Dodgy & dubious electronics in the Heartland America catalog

[@Tony32]

"Ditch that old, slow laptop" and replace with this old, slow laptop. ROFL

[@SamSquids]

if so, the only slow laptop I'd buy would be a ThinkPad T60, because the T60 would be more reliable.

[@lolman123401]

@@SamSquids a t60 is fast af

[@mcericx]

dude, did you miss the massive 2GB RAM?

[@PearComputingDevices]

Hey now, that "4 ghz dual core" core 2 duo in that Latitude e6400 or d620 might come really handy.. lol

[@SnownelVEVO]

By the way, you can still buy that blazing-fast 2 GB Vista machine for the bargain bin price of $169.99 in 2020 with the same marketing blurb. Additional colors are available!

[@LazoeJSCREI]

120gb hard drive with 20gigs of bad sectors that cracked me up :D

[@BilisNegra]

I have seen 100gb HD's (always 2.5"), maybe I even own one among some job lot of used parts, but I liked that anyway.

[@TimurTripp2]

"Featuring the blazing speed of a 4 GHz Dual Core processor coupled with a *massive 2 GB RAM*." Calling 2 GB RAM "massive" in 2016 should be a crime.

[@hackerinsidetm4271]

What kind of sentence should those people get?

[@Kagresth]

ComputingWorld using a "never obsolete" emachines for a year.

[@andrew_cole]

true, I need at least 8GB of ram in my computer just to get by in video games

[@andrew_cole]

true, I need at least 8GB of ram in my computer just to get by in video games

[@alexvar10]

Andrew Cole I have a 4GB computer and it's actually OK for playing not-so-demanding titles (Forget about AAA titles). Just make sure you have a proper graphics card/onboard GPU to go along with it.

[@MixerVM]

I've seen these catalogs around. I pity the fool who pays $200 for a Pentium 4 laptop with a "huge" 40GB hard drive.

[@F40PH-2CAT]

People who would buy this probably wouldn't tax it and 40GB would be enough.

[@randomchannel9331]

@@F40PH-2CAT a pentium 4 cant even run windows 7 without being maxed out 99% of the time

[@endoresu]

@@randomchannel9331 I tried running Windows 7 on a 1.8 P4 with 40gb IDE HDD and it wasn't pretty lmao

[@bobamu]

Some fine quality Chinesium there, someone got high and went crazy on alibaba.

[@brentfisher902]

As I said, drugs are bad, if you do them, you are bad, so don't be bad....bye....

[@jimmymelendez1836]

@@brentfisher902 Um..what?

[@blkpopeye]

Dude you're funny LOL

[@marklagerstam6927]

AvE fan?

[@vogelvogeltje]

@@jimmymelendez1836 it’s a South Park quote

[@CGQuarterly]

"Not available in HI, AK, or PR". Probably because you can't ship lithium ion batteries by air.

[@HBC101TVStudios]

Maybe they could ship to AK through Canada though

[@PearComputingDevices]

That could be or they have laws that conflict with their dubious marketing and they're just covering their behinds.

[@austinchasteeny]

You can, its just regulated so they probably dont bother

[@fungo6631]

You can ship them by ocean.

[@F40PH-2CAT]

@@HBC101TVStudios It costs a LOT

[@Lachlant1984]

Wow, just, wow. They've no idea what they're selling. This catalogue shows clearly what's wrong with the electronics and retail industries today, crappy low quality expensive products and salespeople who have no idea what they're doing or what they're selling. Have Heartland always sold second hand computers?

[@vwestlife]

Yes.

[@Dan-we2kg]

VWestlife I'd like to see more of these low quality catalogs, it's pretty enjoyable.

[@Lachlant1984]

You'd think that maybe they'd sell what I like to call the 2/32 computers like that little Keyboard PC you've got. Computers that have 2 GB of RAM and 32 GB of storage, like the HP Stream 11 or Lenovo IdeaPad 100S.

[@vwestlife]

And those "2/32" computers actually have a slower CPU than the 1.66 GHz Core 2 Duo in my 10-year-old ThinkPad X60.

[@Lachlant1984]

They would because they're base in the Intel Atom.

[@uxwbill]

The SkipDr disc repair thing really *does* work. I bought one on closeout years ago (from a bookstore of all places) and most of the time it was able to revive a disc to the point where I could image or copy it. There really were 2.5" 100GB hard drives. Dell sent me one under warranty (a 7200 RPM Hitachi drive) because they said my hard drive was "bad". While it was sitting on my night stand, no doubt hundreds of miles away from the computer.

[@IAmNotAFunguy]

My dad subscribes to this magazine and I always look at every new issue to see what kind of new junk is in them.

[@EvilAccount]

I feel bad for someone who bought that Vista laptop

[@cozyafternoon7826]

I'm using that exact same computer only it's running windows 7. It's a Latitude D620

[@FawfulDied]

@@cozyafternoon7826 I used to have one too! It was stolen in a burglary. edit: I liked that it had a serial port built in.

[@jonnywishbone4805]

I run XP on it, it's actually a good retro machine

[@1912RamblerFan01]

My parents are on the "Publisher Clearing House" list. I love looking through their catalogs to see the stupid Chinese junk they're trying to sell. Many of the catalogs are from like 2008, and still advertise CRT TVs and Windows Vista-based computers. Of course, it has the cheap no-name stuff like the "Yheng Zeng HD Camcorder" for only "$39.99 plus shipping and handling." Of course, I just end up throwing them away after I've had my laughs.

[@und4287]

That camera is probably only 640x480 with tons of interpolation.

[@DorianLynchdodowrestlingfan]

PCH says that it's unable to provide catalogs, due to the frequent rotation and change in the products they offer!

[@71.218-westshed]

I've dealt with PCH house before, thankfully they've stopped sending me stuff, they were really annoying plus I got a lot of their advertisements on KZbin.

[@thomasharrigan1503]

That was honestly one of the funniest videos I've ever seen. its sad to think thousands of old people will buy from this thinking they're buying their kids a great 10+ year old Christmas gift

[@JimLeonard]

I've had a "Skip Doctor" for nearly 1.5 decades; I originally had the hand-crank one, but eventually sprung for the motorized one that originally cost $100 and came with an adapter for 8cm discs (think GameCube games). The hand-crank one is a PITA to use but the motorized one repaired two special-edition DVDs and a GameCube game and at that point it had paid for itself. I've used it to repair at least 20 discs that had marginal read problems. IT ISN"T PERFECT -- you have to buff the deeper scratches out yourself, which just mangles the surface, but I don't care what the end result looks like as long as I can read the original disc and get the data off of it. So, don't get the hand-crank ones; get the motorized one.

[@euphoria_7477]

Yeah, I have a motorized one I use on mostly PlayStation discs I get in lots. It works decently, but I wouldn't use it on any rare games though, just to be safe lol.

[@MrGOLDENSHOT25]

Jim Leonard Though a real pos, my hand crank one did save many of my ps1 and 2 discs back before I understood the importance of putting discs back in the case.

[@richardcline1337]

They also have a version for BluRay discs that is green in color. Works fine in regular DVDs as far as I can tell but since mine is also the hand cranked version you do get tired if you're doing many of them.

[@CGQuarterly]

"PU" = polyurethane

[@AnthonyQuinnJr]

I have that large flashlight and it is really that big. it weighs approx 15 pounds. I got mine from Sam's Club however. it can be used to jump-start a car. The battery is a standard battery found in an APC battery backup. The light is incredibly bright, however mine would get incredibly hot and the battery stopped holding a charge after 1 month. I promptly returned for a refund.

[@rricci]

Now you can buy a flashlight that's just as heavy as a bowling ball! Get a free workout while running from grizzlies in the forest! Nonstop fun (as long as you stay alive)!

[@BrendanOrr]

I'm guessing the "Not Available in AK, HI, or P.R." is due to them shipping those electronics with the batteries installed (so land-only shipments) instead of pulling the batteries out so they can be shipped via air.

[@armankordi]

I've seen all these 5 disc CD players at my goodwill for less than $10, I can't believe anyone would sell these on retail.

[@slightlyusedpsx]

This has been your best video to date. I can't yet enough of your dry humor. More heartland (or similar) please!

[@simonhangan2571]

Ditch that old, slow laptop and replace it with this old, slow laptop! - VWestlife

[@Goob_G3]

oh man. that Vista one looks like the old Dell D630s we keep throwing out at work. Guess this is where they end up lol

[@BilisNegra]

Well, it's that exact model. Or the D620, only difference is screen size, but belong in the same range/year.

[@JonnyInfinite]

I really want to view wildlife, spot thugs and spy on my daughter's boyfriend....with that monocular I can do all three! Amazing value

[@AfterDark33]

I mean depending depending on what you are looking at, it could encompass all 3!

[@prismstudios001]

If your Daughter is dating Sasquatch, you're covering the whole list.

[@LincolnRon]

1:18 MIDI is still very widely used. Especially for DAW controllers, DJ controllers, trigger pads, and electronic keyboards. But most MIDI today uses USB instead of pin connectors.

[@JaredConnell]

He means midi the port not midi the protocol

[@ian_b]

Genuine MIDI is much more flexible than USB "MIDI" since the USB form needs a host whereas real MIDI is peer to peer. You can connect it to a PC via an interface, or to another instrument, etc. So okay, you need to buy an interface, but they are widely available. I'd much prefer having real MIDI instead of USB.

[@locobrown]

Fingerhut ... anybody remember that? Geez, they were the Sears Roebuck/Montgomery Ward cheap variant but much more inferior. Good times spent at the Brockton Arcade during the late 80's till the mid 90's until home consoles became the norm while Montgomery Ward (store closed in 2001) was only a few blocks away at the indoor plaza . Good times, only in memories.

[@ENB2002]

I was looking at the November 2018 Heartland America catalog online, and in it was a 4 GHz Windows Vista laptop with basically the same specs. What was interesting was that on the previous page, they had an HP Laptop with a correctly rated 1.6 GHz Celeron processor, so they really must not care what they sell as long as they make a quick buck.

[@Madness832]

Oh, the "Fartland" catalog. Ordered one $30 item, about 10 years ago, & got hammered w/ catalogs for the next three years. Then they started w/ the, "this may be your last catalog (unless you order something)" messages emblazoned across the front of them; that went on for another two years. Finally, they got the, "he must not be interested" message & stopped sending 'em!

[@brentfisher902]

They need to change the preheat fluorescent starter in the idea light fixture for the bulb over their head. It took quite some time to come on.

[@irtbmtind89]

Vivitar products were crap even before the Chinese bought them. Even in the 80s you were better off buying used. Most of those electronics look like the crap that scammers sell out of vans. Though for the price that refurb karaoke machine is worth it just for the tube.

[@brandonclodius1210]

Please make more videos like this! Not sure why, but I find the narration with these dubious low quality products hilarious!

[@keybyss98]

This looks like one of those mail catalogs that look like it hasn't been updated since, like, 2004. In fact, I actually thought you dug this up from your attic or something like that at first.

[@MrROTD]

The disc restoration thing works about half the time, sometimes the actual foil inside the disc is cracked and no amount of polishing the surface will help

[@Ninnuam999]

12:45 "Huge 160 Gb hard drive" hahahaha that's the same size my first PC HDD had in 2005.

[@isaiahash9697]

I found that funny "huge 160 Gb H.D.D." I now have 1000gb hard drive in my desktop! but back in 2005 my computers hard drive was 4Gb! :)

[@LazoeJSCREI]

i still have a maxtor 80gb from around 2005, sounds like a machine gun during boot :D

[@Sanemikufan]

i have a 1 Tb hard drive in my pc, recently added a 3 Tb drive for more storage

[@isaiahash9697]

In 2005 we had a computer from 1998! In 2008 we finally got a new computer!

[@GeckonCZ]

'05 Maxtor and still going? Now that's a rare sight...

[@simonbeasley989]

Loved the review of the catalogue, wish we got it in the UK! I liked your mocking of the Certified Great Deal "logo", I have suddenly become very aware of these words arranged in a circle that's meant to be some sort of accreditation but is actually, err, just some words in a circle!

[@harunal-muhajir5555]

There's many people still using MIDI because there's hundreds of devices that have no modern equivalents that need to be interfaced with DAWs. Decent audio interfaces still come with MIDI inputs/outputs for a reason. That keyboard is still shite though.

[@AussieTVMusic]

More like knockoffamichi headphones.

[@samserios6428]

Nakamichi doenst exist anymore as it was. Whats left is just a name used by some chinese companies to make their crap look better.

[@danieldaniels7571]

Sam Seriös ah, like Dual, Blaupunkt and RCA

[@mr.tomraypaz6085]

I remember those catalogs. Used to love to look at them when I was a kid. I was always curious about the electronics and various other things in them.

[@FeCr3]

This reminds me a bit on "weltbild" catalogs here in germany....

[@mr.smash698]

Damn. I'm very sorry.

[@JonnyInfinite]

FeCr3 looks like Betterware in the UK

[@RetroJayKay]

More like those Perl catalogs... liked them as a kid btw. - strange :D

[@just_furguy]

FeCr3 aber Weltbild verkauft keinen 10 jahre alten china scheiß :) oder 2gb ram Vista laptops

[@FeCr3]

Dennis Schneider Ich weis... Deshalb auch "reminds me a bit". ;-)

[@lmull3]

Aw man, that catalog is laughable.

[@RyanSchweitzer77]

Regarding the SkipDr, I've two of them, and they work actually quite well for some discs--it basically burnishes the surface of the disk to "sand out"any scratches or shallow gouges, with a polishing cloth to restore the transparency afterward. Sounds pretty extreme, but it's helped to make a disc more readable, I've had good luck with them. I have the hand-cranked version, which works, but gets gets tiring to use after a while. They also made a higher-end motorized version, this is the one to get.

[@8BitNaptime]

I love the ad copy, it reminds me of the extravagant style used by DAK and other companies selling radar detectors in Radio-Electronics magazine.

[@volodimirkun]

"i wonder if it's 120 gig harddrive with a lot of bad sectors" - eLOueL !!!!

[@austinfehrer6574]

I want to say that midi is still the standard...

[@edwardjones4527]

I am a music producer and I still use midi keyboard for Ableton live, wonder why vwestlife don't know about it

[@vwestlife]

Oh yes I know about it. My point is that almost all computers made in the past 15 years don't have any way to connect MIDI unless you buy a MIDI to USB adapter.

[@EgoShredder]

I've been using MIDI since the 1980s and apart from the Atari STE, I have never owned a computer with built-in MIDI ports and have always had to buy something with this feature. The best I own is an Edirol UM880 which goes for crazy money on Ebay these days, mainly because it is regarded as the best interface ever made. You can even use up to four units in one computer, for a total of 32 discrete MIDI IN and 32 MIDI OUT ports!

[@plaidzior]

What about the Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatal1ty's? They came with so called "Live Drives" that had midi ports, and they are pretty recent

[@simonmadsen7255]

Well it's Midi to Jack as I see it .. All PC's where I live, comes with a jack input ..

[@turbofiat]

HAH! I bought an RCA 5 disc CD changer at the Salvation Army store for $10 just like the one in the catalog. I also found a TEAC brand dual cassette deck for $10 as well. The bad thing is both of these players are of better quality than the stuff I was able to afford as a teenager. Like my Emerson stereo system from Hills Department store. When I was around 18 or 19, I went to K-Mart and bought the cheapest VCR I could afford. It turned out to be a Goldstar. If I remember I paid $180 for it. Given I was earning less than $4.00 an hour at the time, do the math and you will understand why I didn't go after the "big box" name brands like Sony. Funny thing is that VCR lasted for more than 20 years. As of 5 years ago, I was using it as TV tuner on an old CRT analog TV before Charter Spectrum turned off their analog signal for good. It still worked the day I threw it in the trash.

[@ronaldwilliamson7963]

Gold Star is still around. They are called LG.

[@sfranz5413]

I'm listening via a similar pair of Nakimichi headphones now. I bought these at Magicmart for ten bucks. It's not mind blowing, but it's pretty good for the price. They look neat too - kind of a retro "aviator" style. If you keep your expectations realistic, you would be pleased with these.

[@belstar1128]

Why are they selling 8 year old computers wtf do they get their stuff from the recycling depot and my grandpa had that cd player at 15:43 back in 1998.

[@consolehacker54]

The only actually quality stuff in that catalog is ancient and used lol. Teac made good equipment but that is still an insane price and nobody really wants to buy a CD changer anymore in the first place

[@1980sGamer]

You think that's bad, have a look at this listing on their website here: www.heartlandamerica.com/2-gig-160gb-hard-drive-notebook-computer.html

[@isaiahash9697]

that website is bad!! :) $411.10 for a pentiumM laptop!

[@belstar1128]

56k modem wow its like the 90s never ended.

[@belstar1128]

Isaiah Ash They are a bunch of dirty scammers.

[@scotshabalam2432]

WOW! Amazing how much entertainment value you got out of a Chinese-Co catalog for a youtube video. Good job!

[@bakonfreek]

That VCR is only really good if you can bypass the HDCP because you can record tapes through HDMI that will even fail on a TBC box (I've had some very weird requests from people who ask me to convert tapes to digital, I'll just leave it at that).

[@moviebod]

Wow. How did I end up here in 2023? I must watch some weird stuff to have this recommended. I bloody loved the video. I smiled throughout. AND, I bet you bought all those old movies. I think I know you after all the years I have been watching ;) Keep up the good work!

[@Fuzy2K]

9:37 -- I had one of those back in 2001. It did work surprisingly well, but it made a permanent spiral pattern on the bottom of the disc. (that didn't affect functionality, but still, very crap.) The "jaw" that held the disc in place eventually got stuck and couldn't be opened anymore. I think it was called a Disc Doctor.

[@MrDustpile]

MIDI on keyboards are still studio standard, with the MIDI sockets for recording now moved onto the dedicated sound interfaces. MIDI is actually more popular than ever.

[@Longlius]

It is, but what he's pointing out is that computers no longer ship with MIDI ports or even ports that can be converted into MIDI ports. At best, you can get a MIDI box over USB with terrible latency.

[@Aquatarkus96]

@@Longlius MIDI over usb isnt too bad. I use a cheap Yamaha interface and the audio latency from the output device is worse than any midi latency, and that's only a few hundred samples at worst.

[@jhutt8002]

I wonder how recording hardware these days work. Pro gear I've seen usually connects to sockets on motberboard, and you get midi that way. Does modern usb get less latecy? What about firewire?

[@MrDustpile]

@@jhutt8002 Firewire's dead now but those of us with the gear can get contempo performance anyway. USB's fast and good enough to be default standard with good-as zero latency and Intel's Thunderbolt is another connection standard. Cards seem to be out as well as the breakout boxes contain all the circuitry more and more. You get more choice that way, especially with laptops.

[@jhutt8002]

@@MrDustpile You'd say USB 2.0 has latency close enough to be neglible? I'm bit out of loop with modern technology :D My own recording gear still runs on XP with parallel cable from host card to the box

[@fryersoncaptain]

9:02 Given the pose, I doubt I could have shown that much tact in describing what that flashlight shot looked like...

[@ProtoMario]

Dual core at 4.0 ghz... Wat? I mean, you could get an AMD 8350 at 4.3-5.0 ghz and its an octocore, maybe not the best, but... dual core 4.0......... WAT

[@DDXofficial]

ProtoMario: or overclock a Pentium G3258 to 4+ GHz. that has two cores.

[@ProtoMario]

DJ Deedahx Yeah but that is OCing it...

[@DDXofficial]

ProtoMario yeah, true

[@zacl8781]

I see proto Mario everywhere

[@ericvansyoc2564]

ProtoMario modern i3s are actually not bad. the single core performance is where they strive. although the 8350 is a very good CPU. it's just old. AMD is great budget CPUs and IMO have the best price to performance ratios. the FX 6300 I think is still on top. although I could be wrong. been awhile since I looked into that. anyways, I don't assume tho that this particular PC had a quality i3. cuz the modern ones I'm thinking of are the 6100 and the 6300. and those are actually really kick ass. its more about the architecture then core count and speed. an i3 may be a duel core but it's 2 cores could be better then all 8 cores on the 8350. kinda how i5s which are quad core can outperform the 8350. but this is also a laptop. so it's an m model. which slows it down even more. so yeah -3- it's shit. but you get what you pay for. and if each core ran at 4ghz that's not bad. that's a respectable stock speed. but if the combined speed is 4ghz that's different.. that's not really good. but it being a laptop most of the time they have slower speeds due to thermals. so they don't heat up as much. and it effects power draw.

[@hgbugalou]

This is like Skymall for the Greyhound busses.

[@rickyberkey9313]

I miss the DAK catalogs. DRew Kaplan would write multi-page descriptions of some quite mediocre products. Not ashamed to admit that I took the bait and purchased a few things from them :)

[@megabojan1993]

8:59 You could probably get arrested if you're seen with that huge flashlight :)

[@iceberg789]

why ? why does size matter ?

[@bunkelops]

He's joking around numb nuts.

[@colinsmith364]

7:30 Ideal for spying on your daughter's boyfriend!

[@DanielPinel]

cheeky.

[@themaritimegirl]

9:20 - It says "120W 12 LED swivel halogen spotlight." Uh? So maybe it's halogen? Maybe it's LED? Maybe I don't give a shite. I've never even heard of these guys before. The work they put into writing those massive over-padded descriptions for each product is impressive.

[@BilisNegra]

Well, the big bucks they make scamming the dim witted are well worth the effort, I guess.

[@dunedinsound]

Are there no consumer protection laws in America? Surely this is blatant false advertising?

[@duskonanyavarld1786]

Yes there are eg FDA for food and drugs, what is false?

[@chargedcapacitorwdasddsaf6833]

Where was the false advertising? I am pretty sure they would make sure not to include anything which is "legally" false. To be honest, some of their products didn't seem all that bad, not too great sure, but a fully-functional computer for less than $200 is actually not all that bad.

[@albear972]

This catalog is printed for old people to rip them off. And no, there are no consumer protection laws here in this silly country. Its buyer beware or as the Romans used to say, caveat emptor.

[@vinntech8815]

ChargedCapacitor wdasddsaf it is false advertising they're selling a 15 year old laptop computer and saying that it has a 4.0 ghz Intel Core 2 Duo and thats a lie no core 2 Duo in existence has 4.0 ghs the only laptop that has a 4.0 ghz Cpu is a Custom laptop with a core I7 7700k

[@helloworldstein]

If someone got duped and reported them to the FTC Bureau of Consumer Protection they would certainly get into trouble. Heck ignoring both the FTC, if you buy something from them and it was incorrectly labeled, most US credit card companies would refund you the money immediately. But the thing is, these guys know that the type of people they are advertising to doesnt know any better. No one under the age of 50 is picking up these magazines and going "WOW I better buy that laptop and the VHS to DVD converter". This type of magazines/advertisement exist in every country. Saw plenty of it when I did study abroad in the UK. They skirt the line of legality knowing their victims are too old or too stupid to know better.

[@Dr_McKay]

Any with any good DVD Rewinders?

[@DFX4509B]

Nope, because it's technically impossible to rewind a DVD or any other disc/disk-based media.

[@hippiedave1362]

Josh Mason It's obviously a joke....

[@christianmccord9456]

Josh Mason *woosh*

[@richardcline1337]

Is that anything like the old cable stretchers we used to send newbies out to find?

[@drymice500]

I guess that‘s the old version of sending someone to find the wifi cable?

[@rtv190]

"""""quality""""" electronics

[@simonhangan2571]

Qualuty

[@andymadden8183]

Superme Qualuty!

[@remyronko]

Please make more of these if possible, they're insanely comfy to watch~

[@1marcelfilms]

its probably old people who buy this stuff

[@Yeen125]

More specially old people who live in very rural areas

[@AgentOffice]

Gage M. aka heartland

[@brentfisher902]

Obama made health insurance. Samuel Colt made them equal. Know when to leave the stage.

[@ABCEasyas--]

@@brentfisher902 I didn't get any of that.

[@Tpavra]

Browsing the Heartland America website today and they still sell laptops with an Intel Pentium 3 processor, and at least one on there has only 128mb of RAM! What the heck, these must be one of the best preserved laptops of this age! :')

[@MaryPoppinOfPimpin]

Puffy hasn't used the Puff Daddy name in forever 😂😂

[@mikesk356]

Maybe the "4GHz Dual Core" processor is the Pentium 4 at 4GHz with HyperThreading. It looks like there are 2 physical cores in Windows Task Manager, but they are virtual.

[@Dan-TechAndMusic]

The Pentium 4 4GHz CPU is extremely rare, and I think it was only ever released in desktop form. A normal P4 in a laptop can cook your legs already, I'd hate to try a 4GHz Pentium 4 laptop!

[@mikesk356]

That was the idea behind the comment. They sell you a laptop that will give you 2nd degree burns if you touch it while it's idling and cook itself well after half year of use.

[@TheComputerGuy96]

The laptop at 9:45 has a 1st generation Intel Core sticker (probably just i3), and the one at 13:44, with the "Duo Core" processor, I'm pretty sure that's a Core 2 Duo.

[@mikesk356]

I accept it. I just think it's funny.

[@vwestlife]

The "4 GHz" Windows 7 laptop appears to be a Dell Latitude E6410, from 2010.

[@BokBarber]

One of the pictures for the monocular implies it can be used to catch somebody breaking into your house, as if you'd be sitting at the top of the stairs all night, peering through a crappy monocular just waiting for intruders.

[@woofervision673]

lol "massive" 2 GB of RAM

[@ferretman6790]

In case you are wondering believe it or not,those dvd repair things actually work! My aunt had one and that worked okay.

[@remo687]

It's sad that these scammy companies like Heartland, Fingerhut, Oriental Trading, Harriet Carter(if that's still a thing), etc., all these lousy catalogs target elderly people who are convinced they are getting great deals, either for themselves or as "great gifts" for kids/grandkids, and end up wasting what money they have for this crap. There should be some kind of regulation.

[@bobbobson1605]

2:45 Love those $4 keyboards... Lovely features like an ISO enter key, and Power/Sleep/Wake buttons right where you expect the PrtScn, Scroll Lock and Pause/Break keys! edit - Also noticed the $3 mouse, which appears to be the best of the cheapo refurb bundle-turds I've encountered. The buttons can last several weeks in normal use before you start getting phantom doubleclicks!

[@narunetto]

Just as early as around last year, on their website they were still selling PENTIUM III PCS! I couldn't even believe it, and they were like 200 dollars! Way to screw over old people.

[@dyter424]

With Windows XP? (edit: they're STILL SELLING P3 laptops for awful prices...)

[@narunetto]

Usually yes, but I think one of them had 2000.

[@joeynebulous816]

narunetto still selling P3 laptops in 2017! "price so low we can't say the brand name" that's cause if they give the brand name, Dell or whoever made them 15-18 years ago will sue the crap out of Heartland America 😂

[@himbeerme]

Lmao I had the ability to get a ton of P3 PCs for free cuz my school threw them away, I didn't get one though, I just took one of the P3's cause I likee the design xD

[@Gigidag77]

5:56 *"Probably won't be too bad if it's actually any good"* :D

[@ethann_browne]

15:00 When I saw that, I was thinking "8-Bit Guy!"

[@MinecraftPro97k]

No doubt 8-Bit Guy hated those radios with a hellfire passion.

[@kevinpatrickmacnutt]

That Windows Vista machine is from about 15 years ago. I replaced a Dell of that generation about five years ago.

[@Zizzily]

I have one of those "4.0 GHz" laptops. The one they're advertising with Vista on it. It's a Dell D620. They came with Core Duo processors, not even Core2 Duo. They didn't even support 64-bit. They offered 1.66GHz to 2.16GHz, with the T2500 being 2.0GHz and fairly common, so yeah, they're definitely multiplying the speed. It definitely doesn't have a 7th gen i3 in it!

[@thedd13ram]

Interesting, I have the Latitude D630 and mine supports 64-bit, I upgraded one stick of ram where id have one 1GB stuck and one 2GB stick. Does yours have the light up keyboard, press fn and I think the right arrow on keyboard.

[@Zizzily]

@@thedd13ram The D630 is one generation ahead, and has Core2 Duo while the D620 has Core(1) Duo.

[@thedd13ram]

@@Zizzily oh ok, never knew the difference between the two

[@Hamboarding]

I just love this video! We have similiar companies in Germany! I come back to it every once in a while, your commentary is so great! 😂

[@MichaelWeaser]

Ha Ha Ha my parents get this catalog, On there website you should see what other computers they have , they have various older pentium 4 and pentium m laptops, they also use to have pentium III laptops on there as well with windows 98 with 256mb of ram , I believe they still sell them I'm not sure, they where trying to sell them for around $277

[@1980sGamer]

Found this: www.heartlandamerica.com/compaq-notebook-computer-with-wireless.html

[@MichaelWeaser]

they have this as well: www.heartlandamerica.com/pentium-3-notebook-computer-with-wireless.html

[@JonnyInfinite]

1980sGamer Jesus...

[@ArmyGreensTanBoots]

Michael Weaser holy shit the specs. 😂😂

[@ewandougie]

They claim its a Compaq but if you go on the additional info tab it claims its a Dell

[@SuperRinghio92]

Hello from' France ! We have the same crapy catalogues in Europe too... so funny to read in the toilets ... even in the middle seventies when I was a teenager. For example with the wonderful piece of crap colored plastic screen to stick on your old b&w tv set to have a new color tv : "oh look darling, the lawn is green, the sky is blue !"

[@gmcnewlook]

That mega flashlight is real, I know someone who bought one that looks like that from princess auto (it's like a Canadian harbour freight)

[@cfothough]

This is hilarious! As soon as I heard QFX and Vivitar i started dying

[@james7325215]

I bought the SkipDr when they sold at Wal-Mart. They would work for a few disc's then you would need to buy a new wheel. Which consisted of about 1500-2000 grit sand paper. Basically you are wet sanding the disc.

[@GenericMcName]

Those DVD buffers actually work surprisingly well. I got one for $5 at one point, and it fixed my PS2 games up really well!

[@iOBBY227]

PU stands for Polyurethane and is a material made with a split leather backing covered with a layer of polyurethane (hence the term "PU leather")

[@supahvaporeon]

Holy crap, that laptop at 10:40 is the same one used at my dad's research tech company. How much you wanna bet they weren't wiped.

[@Madness832]

You need to do a follow-up video. As in, how many more Fartland catalogs have you received since December?

[@soonerterp]

Yes I totally endorse seeing VWestlife skewer more Fartland America catalogues!

[@HariSupriono]

"Blitzo, are you fucking filming on us?" That's what I imagine Heartland America had in mind when they advertised that Firefield monocular

[@kbhasi]

My guess is that those HEARTBURN people own a lot of brands and they just choose one to paste on a cheap piece of Chinese crap they probably bought in bulk on alibaba.com. 3:47 I remember seeing a video about a different store that did that "compare at" thing but found that the other stores that didn't do that "compare at" thing had better deals. 9:47 Obviously, the only thing these people know is lying about what they sell. About that bonus media bundle, the games are probably cheap, free and/or trial games. "300 e-books" probably every one of them being old titles downloaded from Project Gutenberg. "100 classic songs" probably very old music and/or cheap knockoff cover or whatever kind of ripoff music like the kind I heard mentioned in some Oddity Archive episodes. "100 movies" probably either old movies, and/or like those B grade movies, or even those "mockbusters". 14:23 Seagate did make 100 GB 2.5 inch IDE hard drives, and I have one in my Compaq Evo N410c. Not sure about SATA though. 17:13 Oh my. It's almost like they never check the movies after they got it all onto 1 disc. Also, there's a reason why I never use the LP and SLP and those kinds of LP modes on my DVD recorder. 17:34 I have seen one of those cheap toy tablets before, but it was black, landscape oriented(in terms of a real tablet), and there was a button with a picture of a chicken but was labelled "cock". No, I'm not joking. 19:05 I don't think I ever seen one of those things in real life, but the closest thing I saw were some "TONGTEL" and "digitor" branded small portable TVs (sold at Dick Smith stores in around the early to mid 2000s) with probably that same kind of CRT. I believe both brands offered the same model but with slightly different colours. Can't really remember the colours, but I believe the former was silver.

[@imeakdo7]

Kevin Bhasi oh yeah here in panama the country are lots of companies that are dedicated to doing that with 3 being the biggest: premier and its brand, sankey and its brand, and hometek and its "royal" brand, part of wisa group that was resently added to the clinton list, eventually making the conglomerate(!) bankrupt, with only the largest members surviving either under a new name or the same name.

[@imeakdo7]

Kevin Bhasi yeah but as far as i know dell only used hitachi hdds, so it must have a lot of bad sectors.

[@jonnywishbone4805]

Can you do another one of these this year please? I love the cheapness and crapness of the products and your caustic comments

[@MrHack4never]

15:35 "...features advanced *1-bit* dual D/A..." That sure sounds like future technology

[@HBC101TVStudios]

1-bit dual DAC chips has been around in high-end CD players since the mid 1990s.

[@TheLumpenMaoist]

yeah, the estate I grew up on had the oldschool Tv antennas, I think they look really cool

[@catgirl_eva]

What they say about having 60 games in the Latitude D series ad is rather amusing seeing how some PC games these days take up over 60GB.

[@ghiagoo]

Looks like a remake of the old Damark catalog. The Damark catalog was the mail you could receive. I loved it

[@dirkfvnk]

MIDI is still the standard with synthesizers, keyboards, drum machines, etc actually

[@vwestlife]

Yes, but who has MIDI ports on their computer? That was my point.

[@Anonymous-ig4bi]

That skipdr disc repair really works! I had one that brought back cds that I didn't think it would.

[@Squirmish89]

Did you use that HP scanner to show the images of the catalog from the previous video?

[@und4287]

yeah

[@Mzytky]

I remember using those HP 'all-in-one' computers back in high school, about 7 years ago XD

[@SudosFTW]

Just saw someone trying to shill those exact Nakamichi headphones at a flea market new in box, for $30 each. also sad to see they're upping the price of a simple latitude E6400 at 9:45 for that much. they only take DDR2 RAM and these days, they're not even worth $100-150 at the most WITH the Nvidia Quadro onboard.

[@williamhelms9942]

Knock out the felt pad covering the holes in the back of the drivers, and fiberglass the cups from Home Depot, an aquarium store, or a building material scrap pile. They'll be fine!

[@JeffCD77]

So flippin' funny! I've been cracking up! Thanks for the laugh.

[@daveb5041]

Skipdoctordoesn't work. You have to crank that handle probably 1000 times and it takes about 10 minutes to do a disk. You put an abrasive goop on the disc and it sprays every where. It gets out really small scratches but scratches that small are not an issue. So no it doesn't make unplayable disks playable; it makes a mess noise and most people won't put in the effort and time to crank out an entire disk. The battery powered ones have a motor too small to work and it goes ridiculously slow and the motor burns out before 25% of the disk is done. Much easier and faster to download and burn a new CD.

[@scotty1time]

"Probably wouldn't be too bad if it was actually any good."

[@The_Laser_Channel]

Reminds me of Fingerhut catalogs.....nothing but rip-offs at high prices on crap no one wants!

[@oldtwinsna8347]

These kinds of closeout catalogs were quite something to look forward to in the mail back in the day before commercial Internet, or even years after it in the 90s when there wasn't much out there on the online retail front.