. If you have a higher res chart and it's accurate then I'll gladly use it.

[@superstar64]

@@jrob0021 Hm, must have gotten compressed in the email, maybe I'll just send another email with a link to it. Either way, yes, it does mention that serviced Xenons have fixed GPUs, as well as distinguishing Jaspers from Tonaskets and the different Corona revisions.

[@ELECTRICMESSIAH420]

ive seen ads for 360 bundles for over $200....

[@ELECTRICMESSIAH420]

not GameStop either but I think Walmart it was

[@MoshTheHomosapien]

4:27 game stop didn’t mess with the seal, i had a fat 360 (with the seal) and over time humid temperatures can slowly cause the back plastic to mold out of the console’s frame. Those little clips in the back also break and snap off easily as well.

[@jrob0021]

You’re ruining the conspiracy theory

[@Glx-u7e]

A hairdryer on high for 2 minutes will lift any sticker with zero damage.

[@bigbeatmanifesto6517]

Bro you should have re Christined that halo 360 with halo 3 and you know it 😉

[@Cameo96_]

That halo 360 is the best gamestop refurbished console you've ever got 💯

[@jrob0021]

The console itself was good… but somehow they still messed up 😂

[@FoxsuIsAGamer]

It's not refurbished. It's pre-owned

[@jrob0021]

@@FoxsuIsAGamerit was refurbished. I’m literally looking at the receipt right now lol

[@FoxsuIsAGamer]

@@jrob0021I work at gamestop. The stickers say otherwise.

[@Cameo96_]

@@jrob0021 wow lol

[@vinyminotaur2694]

Serviced consoles are reliable. Any Xenon or Zephyr with a Service date sticker is reliable as they all get new reliable GPUs to replace the old defective ones with low tg underfill. You've gotten lucky with the Halo 3 console.

[@superstar64]

Not sure he cares enough to actually know that

[@vinyminotaur2694]

@@superstar64 yeah, he also isn't that knowledgeable about the 360 hardware as well

[@jrob0021]

Saying I don't care is just BS. I haven't followed the xbox 360 modding community in almost a decade and I make videos on so many different types of consoles that I can't possibly know everything about every console. This happens with literally every type of console - I make a video on X console, and someone that knows everything about that specific console decides to comment and tell me that I'm not knowledgeable or don't care etc. just because I don't know everything about that specific type of console. I also get so much varying info across different comments, that I honestly take every comment with a grain of salt at this point. How am I supposed to know who is correct and who is not? I'm sure both of you know way more than I do about 360s, and I've never claimed to be an expert, I just think consoles are cool. I'm open to learning new info about any console I come across, but there's just no way I can possibly know or remember every detail about every console. Just giving you my perspective.

[@Weedless]

Not really I got 4 that have been fixed and are dead lol

[@RedTroPc]

@@jrob0021 the store page says 404 for it, did it sell already?

[@jokroast6912]

The wireless receiver they gave you with the white console is actually for computers to function with Xbox 360 controllers. It is almost as high in price as the consol itself.

[@geronimo5537]

honestly back in the day. if you bought a white xbox 360 it was pretty much on a limited time frame due to all the quality control issues. if you bought a limited edition they often did not have issues at all for their higher premium.

[@ThorAxeleon]

My 360 was the black series of the console, kept it until the Xbox One released, waited a year or two, switched over to the Xbox One and I bought the Xbox Series X about two to three years ago and my Series X still acts brand spanking new.

[@local_waver]

I remember seeing videos of people using a heat gun to remove/reseat warranty stickers back in the day, maybe game stop is doing the same thing

[@jrob0021]

Yeah I also remember seeing tons of those back in like ~2007-2012. It’s what I think about every time I see a warranty seal 😂

[@GLARebel]

You guys are insane if you think a Gamestop employee is bothering with that. Pop it open how they showed you, take the old thing out, put the new thing in, turn it on to see if it works, boom done! (Don't actually test it, just turn it on.) That's how you Gamestop refurbish. Ain't no one around there taking their time to heat gun a sticker.

[@paulhudalla9527]

Those consoles are honestly better than I thought. Sure one was broken, but when you eventually got a replacement it did work well. Can't say I've bought any consoles from them ever, but seems like a pretty good haul for your standards from GameStop

[@SevenNumber7]

Xenons and Zephyrs can be reliable if they have been serviced by Microsoft in mid 2008 and later. That’s when they started using good GPUs. That Halo 3 console should be good even though it is a Zephyr motherboard.

[@MyDystopiaOfficial]

Recently found a brand new Xbox 360 Slim 250GB in an unopened box at a garage sale and the guy only wanted $100 for it. I got it immediately.

[@Pariahmary]

Nice pick

[@monstereng43]

the halo 3 hd isnt easy to find either on its own my shell never came with one and i had to buy a bundle of 10 broken hds just to get the halo shell 🤣

[@LelandHasGames]

I believe they also did a Halo 4 xbox that made a special sound when you turned it on. A buddy of mine got that system and game on release. Wish I could go back and play that game on that system again. Those were the days.

[@burgerbait]

So confused. Is he saying GameStop scratches up the consoles? Surely they just buy them like that. How would they benefit from scratching them up?

[@jrob0021]

Look at some of my old gamestop videos and you'll see. They use magic eraser on a lot of their consoles to "clean" them but it just scratches them up like crazy.

[@Thoroughly_Wet]

I dislike the 360 is considered retro. The 360 was a big part of my middle school and junior highschool days. I'm not that old :(

[@BasedRedpilledMasterJ]

Honestly not bad pricing for the limited edition consoles, it’s GameStop though so not necessarily reliable. Several years ago I had to go back and forth to GameStop 4 times in one day because when I bought a refurbished xbox 360 they were all non functional, the kicker is when I asked them to test in store they said “it’s against our policy” that was one of the worst experiences I’ve ever had at a GameStop. Midnight releases will always hold fond memories though so at least there’s that.

[@Highairboarder]

I remember the night San Andreas released

[@FoxsuIsAGamer]

Hey. Gamestop worker here. Those consoles are pre-owned and not refurbished. You can tell by the stickers on the boxes that, yes, someone did look at it and signed off on the console after it's been wiped. That's why the warranty stickers are still on. It is not refurbished.

[@ImOnRandom]

Thank you for defending GameStop. I been a long time customer and never in my life have I had a bad experience with anything these KZbinrs try to claim . I swear, content creators should be ashamed of themselves. So many use the internet as a negative influencing tool . When it could be quite the opposite.

[@mh-ht2fp]

@@ImOnRandom Defending gamestop sending him a unit that can't read discs so basically useless? They don't even test what they sell.

[@Nara_ex]

liar liar pants on fire!

[@FoxsuIsAGamer]

​@Nara_ex says who and about what?

[@jrob0021]

This is 100% not true. I’m skeptical that you actually work for GameStop lol. I’ve ordered countless refurbished consoles from GameStop and they always come in preowned boxes. I quite literally have the receipt right here stating it was refurbished. Come on now. Also, if you're referring to the literal stickers slapped on the box that say preowned - they mean nothing. I've seen many stickers that say both pre-owned and GSRF (gamestop refurbished). Or in some cases a preowned sticker, as well as another sticker that says refurbished. If you really want to see, I will post photos of this on my twitter account 😂

[@coolbeans7349]

grateful i kept all my 360 stuff from christmas 2006😭 still got it!!!

[@wheaties2912]

I can see someone defeating those warranty stickers with a heat gun and a thin wedge or spudger, as long as you keep one end adhered to the inside of the case upon closing you can apply fresh adhesive or reflow what's there again upon closing just keep the opposite end stuck to the spudger as you pull it up so it aligns itself cleanly with the seam without wrinkles then lay it sticker side down while applying a final round of heat to get it to seat cleanly back on as they pull the tool out of the seam.

[@CC-by6rz]

You can use a heatgun or hair dryer on the warranty sticker and usually comes off easy (the silver ones harder)

[@jebbroham1776]

Gamestop has been crap since the late 2000's. When Blockbuster went out of business they realized they had the advantage.

[@KRAWofficial]

0:50 When did they start measuring the wattage on hard drives? 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@jrob0021]

you don't?

[@ThatOliveMrT]

Abnormal power consumption is a sign a hard drive is about to kick the bucket

[@AmericanMe]

I picked up a slim 360 from GS about 3 months ago and it was just fine, and it was in store haha

[@excitingspade49]

The title is like half wrong, they started off strong and then it went downhill lol

[@RinatVakhitov]

8:40- if I’m not mistaken, this cable doesn’t charge the batteries, it makes your wireless controller to wired, so you can play without batteries at all

[@cossieopera]

I dont get this video,as someone who specializes in repair and service of older consoles,if I buy a console and see it's never been opened I'm not happy because they should be serviced once a year in my opinion. However nice guy here so not putting him down plus getting wrong power supply/controller etc is very annoying. Oh aswell if the sticker has been heated off in the right way and put straight onto backing paper it will keep it shape to be applied again perfectly

[@JazzyKitsune69]

Not all GameStop stores are bad and evil as many others,I’ve been going to the same store for over 11 years and all the employees are friendly and helpful.

[@SuspenceF00L_Gaming]

With the right heat and adhesive you can remove the sticker and put it back on like nothing ever happened. Me and my buddies use to do this back during the early modding days before the ban wave went out.

[@Suhadisgood]

Everyone’s buying the PS5 30th anniversary from PlayStation Direct your going to now pay scalpers for theirs man are the scalpers having alot of fun

[@DinoNuggets723]

man my mom bought me the halo 3 console from a yardsale back in like 2012 she got it for like 20 bucks and it had a halo controller but not the halo 3 it was one that had a banshee on it they just didnt have the power supply or display cables so they didnt know if it worked but my buddy happened to have the elite and we just tried its cables and it worked and it never had redeemed the free months of xbox live for the first few accounts so gotta use those up was a good time

[@corypolley8318]

Ive watched this vid 3 times and still dont see this porn everyones talking about 😂

[@jrob0021]

Did you just completely skip over the first 20 seconds of the video lol?

[@ChairmanMeow1]

I think it was actually worth the total cost just to get that Halo 3 one in good condition

[@OgOssman]

I wonder if there is some type of video game voodoo. Where they figured out how to open the back of the case in a way to keep the front warranty sticker intact.

[@FlamesReviewsAndMocs]

I think it's funny that GameStop is selling xbox 360s in this condition when I got one for free, that's in pretty much mint condition.. well, the second one shown, honestly I'm surprised the halo one and the third one are in decent condition.

[@AussieLeBrown]

The fact that they don’t just do a full reset on consoles and have actual 🌽 on it because of that is insane and shows the lackluster experience of most GameStop refurbishers

[@Unchainedful]

Jokes on them, I love corn!

[@ninjaviking70]

It probably depends on who sorts out the consoles some will do a good job and then you have the ones who don't and it's just a luck who works on your machine

[@Kofi_Mensahs_BurnerAccount]

I’m sure that Halo console got RMA’d. Halo 3 consoles still had the silver warranty sticker that could easily get peeled with heat for DVD drive flashing.

[@jamiem2494]

That wireless receiver is actually official. It's how the original Xbox 360 controllers worked on PC. They're quite rare now.

[@LockDOTspot]

I bought Mario all-stars for 85$ from gamestop, but they didn't have it at the store, so they said they would deliver it to my house. They sent me the game, with sticker residue on the game, but that wasn't a big deal. The issue was they sent the game in a gamestop case. The case sells for 30$ WITHOUT the game. I returned it, and i'll never go back.

[@Josh.Davidson]

FWIW, Zephyrs aren’t basically Xenon’s, they have much more in common with Falcon minus the CPU. Most Zephyrs share the same defective GPU Rhea as early Falcons, not Xenon’s.

[@AM562]

9:48 the disc drive cover sticking out that tiny bit could be a manufacturer problem from the factory. It’s just cosmetic anyways, and the Xbox looks fantastic, especially considering what it is and where it came from GameStop.

[@KushEnergy]

I stopped going to GameStop 8 years ago. These clowns will pay you cents on the dollar for all your nice things. Then sell them for 100 dollars. Screw Gamestop.

[@Rooozle]

I wonder what’s more likely, minimum wage game stop employees purposefully sabotaging consoles just before they sell them. Or the 20+ year old console having visibly aged after getting abused by kids and left to rot now being resold in 2024?

[@clifhouse47]

I stopped giving my business to GameStop a few years ago. When I was a kid and went to game stop I would ask questions and the workers actually gave me opinions on the games cause they played the games! Nowadays they can’t answer most gaming questions on popular titles you think they would know and the quality of customer service has gone down as well as selling bad reused items as you see here. Just a bad company now.

[@orionparsons7631]

I have an Xbox 360 with an open tray error if you slap the console on top above the disk tray while it's reading it should work you need to slap several times with just a little bit of force.

[@ptaylor81]

Warranty stickers are easily removed without damaging them. If you remove it extremely slowly and gently. Seen plenty of console refurb videos here on yt were it's shown being done

[@greengabe5]

White Xbox be like “I’m tired boss…”

[@ronaldcharan2705]

Imagine turning one on in 2024 and getting rrod. Nightmares from 2006 all over again.

[@Louis-px9ie]

6:28 Why don't you use HD component cables?

[@CoDCory]

Theres no hdmi port on that console and he's testing as is in the box I guess

[@BuckleyMitchell]

for the warranty seals still being intact - you can heat them with a hair drier and remove them while still keeping the security strip aspect undamaged. Source: personal experience

[@Bammarge2]

3:00 I use the same controller and dongle for my pc but mines white that and I swapped out the crappy buttons for oem ones I had on a broken controller

[@djemberson9244]

I have a halo 3 ( it looks like the same one in the video) is there anything to keep an eye on to keep it going or early warnings of issues for it ?

[@JaneTheDoe-id2vx]

i had that halo 3 edition 360 console and i treasured it until it got rrod twice. i was pissed

[@JessterKing]

When I worked at gamestop, I would have had that in inventory as a normal console, and you’re supposed to check and see if the console turns on, so how did it have the wrong power supply

[@ninjiango9126]

Glad I still got my old Xbox 360, and glad I got the Elite version, hasn't RROD after all these years.

[@DivineOassis]

I remember my 360 separating slightly from the back & I dnt remember ever opening it 🤔

[@iamyoung4eva21]

Why are you surprised that almost 20 year old console disk tray doesn't open?

[@draculastraphouse7863]

I was at gamestop to buy my pre ordered GTA San Andreas game when it came out, that was the GOLDEN era of Gamestop. I will never step foot in that place ever again and I'll be happy when they finally shut down

[@CT-nb5lm]

That Halo console is my favorite.. The Reach one is too gossy and always scratchy mess.

[@captainbeatdown6254]

knowing how gamestop is used usually is far worse then referbished, usually you can spot from each usually says (USED) and the referbished is (GSRF) its annoying how they mix both of them.

[@Carnyzzle]

I mean somehow Gamestop isn’t as bad as DK Oldies

[@HoodzTm]

Halo hdd is gonna be a nightmare to find. If I remember correctly it was gold plated.

[@shawnoconnor9692]

I get nostalgia about gamestop from right around the time the ps4 came out. Good times

[@doomfulcomet4595]

I bought a controller from them got warranty got stick drift, returned to get a controller stick drift right away, returned again stick drift right away. They literally get controllers with stick drift and they don’t even fix it before reselling

[@chrisvw352]

If only if it was 2012 or so. You could actually get good used and refurbished stuff.

[@benbarnhart4460]

I'll taking a look at the Halo console once you upload to your website. 😏 It will go with my Halo 4 console.

[@Sly-Regicide]

I miss Xbox. "If you don't have always on connection, you can play the 360" Yeah, okay... I bought a 1 when discounted for MCC. Meh

[@rammstein1337]

the zephyr is on an early version of metro v2, judging from the old xbox live logo

[@Loeildechat]

80 bucks !? What the hell kind of price is that...

[@VforVendetta13]

Do you really think there arent like 5 trillion videos of people buying gamestop consoles and going WOW its not what I expected. We are talking about Gamestop.... I am shocked they are still around.

[@robertg2046]

You can heat those stickers with a hair dryer and peel them back

[@peanutmansemporiumofrandom7472]

They should be embarrassed? Knock it off. They’ll never be embarrassed, this has been going on for years.

[@daniel51404]

If you return it they just sell it back to another person.

[@iwaskillcam1434]

My GameStop actually does carry the xbox360 & PS3 and many other old systems

[@sus-cv9tl]

The adapter receiver is actually a adapter to connect a 360 controller to PC

[@CaptainTerps]

It’s crazy you can’t do this on eBay. But it’s ok if you have an LLC

[@631Paris]

Game stop retro is not up too a good start 🤦

[@KLIPSO420]

Cheers from down the road found a barely used Wii a slim ps3 and a fat Xbox one for like 10 dollars all together at my local place near charlotte

[@NothingOsaka]

I never loled halp.much i was a gears head but that Halo 360 was by far my favorite 360 next to the r2d2 ofc

[@gr-lf9ul]

The usb dongle likely is to use xbox 360 controllers with pc, not for using third-party controller.

[@Frank_West_From_Dead_Rising]

We need more bulk 2DS videos. Mostly because I want to buy a console from you before I buy a shirt, and 2DS has low market price. (I'm desperate)

[@optomysticartist7768]

Bro it’s called age that’s y it’s opening on the back lol

[@jst978]

Refurbished from gamestop doesnt always mean they opened the console if you trade a console with a abroken controller it gets sent to the wearhouse where theyll just pair it with a workin one and send it back out with the same refurb sticker

[@prrocker9637]

So that wireless dongle you got in the box is actually to use a 360 controller on PC these days they're harder to find so it's not a bad get

[@gummybums]

Hi Jacob I have a brand new jasper 360 still in box. Is it worth anything.

[@robertoney5665]

Wow! Not too bad. Too bad it's not "refurbished " by joey from DKO.

[@chocolatewheelchair]

it is so weird it is almost 20 years old

[@cjsites]

God the plastic MS used for those first gen 360s just ages horrible. Brittle, dirty asf if it wasn’t stored properly and breaks if you breathe on it.

[@jrob0021]

Yeah agreed, I've probably accidentally broken ~5 xbox 360 shells in the past year just from opening them normally. Never happened to me until this past year... they sure are aging poorly

[@Glx-u7e]

Sadly firmware 17502 means no more JTAG, but you can still RGH it.

[@qpfinalbossqp6793]

I know why the white one looks so beat up... lmao i used to have one of the same generation and when it first got the disk read error you could tap on it to make it work. The taps had to get harder and harder over time to the point i had a sock wrapped around the head of a wrench and had to beat the daylights out of it until it read the disk. 🥲

[@primeentertainment1324]

I just bought one recently from them and my experience was different cause mine came in excellent condition and works great. And it's the mw3 one

[@crazeeeavery4203]

Man I still have my old 360 just need a controller. Haven’t found the need to use it since 90% of the games I have for it I can play on the new Xbox.

[@arturochavez2679]

Back in the day they got me with a Warhawk bundle it was the original box that they sold with a mic headset when it arrived it was just the game

[@IIOver9000]

The white one looks like it runs on red ring of death

[@johngroenewald1025]

The receiver was for xbox360 controllers to connect to a pc or laptops

[@psychodelicrelicultraviole5074]

thank youtube for the playback speed setting. giving me an anurysm

[@KillJohn24]

I don't know how GameStop still exists at this point

[@peyten3237]

Obviously they are not perfect, but I for one am glad that GameStop is still around.

[@WT83]

Typical gamestop experience imo. They don't check to see if it's broken when they buy it and they immediately put it in a box and throw it on the store shelf. I knew someone who worked at one. He said they could borrow new games that came out and all they'd do is just make sure the seal wasn't broken and they'd reshinkwrap it and sell it as brand new. Ultra scummy company. Being a memestock is the only thing keeping them alive. Babbages died and absolute garbage rose in it's place. EB Games should have been the one to make it out of that era.