I Bought 18 Nintendo Consoles from Goodwill... SCAM!
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I love buying video game consoles from Goodwill - and it's even better when I get 18 of them at one time! I bought 18 "untested" handheld Nintendo consoles from goodwill (notice the quotation marks...), and the results are questionable. I go through and test each of these and attempt to fix the Nintendo consoles from goodwill that I can. Goodwill appartently has no shortage of consoles, so I'll definitely be buying some more video game consoles from Goodwill soon - lemme know what I should buy!
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0:00 18 consoles??
0:34 Testing the DS Lite consoles
9:13 Testing the DMG GameBoys
11:22 Back to the DS Lite consoles
13:23 Testing the DSi consoles
16:05 Testing the GameBoy Pocket
17:15 Testing the OG DS consoles
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Is it me or does anyone else feel sad when those ds's with the stickers came up on the video. The reason why I feel sad is because to that kid that ds probably meant the world to him or her to stylized it to their standard with their favorite stickers that possibly a past family member gave them or that little bit of money they saved up just to put their favorite stickers on it or anything like that. It makes me realize how time flies by and how life is a fragile thing and makes me long for the days of the past of seeing my family members and showing them my ds when I got it.
Yeah i do too, I collect guitar hero guitars and clean them up then mostly sell them and i always see a ton of stickers on them
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Bro theyre stickers
@@manual7265 you don't understand it then. And that's fine maybe one day in the future you will understand it
@@_DF_ true. But I'm sure you understand to where I'm coming from. I'm just really looking over it😅😂
Problem with ShopGoodwill is everything looks (and sometimes smells) like it’s been sitting in the dirtiest warehouse for months
Yeah lol
Yeah I got a psp from them and it had like, slime on it
@@jrob0021 15:33 my guess is possible corruption of that app only
But the other one is not corrupted
My only guess tho
Or that it has been around a chain smoker smell
Yeah all to familiar with that smell cleaning up countless goodwill game consoles
If a new battery won't work, it usually means one of the fuses is bad. The vertical lines on Gameboy screens take about 5 mins to fix as well!
Yeah I actually fixed one of the DS consoles by doing that. I talked about it at the very end of the video
Where would I go for the vertical line on the GBA I have that on mine.
I got like purple screen sometimes and some colorblind colors every time I unplug the charger on my ds lite
As someone who works at goodwill I can confirm that no we don’t test stuff unless we put it out in store and even then we don’t test a lot of stuff
Yeah nobody tests stuff at goodwill lol. Like these consoles were probably owned by kids and in storage for a long time so chances are they don't work because duh kids abuse consoles.
@@ConsueloVillegas-bh1ujeverything goodwill gets is free.
That nintendogs decal is so cute, I love how it's bumped up like those old puffy stickers and it's not really chipped or peeling or anything
Just btw, I ended up fixing a few more of these consoles (fixes that weren't shown in the video). I swapped around components in a few of the consoles to get stuff working. Most of these fixes are fairly straightforward (with the right skills), just gotta buy some additional components. I really enjoy making videos like this, so I'm looking forward to buying some more "untested" consoles from goodwill.
I would love to see you do some buying and repair/fixing videos loved this video btw 😃
Try to buy a GBA and the gameboy micro
@@pinci51 GameBoy micro is a pain in the butt to take apart and repair lol, I will avoid those
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Imagine the stories behind these consoles. They were magic to somebody, some family, at some point. Maybe it kept a kid feeling safe while their parents fought, maybe it kept them entertained on long trips. I always wonder about the history of these things.
every system has a story
I bought a used Japanese 3ds earlier and it's got thousands of photos and videos on it. Lots of swap notes as well. Although I couldn't read it, that kid grew up with the same thing as me and it made me very nostalgic, I'm gonna treasure this 3ds
You should port the photos to a computer and save them. Maybe one day you may find the original owner. It’s a small world. (Plus then you’d have room to take your own photos)
All of these consoles were sold on WhatNot already, BUT I’ll have 2DS and 3DS consoles soon (future video), and you get a $15 credit if you sign up: bit.ly/whatnotjacobr
Hey jacob im a big fan been subscribed for 2 years now and i love gaming i love watching your videos im Autistic and find it hard to like someones content and can be quite sensitive to certain things but i love to watch your videos your an amazing creator 💖 keep up the good work i will always support you
What time is the stream because im intrested in buying
What goodwill do go to find all these the only thing I find are clothes and stuff but not consoles
Sorry, i don't buy trash 😅
Hey jacob can you give me a ds lite please im can buy you money please
Found a gameboy and gameboy carrying case with a ton of games a little while ago, and everything works great. Even with some of the original manuals, they look amazing. The goodwill had a class case up front that it was in, I’d say if you’re finding stuff just out on the shelves with other electronics they probably don’t work lol. Going in person is definitely better
It's always funny seeing 3ds that are stuck in 3D mode. Nausea machines lmao
The Camera app not working could possibly mean a homebrewed DSI, a lot of times you launch homebrew through the camera app
This right here
Yupppp
Just a tip. Soak the battery terminals in white vinegar instead of isopropyl alcohol. The vinegar is a base that counteracts the battery acid and will break it down in less than five minutes. THEN clean off the vinegar with the alcohol. I've saved many remotes and controllers using this method.
Vinegar is not a base. Vinegar is acidic
Vinegar is acidic
Also Deoxit works wonders on cartridge contacts, etc.
I wonder if the vinegar works just on the grounds of being *slightly* more basic? Battery acid is 0 ph and Vinegar is 2-3.
10:26 On the back of the GB with the unsoldered display pins there is a quite rare sticker. It was originally refurbished by Nintendo. Be careful with that when you wash it, because it's most definitely a collector's item.
He already removed it
@@everythingpony Bruh... Well, that sucks. :/
I thought he may have unsticked it.
What does the sticker look like? Is it the one with the bar code or the silver one?
@@nuclearkitten6421 The one at the bottom, on the battery cover, with the phone number written on it.
You can easily reprint that sticker.
The sketchy thing is that all of these consoles were supposedly untested… what are the odds that they are all untested but they all have issues? Seems like they tested them, found issues, then sold as untested lol
Idk if it helps but, I had a dark blue dsi that used to the something that the light blue one is doing, Basically I couldn’t open any apps. The small wifi sub-board went bad. My uncle swapped it with another and all the symptoms went away.
I actually used to work for Goodwill and for the branch I worked for (and I’m fairly sure it’s the same for most branches) we’re told to not test electronics because we’d either not have what we needed to properly test to make sure it’s working, or it’d just take too much time. Of course, I’m not saying it’s impossible they were tested, I’m just saying it’s unlikely.
@@spatialdiscord6457 that’s what I’ve seen from most goodwills, but I am seeing goodwills now that will test the items and actually list them as tested and working (on the goodwill auction site). So it appears to be more common for some goodwill shops to actually invest the time in testing stuff
I mean usually untested stuff is a lot cheaper in my experience. All I really have learned is you just gotta clean them well and replace a few things and it should be good to go
That’s my experience typically as well, this was worse than usual tho I think
but this wasn't cheaper, like at all.
It’s funny how this man expects High results from goodwill donations.
I had a pink Nintendo DS Lite like one of the ones you tested, very nostalgic seeing it again. I wonder where I have it now.... 🤔
I have a ds, dsi, and an old 3ds and boy I've cherished them so much-- I just recently fixed my ds because when I first got it, I let my brother play it and he smashed the screen against the table, and one of the motherboard screws are broken but miraculously, the motherboard is fine, and it fixed wonderfully!
I got a light blue DSi yesterday. So far I love it!
You could just buy a working perfect condition DS Lite from eBay (if you want a DS) for literally about $40, they’re ridden all over the market!
I am a huge fan of you Jacob! I LOVE your videos!!!
I'm only 80 percent sure about this, but I think the first ds with a jacked up screen was probably the ribbon cable for the top screen unplugged.
this happened to my ds and it is so sad because i used to play on it for such a long time
I’m sorry but something about buying a console from a goodwill and then reselling it for probably more that what it was at goodwill rubs me the wrong way
Resellers are their best customers, lol. They drove me nuts at the thrift shop I worked at. That and the thieves...
The same thing happened to my game boy pocket where the screen looks just like that.. I kept it in a garage for years and not sure how that happened with uv damage as there’s no sun or light where I kept it 🧐
I had the same problem on my dsi btw it’s not just the camera app its every app/game that you try to boot its caused by a broken WiFi board or a wifi board with a loose ribbon cable in my case the ribbon cable was just loose
“I can’t believe I’m touching this…🤢”
*Continues to touch it*
I recently turned my 3ds on for the first time in years. It did the same thing with the brief orange light. I just switched around outlets a few times and it turned to a full orange light, and then charged fine
I used to have a DS like the red and black one when I was younger, the paint was a little chipped but it worked wonderfully. I came back from school one day and my mom had painted the entire cover in glitter nail polish and it refused to turn on, I was devastated. It’s so nice to see one look so clean and almost brand new
I just bought a pink one off of Facebook and it looks like the previous owner took such good care of it.
I got 2 untested snes consoles from goodwill for 40$, one had a shattered shell and the other didnt work, so i just swapped the working one into the clean shell and now i have a snes that i love. plus I also scored a gamecube and controller for 30$ too. maybe its just me but I like getting non functioning consoles just to repair em
As someone who used to work at goodwill yea just don’t shop there. They never test their electronics and you can only return them for store credit (meaning credit you can only use at goodwill stores) you don’t get your money back. Also they never wash the clothes they put out and it’s always infested with bed bugs.
Great video man. Just wanted to know, how much did this cost in total?
I have the same problem with one of my old DS’ that the first one and second one did. U plug it in, light flicks on for a second but then goes off after
15:54 the flashing light glitch happened to my DSi too and I haven't figured out how to fix it! :,(
When those DS lite and especially those DSi came out....whew, I could feel my back breaking from how old I feel.
The ds lite at 3:06 is the exact one I have. Down to the damages, missing stylus, and everything. That's so weird because I know I still have mine. Mine actually has a kinda broken R button though and mine fortunately charges. But it's so weird how it has a bunch of the same damages as mine
Haha yeah its the same model as mine as well same damages as well
Same DS, no damage.
Love the stickers that you use 😆
13:59 birthday jingle startup on the ds lite
There's probably a guy who flips the power switch to see if it works, and if nothing happens, it goes in the Untested pile.
Damn.. ive been searching for a 2ds/ds for a long time.. cool that u got a lot of them so i can decide which im gonna buy😎
Your videos on the 3ds made me want to get one, so now I'm getting one 😁
I used to buy and sell video games on ebay, and goodwill was one of the best places to buy from, but not every auction they had was good. You've got to have a feel for it, and know which lots are for a console and games from a kid that got tired of them, and which lots are a bunch of leftover junk that nobody wanted. GBA SP and DS were my favorite games to deal with, but the DS did break easily, you've got to watch for that.
Chuck some IPA down the start switch on the Gameboys if there's no power and corrosion in battery bays isn't the issue
dude i love that nintendogs skin lol, im hoping it stays on. i just love really old customized consoles it gives them so much character
I spilled hot and sour soup on my ds lite back in the day. Every time I see the dirty ones you’re handling I think of how nasty mine still looks 🤣
On 23:21 2DS, left of ribbon cable, that capacitor looks fishy. Looks like burned.
i am just waiting for a gamestop refurbished ps5, hopefully you will do it
a year or 2 ago, my neighbors had a yard sale. their daughter i went to school with (she is younger) didn't want her nintendo ds lite. they said it was code problems... but it doesn't take an SD card (came with it) it also had a high quality hardly scratched if even at all with quite a few games, quite a few stylisus, (idk how to spell that) the stylisus were varying sizes but were cool. it also had a plastic stylus carrying case. it was a blue nintendo ds lite, with no charger, but a micro usb B worked fine. it works perfectly. i want another DSI but i left it in my school locker in middle school many years ago (they donated it to good will without telliong me) now someone has like over $30 worth of free games pre installed and my favorite cartridge and the only one i didn't complete..... the DS lite was $10 and incase you were wondering... the SD card had no nintendo stuff, just family photos and some traumatizing "stuff" in between my friends birthday parties...... in all my DSI is gone, but my gameboy advance with a normal audio jack is gone, and my gameboy advance sp speaker broke because i played my rave music too loud in "The Sims Bustin' Out" so i have no audio. the ds lite is a good substitution. has shared play, picto chat, ds cartridge and gba cartridge play, but sadly the instruction manual specifically states that you can't play Game boy or Game boy color games, which you will find out by trying to fit a Gameboy cartridge past a cartridge spacer block... idk what to think... i wanted a ds lite to play ds and gba games... but now i want my dsi back... they had the legend of zelda four swords aniversery edition for free, which i can never play again because you cant emulate a dsi e-shop game... and i probably cant get it again... its the only version like it that you can play single player! My advice? stay away from handhelds and get a pc or console.
Interesting that you bought these from a store associated with a charity.
As someone whose Mum has volunteered at a Salvation Army store, and who has briefly volunteered herself, I know if these consoles were donated to our store, they'd go straight in the bin.
In our store, these consoles not only have to be tested to ensure that they work, but have to be _test tagged_ by an electrician.
Then again, Australia seems to be a lot more stringent in that regard. Probably why I have yet to see a Goodwill shop or any sign of Goodwill here in Australia.
Salvation Army is generally a much better charity store than goodwill. Goodwill claims to be charity, but they aren’t. They donate very little of their profits to actual charity. So they’re basically just taking people’s free stuff and selling for huge profits lol
omg i have that nintendogs skin on my DS!!! I ended up taking off the inner stickers because it caused the system not to close correctly. I love it sm
I’m almost certain that red and black ds lite was mine at one point those scratches look a lot like the old one I had
God the light blue dsi brought back so many memories
The same thing happened to my brother's Gameboy pocket, just a result of the screen deteriorating overtime.
heck I'd take that Namco Museum any day of the week. I grew up on pacman fever. I think it's one of those once you catch it you have it for life kinda things..
All OG Xboxes has/had the clock bomb capacitor. A lot of them (clock capacitors) have since been disposed of.
It has been years since i seen a OG DS. Though the only thing i hated about em was the fact you could not use the Link cables when playing GBA games on them
This man violated those game slots😂
I would buy one of them on your whatnot stream mainly the 3ds
That red o3ds was probably treated very badly, 3ds slider missing, cracks near the hinge, mine just has a dirty screen and a dirty case (yes i really need to clean it)
Just a recommendation, soak battery terminals in vinegar. It actually destroys the corrosion compared to isopropyl
dude Ill save you the trouble in the future dealing with batery acid corrosion cleanup.
Vinegar and a brush is all you need on those terminals.
I tried it on a radio that had the same and it cleaned right up
You can also try that in conjunction with a little sand paper to help polish up the terminals.
Gameboy pocket can be fixed easily just you need a new polarizer layer on the screen
with this blue dsi, i have the same issue with my dsi. it wont run any game or camera gallery, i somehow got it working at some point (no idea how, just like tried thousand times with rebooting) and it only works a little bit.
Goodwill used to have good deals, but it’s sad that they don’t really anymore
Gameboy pocket was the first Gameboy I was given. The red one, too.
The red gameboy needs a new prefably backlit screen as it has screen burn. THERES A READON WHY THEY WERE DONATED , AND NOT SOLD ON EBAY IN THE FIRST PLACE
You can also save money and replace the polarizer layer as this is the issue
the hinges on ds lites are very fragile and its always the hinge on the right
This is really evident with the fact tht if it doesn’t have a charger it’s automatically listed as for parts
Were these a part of the Texas Haul?
i know why that top screen is messed up, if you go into the batterie compartment there are two small screws that adjust the screen.
I have a red metallic Japanese Vita 1000 that is a good system that I bought from game trader in Sacramento and it's a good good system didn't have no problems with it the blue one that I bought was modern but it's not what I'm looking for but do you think the 2DS see through one is better than the blue
I saw that the 2ds has water damage next to the flex cable you pointed out
Yeah I did too
16:12 that screen looks like it was in the cold too long.
Where do you get your consoles?
I remember my OG dis, it was the blue one in the video, I miss it lol
The gameboy pocket issue is a burnt polarizer lens
Buy some electronic contact cleaner from Amazon (WD40 makes it). You can spray that on battery contacts and use a toothbrush to clean...Works extremely well, on any corrosion really, and you don't have to take the battery contacts out to clean them. The cleaner is safe, not greasy, and dries quickly.
Interesting, thanks! Didn’t even know that existed
Vinegar will do the trick as well , just takes a bit longer and you have the smell to deal with
@@UserUser-ww2nj yep vinegar is good for battery corrosion as long as you don’t use too much of it
@@whisperingwooper1763 Dab it on with a cotton bud and rinse off with alcohol . Cheaper that buying a brand and most people have it in the kitchen .
Oh no, now i want chips 😋😋😄
A Goodwill employee recently told me they don't test their electronics, they merely check to see if they turn-on.
dont know why everyone thinks its a battery problem over it being just a poor connection/voltage control in the charger port
Why are you calling it a scam if they were untested (and advertised as such)?
I think the price is the scam
19:09 The colour of that 3ds is smexy
sheesh i actually got a ds lite for 14$ prestine condition no scratches only problem was top lcd had dead pixles
Even if all the consoles worked fine, it still seems like kind of a bad deal for a reseller. If you’re getting into Nintendo handheld consoles refurbing and reselling, you should start off with 1 or 2 cheap consoles and get a feel for the market and learn how to repair at the same time.
3:12 that’s the same DS I had as a kid my mom sold it to goodwill
Did this video get edited?
I remember one of the ds had a heart carving or something.
The first console is probably a fuse issue. I had a black DS Lite 11 years ago that had that problem. f1 fuses are a common issue on ds lites.
On my dsi xl too. Tried to fix it. Mr and my father did but now a the screens (the bottom screens only flashes white then goes black the upper is staying black) broke. Sadly new parts for ds consoles are pretty expensive. You could buy a new one from it, but I don't want to bc my father buyed this dsi for much money back in the day. And it means so much to me still. So how do I replace screens savely. If it's the screens Idk. :(
Where is the best place to buy a 3ds or 2ds?
How were you able to find so many consoles at goodwill? Whenever I go to the locations in my area I never find video game consoles.
They have a website
The first two ds lites have charging port issues not battery issues
I never bid when they say it's untested, so sketchy...
Nearly every time I've bought from goodwill I've regretted it
The fact that he's surprised that these don't work is really funny to me, I mean who is gonna give a fully working device to goodwill when you could sell it or just trade it in to a place like GameStop.
because be honest gamestop gives you like 2 bucks in store credits, its dkoldies levels of underpricing
U can tell some those ds was from little kids like the pink ones with the markers lol
I had a pink Ds as a kid but my never got that dirty ?!?!?! I kept mine in good condition (minus 4 stickers on there, they are run down ) 😅
Some of them could make a gameboy macro mod!
I find that vinegar works best for corroded terminals
I work at goodwill and what I know is we have People whose job is to test electronics. if we get a DS, we have a DS charger that we save for charging them and testing them out. the thing is we cant test everything completely, so we have a 24-hour exchange thing if there is something wrong. but we always try to test them to make sure they at least turn on. our location tries not to sell gross or broken things. if we sell something for ebiz we clean them up and then keep them in a little room.
also its super weird that you got a DS from ebiz. our store rules is that we don't sell older game stuff, we only sell newer stuff. if we get a DS it get prices at 19.99 and put in our BTQ cases. stuff like wiis, xboxs, xbox360s, ps 1 2 and 3s all go in our cases. I never check ebiz as I dont really care for shopping on there. so im sure other stores just put anything on there.
sadly I found out thought that most stores are not like ours. most places don't really test them or even have any policy on electronics in case they don't work. it is really annoying and sad. I really like working for my store as we try to be very honest and understanding with everything. for me shopping at some other goodwills it just breaks my heart.
4:42 i really wanna play that game again its somewhere in my garage 🙁
I remember having a 2ds. Miss it sometimes tho, I was short on money and needed to get home I sold it for gas money. I got an 2ds XL now
Have you homebrewed your 2ds xl yet? Best way to get more life out of your DS
Which should I buy ds lite or 2ds
ds (and 3ds) touch screens tend to yellow rapidly.
Use pure white vinegar on the corroded contacts, it neutralizes and dissolves the corrosion