Kinda surprised how positive the comments are on their new short… it’s not like they haven’t lied about refurbishing before… Edit: I'd recommend checking my community post tab to see their latest post and my response. I've officially decided I'm not sending anymore money their way.
This is why I'm starting my own retro gaming business that guarantees refurbishing and the warranty does NOT void if you open the consoles, so you can review the inside and still send it back if it is not to your standards.
I think you should buy more from them. You also need to make sure they don't find out it's you buying them. This way they can't just send you some clean consoles to make themselves look good.
My only gripe would be, yeah Jacob could buy more consoles that are deemed refurbished, but chances are if they have a unit on the shelf that is already deemed 'refurbished' prior to dkoldies new refurbish procedure, current consoles bought could still be dirty because I doubt dk is going to refurbish units on the shelves. Maybe buy 6 months from now and see.
Even when they're "admitting" to wrongdoing, they're still snaking their way around details, like a "few" dirty consoles and "slighty" higher prices, and using corporate munbo jumbo to cushion their acknowledgment. They haven't changed one bit.
Welcome to the nature of business. Does their shareholders no good to admit any actual fault. Just pretend it's all isolated issues and they're "changing the refurb process" out of the goodness of their own hearts.
I'm willing to bet their sales started to take a hit. It took 8 months for them to "address" the issue because, I think, they were hoping that as time passed, people would forget about the entire situation. Well, this may be the proof that their bottom line took a MAJOR hit. I think it's amazing that you, Review Tech USA & a couple others were calling DK Oldies out & holding their feet to the fire. Keep up the good work.
I would hope their bottom line took a hit. paying 200%+ more for a worse condition console than I could buy on EBAY. a PS2 slim for $170. go home DK oldies. you're smoking crack.
The reason they waited so long is probably because they'd recieve a butt-ton of backlash and they were waiting until everyone forgot about them. As you said their comments are relatively positive now, and they def weren't a couple of months ago.
@@jetgames2282most of the gamer content creators are sponsored/payed off and will double down even if the game sucks, saw it with starfield, within a day the game came out all the content creators were giving it 10/10 and saying how good it was but then it turned out to be one of the worst games ever made
Would love to see of they're actually doing it this time. Rich from reviewtech USA said he's gonna have to get another one now, so I'd love to see your luck as well with their "new" refurbishment process
My guess on the reason that DKOldies didn't test that PS4 you got back in April was because they probably assume "It's a new gen console, if it looks like it works then it works". Same with their refurbishing, they probably think "if it's a new gen console, how dirty can it be?"
Ps4 isn't new gen that thermal paste is probably 8 years old. Any console that's 5 years old should have their paste changed in the refurbishing process.
Yeah, I’m also like 99% sure they made a short answering the same question a few days prior, but were defensive like usual and then showed a group of people around a table ‘refurbishing’ consoles. unfortunately i think they deleted it, without anyone downloading it.
Would love a continuation of the DKOldies sega. I also agree with you, I remember looking at the DKOldies refurbishment page the other day and I felt it was very vague and potentially misleading on wether they actually open all the consoles and properly refurbish them.
Thank you for doing these videos. It’s quite obvious that DK Oldies is a scam and if people see these videos and still order from them are getting what they deserve. It’s the unknowing customer who deserve better.
Yah And I already felt like they charged to much to begin with. And you never really are sure what you are getting. This is why I usually shop ebay if I cannot find what I am looking for locally. I like to see what I am getting in person. But you have alot of dishonest ebay sellers to. But for the most part, I have gotten what was advertised on there. As well as photos. But they don't always do justice.
I ordered a bunch of Genesis games from them this year. The prices weren't unreasonable, but one of the cartridges didn't work. I had to ship it all the way back to the States from The Netherlands, which I didn't like, but I did get the costs of the game, shipping and some extra back. So I was satisfied in the end.
The inspection tag showing what was done sounds to me like that had so e rouge employees in the “refurbishment department” pencil whipping forms which is how the controversy even happened. Now they can track who is and isn’t doing their job. But we will see I guess. If I were to guess though, they only replace capacitors and/or thermal paste if one gets returned by someone for reasons associated with those items.
Pretty sure they'll still be able to bullshit the inspection forms. This is all a face saving move to keep the investors happy in the light of bad publicity.
They are always relevant because they post shorts showing off hundreds of these retro consoles, its so cool and such a shame that they aren't being cared for properly
I mean...if you and other TH-camrs/influencers go and buy consoles now just to see if they're actually refurbished correctly now, they've achieved the goal regardless if they are or not. They're in the business of making money by selling consoles and games. If you and others buy the consoles just to see if they've upgraded the refurbishing process, congratulations to them. They've sold consoles and made money.
I totally get you not wanting to give them anymore money, regardless if it's for content or not, but I know I'd be very interested to see some more teardowns.
You have to love the internet...so many people/companies get caught out in scams, but the people of internet come together and they definitely do not let these scammers forget it.
The weird thing is they sell grouped lots of for parts or not working consoles on their eBay account all the time. I don't understand their refurbishment process if they are not able to fix everything or have too much? I would question the knowledge/experience of what they can repair I guess.
I don’t live in the US, but I have watched your videos on the DKOldies consoles and I definitely find the responses to be highly suspicious. I think this comes across as face saving tactics. Either way I hope they step up their efforts and make an honest effort to improve.
1:11 - "We've thoroughly revamped our refurbishing process" AKA "We got called out for lying and not doing the BARE MINIMUM to ensure our consoles were at least clean, and decided we'd better start doing that because now we're about to be sued."
Looks like they are just saying the same thing they have always said about "refurbing everything" but this time they just changed a few things and said that that's what they are now doing...even though they said that's what they were doing in the first place.
Ya Jacob, I would love to see some more consoles from dkoldies on your channel. I always click on those instantly just to see your evaluation on if they actually did a good job "refurbishing"!
Give them a try again to see if they are still scamming people on there cleaning and refurbishing policies. Plus I agree with what you said about what refurbishing is in your previous videos.
The only thing I thank dkoldies for, is giving Jacob something to make videos about which led me to finding his channel 🤣 also this whole thing has got me interested in opening up my consoles to keep them clean so they have a better lifespan. Thanks Jacob!
4:16 is just INSANE to me. I recently bought a pink blossom PSP 3000 - japanese exclusive, colour console... for... 70 quid! 70!! that's almost a 150 quid, (182 us dollars) difference between a perfect condition ebay listing and dk oldies "good" condition!! the fact that they think they can get away with ripping off their customers like this is frankly unacceptable. no matter if they're actually refurbishing their consoles now - there's absolutely NO excuse for those ludicrous prices.
Along with them getting their act together, I believe the best way for DKOldies to really get their head's out of their asses is to start for the main root of the problem, the owner. From what other videos in the past have stated, it's clearly the management having all these issues and the true beginning of the management starts from the owner(s) themselves. Weeding them out will singlehandely help the business.
They're either getting sued or some kind of legal action was taken against them. This doesnt just happen out of the blue. Perhaps an undercover investigator went in? Who knows but its weird.
@JacobR Jacob, my vote is to buy a few systems that are known to be difficult to work on and refub. If they deliver the goods, then they should be praised from kicking it up a notch or two and doing better. If not, they should be called out. But if you're going to do it, make sure they don't know who you are during purchase.
the funny thing is dk oldies is admitting they were not properly cleaning them by saying from now on we will be blah blah blah, me over here like why were you not doing that from the get go.
Regardless, even if they actually are finally doing what they say they do....the prices are just way to insane. I do not get why people will pay 3x what something is worth from them.
I think the main problem for me at least, since the beginning was the fact that dkoldies was selling stuff for way to much money. Even after this fact, and the fact that we know now that they weren't even really refurbishing consoles. I think it hits a bit harder. Now, of they are actually refurbishing consoles now. Then the prices at least make a little more sense. But I don't really want to be the ginny pig. Especially when there are way cheaper alternatives out there.
Definitely man I would want you to buy some consoles from them to see are they really backing there words with the changes in the refurbishment process like Joey is saying the stickers and verify work they done like Joey is saying just cooperate talk
"... the insides were dirty." YA THINK!? Took them long enough... As far as caps... most of these caps are over 20 years old or more, even if not most are liquid electrolyte even if modern, the should ALL be replaced... SMH.
Gaming consoles would be a good option. However, what about the handheld gaming consuls? Nobody's checked to make sure that those are being tested and cleaned.
I have feeling if you do get a console and it is dirty they would say something along the lines of "Sorry I'm not sure how something this happened. It appears you were sent some of our old stock that hasn't been through our new refurbishment process.".
Well said and documented timeline! I don't trust DKO and the bandaid fix on each issue. Sad... Hey i made it into a Jacob R video! Even if it was a rouge comment calling DKO out 😂
They need to be changing the paste on EVERYTHING they get, not just the ones that obviously need it. Little Timmy's old 360 that still has a warranty sticker on it and has never been opened sounds like a jet engine when turned on, but it plays games so ship it out? That seems to still be the MO.
I’d love to see some more console tear downs from DK Oldies. The only way to know if things have truly changed for the better at DK Oldies is if creators like yourself purchase consoles and verify they are in fact “refurbishing” them.
They are still hiding behind the warranty... Gambling on the fact that most customers will not open the console and they will replace the ones that do.
I recently wanted to sell my Xbox and games to them and they offered me $38 or something. I sold my Xbox 360 and games before and they took it for like $90😂
I'm not sure why this "new refurbishing process" wasn't the one they started with. It seems like cleaning out consoles and replacing parts that are not working or older components that have high potential of not working right is the definition of refurbishing.
tbf we have to give ppl the opportunity to improve and change. It seems like theyre trying and the least we can do is give them a chance. I also appreciate what you do and holding ppl and businesses accountable. its just important to know where to draw the line and remain objective.
The comment about their warranty was a bit infuriating since a console that isn't actually refurbished can easily fail and yet there was no way to check to see if it was cleaned inside without breaking their seal. So...if you broke the seal and found out that they didn't actually refurbish then it was no longer under their warranty. I still don't understand why anyone would buy from them rather than get a used console locally or on ebay.
The way I'm reading it is all consoles go through there "cleaning process" which pretty much means there gonna pop the top off and blow all the dirt out but all consoles that are deemed "broken/not working" go through there "repair process" which includes all the previous "cleaning process" plus replacing capacitors thermal paste etc so in a roundabout way no there not doing anything different and they put this up as a safeguard from being sued in the future
Man, I want to see a sit down talk between you and reviewtechusa as you’ve both done a ton of vids on DKOldies maybe you could think up as to why DK still hasn’t changed or something idk. This company’s weirdness just keeps stretching deeper and deeper.
The only thing I want dkoldies to do is to get drew steimel to apologize for smashing a rare gba sp because he thought it was fake, and i want him to say it was a mistake and he didn’t know that it was real and the ique battery in the smashed gba sp is real.
If you end up buying consoles to test their word, it would make sense to do it under a different name and address if possible! This will eliminate the possibility of them truly refurbishing a console only because they know you're the buyer!
The fact that they “revamped their process” by doing the most basic of “refurbishing” just proves that they weren’t doing a thing to actually fix them originally. Even someone who is tech illiterate would know your supposed to clean it out
My question is will they refurb all the consoles they have in inventory ready to sell? I doubt it, that sounds like big undertaking. I suspect this new policy only counts for new incoming consoles, so if you bought one now I expect it will be the same old DKO-like dirty console on the inside
True, I see your point. 81 percent of small businesses have no employees.. In 2019, startups averaged 3.3 employees per business. So 100 may be small to some extent, but contextually; it's not really that small.
I wouldn’t give them any more money, it’s not worth eating the loss just to see that they are still only refurbishing broken consoles. They said it themselves only the broken consoles are being refurbished.
If you can buy more consoles from them, then sure, go ahead. We may as well see if they've changed or are just doing corporate speak for the sake of doing it.
IM ACTUALLY WHEEZING RN.. "We wanted to have a heart-to-heart about something important. Content creators, competitors, and TH-camrs using our logo and our employees' images in a negative, unethical, or underhanded way without our consent just isn't right, and here's why" (1 hour ago) those rats will PAY
if you do end up buying from them to see if the refurbishment process has actually been improved hopefully you can make it look like your just a average customer so they don't just refurbish the consoles because the console will be in a video
In between Jacobs uploads I feel like that kid off the incredibles like mr incredible; "what are you waiting for kid" Kid; " I dunno, something amazing, I guess"
I cant believe folks are still on their side 😂 maybe they bought those good reviews. Probably paying X amount to givr the positive vibes. Keeping some people on their side. Buy some more stuff!!!!!!!! Also DK is way over priced
Kinda surprised how positive the comments are on their new short… it’s not like they haven’t lied about refurbishing before…
Edit: I'd recommend checking my community post tab to see their latest post and my response. I've officially decided I'm not sending anymore money their way.
Yea, people should be pushing for quality products from his company.
Astroturfing
This is why I'm starting my own retro gaming business that guarantees refurbishing and the warranty does NOT void if you open the consoles, so you can review the inside and still send it back if it is not to your standards.
@@retrogamer848 Great to see you starting a business, I hope it succeeds and I will subscribe to you! :)
@BlueCraftXDIsnottaken thanks, opening and refurbishing/fixing is something that I love to do, so I will provide quality products to my customers.
I think lawyers are telling them what to say at this point. They were being sued a couple months ago (not sure where that is nowadays)
I think you should buy more from them. You also need to make sure they don't find out it's you buying them. This way they can't just send you some clean consoles to make themselves look good.
My only gripe would be, yeah Jacob could buy more consoles that are deemed refurbished, but chances are if they have a unit on the shelf that is already deemed 'refurbished' prior to dkoldies new refurbish procedure, current consoles bought could still be dirty because I doubt dk is going to refurbish units on the shelves. Maybe buy 6 months from now and see.
He needs to buy an OG 360 and see if they replace thermal paste
@@quinto6Yo I know that crossed my mind as well.
nah that will make them richest
Uh no
Finally he did, it’s such a shame customers get screwed over by him. Now he has admitted it.
Well, acknowledged it.
AFAIK he's just a face and not the only one responsible.
@@PrimeRetroGamer Yea, I do know. I just mean the company and himself acknowledging it in a video
screw that dude. they gaslighted us for MONTHS
Joey isn’t the CEO of Dkoldies
Joey is probably getting screwed over by the ceo
Even when they're "admitting" to wrongdoing, they're still snaking their way around details, like a "few" dirty consoles and "slighty" higher prices, and using corporate munbo jumbo to cushion their acknowledgment. They haven't changed one bit.
Welcome to the nature of business. Does their shareholders no good to admit any actual fault. Just pretend it's all isolated issues and they're "changing the refurb process" out of the goodness of their own hearts.
I'm willing to bet their sales started to take a hit. It took 8 months for them to "address" the issue because, I think, they were hoping that as time passed, people would forget about the entire situation. Well, this may be the proof that their bottom line took a MAJOR hit. I think it's amazing that you, Review Tech USA & a couple others were calling DK Oldies out & holding their feet to the fire. Keep up the good work.
I would hope their bottom line took a hit. paying 200%+ more for a worse condition console than I could buy on EBAY. a PS2 slim for $170. go home DK oldies. you're smoking crack.
The reason they waited so long is probably because they'd recieve a butt-ton of backlash and they were waiting until everyone forgot about them. As you said their comments are relatively positive now, and they def weren't a couple of months ago.
Their views have also declined a lot since then, so that's probably why.
S/o to you and other TH-camrs for holding businesses accountable and forcing them to improve. W for the gaming community
Now if only game developers would start listening to the community then the true w will be served.
@@jetgames2282most of the gamer content creators are sponsored/payed off and will double down even if the game sucks, saw it with starfield, within a day the game came out all the content creators were giving it 10/10 and saying how good it was but then it turned out to be one of the worst games ever made
What I don't understand is WHY wasn't this the all time standard.. . They're lawsuit scared them so they can't skate by anymore
Would love to see of they're actually doing it this time. Rich from reviewtech USA said he's gonna have to get another one now, so I'd love to see your luck as well with their "new" refurbishment process
Lol no way they changed. Anything with a fan will still be Full of dust.
It’s probably taken them 8 months to hire a refurbishment team that can actually do the job
My guess on the reason that DKOldies didn't test that PS4 you got back in April was because they probably assume "It's a new gen console, if it looks like it works then it works". Same with their refurbishing, they probably think "if it's a new gen console, how dirty can it be?"
It's also more difficult to take those apart . They weren't touching anything that takes more than 2 minutes to disassemble .
Ps4 isn't new gen that thermal paste is probably 8 years old. Any console that's 5 years old should have their paste changed in the refurbishing process.
@@TechMatticzmaybe he meant a newer generation console
@@bryanobrien2726then they dont do their job then because that was literally their job to do refurb that is the bare minimum
@@dxtremecaliber Agreed . Laziness is no excuse .
The corporate gaslighting is next level from those crooks.
Yeah, I’m also like 99% sure they made a short answering the same question a few days prior, but were defensive like usual and then showed a group of people around a table ‘refurbishing’ consoles. unfortunately i think they deleted it, without anyone downloading it.
I'm just surprised they acknowledged and finally said something
Who cares how u feel?
@@SLICK8116 Who cares what u think?
@@M.R.Gorilla obviously you😂😅
@@SLICK8116awh so insecure 😢
@@Wario1382 awh soo butthurt🤦🏻♂️
They made a short saying that the stickers are magically removed now. But neglected to mention the void in warranties.
Would love a continuation of the DKOldies sega. I also agree with you, I remember looking at the DKOldies refurbishment page the other day and I felt it was very vague and potentially misleading on wether they actually open all the consoles and properly refurbish them.
*saga
He has to review the games themselves and not consoles anymore
Thank you for doing these videos. It’s quite obvious that DK Oldies is a scam and if people see these videos and still order from them are getting what they deserve. It’s the unknowing customer who deserve better.
Yah And I already felt like they charged to much to begin with. And you never really are sure what you are getting. This is why I usually shop ebay if I cannot find what I am looking for locally. I like to see what I am getting in person. But you have alot of dishonest ebay sellers to. But for the most part, I have gotten what was advertised on there. As well as photos. But they don't always do justice.
I'd love to see a continuation to the dkoldies saga
2:17 yes if see if they actually refurbished their consoles now they said in the short, they now refers the consult
"We have done an internal investigation and found that we have done nothing wrong!!"
Its sooo lame "they" suddenly start paying more attention. They should have done that day 0.
Looks like they watched the Linus tech tips video and took some notes on damage control...
I ordered a bunch of Genesis games from them this year. The prices weren't unreasonable, but one of the cartridges didn't work. I had to ship it all the way back to the States from The Netherlands, which I didn't like, but I did get the costs of the game, shipping and some extra back. So I was satisfied in the end.
The inspection tag showing what was done sounds to me like that had so e rouge employees in the “refurbishment department” pencil whipping forms which is how the controversy even happened. Now they can track who is and isn’t doing their job. But we will see I guess.
If I were to guess though, they only replace capacitors and/or thermal paste if one gets returned by someone for reasons associated with those items.
Pretty sure they'll still be able to bullshit the inspection forms. This is all a face saving move to keep the investors happy in the light of bad publicity.
Fight this battle to the very end, sooner or later something will happen that’ll cause this mountain of chaos to shake
Some here in PA may consider April still winter. May is definitely spring though
Certainly seems like they’re fishing for relevance again😅
They are always relevant because they post shorts showing off hundreds of these retro consoles, its so cool and such a shame that they aren't being cared for properly
@@gavwreckerit's so cool?
I mean...if you and other TH-camrs/influencers go and buy consoles now just to see if they're actually refurbished correctly now, they've achieved the goal regardless if they are or not. They're in the business of making money by selling consoles and games. If you and others buy the consoles just to see if they've upgraded the refurbishing process, congratulations to them. They've sold consoles and made money.
I found it hilarious how the closed caption called them " Decay " oldies. 😂
That's quite accurate, about their consoles, and about the company itself lmao
Don't spend any more money with them. You've done enough and it's appreciated
Sucks because i spent $120 on them a few days ago for a PS1 and now I realized that they don’t refurbish their products
@@BuffedAcheron yea, that sucks. This company is nothing but a bunch of frauds
lol the auto generated subtitles nailed it there. "decay oldies" haha.
I totally get you not wanting to give them anymore money, regardless if it's for content or not, but I know I'd be very interested to see some more teardowns.
You have to love the internet...so many people/companies get caught out in scams, but the people of internet come together and they definitely do not let these scammers forget it.
The weird thing is they sell grouped lots of for parts or not working consoles on their eBay account all the time. I don't understand their refurbishment process if they are not able to fix everything or have too much? I would question the knowledge/experience of what they can repair I guess.
With the amount of money they bring in, they should have a refurbishing department with its own boss rather it just being a couple of employees.
I don’t live in the US, but I have watched your videos on the DKOldies consoles and I definitely find the responses to be highly suspicious. I think this comes across as face saving tactics. Either way I hope they step up their efforts and make an honest effort to improve.
Glad to be witnessing history. Good step forward.
1:11 - "We've thoroughly revamped our refurbishing process"
AKA "We got called out for lying and not doing the BARE MINIMUM to ensure our consoles were at least clean, and decided we'd better start doing that because now we're about to be sued."
Why was the end blurred out lol, its just Joeys face with his forehead being huge.
Would love to see you buy more consoles and open them up!
Here's an idea. Figured out what the worst console they sent you is, then get another one of THAT exact console and model.
Looks like they are just saying the same thing they have always said about "refurbing everything" but this time they just changed a few things and said that that's what they are now doing...even though they said that's what they were doing in the first place.
Ya Jacob, I would love to see some more consoles from dkoldies on your channel. I always click on those instantly just to see your evaluation on if they actually did a good job "refurbishing"!
Give them a try again to see if they are still scamming people on there cleaning and refurbishing policies. Plus I agree with what you said about what refurbishing is in your previous videos.
I will believe that they refurbish consoles if they mount a security camera and record whole month of refurbishing proccess on DKOidies Channel.
The only thing I thank dkoldies for, is giving Jacob something to make videos about which led me to finding his channel 🤣 also this whole thing has got me interested in opening up my consoles to keep them clean so they have a better lifespan. Thanks Jacob!
4:16 is just INSANE to me. I recently bought a pink blossom PSP 3000 - japanese exclusive, colour console... for...
70 quid! 70!! that's almost a 150 quid, (182 us dollars) difference between a perfect condition ebay listing and dk oldies "good" condition!!
the fact that they think they can get away with ripping off their customers like this is frankly unacceptable. no matter if they're actually refurbishing their consoles now - there's absolutely NO excuse for those ludicrous prices.
Along with them getting their act together, I believe the best way for DKOldies to really get their head's out of their asses is to start for the main root of the problem, the owner. From what other videos in the past have stated, it's clearly the management having all these issues and the true beginning of the management starts from the owner(s) themselves. Weeding them out will singlehandely help the business.
They're either getting sued or some kind of legal action was taken against them. This doesnt just happen out of the blue. Perhaps an undercover investigator went in? Who knows but its weird.
Yup, get your credit card ready.
@JacobR
Jacob, my vote is to buy a few systems that are known to be difficult to work on and refub. If they deliver the goods, then they should be praised from kicking it up a notch or two and doing better. If not, they should be called out. But if you're going to do it, make sure they don't know who you are during purchase.
the funny thing is dk oldies is admitting they were not properly cleaning them by saying from now on we will be blah blah blah, me over here like why were you not doing that from the get go.
Imagine having the desert ps3 running next to you for a day, your lungs would be begging for some non Sahara desert oxygen
Regardless, even if they actually are finally doing what they say they do....the prices are just way to insane. I do not get why people will pay 3x what something is worth from them.
I think the main problem for me at least, since the beginning was the fact that dkoldies was selling stuff for way to much money. Even after this fact, and the fact that we know now that they weren't even really refurbishing consoles. I think it hits a bit harder.
Now, of they are actually refurbishing consoles now. Then the prices at least make a little more sense. But I don't really want to be the ginny pig. Especially when there are way cheaper alternatives out there.
Definitely man I would want you to buy some consoles from them to see are they really backing there words with the changes in the refurbishment process like Joey is saying the stickers and verify work they done like Joey is saying just cooperate talk
"... the insides were dirty." YA THINK!? Took them long enough... As far as caps... most of these caps are over 20 years old or more, even if not most are liquid electrolyte even if modern, the should ALL be replaced... SMH.
Gaming consoles would be a good option. However, what about the handheld gaming consuls? Nobody's checked to make sure that those are being tested and cleaned.
Since your order got picked to be filmed I am throwing in your mother in law, Satan and 12 cent keychain!
That is exactly what is going on. New legal department and legal copy write.
They are trying to use the gap in us talking about them as much to reset algorithms ahead of holiday Black Friday sales because Joey needs a new wig.
Very simple answer to this. I expect have just hired a PR team. Now they are in positive PR overdrive.
I love the subtitles in the short. It says „decay oldies“.
I have feeling if you do get a console and it is dirty they would say something along the lines of "Sorry I'm not sure how something this happened. It appears you were sent some of our old stock that hasn't been through our new refurbishment process.".
Well said and documented timeline! I don't trust DKO and the bandaid fix on each issue. Sad... Hey i made it into a Jacob R video! Even if it was a rouge comment calling DKO out 😂
They need to be changing the paste on EVERYTHING they get, not just the ones that obviously need it. Little Timmy's old 360 that still has a warranty sticker on it and has never been opened sounds like a jet engine when turned on, but it plays games so ship it out? That seems to still be the MO.
I’d love to see some more console tear downs from DK Oldies. The only way to know if things have truly changed for the better at DK Oldies is if creators like yourself purchase consoles and verify they are in fact “refurbishing” them.
They are still hiding behind the warranty... Gambling on the fact that most customers will not open the console and they will replace the ones that do.
"Acceptable condition N64, Genesis, NES, SNES reset button may not function."
That's not acceptable, that's broken.
I recently wanted to sell my Xbox and games to them and they offered me $38 or something. I sold my Xbox 360 and games before and they took it for like $90😂
I'm not sure why this "new refurbishing process" wasn't the one they started with. It seems like cleaning out consoles and replacing parts that are not working or older components that have high potential of not working right is the definition of refurbishing.
I thought it was fishy, so I commented on that same video and said, the process changed, to satisfy the customer or to not get sued again??? Lol
tbf we have to give ppl the opportunity to improve and change. It seems like theyre trying and the least we can do is give them a chance. I also appreciate what you do and holding ppl and businesses accountable. its just important to know where to draw the line and remain objective.
The comment about their warranty was a bit infuriating since a console that isn't actually refurbished can easily fail and yet there was no way to check to see if it was cleaned inside without breaking their seal. So...if you broke the seal and found out that they didn't actually refurbish then it was no longer under their warranty. I still don't understand why anyone would buy from them rather than get a used console locally or on ebay.
The way I'm reading it is all consoles go through there "cleaning process" which pretty much means there gonna pop the top off and blow all the dirt out but all consoles that are deemed "broken/not working" go through there "repair process" which includes all the previous "cleaning process" plus replacing capacitors thermal paste etc so in a roundabout way no there not doing anything different and they put this up as a safeguard from being sued in the future
Man, I want to see a sit down talk between you and reviewtechusa as you’ve both done a ton of vids on DKOldies maybe you could think up as to why DK still hasn’t changed or something idk. This company’s weirdness just keeps stretching deeper and deeper.
It's not random. Holiday season is among us. It's perfectly timed.
I think you should buy and review another one. It would help the community make informed purchase decisions based on the new information.
Blurring the tv in the background makes this funnier
@HeyClips I know, I seen that, I watched before it was blurred.
If you do decide to buy from them again, make sure they can't tell it's you to avoid any kind of special TH-camr treatment
The only thing I want dkoldies to do is to get drew steimel to apologize for smashing a rare gba sp because he thought it was fake, and i want him to say it was a mistake and he didn’t know that it was real and the ique battery in the smashed gba sp is real.
We need you to buy a few and check for yourself and expose them
that blur picture towards the ending must be joey face 🤣
If you end up buying consoles to test their word, it would make sense to do it under a different name and address if possible! This will eliminate the possibility of them truly refurbishing a console only because they know you're the buyer!
100 employees? No wonder the prices are high, too much overhead.
Either getting sued or their sales were down. Possibly both
Dkoldies is like "we refurbed this $600 ps3 slim for you!"
The fact that they “revamped their process” by doing the most basic of “refurbishing” just proves that they weren’t doing a thing to actually fix them originally. Even someone who is tech illiterate would know your supposed to clean it out
My question is will they refurb all the consoles they have in inventory ready to sell? I doubt it, that sounds like big undertaking. I suspect this new policy only counts for new incoming consoles, so if you bought one now I expect it will be the same old DKO-like dirty console on the inside
Hate to tell you this but in the US a small business classifies as less than 500 employees
True, I see your point. 81 percent of small businesses have no employees.. In 2019, startups averaged 3.3 employees per business. So 100 may be small to some extent, but contextually; it's not really that small.
I’d love to see if they are genuinely replicating thermal paste now
I wouldn’t give them any more money, it’s not worth eating the loss just to see that they are still only refurbishing broken consoles. They said it themselves only the broken consoles are being refurbished.
The reason why the candles are getting dirty is because they’re in storage and not being touched probably for years or months or days
If you can buy more consoles from them, then sure, go ahead. We may as well see if they've changed or are just doing corporate speak for the sake of doing it.
I hope Decayed Oldies is actually doing what they say this time around.
IM ACTUALLY WHEEZING RN..
"We wanted to have a heart-to-heart about something important. Content creators, competitors, and TH-camrs using our logo and our employees' images in a negative, unethical, or underhanded way without our consent just isn't right, and here's why" (1 hour ago)
those rats will PAY
if you do end up buying from them to see if the refurbishment process has actually been improved hopefully you can make it look like your just a average customer so they don't just refurbish the consoles because the console will be in a video
In between Jacobs uploads I feel like that kid off the incredibles like mr incredible; "what are you waiting for kid"
Kid; " I dunno, something amazing, I guess"
Aye. I’m from Pennsylvania. No we do not have winter all year. Someone on that DKOldies page is insane. If not everyone 😂
I cant believe folks are still on their side 😂 maybe they bought those good reviews. Probably paying X amount to givr the positive vibes. Keeping some people on their side. Buy some more stuff!!!!!!!! Also DK is way over priced