I'd pay the extra $20 just to get the proper box instead of that crappy one. Kind of unbelievable that they're able to sell a readily-available console like this second hand for such a tiny discount and people will actually pay it
@@SunnyExMusic some people are perfectly fine with saving 20 bucks. They just want a working switch I guess and don't really care about condition. It's like the other month here in the UK Microsoft started refurbishing Series X consoles and they cost £30 less than a brand new one. And yeah I snagged one as soon as I saw they were available.
@@JudeTheTH-camPoopersubscribe I mean if you’re tight on cash or don’t care I can understand. I just can’t stand if I get a pre owned console and it’s scratched or something. Games yeah, I just bought inmortal fenyx for 16$ and it was 20$ brand new.
I don't understand why people would pay $20 cheaper when you can get a brand new one with the nice looking box. They're also at every Walmart and target I walk into haha
@@Agumon2509 If you actually keep trying tho its doable. I don't know a single person who actually tried to get one for months that hasn't yet got it for 500. I am just waiting for a pro or slim model
Good video but not worth it your only saving 20 dollars buying it uses when you can just spend 20 dollars more and buy a brand new one used switches were never worth buying in my opinion
I was slightly incorrect about the joy con setup. The blue on the left and red on the right is how it comes with consoles (original and OLED). Red on the left and blue on the right is how it comes if you buy the joy cons on their own. Regardless though, they didn’t include the OLED joy cons, which is why they were loose
@@RobbinBanksInc I haven't personally seen this, there is some differences in manufacturing tolerances though. if the locking catches work fine. then I normally place a slim peice of plastic (think a drink bottle) against the rumble motor. and this make the flexing better
@@GinandTronics i had to put a couple pieces of electric tape on both sides and the joycons were snug and slid in and out smoothly. It was just weird that the white joycons out the box was wobbly for me but different colored joycons were snug so probably just a manufacturing error
@@RobbinBanksInc yeah you can stick tape on the lower bit. I can't really do that as I sell them, so I make sure they don't have the wobble. one thing I've noticed with the manufacturing of the switches is, there's alot of different manufacturing tolerances. so I guess if you get loose metal rails. and slim plastic rails, then you get your problem.
Ironically, even if these are kinda terrible deals when you can get the new system for slightly more money, there’s the advantage that the joycons might actually not drift for a long time due to the joycons having their joysticks replaced!
That makes absolutely no sense whatsoever at all. They'd drift in the same amount of time whether they were replaced or not. Do you think Nintendo puts used joysticks in their brand new systems? Use your brain, you have one.
im really not sure what the beef is with refurbished consoles, i got a white switch oled, looked completely brand new and still no problems after 2 months. even when i got my xbox one refurbished absolutely no problems whatsoever. i get sometimes they come stratched and with clear signs of wear but if it works as intended and your not picky about appearance why the hell should it matter?
It’s just the fact that you don’t get a warranty and you can’t see the console really, if it works and isn’t completely messed up then I guess your saving 20$ but that’s not really much money.
i did chose to have pay for a longer warranty for the xbox but it did come with 30 days and didn't cost me any extra, im pretty sure i still have the receipt to
The joy cons from my V2 non-OLED Switch have no wobble in my OLED Switch. It's possible those joy cons are just really well used and that's why they're wobbling. I thought maybe they're aftermarket since they have those stickers on them but then you said they have some scratches on them.
I have white oled and it does have slight wobble from day one. Is that normal? I bought second set of cons and it wobbled after one day of use. Just a slight wobble nothing major. This is my first switch so I don't know if that's normal. Also it does go up and down slightly if you push it. My friend has one too and it does go little up and down.
Never a good deal. Gamestop always sell refurbiushed consoles, peripherals and used games in poor condition for not much less than what they sell for brand new.
from my time back in the day working for them, i'm pretty sure when gamestop says "refurbished" it means that something was missing and they "replaced" the missing part/accessory. i believe that when they took the trade in for this oled it was missing the joycons so they just threw in a pair of pre-owned joycons into the box
The loose joycons can happen with any console. I have an regular switch, I bought it brand new and the right joycon was a little loose. Later I bought another pair and they were tight. Some of them can just be loose I dunno the reason.
I got Nintendo Switch Oled on Facebook Market yesterday here in Alaska only for $200. It had a proper box and everything. it is in super mint and prestine condition. So basically new. The best Nintendo Switch deal that ever purchased. 🙃❤️
i only got this to begin with cause it was the only one in stock. luckily, my local gamestop is super nice and was willing to replace my joy cons without much fuss, and besides the joy cons, it was in perfect conditions, no issues.
I mean, it's illegal for them to sell you the improper model of joy cons and advertise the product as a Switch OLED. That's probably why they gave little to no fuss. It's the same thing as advertising and selling a 2022 Honda Civic, but the engine, wheels, side mirrors, and axels are from a 2007 Ford Focus. Completely illegal.
@@jrob0021 not true, they come from stores. managers and key holders are the ones that do them, regular staff can’t do them, after they get shipped from the store they could end up at the corporate office although that’s not what from what I know.
Gonna be the odd man out and disagree with the majority that advise avoiding buying used/refurb'd from Gamestop. Being a former employee and even before then I used to quite often buy used/refurb'd systems from GS. If you take advantage of the 1yr replacement warranty for an extra $20 it's beyond a steal if anything goes wrong with the system you just bring it to your nearest store that has a replacement and swap it out. Survived the 7th generation with the 360s re-occurring RROD issue doing just that. Ended up going through a dozen or so systems that otherwise would have had to been sent off to MS and paid for out of pocket.
It’s only a good deal if the price is actually good on the refurbished console. Every refurbished console I see from GameStop now a days is barely cheaper then new, so it’s not worth it. $350 brand new OLED switch with warranty >> $330 refurbished OLED switch + $20 warranty. We also just don’t have nearly as many issues with consoles now like we had with the 360, and even PS3
@@jrob0021 Yeah I agree on the newer consoles aspect for sure. Probably shoulda clarified a bit further, on systems with more known or prevalent issues I think it's a better deal over the typical 1yr manufacturer warranty and that's it.
You mentioned OLED burn in? Someone actually was doing a test with a still image, the thing that causes burn in and it's been weeks of the switch being on non stop without the dimming and theres very little issue with it according to him
The joycons were badly designed from the start. After the expensive-to-manufacturer and better quality parts of the Wii U, Nintendo went cheap on the Switch.
They did. I have the OLED and the OG 2017 model. I can confirm the rails are different. To me they feel a bit more gripy like they don't want to let the joycons go.
I remember last year I bought a "Refurbished" PS4 Pro from Gamestop. I'm actually excited to get home to play it and then the fan is noisy and it's kinda hot, when I open and check it it's disgusting inside. It's dirty and there's a 1 dead insect lol, it's only clean in the outside but not inside. I actually return it and get my money back....
Yeah I think the OLED burn in is overblown in general. I’ve had an LG OLED for 4 years with no issues and I just got another one with no issues so far (fingers crossed lol)
I won an auction on ebay for a bare tablet, £17 the only fly in the ointment is seller said the HDMI out doesn't work but for that money I am not too unhappy about it as it works brilliantly. I bought a set of budget joycons and those too work super well surprisingly and paid £13 for them so I have a working usable Switch for £30... very pleased :D
Never buying refurbished items from GameStop again. I got a refurbished joycon that had the worst drift. I doubt they do inspections before bagging and reselling.
What I do to make sure it wiggles less is to cut 3 small square strips of tape and stack it up on the bottom of the rail so the joy-con has less free space to move
I bought my switch from GameStop (because I couldn’t find them anywhere else) and it was broken the micro sd reader would constantly have the pop up come up and it was really annoying. I had to replace the chip or whatever for it.
4:51, He is wrong. The Red on left and Blue on right is how it has always been. Why it is flipped is because if you buy separate Red and Blue Joy-cons the colors will be flipped.
The worst part? This was probably a lucky refurbished Switch. I bet good money they've sent out Switch's either just on the verge of drifting Joycon, or already with some from of Joycon drift. If they actually replace the sticks or something, then I'd be shocked. Either way, it's most certainly not worthwhile to buy a refurbished console for $20 less at any price point if it has scratches everywhere, if the components on and in the console are worse, and even if you just get a worse unboxing experience, or a worse experience as a whole.
You are surprised? My OG launch Switch from 2017 is still in great working condition despite a few scratches on both the dock and console itself along with wear which is to be expected on the Joy Cons after 1000+ hours of use with a ratio of around 60% handheld 40% docked. Also haven’t experienced any kind of drift.
Glad I have a local game store that sells literally any console. Take trade ins on anything just about and have great prices. One of those locally owned types. Great quality and return services. Get all my retro and used stuff from there
Bruh youre lucky you even had a refurbished oled switch at your gamestop. No one where I live is turning theres for trade in nor is there any new on sale where i live.
Lamestop upto their old tricks again, I don't know why people bother with preowned or "Refurbished" save your change and just buy new. As a former employee TRUST ME lol.
i have an original 2017 neon switch and the joy cons are the same colour as the new oled when its actually new and it was a separate package to get the left as red and the right as blue so you made a mistake here but its actually gamestops mistake that they included the wrong joy cons
I had bought a refurbished oled and it was insanely bad. Nothing was fixed and anything wireless wouldn’t work. Luckily for $22 they let me swap it for a brand new one
$20 dollars that's crazy U think it would drop down to at least $300 Smh BTW My Walmart here in a tiny town called Willows in Northern California in the last 3 months every other week they always have 2 Switch OLED's for some reason they only sit on the shelf no more than 24 hours then they sell
I remember getting a refurbished Wii U from GameStop back when Smash 4 was close to releasing. It was all good and the console itself worked as normal, up until I turned on the Gamepad. They messed something up with the wireless signal for the gamepad. The thing boots into an error screen most of the time. It takes like 3 attempts to turn on. I don't know if this is an actual Wii U gamepad problem, but the thing can sometimes have burn-in from the error screen. It goes away quickly, but it's a bizarre thing to see. I don't know what GameStop did to the gamepad.
The wiggle is because Nintendo doesn't do any quality control on their crap overpriced joycons. Its literally a crapshoot on whether or not your joycons will wiggle on your device. I've had several joycons and every single one of them are completely different from the other one. Some fit looser, others fit tighter. Some have buttons that feel solid, others have buttons that feel completely hollow.
Ty for ur video. U only reinforced the fact that GStop does not care about their customers. A few yrs bk I bought a NEW Xbox 1X & had to return it bk twice because it was obvious that it wasn't new. Only when I said "I'm opening it here b4 I leave & I am recording w/my cell" that I got a new one. Their excuse was.."things shift in the box during shipping to the store" which is a bunch of bull$#!t. I only purchase a wire or something small nothing major. Best place to buy, for me at least, is Best Buy. Take care & tysm once again.✌
I don’t underestimate the power of a refurbished console Back when the Xbox one was Microsoft’s recent console, my folks got me an my brothers a refurbished Xbox one from gamestop. We’ve have an Xbox one S now and My older brother has the refurbished xbox at his place now, an while at this point that refurbished Xbox one is fairly old for a console, it’s still working great!
My og switch has the blue one on left and red on the right. Not sure why, maybe it's a newer version since I got it in 2020, or maybe cuz I'm British? Like maybe the UK got slightly different ones. IDK.
Oh oops actually I was wrong. The blue on the left and red on the right is how it comes with consoles (original and OLED). Red on the left and blue on the right is how it comes if you buy the joy cons on their own. Regardless though, they didn’t include the OLED joy cons
My (non OLED) Switch is refurbished because it was all my Gamestop had and it works great! The right joycon does have a slight drift but nothing to prevent you from playing. I rarely play in handheld mode and use a wireless controller anyway, so I don’t care.
I have a normal switch, and the joycons are red on right and blue on left, same as the oled. I think they literally gave you knockoff joycons which is kinda funny, buy a refurbished console for only $20 cheaper just for them to give you worse controllers
Is the switch OLED supposed to overheat when it's only on if you're playing it from 7:30 too but 8:30 is it supposed to overheat real fast or what do you do to fix that
So I bought a brand nintedo switch from game stop an when i got home i noticed the inside of the dock has scratches where the hdmi chords are could that be from gamestop workers or manafacture same eith the remote the base of the controller where the joy cons slip into the vack of it had a weird mark on it that wont come out
I've worked at GS before. "refurbished" is false advertising because they do absolute jackshit to most of the consoles that come in. you make sure it works on a base level, meaning it turns on and theres nothing wrong with the picture and controller, you take the serial number into the system, and then you box it and shelf it righ there in the store. one time I even bought a ps3 that didn't have any data from the previous owner wiped. that felt wrong to me so i just did it myself. thankfully hardware and function wise its never given me problems.
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I'd pay the extra $20 just to get the proper box instead of that crappy one. Kind of unbelievable that they're able to sell a readily-available console like this second hand for such a tiny discount and people will actually pay it
Gamers are very cheap lol.
@@JudeTheTH-camPoopersubscribe yeah if this was a old console yeah, not a knew one lol. But we are cheap lol
@@SunnyExMusic some people are perfectly fine with saving 20 bucks. They just want a working switch I guess and don't really care about condition. It's like the other month here in the UK Microsoft started refurbishing Series X consoles and they cost £30 less than a brand new one. And yeah I snagged one as soon as I saw they were available.
@@JudeTheTH-camPoopersubscribe I mean if you’re tight on cash or don’t care I can understand. I just can’t stand if I get a pre owned console and it’s scratched or something. Games yeah, I just bought inmortal fenyx for 16$ and it was 20$ brand new.
@@SunnyExMusic as long as the console works then yeah I'm down to save 30 bucks or so lol.
I don't understand why people would pay $20 cheaper when you can get a brand new one with the nice looking box. They're also at every Walmart and target I walk into haha
You can't just simply get a new ps5. My used one works perfect:)
@@Agumon2509 If you actually keep trying tho its doable. I don't know a single person who actually tried to get one for months that hasn't yet got it for 500. I am just waiting for a pro or slim model
Good video but not worth it your only saving 20 dollars buying it uses when you can just spend 20 dollars more and buy a brand new one used switches were never worth buying in my opinion
They do it so we don’t have to risk that much
When u factor in tax u really should basically buy the new one
Would rather spend the $20 knowing I get a new console, and also the satisfaction of opening up a new console.
I agree.
Some ppl just don't Wana spend a little extra they rather buy beer with it or weed and have fun enjoying there old concole while drunk and high
@@thegamingzone5963umm…no? That’s a weird way of depicting people who just want to save
@@animdoodle lol
I was slightly incorrect about the joy con setup. The blue on the left and red on the right is how it comes with consoles (original and OLED). Red on the left and blue on the right is how it comes if you buy the joy cons on their own. Regardless though, they didn’t include the OLED joy cons, which is why they were loose
yeah this is correct,
but the Original joycons for on the oled fine. it's just the plastic rails on the joycons and the locking catches have wear.
My brand new OLED had wobbly joycons out the box
@@RobbinBanksInc I haven't personally seen this, there is some differences in manufacturing tolerances though.
if the locking catches work fine. then I normally place a slim peice of plastic (think a drink bottle) against the rumble motor. and this make the flexing better
@@GinandTronics i had to put a couple pieces of electric tape on both sides and the joycons were snug and slid in and out smoothly. It was just weird that the white joycons out the box was wobbly for me but different colored joycons were snug so probably just a manufacturing error
@@RobbinBanksInc yeah you can stick tape on the lower bit.
I can't really do that as I sell them, so I make sure they don't have the wobble.
one thing I've noticed with the manufacturing of the switches is, there's alot of different manufacturing tolerances. so I guess if you get loose metal rails. and slim plastic rails, then you get your problem.
Ironically, even if these are kinda terrible deals when you can get the new system for slightly more money, there’s the advantage that the joycons might actually not drift for a long time due to the joycons having their joysticks replaced!
That makes absolutely no sense whatsoever at all. They'd drift in the same amount of time whether they were replaced or not. Do you think Nintendo puts used joysticks in their brand new systems? Use your brain, you have one.
@@PlazDreamweaver assuming they have a brain
@@PlazDreamweaver Couldn't have said it better
im really not sure what the beef is with refurbished consoles, i got a white switch oled, looked completely brand new and still no problems after 2 months. even when i got my xbox one refurbished absolutely no problems whatsoever. i get sometimes they come stratched and with clear signs of wear but if it works as intended and your not picky about appearance why the hell should it matter?
It’s just the fact that you don’t get a warranty and you can’t see the console really, if it works and isn’t completely messed up then I guess your saving 20$ but that’s not really much money.
@@megabro5634 that doesn't sound right, both of those came with a 30 day warranty
@@thewildwastelander you gotta pay 20$ more for warranty
@@megabro5634 nah dude, i had a 30 day warranty for both consoles, didn't have to pay any extra
i did chose to have pay for a longer warranty for the xbox but it did come with 30 days and didn't cost me any extra, im pretty sure i still have the receipt to
The joy cons from my V2 non-OLED Switch have no wobble in my OLED Switch. It's possible those joy cons are just really well used and that's why they're wobbling. I thought maybe they're aftermarket since they have those stickers on them but then you said they have some scratches on them.
I have white oled and it does have slight wobble from day one. Is that normal? I bought second set of cons and it wobbled after one day of use. Just a slight wobble nothing major. This is my first switch so I don't know if that's normal. Also it does go up and down slightly if you push it. My friend has one too and it does go little up and down.
There's no rhyme or reason to some joycons wobbling. Some do some don't. Even the same ones in a different tablet may or may not wobble. Very strange.
I swear people are speedrunning breaking the console and giving it to GameStop, all during their warranty
As a GameStop employee I also get like an extra 40 bucks off so I thought it was a bit more worth it I ended up paying 315 for mine after taxes
Never a good deal. Gamestop always sell refurbiushed consoles, peripherals and used games in poor condition for not much less than what they sell for brand new.
That’s not true.
@@vinnydarrc3953 As a reseller of used consoles for years, it unfortunately is
Yeah. They was selling pre-owned Black Ops 2 for $50 at my local GS. I could’ve bought it for $10 on eBay.
@@vinnydarrc3953 I don't know what to be scared of the most. The fact that you commented this or the fact that your comment got likes
from my time back in the day working for them, i'm pretty sure when gamestop says "refurbished" it means that something was missing and they "replaced" the missing part/accessory. i believe that when they took the trade in for this oled it was missing the joycons so they just threw in a pair of pre-owned joycons into the box
The loose joycons can happen with any console. I have an regular switch, I bought it brand new and the right joycon was a little loose. Later I bought another pair and they were tight. Some of them can just be loose I dunno the reason.
That means the department didn't check it well i have new switch and it is tight cause if not I will return and have a new one
@@jcc4543 yeah. I got mine during lockdown. So I had to keep it lol. They were extremely hard to get in 2020.
I got Nintendo Switch Oled on Facebook Market yesterday here in Alaska only for $200. It had a proper box and everything. it is in super mint and prestine condition. So basically new. The best Nintendo Switch deal that ever purchased. 🙃❤️
Joycon colour is because they're from a replacement pack, so you can do blue/blue or red/red
i only got this to begin with cause it was the only one in stock. luckily, my local gamestop is super nice and was willing to replace my joy cons without much fuss, and besides the joy cons, it was in perfect conditions, no issues.
I mean, it's illegal for them to sell you the improper model of joy cons and advertise the product as a Switch OLED. That's probably why they gave little to no fuss. It's the same thing as advertising and selling a 2022 Honda Civic, but the engine, wheels, side mirrors, and axels are from a 2007 Ford Focus. Completely illegal.
I work at game stop and the reason why is because the boxes run out and the managers don’t get more in time.
I buy all of my gsmestop consoles online though, don’t they just come from like a corporate warehouse?
@@jrob0021 not true, they come from stores. managers and key holders are the ones that do them, regular staff can’t do them, after they get shipped from the store they could end up at the corporate office although that’s not what from what I know.
@@jrob0021 a lot of the times key holders have to do them in my location because the managers are lazy.
Gonna be the odd man out and disagree with the majority that advise avoiding buying used/refurb'd from Gamestop. Being a former employee and even before then I used to quite often buy used/refurb'd systems from GS. If you take advantage of the 1yr replacement warranty for an extra $20 it's beyond a steal if anything goes wrong with the system you just bring it to your nearest store that has a replacement and swap it out. Survived the 7th generation with the 360s re-occurring RROD issue doing just that. Ended up going through a dozen or so systems that otherwise would have had to been sent off to MS and paid for out of pocket.
It’s only a good deal if the price is actually good on the refurbished console. Every refurbished console I see from GameStop now a days is barely cheaper then new, so it’s not worth it. $350 brand new OLED switch with warranty >> $330 refurbished OLED switch + $20 warranty. We also just don’t have nearly as many issues with consoles now like we had with the 360, and even PS3
@@jrob0021 Yeah I agree on the newer consoles aspect for sure. Probably shoulda clarified a bit further, on systems with more known or prevalent issues I think it's a better deal over the typical 1yr manufacturer warranty and that's it.
Yea GameStop checks ALL items they trade. I have had zero issues with gear.
Bought a bunch of used ps4 controllers from them, most of them were nasty or broken
@@josemanrique8804 I’ve never heard of that… I literally watch them inspect items I trade in thoroughly. Not sure what store you go too…
It seems the joycon you got were bought seperately. The Red Left and Blue Right are the pair you buy stand alone.
You mentioned OLED burn in? Someone actually was doing a test with a still image, the thing that causes burn in and it's been weeks of the switch being on non stop without the dimming and theres very little issue with it according to him
The joycons were badly designed from the start. After the expensive-to-manufacturer and better quality parts of the Wii U, Nintendo went cheap on the Switch.
That pricing makes no sense....!! Can someone explain why it's only like $20 cheaper??
When I was gonna buy a PS4 with my first paycheck a used PS4 at Gamestop was $289 while Walmart had them new like 20ft away for $269.
Woah i didn’t know they flipped the red and blue joycons
I didn't even realized nintendo upgraded the nintendo switch joy con raills!
They did. I have the OLED and the OG 2017 model. I can confirm the rails are different. To me they feel a bit more gripy like they don't want to let the joycons go.
I remember last year I bought a "Refurbished" PS4 Pro from Gamestop. I'm actually excited to get home to play it and then the fan is noisy and it's kinda hot, when I open and check it it's disgusting inside. It's dirty and there's a 1 dead insect lol, it's only clean in the outside but not inside. I actually return it and get my money back....
burn it wont happen unless you leave it like wolffe den did for 3600 hours
Yeah I think the OLED burn in is overblown in general. I’ve had an LG OLED for 4 years with no issues and I just got another one with no issues so far (fingers crossed lol)
I won an auction on ebay for a bare tablet, £17 the only fly in the ointment is seller said the HDMI out doesn't work but for that money I am not too unhappy about it as it works brilliantly. I bought a set of budget joycons and those too work super well surprisingly and paid £13 for them so I have a working usable Switch for £30... very pleased :D
Wow
Late reply did it come with the ac adapter?
Never buying refurbished items from GameStop again. I got a refurbished joycon that had the worst drift. I doubt they do inspections before bagging and reselling.
Bruh how did they mess up the joy-con situation xD
GameStop is a joke - no wonder why Reggie left.
Lol they completely jipped you
What I do to make sure it wiggles less is to cut 3 small square strips of tape and stack it up on the bottom of the rail so the joy-con has less free space to move
Thats the thing about referb, its definitely 50/50 if you get a console that was like touched once or one that was completely rebulit or something
3:10 you can do that on the on the og switch, it’s not new
Yep but not as easily and you also get a better hole for cable routing in the oled version
Bruh, wdym the joy cons are original switch joy cons. The blue/red joy cons for the original are ble on the left, red on the right
Yo great videos 😎
Thank you
Such a good video thank you I was concedering buying a switch soon and your video displayed how simple the console set up is.
I don't get why buying refurbished when the money saved are what 15/20$ :/
we need more gamestop 3ds console videos!
I don’t think they sell 3ds consoles anymore
why are there stickers on joycon how did no one point that out?
he just didn’t take them off during the video.. i’m sure they can be easily taken off.
is nintendo switch is not oled
I was thinking of getting a PS3 Slim off eBay how are they btw? 🤔
I bought my switch from GameStop (because I couldn’t find them anywhere else) and it was broken the micro sd reader would constantly have the pop up come up and it was really annoying. I had to replace the chip or whatever for it.
Around 2009 or so as a kid I bought a GameCube at Gamestop and the included controller was a Wavebird. Got it for $30. Wish I still had it.
4:51, He is wrong. The Red on left and Blue on right is how it has always been. Why it is flipped is because if you buy separate Red and Blue Joy-cons the colors will be flipped.
So it was not like that on the original Switch.
Yeah I just posted a comment about that. Regardless though, they didn’t include the oled joy cons and resulted in them being loose in the rails
@@jrob0021 ok
This happened to me mine drifted so I had to get a brand new one.
The worst part? This was probably a lucky refurbished Switch. I bet good money they've sent out Switch's either just on the verge of drifting Joycon, or already with some from of Joycon drift. If they actually replace the sticks or something, then I'd be shocked. Either way, it's most certainly not worthwhile to buy a refurbished console for $20 less at any price point if it has scratches everywhere, if the components on and in the console are worse, and even if you just get a worse unboxing experience, or a worse experience as a whole.
Those are also aftermarket joycons to.
Just so you know the straps that you got are for the original switch. The OLED straps have White stripes.
Using Scissors! We're is your trusty knife? 😁
Lol I couldn’t find it so I had to resort to scissors
I don't know, my white oled's joy con controllers have gotten pretty wiggly since I first got it around launch
I purchased mines brand new March 2022 with extended warranty for $376 after taxes. I despise any pre owned game consoles.
Wow i still have my Oled switch that i brought from gamestop new its the black & white one and it still plays great
Why wouldn’t it? I still have the same Nintendo switch I bought back in 2018 and I played it a lot, it still works!
You are surprised? My OG launch Switch from 2017 is still in great working condition despite a few scratches on both the dock and console itself along with wear which is to be expected on the Joy Cons after 1000+ hours of use with a ratio of around 60% handheld 40% docked.
Also haven’t experienced any kind of drift.
Glad I have a local game store that sells literally any console. Take trade ins on anything just about and have great prices. One of those locally owned types. Great quality and return services. Get all my retro and used stuff from there
Bruh youre lucky you even had a refurbished oled switch at your gamestop. No one where I live is turning theres for trade in nor is there any new on sale where i live.
Lamestop upto their old tricks again, I don't know why people bother with preowned or "Refurbished" save your change and just buy new. As a former employee TRUST ME lol.
I just realized the joycon grip is the older one not the new one with a glossy logo
Go to amazon warehouse you can always find a very decent condition oled for around 270 and everything is cleaned and repackaged.
i have an original 2017 neon switch and the joy cons are the same colour as the new oled when its actually new and it was a separate package to get the left as red and the right as blue so you made a mistake here but its actually gamestops mistake that they included the wrong joy cons
It’s never worth saving $20 on a refurbished GameStop Oled switch when you can buy a new one for $20 more.
In Australia if you get a switch refurbished your saving about $100
I had bought a refurbished oled and it was insanely bad. Nothing was fixed and anything wireless wouldn’t work. Luckily for $22 they let me swap it for a brand new one
$20 dollars that's crazy U think it would drop down to at least $300 Smh
BTW My Walmart here in a tiny town called Willows in Northern California in the last 3 months every other week they always have 2 Switch OLED's for some reason they only sit on the shelf no more than 24 hours then they sell
Really great video you made and I really like they box art design they use for refurbished console from gamestop
Refurbished ones already?? 😅😅
Yeah lol, people trading them in quickly I guess
@@jrob0021 Yup looks like it
I guess the novelty of them was short and sweet meaning just a phase like everything else
@@captainamerica1274 I guess so…
I was waiting for this
Love your videos
I got a refurbished OLED from Nintendo for $319 and it looks brand new and comes in a new box.
I remember getting a refurbished Wii U from GameStop back when Smash 4 was close to releasing.
It was all good and the console itself worked as normal, up until I turned on the Gamepad. They messed something up with the wireless signal for the gamepad. The thing boots into an error screen most of the time. It takes like 3 attempts to turn on.
I don't know if this is an actual Wii U gamepad problem, but the thing can sometimes have burn-in from the error screen. It goes away quickly, but it's a bizarre thing to see. I don't know what GameStop did to the gamepad.
I was playing Wii sports resort on the Wii U the game is still fun
I thought the joy cons are all the same.
Yep for me the savings needs to be at least a new game's worth discount. To early to buy refurbished oled consoles imo.
The OLED joycons on rail are always like that. Mine was baught new, it’s not the rails it’s joycons.
Jaycob R the neon controllers are the same on the old switch that swapped colors was gamestop using the controllers from their stock
never bought something from gamestop i also never will
I was wondering is the switch outlet supposed to
The wiggle is because Nintendo doesn't do any quality control on their crap overpriced joycons. Its literally a crapshoot on whether or not your joycons will wiggle on your device. I've had several joycons and every single one of them are completely different from the other one. Some fit looser, others fit tighter. Some have buttons that feel solid, others have buttons that feel completely hollow.
Can you buy a refurbished Nintendo switch from newegg?
I sold mine locally on FB for $300
After a month my white joycon on my oled got pretty wobbly with light use
Huh, that’s concerning lol
My right joycon started to wiggle already too. I’ve only had mine for a few weeks!
Crappy joy cons ? So its just normal joy cons then lmao
Totally not worth it, $20 different? Look at the joycon shell it shines that means is well used.
Ty for ur video. U only reinforced the fact that GStop does not care about their customers. A few yrs bk I bought a NEW Xbox 1X & had to return it bk twice because it was obvious that it wasn't new. Only when I said "I'm opening it here b4 I leave & I am recording w/my cell" that I got a new one. Their excuse was.."things shift in the box during shipping to the store" which is a bunch of bull$#!t. I only purchase a wire or something small nothing major. Best place to buy, for me at least, is Best Buy. Take care & tysm once again.✌
You’re a surgeon how you open these consoles so easily
I don’t underestimate the power of a refurbished console
Back when the Xbox one was Microsoft’s recent console, my folks got me an my brothers a refurbished Xbox one from gamestop. We’ve have an Xbox one S now and My older brother has the refurbished xbox at his place now, an while at this point that refurbished Xbox one is fairly old for a console, it’s still working great!
cpo is basically no warranty unless it's a lemon
refurbished means it has a warranty
My og switch has the blue one on left and red on the right. Not sure why, maybe it's a newer version since I got it in 2020, or maybe cuz I'm British? Like maybe the UK got slightly different ones. IDK.
Oh oops actually I was wrong. The blue on the left and red on the right is how it comes with consoles (original and OLED). Red on the left and blue on the right is how it comes if you buy the joy cons on their own. Regardless though, they didn’t include the OLED joy cons
@@jrob0021 oh right, thanks for clearing that up.
The king of consoles is back
Lol screen burn in, it’s not a thing you have to worry about… wish ppl get off that.
My (non OLED) Switch is refurbished because it was all my Gamestop had and it works great! The right joycon does have a slight drift but nothing to prevent you from playing. I rarely play in handheld mode and use a wireless controller anyway, so I don’t care.
People should always by noon what’s a few dollars
So it looks like it gets a thumbs down from you. Right 👎
I mean the console is generally fine, but just spend $20 extra and get a brand new one
@@jrob0021 oh
I have a normal switch, and the joycons are red on right and blue on left, same as the oled. I think they literally gave you knockoff joycons which is kinda funny, buy a refurbished console for only $20 cheaper just for them to give you worse controllers
WulffDen actualy tested the burnin. It should only realistaclly happened if you played non-stop for several months. Good luck with that.
I not use Nintendo switch , buy suff new
Might be some Frankenstein console. Since it was refurbished
Is the switch OLED supposed to overheat when it's only on if you're playing it from 7:30 too but 8:30 is it supposed to overheat real fast or what do you do to fix that
Got a used OLED had to take it back because the joy con keeps slipping from the Nintendo. They are shipping me another used one now
Great video as always.
So I bought a brand nintedo switch from game stop an when i got home i noticed the inside of the dock has scratches where the hdmi chords are could that be from gamestop workers or manafacture same eith the remote the base of the controller where the joy cons slip into the vack of it had a weird mark on it that wont come out
I've worked at GS before. "refurbished" is false advertising because they do absolute jackshit to most of the consoles that come in. you make sure it works on a base level, meaning it turns on and theres nothing wrong with the picture and controller, you take the serial number into the system, and then you box it and shelf it righ there in the store. one time I even bought a ps3 that didn't have any data from the previous owner wiped. that felt wrong to me so i just did it myself. thankfully hardware and function wise its never given me problems.
My og switch has a red/orange right and blue left and also you cand seperately buy red left abd blue right so i guess they chicked those coloures in
gamestop just makes you want to stop gaming