I spent $200 On Mystery Boxes. (To Prove a Point.)
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- Опубліковано 15 лип 2022
- I spent $200 on keyboard mystery boxes to see if they were a scam or not.
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Translation of the last 'propaganda keycaps'
Space bar: Americans are not qualified/eligible to speak condescendingly/ to be condescending to China
Enter: Chinese people will not accept this/ will not take this treatment
Copium
Copium
Copium
Why did you steal glarses sound
Though this video is exposing the random mystery box companies, this video is so dry in humor and it pained me to watch all the way through
Anyone know where to get those Chinese key caps?
that last set of key caps really took me out...........
for those curious, it basically says "america has no right to talk down to china, we won't accept it" or "we don't take that shit"
lmao no fucking way xd
if anyone can find this I will buy it immediately.... i need this set
LMAOOOO
omfg lmao, china really out here selling propaganda keycaps. im fucking dead
Wonder how much social credit the person that designed those keycaps got. You think they'd be eligible for an hour of Netflix?
I guess "mystery box" sounds better then "Here's a bunch of crap we had lying around that were trying to recoup a profit from"
which would be fair if labeled as such. "here, ten random switches for 5 dollars", "here 30 switches from the same series 20 dollar". Here, random keycap set - might not fit anything - 10 dollar. Why not? Or "ugly keyboard - 50 dollar". "box of mice - 20 dollar". Just being honest would do the trick.
I'm surprised they didn't even bother sending at least one half decent box, considering they were packing 8 of them together
Especially with them going to the same address
@@jaredevers6459 i thought "mh, maybe they are going to send a keyboard divided into all the 8 boxes, like the base in one, 2 set of different keycap, a ton of switches, a cable, etc...
Than saw the video and...
just wow
@@17blaziken that would take actual care and attention. At that point, they might as well make the box more expensive and send a whole keyboard and fully lean into "you get a crazy keyboard set" and show actual pictures of ugly caps and a fitting base line keyboard and ship that. Some people would actually buy those - it is the IT equivalent of using pink tools: They are ugly and everyone knows who it belongs to. And hey: Maybe someone actually finds it finding to use pink cap set on a raspberry pi.
shipping failed here, if they caught it they would've been able to keep the allure and attraction alive by giving him one box that had a keyboard in it to make the consumer not feel like they got dunked on...
I have no idea about keyboards and found this video by pure accident, but didn't he say most of the boxes cost like 15$ and then mentioned that a couple of the keycaps sold for 30$? That doesn't seem THAT scammy to me tbh
9:58 what is written on these key caps somewhat translates to “America has no authority to talk down / bully other countries”
And the enter key says “China will not stand for this”
To me, if this video is genuine, which I believe it is, this is a great example of, "Integrity." Thank you for making this, thanks for making such great content, I hope your ventures bring you happiness! =)
Last part sounds like a fortune cookie.
Thank you!!! Even the order I opened the boxes was genuine!
Ok I guess I wont
@DONT WATCH MY VIDEO okay I wont
@@nevmiku Haha, true! FR^NoCap
the fact that a chinese website sent you chinese propaganda keycaps in a "mystery box" is hilarious and sad at the same time
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Americans put American flags on socks and underwear, so is it really sad, or do you think it's just a thing people do everywhere?
It is an everywhere thing definitely
You were absolutely correct, the chinese key cap set was a Chinese propaganda key cap set LOL. To translate a bit better for you, the space bar basically says America does not have the right to speak with China, and the enter key says, the Chinese won't fall for this.
oh my
Lol
But Hipyo fell for it!!
oh wow that's bad
Based
They really thought packing 1 box with a real keyboard would prove that the other 99% of what they send out isnt completely trash lmao
Thanks for the integrity, glad to see someone actually calling out their bs behavior
@Carl Gunderson if they sent it to him as a youtuber to review or have a look at, it’s probably real even though it looks off.
@Carl Gunderson why would hipyo not mention that it’s fake when he’s literally exposing them? also, why do you keep putting unnecessary commas in your sentences?
@Repent and believe in Jesus Christ love satan
divinrth why?
I think it's pretty well established that the overwhelming majority of ALL "mystery" boxes available for purchase are complete and total trash/scams. As for the fact that they sent you a cherry picked package and called it a mystery box is more than "sus", it screams of low integrity. Not really sure I can support Idobao after this...
Yeah mystery box companies are all scammers. Some companies will mail out 100 boxes of pure random junk then put one good item out just to say what you "could" win. Odds are extremely heavily against you, slots would honestly be a better bid haha.
his box did have his name on it and he did say its specifically for him and you probably wont get the same thing. not really that sus. buyers should have be aware.
I like (some) of epomakers boxes, the ones where it's between about 3-4 sets that all cost more than the box
Think the only time I've seen mystery boxes that aren't a scam are boxes at physical anime/game stores in Japan.
mystery boxes from bigger companies at least, they just hand out whatever they couldn't sell :/
mystery boxes from smaller business do give you more stuff than what you paid for
This was a HUGE yikes for Idobao. Wow.
They 100% sent you a "mystery" box that was hand picked to make the mystery boxes look good. Which is arguably a scam/false advertising. Thats.... um..... thats a yikes.
That's literally the point of sending free stuff to youtubers or influencers. To make their product look good. It's sadly not uncommon for them to get a superior or cherry picked product compared to what the consumer will get, that's why big tech tubers like Linus stands by buying his own product to leave an unbiased review.
can you name a single decent mystery-box company?
@@QuackZack Lol Linus unbiased. He does a lot of sus reviews on sponsored products. Only one worse is jayztwocents. He's an entertainment channel, not an educational one. If you want unbiased it's Hardware unboxed and GN
@@QuackZack This is definitely not normal when it comes to gambling. Its actually incredibly unethical if they intentionally send a real keyboard to a coutuber, and might even be illegal in a bunch of places.
@@knoopx a lil late, but cannonkeys just had a similar thing to this but seems to have gone way better. They only had one tier of box, $25. In it was one full keyset of either their cannoncaps or their nicepbt keycaps. That's it.
Seems to have worked a lot better because you know what you're getting (a $65-$85 full set of keycaps), you just don't know what colorway. However idobao doing stuff like this, sending stuff like a pack of 20pc mismatched switches in a mystery box seems so scummy.
I got 2 of the cannonkeys mystery boxes, got 2 full sets of keycaps, and am happy. 🙂
This is depressing. I almost pulled the trigger on Idobao's mystery boxes too. It's understandable that vendors may want to get rid of unwanted stocks this way, but the ones I have seen usually guarantees that the randomly selected products matches or exceeds the asking price.
If people want to gamble on keyboard stuff, I would recommend Novelkey's mystery switch pack if they ever bring that back. The worst thing I ever received from that was a pack of 90 Kailh Box Pinks for around $13.
PS: That last Chinese keycap set is some nationalist slogans that Google Translate did get mostly right on the space bar, not so much on the enter key. It roughly means 'China won't accept this'. I'm not confident enough to translate that one correctly.
Yeah the mystery switch sets you at least know you're getting a full set of switches. They might be super weird or kinda bad but the point there is more to get people to try some switches that might not be in their usual wheelhouse. I kinda wanna do a build someday and use a mystery pack for the switches, just for the sheer fun of having to use whatever shows up, even if that's box jades or something equally obnoxious.
If Idobao had just gone and done a $15 or $20 keycap set mystery box, I think that would be fun, even if most of the sets are as bad as the ones shown here. It's just when they claim they contain keyboards and other nice stuff rather than cheap shit they'd be throwing out otherwise that I hate it. I do Premier Guitar's mystery stocking every Christmas and while I've never gotten anything really good in it, knowing up front that 99% of the time it's just going to be cheap promotional stuff from their advertisers makes it fun for me, because it means even when I get something like a white beanie with a baseball cap brim and a Gibson logo on it (which is a real thing a bunch of us got this year, and it is exactly as ugly as it sounds!), it's just funny and not insulting.
NK Mystery switches were so good because at least I already have an idea on what I'm going to get. Mostly a bunch of Box Jades or Box Navy's. Which isn't that bad, because I can always sell them for a a little more than what I paid for.
@@J7T800 The people who got those were the lucky ones. I got freaking Gateron blues I couldn't even give away, and Kailh Plums which are somehow less tactile than Cherry Browns.
@@notmac1853 yeah I ordered a 90x switches set and a 110x switch set and they were both box jades.
It roughly translates to "We won't take your shit"
Howdy Hey! I can feel your soul slowly leaving your body as the video progresses. Every keycap set was $20 or under on AliE and or Amazon.
Theory: this fad is a copy-cat of NovelKeys' mystery switch packs, which were very well received. The key differences being A.) you knew exactly how many switches you'd be getting (and also that they were switches and not, say, party-favor keycaps), B.) the worst switches they had on hand were at least decent for the price of the packs, most retailed for significantly more C.) the price was objectively fair and consumer-friendly, and most important to me, D.) they were completely on-the-level about what you were getting into and what you could expect. I bought a ton of their mystery packs and always felt it was worth it - this whole thing is another story. It's like video-game loot-boxes in real life.
That's what I thought too, it's like lockbox RNG. I was actually amazed to learn that people buy these things as a gamble, and indeed that there are people addicted to opening mystery boxes.
Ok I think I'm one of the lucky ones then because I bought four 30 dollar boxes. I received a keyboard, 5 keycap sets (two of them were that matcha set), 2 usb c cables (one had an aviator plug), and 20 switches. The keyboard I received was the ID67 V2 in green. Thanks for making this video because this will 100% be the first and last time I ever buy mystery boxes.
Glad to see they are actually sending them out
@@HipyoTech they need a few good reviews to convince people to buy it!
If you choose expedited shipping you actually have to message them and tell them that you purchased expedited shipping, rip $30
lmao
Why is that even a requirement lmao. So what you don’t look at the orders that customers put in? At all? Do they get processed and shipped by robots? And unless someone personally asks you to fulfill what they pay for separately you’ll just *never notice* that the customer paid more for shipping? I don’t understand companies who still do this.
fist 3 boxes were more in shipping than insides are probably worth....wtf
i alway thought when i saw mystery box or secret crate or whatever on a destributor webside its just them getting rid of unwanted/unsold stock ...seems i was right
maaan at least put in enough switches for a 60% or something but 10pcs you cant even fill a numpad out.. just wow
you wouls expect that they would give you a good deal on unsold/unwanted stock though... this is just a scam
Who WOULDN'T buy the Chinese propaganda key caps? I'm not even Chinese and I can feel the surge in my social credit.
@@AcidicThought its a nice red tho :P
damn im still waiting on my mystery boxes to ship its almost been a month since i ordered. Idobao must use carrier pigeons lol
HOW DID YOU COMMENT 8h AGO?!?!?
@@DasALAL Probably a channel member. They get video access early
@@DasALAL yo what is this hack
@@bardaan008adhikari6 as @TroyC said Probably a channel member. They get video access early
Any updates?
The Chinese words literally says: "The United States is not qualified to speak condescendingly to China" LOL
What this video made me realise (specifically the part with the missing keycap puller) is they use mystery boxes to sell stuff that got returned and/or it was in too bad of a shape to be officially sold
Thanks for not just taking what they said at face value and doing your own research. Companies need to be called out when they do stuff like this
5:25 that's exactly what a "mystery box" is from any retailer. It's stuff that has been in their bargain bin for months and they cant shift it any other way (and still get some money for it) I bought a bunch of these for fitted new era hats a decade ago
Honestly thank you for makiing this video. Unfortunate about the outocme you go out of all those boxes.
What I learnt out of this - mystery box is bad at least the idobao one
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I thought that mystery boxes were just ways to get rid of unsold products taking up space in the warehouse. And usually I would think that they give you things closer to or even under the wholesale value to just get rid of tons of stuff that’s more trouble than it’s worth to store.
likely these "mystery boxes" where customer returns
Or overstock
Love the content bro and appreciate you going through this pain so that your loyal viewers didn't have to suffer the same fate. This makes me a little disappointed in Idobao but I guess what do you really expect from mystery boxes.
Nice Video! great to see someone doing a video on these companies sending youtubers 'mystery boxes' :)
I am one of those people that spent my hard earned money on two of the $30 boxes. I got 3.5 sets of junk keycaps that all have foreign subtext on them. This Mystery Box sale was the equivalent to the very first Prime Day. They just wanted to get rid of their leftover junk.
*at the original retail price 🤣
i find it extremely despicable when companies go and send nicer stuff than what they actually sell when they know the person buying it is a content creator
Fantastic work.
Your writing, comedy, and easy-going nature recreate the stressful situation in a bearable but relatable way.
It's incredibly refreshing to see someone who can take it down a notch, unlike some other UA-camrs who tend to be too over-the-top. Even though I enjoy and love Linus Tech Tips, I have to be wary of the stress their high intensity videos can cause.
The "Chinese Propaganda Keyboard Set" was hilarious, though. That was the moment, the scam was completed. Fatality.
I respect your efforts to educate people about the dangers of gambling and scammers. It's wonderful to see someone doing something good to protect others, and doing it in an entertaining way, too.
Even though I feel old because you made me google "sus", I appreciate your meaningful clickbait.
Keep it up. Peace.
So glad I didn't decide to be the one to do this experiment. Getting $15 keycaps in a $30 loot box is booty. Sorry for your loss, homie. Thanks for demonstrating why loot boxes are scams!
Honestly S tier of him to see that they were using him to get people to buy cheap product and make a video educating his viewers.
ty for doing a video on how mystery boxes are scams, without being insufferable about it, and for making yourself different from the typical youtube content churn, I'm not even deep into keyboards, but because of this I might just do that
The only mystery box I ever bought was from e3d who makes 3d printer nozzles and extruders (e3d is a British company and who all the Chinese knockoff companies copy) and it was clear it was e3d getting rid of old stock. However, what differed it from thistye of mystery box is they guaranteed a full extruder (everything you would need) and also required you to select a voltage and filament diameter to ensure the box they sent would be compatible with your printer.
Not all mystery boxes are a scam, but most are.
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Should have bought some of NovelKeys' mystery switches, when they were in stock. Most people were pretty happy with what they got.
Mystery boxes are a way of getting rid of trash by outsourcing it and getting money in process! Brilliant!
Hahahahaha the China key caps made me laugh so hard
i got 1 mistery box, it was also 2 keycaps sets, one for a planck like keyboard w only options for split Space or 2U spaces, and a 100% set pink w sideprint no options for other layouts.... it was trash, they literaly sent unselable keycaps
Heavily relate to the copium after I opened my second box and pulled out more keycaps
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Great Video on what to expect with Mystery Boxes. I've bought Mystery Boxes for Collectable Items, Electronics, Houseware and recently Comic Books. I've ended up crying in the shower each and every time. Expect to receive either old stock and/ or products Companies can't move.
You're truly a rare breed, exposing the scummy companies that make most youtubers their scummy money. thank you.
Lmao but yet still promoting them in his bio.
"the only thing I can think of these mystery boxes is maybe, it's just all of the keycaps and stuff that they couldn't sell that they just chucked in a box to say, "screw you"" 😆
For some reason UA-cam stopped recommending your videos to me, notifications on cause I really like your content
Perfect video, I'm enjoying this rabbit hole of custom keyboard scene
Never ever buy a "mystery" anything. You are, contrary to what you might feel or think, getting scammed.
Absolutely a disgusting practice that preys on both those with addiction, and those who are young and naive.
you would think if a customer buys EIGHT boxes at once, you would send them ONE keyboard.
at this rate... you are prob better off taking a poll for each part and just buying the winners of each category.
and bonus, get all the lowest voted parts and combine that to see if its any better or worse than the winning build.
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Point definitely proven, mystery boxes are a scam. Something I wish more people knew without having to fall prey to it.
LMAO they really took out $5 worth of keycap/switch pullers from that mystery box. I’m sorry for your loss Hipyo, truly.
$5? Prob make them in some Chinese factory for a dollar lol
I appreciate that you care more about us than some company!
@Hipyo Tech. I really want a keyboard that splits the difference between typing enjoyment and durability for gaming, what would you recommend? I’m super new to keyboards and your content was what got me into it so I’m hoping you can help me out here
I will never buy another mystery box from them lol I know it was a mystery box but for the 40$ one I got a cap set for a 60 percent and absolutely nothing else
I bought 6 of them, I got 7 sets of blue/pink keycaps. a random baggie of screws, a baggie with 3 stabs, and two USB cables. Oh and some random frosted slab of plastic I have no idea what it's for. Total waste of money. (Yes, one box had two sets of the same keycaps, all 7 sets are exactly the same blue/pink color and profile.)
The slab of plastic might be an acrylic wrist rest…
RIP your wallet.
@@Mima-in7fv Nah, it's got screw holes, it's like part of a keeb but no real way to know what it belongs to, the label on the bag just had the name of the material.
Lesson learned, mystery boxes from chinese companies typically mean "Garbage we can't sell otherwise"
@@your_average_cultured_dude Yup, lesson learned.
@@linkah probably a keyboard stand piece i guess
Hey There! Would you mind making a video about buying/modding/building an ABNT2 keyboard? It seems to be the ultimate challenge.
I bought an anime mystery box (Star Box was the brand IIRC) at a con for like 50 USD and got an 8" figurine (MSRP ~80), multiple manga, and a few other trinkets (Albeit, this was like 2017). So maybe I'm a bit biased, but this _is_ total crap.
Legit, good on you for the callout.
Hipyo: Does $1000 keyboard build. Also Hipyo: Oh no $200 on mystery boxes, I'm broke
1000$ keyboard is a "big profit" to hipyo
that 1000$ was money he was given for the video though
That's how all mystery boxes work - they put stuff there that can't be sold.
The "I regret doing that" at the end had me audibly chuckling 🤣
Peter: A boat's a boat, but a mystery box could be anything. It could even be a boat... We'll take the mystery box!
I think they missed off a zero in their "every 1 in 10 boxes is a keyboard" statement
More like 3 zeros lol
What’s the lil keyboard you had at the beginning of the video? That layout got me curious!
Love the callback to Glarses with the "Oh yeah" transition, but the original rather than the filthy frank one haha
Am I the only one who’s never heard of these till now?
Nah I haven’t
it was something that just came out as "support for the community lmao" so I don't blame u.
For anyone wondering the 40% in the beginning of the video is the id42 by idobao
But with what keycaps though?
What are the italic keycaps that came with the keyboard in the first mystery box (to Hipyo)?
9:58 I translated the space bar text and it says "The United States is not qualified to talk to China condescendingly."
remember folks... the house ALWAYS wins
Does Idabao give you flak for making videos like these? Thanks for being an honest person!
They havent seen it yet, but usually they don't care.
@@HipyoTech You think so? Your channel is pretty big and your content influences the public opinion a lot. I'd feel bad if I were them.
I saw the last keyboard from Twitter, and come here for fun. It is so LOL to find that in blink box.
hey hipyo, i just recently started watching your videos, i never got into mech keyboards so much but i do owned a few in the last like 15 years. and i have a problem i would love for you to help me with and even is a great idea for a video.
so i own a corsair k70 mk.2 keyboard (mostly use it for gaming) and half of the switches have anoying metal spring sound and i cant afford to buy a new one right now, so there is a way to maybe make it sound better with out disassembling the keyboard? like lubing the switchs for a new guy?
ps: i know that the fact i own a gaming mech keyboard porbably make you sick but pls help
Bought a $30 box and got a bag or random keycaps like not even enough to mishmash a set
Love alfred making more appearances
In 10:39 left to the chair what keybgoard is this with the panel that has some cool bright lights like disco floor ?
i remember buying a novelkeys mystery box for 90 keyswitches, since I had a keyboard coming soon. Ending up being some Creams, which I ended up liking. pretty good for 20$ spent.
Fun fact: the space bar on the chinese keycap set says "america is in no place to talk face to face with china"
omg it is propaganda keycaps
@@HipyoTech according to GF, it's more "US is in no position to talk (crap) about China." As in, get your own house in order first... It's got strong edgy keeb warrior vibes, but it's not really offensive.
did anyone else hear the voice crack? 5:28
There was a time when I subbed to/bought a few mystery boxes back in the day. I subbed to the Marvel/Pop Funko one for a little over a year, got some cool shirts and Pop figures that I enjoy (the first box had a really nice hulkbuster one that was super high quality and I somehow got a second one of that box free, so I sold the second hulkbuster for like twice the cost of the first box, so it wasn't so bad). And I got a few loot crates for wrestling and a few comic con specific ones. Those kind of crates I always found generally worth it since they cost of just the t-shirt and the Pop figure or whatever "big" item they had in the loot crates would usually cost more than the cost of the box, and everything else was just bonus. A few were really nice, some were pretty trash, but I only really stopped because I was starting to get way too many t-shirts and Pop figures and was running out of room for them.
All that being said, yeah, any type of mystery box that doesn't have a general guarantee of what types of items you're getting is almost certainly always going to be a scam. Like sure some of the ones I got weren't actually worth the "guaranteed value of at least $x" amount that they always advertised because half of the stuff was things I would never actually buy or even really want, but the "big" items were always "worth" more than I would spend on the boxes, in terms of how much it would cost me to buy those same items (or their closest approximation available) elsewhere. Something that is listed as actually random is probably only going to be actually worth the cost you spent a fraction of a fraction of the time.
exactly why I avoid mystery boxes like the plague. imo it's a way to dump unwanted inventory and junk. The exception to this would be cheap junk specifically made for the mystery box which give the sense of value where there really isn't any. If you need or want something, just buy it.
yeah i got only keycaps from 2 of these so lmao
Edit - the 30 dollar ones btw
Hipyo went from the couch to the floor. He then noticed the floor was dirty. 🤣
I have to wonder if any company that has every done a mystery box if it's been done fairly and with true odds. I really doubt that any company has done a legitimate mystery box; I would expect every mystery box to be completely in favor of the company with incredibly low odds to get any of the good items out of them. I would also agree with your theory that it's just a way to move unsold/unsellable stock. If people don't know exactly what they're getting and there's supposedly a chance of getting something good, they're more likely to buy it.
Is there a video of you buidling the small purple Keyboard in the Video?
Yeah, this seemed like bait from how variable the list of items available in the mystery boxes were.
The Novelkeys mystery switch packs were nice because you're guarunteed to get an exact amount of switches, the fun part is that you don't know what switches you bought. At the price it gets sold, pretty much any switch set you get would be a bargain. It might not be so good if you happened to get click jacket switches but I'm pretty sure they didn't include those in the mystery pool the last few times.
I think you hit the nail on the head with the idea that this is all the stuff from their site that didn't sell.
"The United States is not qualified to talk to China condescendingly" on that space bar lol
hey hipyo, can you tell me what the last keycap set u opened was?
i just want to build a budget custom keyboard but i have to get nordic layout and its hard to find nordic keyboard stuff for cheap :/
i thought you were gona say 'maybe its not about getting a keyboard, its about sending a message' cus they sure as hell sent a message. LOL
Whas the purple keyboard at the beginning?? It's gorgeous!
aferall, I like these Russian layout sets. It'snot easy to find good Russian keycaps. They're either expensive or long time to wait.
Just woke up and chose the best UA-camr to start the day
This should be illegal, or at least heavily regulated. They should make it so that these mystery boxes must be worth what you pay or more (many are - a lot of the time they have guaranteed values in excess of what they charge you). It seems this company is just incredibly dishonest and shady.
In my best Maxwell Smart voice: 'Ahh. The old "bait and switch the keyboard for keycaps" trick'
This video is something else. Hipyo exposing fools lol.
i see this stuff about: "heeyyy 80% of you are not subscribed bla bla bla.."
and never ever once, have i thought after that, that i should subscribe