I SCAMMED Goodwill
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- Опубліковано 20 лип 2024
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Chapter Titles
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0:00 Intro
0:20 Austin already sniffs something
1:10 Japanese keyboard with Custom Keycaps
2:33 The “Spicy” Stuff
4:08 Austin Evans’ feet in 4K
5:07 “Let me show you the gems…”
7:13 Matt scammed Goodwill??
8:29 “They didn’t know this had a…”
9:16 “They scammed you back!”
10:16 “I didn’t know this existed..”
11:02 the QWERT keyboard
12:18 The BEST for LAST
13:17 And it comes with…
14:05 What do you think? - Наука та технологія
I love mislabeled tech at pawn shops etc. I got an m1 MacBook air with the 8 core gpu and 512 storage for 600 at a pawn shop with 0 issues because they labeled it as having 4GB of RAM and an Intel processor
everyone is a gangsta until the vice-versa happens
I mean $600 is a decent price, now if they actually thought it had 4gb of ram that’s the worlds craziest price
*LGR:* _Greetings..._
Ah the homie Clint
Charity fight austin vs lgr
I read that in Clint's voice
I read that in Clint's voice
*Greetings young man...*
We had a pawn shop that the guy knew nothing about electronics. He had an extremely powerful business laptop that was a couple years old but he thought it was older than a decade. I bought it for $40 not knowing exactly what I would get for it. Ended up getting $1,000.
wow thats a steal
@@Strix_the_wolf That's what the crack head who stole it denied!
I actually worked at one of the (if not the) first Goodwill Computer Store at the corporate office in Santa Ana about 14 years ago. People would donate whole PCs that just had a bad video card or power supply. Actually built myself a pretty sweet quad core system with parts that came in.
For the newer people, a quad core back then is like how highly ranked a 8 core is now. That is really cool you could make a build like that, simply stuff like that and just watching for deals is amazing to do. I love budget hardware and Im glad budget builds are coming along better than years ago. After all of that, I’d hope you kept the pc 😂
@@DakotaTheGoof I had it for a few years before it was time to upgrade. Was definitely a sweet budget machine
@@wcuppy Cool! what a sweet ending!
the "nostalgia" just hearing that cd-r king takes me back to the good ol days here in the Philippines once you buys cd-r king products there's no turning back
0:50 Dude, that’s a name I haven’t heard in a while
That brand is literally everywhere here in my country (Philippines) until…. A few years ago which they closed down
Cdrking, the onestop shop in the philippines were they originally sell blank media products(cd's, dvd's & bd's), flash drives to computer periphereals, but the worst mistake is selling fire hazard computer power supply units,way worst than gigabyte psu's that will burn their house down.
They give you 7 day warranty because the item you bought will break at 8th
Been thrift shopping at Goodwill and Salvation Army stores for a while and had some good luck on getting tech, tools, and other useful things. Few years back, I snagged a Nintendo Wii for $10. Haven't done as much due to the pandemic, but it's like a treasure hunt.
The thing is good will scam and people now that not having what you could pick things out in the store they want you to go online why because they get more money they say they give in that money to the disability but I doubt it because they are a business my thing is they were already skimming off the top at goodwill from us when we're going to the shop anyway we never they picked whatever the company picked that we got what was left over not a taken I left over's shame on you goodwill I'll never shop at you again
0:50 Hold the phone, Austin. That takes me back years ago. That name was notorious, back in the good ol' days in the Philippines. Still is.
Always had a reputation for selling the cheapest stuff, although of course at the cheapest quality. Some stuff of theirs I've hold on to actually still work, though. Surprisingly. A battery charger and an 8GB USB drive.
Cheapness runs through their very core, their business started by selling just tons and tons of CD-R discs as a bundle for real cheap. Whether they worked as a gamble, of course, but it was cheap enough and reliable... enough that people just ate it up.
Don't actually know the circumstances of their downfall, but it seems their business model at the end wasn't sustainable.
2:39 We actually were just given a massage slipper like that by someone in the family. Without watching, I can already anticipate what you're gonna say once you try it on. Bless you.
Edit: You LIKED IT? Good for you. Walking around on ours was torture. (for me)
Now that's a name I haven't heard in a long time....
Only good thing to buy from CD-R King were the non-tech products they had.
Most of the working products they had were just other cheap generic products you could get for less thay they just slapped their logo on.
I was actually going to CDR-King to buy a USB audio card but became sad when the store closed in 2019.
@@adamalarcon4973 Yea lol CD-R King is the king... of being trash. The non-tech stuff they sold were actually reliable, but not because of them and more because they're just stuff. They just do their job :V
Savers, hands down, some of my best tech finds incorrectly priced. About a year ago, the savers local to me, had 4 All In One Dell Touch Screen computers for 4.99 each because they thought they were monitors! I kept 2, sold 2 for 400 each
Although, a goodwill near me also has a computer section... and who ever does their prices here is completely out of touch. Everything is WAY too high. I saw a Core 2 Duo 4GB RAM Win7 computer there the other day for 499.99
The W540 Thinkpad is STILL a viable, usable laptop today. It came out in 2013/4 actually...max 32gigs of RAM and it could be spec'd with an Nvidia NVS2100M gpu with 2GB of RAM. It also could have a 2.5k lcd panel. I use mine everyday and with an SSD, it conquers all. Absolute steal at $170 and with the top specs, they sell for over $400 all day.
I have the I7 Quatro version, Samsung SSD and 32GB of RAM as my daily work machine... She weighs about 6lbs but still a beast lol
I have a w530 with the quadro 2000 and quad core i7 with 32 gigs of Ram. I upgraded the screen and I love it for a daily!
A lot of people they can see a brand new thinkpad and they will think it's a bad/old computer, simply because of the look.
There is a place I worked that we had both ThinkPad's and HP. The ThinkPad had better specs, but most people wanted "the silver ones (HP), not the ugly ones (Lenovo)"
@@louis8169 I worked for a Pharma company in IT and all we used were Thinkpads. They are great machines. I loved that if a user had an issue Id bring a shell and just swap the HD and then bring it back to my desk to work on.
8:30 : my personal best moment from matt itself 😂😂
I bought my favorite mechanical keyboard from Goodwill for $18 and most of that was shipping, I got it from their ebay store. It was an old Logitech G710 with cherry blue keys, so not super valuable, but it was in basically new condition even though it was probably 5+ years old. That ended up being both my favorite and cheapest mechanical keyboard, I am still using it as my main keyboard 4+ years later.
Interesting to find out they have a dedicated 2nd hand computer store. I don't know if they have one in my area or not.
If you are living in the Philippines you know how legendary CDR - King is. RIP to the GOAT of pinoy stores.
Next video should be about FB marketplace. The new Craigslist! Lol
I've just started roaming the isles of my local Goodwill looking for electronics I can use for DIY projects. Prices at Goodwill make eBay's seem like you're buying it from Beverly Hills. Really good prices, but we don't have a computer section. I may suggest that, or it might be at the one other store in our state that's supposed to be a bigger warehouse...Great Topic 👍
Man, great deal on that 60% board! the caps and switches are worth way more, just pull out the switches if they are hot swap and you can lube em' throw them in a new body and pcb, that's all you need!
chill out with you lube body pcb stuff oof man no its fine as it is, nothing of this you need.
@@Xenoray1 and why the hell not? I'm saying if your an actual kb enthusiast dude.
@@Jezee213 if you were an actual kb enthusiast you would know that the keyboard shown is a 75% not a 60%
@@chopggs good point, I missed that one lol.
@@Xenoray1 its fine if you have no care for the typing experience or sound, but I have that exact board, E Yooso Z88, and its hotswap and i did all the mods mentioned above to it along with new Akko Ocean Blues and the thing sounds sweet! best part is it was only $150 in total!
US has CD-R King? I thought it was an exclusive store here in PH... and most of their store are closed now lol
Yah ikr maybe someone from the Philippines brought it there
"This is" (Pun intended) the best vid I've seen-
I don't know if I missed it since this was playing when I showered but goodwill now have a large shipment operation. So going to a good neighborhood doesn't yield better results because Goodwill will ship out when they have too many similar items. And they will distribute them to other stores in the area. Keeps all locations stocked and offers different products to different types of people.
Seeing the CDR KING keyboard makes me nostalgic. In the PH,you can almost make a setup with all CDR kIng products back in the early 2000s
That front camera issue was a known problem on the iPhone 6. I had to bring mine to Apple to get it fixed.
Technician here, based on what I was seeing that generally is a foam ring that goes around the camera lens to keep dust out more or less, just needs to be peeled off when inside the phone or peeled off and stuck back on more centered
Came here to say this! Same for me.
About 3 years ago, at thrift store local, I got a Lenovo Yoga 15" 2.1, I5 7200u, 8gb ram, 256gb Samsung 850 evo m.2, Nvidia 940mx 2GB, mislabeled as a celeron 4g. I told them they said we'll we can't change it , paid $275.
It's 2022 and Austin has become everything he stood against. Scamming goodwill and committing tax fraud. What's next, stealing candy from babies? You've changed Austin Evans, you've changed.
I used to go to thrift stores a lot (one in particular) and found so many great buys that I could use or flip. I got an original DS (around DS Lite time) that was is great condition for $2, numerous TI graphing calculators for 50 cents to a dollar each, Grandia 2 for DC for $2,... Now I want to go there. 😄
I still rock a Dell Latitude e6440 ATG today, daily used for work. I love it. Upgraded it to 8gb of ram and a Kingston SSD and it's a solid work laptop with a anti-glare screen, finger scanner, cac reader and handle.
Haswell will live on for a while
CD-R King is a chain or stores in the Philippines selling rebadged cheap electronics and accessories from China. The name comes from how they started selling blank optical media, specifically, CD-Rs, back in the early 2000s.
Their business has been contracting due to online shopping becoming a thing down here (the dumb part is they sell electronics...and somehow didn't adapt to this?! no it wasn't the lockdowns, they've been declining for months before those), so it's not unlikely that some of their canceled orders ended up getting sold elsewhere online.
I've been to Goodwill (and some local charity thrift) stores in my major metropolitan midwestern area and there's hardly anything actually tech related.
Specifically went in looking for monitors (one of the few tech things they do have) and the best I've found are from around 2013, and they're all in trash condition, scratched up, marked up screens, covered in a decade+ of filth, no power cables. They're like $10-15, untested.
the goodwill's here in NW Florida and Southern Alabama send their PCs off to recycling, instead of selling. i hate it here. In NC, there is one that strips and sells the parts
It's amazing what you can find just looking around! Recently picked up a new in box 500gb samsung 860 evo for $4 at goodwill and also picked up 2 16gb iphone 6s's for $15 at a local flea market! Everything seems to be in almost perfect condition except for the two iphone's having a couple dead pixels despite the displays being clean.
I've been going to my local computer works goodwill (now the grid) for the past 8 years and have gotten many of computers and servers there. (Half of them sold as is for $20 and just needed ram and a hard drive)
11:10 That keyboard will "s-qwert" on you lmao
Way before the boom of cheap tech products, CDR-King was a pioneer of selling cheap tech garbage along with their undying 7 days warranty.
I would love that QWERT keyboard for CSP shortcuts.
Jesus that cdr king keyboard brings back memories from my childhood 🤣
Video editor just non chalantly breaks the fourth wall
Oh my God. The first keyboard was a CD-R King?! It's a brand here in the Philippines. They are mostly known for very VERY cheap electronics and peripherals. Before e-commerce was a thing here, that's where you get electronics and peripherals if you're really on a budget. You can even buy super tinny earphones here for 1 USD.
They have a 1 Week warranty and some of their products last 1 day after the warranty period. LOL.
It's just very nostalgic because the brand dwindled down ever since e-commerce boomed here in The Philippines. They did not catch up and as of my knowledge, they don't have as much branches anymore as before.
i picked up an iphone 6s plus 128gb model from Ebay here in Aus for $50 inc shipping a few months ago, really good cosmetic condition. Fully functional with a slightly temperamental home button. i use it for music, movies when i am away from home and trialing reading documents on it.
Matt sounds like a tamer Patton Oswalt…
and Kinsey’s nail polish is beautiful! love that shade of blue
IDK how you can even get by without a full numpad Austin. I have so many games that literally require it for certain keybinds, IDK how i'd ever get by without it being there on my keyboard. Also RE: the laptop it's more like 2013-14 depending if it's Haswell or the Devil's Canyon refresh of 4th gen
"Austin Gets ALL the Prices RIGHT (AND EVERYONE IS UNFAZED)"
I found a brand-new Kodak instant dock (a photo printer that works with your phone) bought it for $25 and it was all sealed and working and sells for $163 on Amazon!
You guys should def do this again
CD-R King was a computer retail chain based here in the Philippines, discounted computer, mobile accessories. Im wondering how the heck did that keyboard end up in the USA... probably when a local moved to the US is the likelihood reason. but still its super rare for a cheap computer retail store product to end up there haha.
They've used to sell flat screen tv's that won't last a month, computer power supply unit that burn their house down to defective flash drives
@@001delight9 I remember having a 8GB flash drive from CDr King that was so sturdy that I ended up losing it instead of breaking it.
With that PS3 since it's not the one for backwards compatible you can still mod it and upgrade hard drive to 1tb and there you go. I still have my original backwards compatible one. Just had to go get the van and thermal compound replaced due to temps starting to get higher and I think it's time to replace van and thermal
I got a Super Slim PS3 on Facebook marketplace for $50 with 3 games, a DS3, and the power cord (no included hdmi cable)
LGR is gonna come to arrest you guys for visiting goodwill without him
Me sitting here looking at the 2 PS3's I bought from Goodwill ages ago.... $50 for a Slim and $30 for a Phat backwards compatible (software though). I didn't realize the prices were so high on ebay. Hmmm....
So wait, what stores can I get stuff like this? I’ve been looking for stores like this in Texas but I only see goodwills
Your local goodwill area should have a website. On there there should also be info for computer works in that area. One example of this is Central Texas goodwill 's website lists one location for a computer works
Definitely a store with a good will.
I still use my old Iphone 6 as a webcam for twitch streams, $50 for that good of a webcam is a steal
I got an absolute steal of a deal yesterday!!! A PS3 slim (I think) with its power cable, a original controller and 5 games FOR $10 at a garage sale and it has next to no scratches
3:13 Austin, the duodenum is the first section (10 cm) of the small intestine where digestive enzymes are released or produced.
i have a very similar sades one handed keyboard for when I game on my laptop and I love it. it easily fits on the left side of my laptop and travels well. it's not perfect but it's better than the built in keyboard
That thing on the Thinkpad it's called a CLIT. command line interface tool. i remembered.
To me Goodwill is life, I've gotten some of the best deals ever there though it really does depend on where you go and how lucky you get.
I found some crazy deals but sometimes it really requires digging or being at the right place at the right time. But also yeah being in a better neighborhood you're less likely to get broken garbage that's priced way too damn high.
I live in a nice town where they opened a GoodWill around 5 years ago… the parking lot is completely full every day with a line outside the door most mornings.
That’s the f’n “Hacker lite” keyboard! You guys are reminding me of my youth in the late eighties. Jesus H Christmas! I want to buy one! Along with a box set of “My Secret Identity” Jerry O’Connell; you savage
Bruh 200 for a beat up fat ps3 is crazy… a couple years ago I bought a new ps4 on Black Friday for $200. Chip shortage has been RAVAGING prices bro
Most of those thinkpads have quadros in them. I know mine T420 does.
I have the og fat ps3 still but it’s the one that you can play backwards compatibility with PS2 games. Sadly it dead of over heating but I saw how rare they are and how much the prices have skyrocketed for people that would love to have one so I still have mine and I’m gonna fix it soon
Wow! A CD-R King keyboard. Their stores here in the Philippines have been closed for years now.
I love shopping at goodwill and thrift stores. I got a 500gb PS3 slim for $40 at a goodwill and I got and GameCube and slim ps2 at a junkie thrift store $10 for both but no hook ups or controls but once I got all those both work great.
That custom keyboard is the Z88 which I got for $20 on amazon
Man great vid I am now going to buy all my birthday gifts from goodwill
The iPhone 6 had a manufacturing error called camera slip! That phone had it as well as my iPhone 6 out of the box when I bought it
You know, I picked up this exact model ps3 the other day on goodwill auction online for $46. Probably be a good place to do a video on.
Take a few days and try find a load of yard sales and see what you can dig up!
ps3 phats are expensive because of the backwards compatibility with ps2 and ps1 like you guys mentioned. There is only 1 or 2 models of phat ps3 that are hardware compatible with most ps2 and ps1 games, some models use software emulation and have less compatibility, and the slims only have one or the other i think.
Oh hey I processed that second keyboard when I was working in the donation sorting area of the back of the Computer Works store.
I love my Number Pad Keys I usually Macro them for some different Games
That keyboard with the custom caps is SO COOL
I actually loved my old tacticalboard from thrustmaster.
i got a printer from goodwill for $5.49 but then got a 50% off discount and paid $2.74 and the printer acutlly worked but it didn't come with a power cable but i borrowed my other printers cable
I use one of those partial keyboards (and a mouse) with my gaming laptop. Especially when I am somewhere with a good TV or which has a "free" monitor it's awesome. Gaming on a laptop keyboard is passable but not great. The fact that those keyboards are small yet have full sized keys is great. Also - you want it to be membrane because mechanical keyboards are pretty heavy and less "flexible" - which means when you fit them into the front pocket of your computer bag it is more likely to cause damage to other stuff like your mouse, headset - or worse - laptop - and it makes the bag heavier and more cumbersome.
So yeah compared to my main computers mechanical keyboard it's trash - however for mobile gaming it's AWESOME! 😀
I paid 60 dollars(Canadian) for a PS3 Slim.
Hearing that they're going for those prices is hilarious, and proof people are easy to scam.
I have found some good deals at the local university surplus center. You can pick up some of the PCs they used in labs for under $100, easily. I have used some for Plex servers, and other things, but some will be decent enough to get started with for gaming. Of course, you have to find a GPU... But I had a friend find a 4th gen i5 with 8Gb of ram and a 1Tb HDD 4-5 years ago, and he just had to through a new SSD and GPU in it to start gaming. I also recommended he get a new PSU, since the prebuilts weren't great. You can also pick up cheap monitors, so you can find some good deals, on occasion. But, YMMV.
Would love to see you shop tech at Aldi ... unfortunately they only offer weekky special that repeat each year so you probably gonna have to build up the tech to present
I used to have that CD-R King Keyboard
Its a pitty stuff like this is basically not a thing in Australia. Charity shops basically don't touch anything that's electrical because the cost to make sure its all safe (and legal to sell and compliant with all the necessary regulations) can't be justified by a charity.
I saw a gaming keyboard at 99 Cent Store, which is a misnomer since most things go for more than that.
totally like the cheep keyboard more than that little thing lol. Although I personally gota have my numpad as well as I hate small keyboards. larger the better for me (with in reason)
I don't know if this helps but CD-R king was a filipino cheap electronics shop where you could buy electronics for very cheap prices with very low quality products. The products atleast last a month or less
I have a Computer Works sorta near where I live and I LOVE IT.
Just a reminder GoodWill is not a charity, it a is a for profit retailer.
Me who literally has a $15 Vista Compaq and a $20 PowerPC eMac, and a less than $1 (locked) Android 7, 50© HP iPod, and 20© (locked) iPhone 4s: 😂
Goodwill is 100% a for profit corporation. They actually have little charity it’s just a genius marketing name
Build a gaming pc from goodwill and Thrift stores definitely gonna be a hard challenge
Dude I go that goodwill all the time. You got lucky. I have been trying to find good parts there
The value in that PS3 is the possible backwards compatibility to play PS2 games. I’d be willing to spend $80 to find out.
Keep up the good work
CD-R king used to be an infamous local brand here in the Philippines.
wait cdr king, in the Philippines thats a store that offers tech items that are cheap but unfortunately they are close now
Austin and Matt I’m ur biggest fannn
What location is that Goodwill with the computer section... I'm in downtown L.A ..
They sell CD-R King merchandise in America? I wonder was that imported from the Philippines?
I know this is an old video, but yeah CD-R King is famous here in the Philippines for cheap but somewhat a bit so-so quality stuff
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lol, CDR King keyboard... was that imported from the Philippines?
I got some Fanatec Clubsport v2 pedals at a Goodwill for $5
CDR King? it was like a walmart here in Philippines but poorest version hahahah
Lol
CD-R King is an electronics supply chain in the Philippines.