GameStop VS Microsoft Refurbished Xbox Series X - Which is Better?!
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GameStop VS Microsoft Refurbished Xbox Series X - Which is Better?! I bought 2 refurbished Xbox Series X consoles - one from Microsoft for $469.99 (plus $44.99 for an Xbox Game Pass which was required*) and one from GameStop for $459.99. I'll be comparing them inside and out to see which seems to be the better deal. However, as usual, individual experiences may vary.
*Note: since filming this video Microsoft has changed this and the Game Pass is no longer required.
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Why u post the same video?
@@Z0MBIEKILLER5 This isn't the same video. There is part of another video that I made a while back that's in this video because I'm comparing the console in that video to the same refurbished console from Microsoft. I thought it would be better to use actual footage of the GameStop Series X and compare it directly to the one from Microsoft than to just not show footage of the internals of the GameStop Xbox
Can you try taking apart the heatsink after the thermal paste to prove it really is the perfect amount next time?
@@Tronicsfix You should've pointed this in video. I was like "Wait a minute! I've already seen this 'complaints' about mint-colored thermal paste. Am I getting crazy?"
could you do another video about cleaning the ps5? and now on a never cleaned ps5 see if its changed a lot with your older video? a lot of people have that the ps5 just crashes. thx in advance
I worked for a Microsoft refurbish service for a while, it's another company that does it for Microsoft and we had all the original stickers and parts so we could replace everything.We have also always replaced all the thermal pastes so they all always look brand new.
Thanks so much for commenting. This is good to know. I'd love to see that repair shop! Any chance you know the name of the place?
Yeah I bought a retail "brand" new and thee backplate has spudule marks and doesn't quite line up proper And you can tell . It works I haven't had any issues but it does kinda irritate me cause when I put a skin you'll see thee gap alot easier.
@@findantu could have been brand new with a manufacturing defect. Could have also been some mistake if bought it online from a third party seller
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Did you get a lot that came through with a plastic burning smell? Mines smelled like that since day one
Honestly I’d be surprised if Microsoft doesn’t just change out the outer shell with a factory new one if it has enough wear. You can’t beat a factory refurbished.
Indeed i tought the same.. i think they could replace everything..
This. It's just crappy plastic so doesn't really cost them anything as the manufacturer.
@@volundrfrey896 dont underestimte the pricing of a well produced piece of plastic.. but, yeah sure , cheapesr part nonetheless, and way easier to source than some of the chips..
I would buy refurbished but im a guy who likes to keep the box and also i rather play $30 more bucks for something i know is brand new instead of taking a risk
@@christiansantamaria7233 Needs to be at minimum 20% for me to even consider it
I'm a fan of factory refurbished devices. Microsoft has a similar policy to Apple where you get 14 days to return a product for any reason. There's a half decent chance that you can get a brand new device at a steep discount. Because open-box returns can no longer be sold as new, they have to be sold as refurbished, even if the device never left its original box. Other times a device just needed cosmetic repairs because it was scuffed during shipping, but is otherwise brand new.
Factory refurbs can be cool, but only if I’m getting a decent discount. Usually they come with a reduced warranty period, and you don’t get that brand new unboxing experience. A lot of the time with consoles, you usually get a free 1-3 month XBL gold/game pass code/PS Plus code, or a freebie or something. Plus I’m really picky about my controllers, so if there’s even the slightest hint of stick drift/button sticking, chipped plastic or w/e, I have to buy a new controller.
I did buy a factory refurbed gaming laptop 4 years ago from Razer, and it turned out to be a brand new laptop, just open box. I got a $200 discount so definitely worth.
But here it was more expensive than a new one. Even accounting those 3 months of game pass you are better buying it new
My Xbox series X that I got from GameStop came with one year of Game Pass. And the factory warranty.
With Apple and Microsoft, it's possible that their refurbished devices are new but didn't pass QC the first time around. Apple gives you the same 1 year warranty as a new device at MSRP and you can still add AppleCare. So your getting a reasonable discount on what is basically a new device.
I rather trust Microsoft since they made the console and know how to fix them plus Microsoft doesn’t use sandpaper
Agreed!
I cant get over it how stupid it is to use sandpaper on the devices......
Every time I see a Series X disassemble I’m always impressed by the design of the internals
For real. Even before considering the games, game pass, or anything else, they sold me on the internal design.
It’s not a PC 😂 that’s how you know ur games are bad if you pay attention to the internals
@@guccii_daddyy what
@@guccii_daddyy huh
@@guccii_daddyy hey shitass, your PC most likely has a window to see the inside components. By your logic, your games are trash
Weird how the 'perfect' amount of thermal paste is different from one console to the next.
Lol, whatever!
Because thermal paste application is like flowers, all uniques and all perfects.
He does a realtime spatial analysis and adjusts the amount slightly based on the individual surface contours of each chip.
Perfection is the process, not exactly the final result 😜
@@sledzeppelin Lol, ya, this!
Microsoft would just replace the entire board, I doubt they would solder on new ports
Probably true.
They probably swap the board in the refurbish process but have a team to take those boards and swap the ports. If a pad is ripped then they'll probably recycle it.
What is with GameStop always sanding something? It might just be a bad habit. I rather have it with scratches on it then have it look unfinished.
Not to excuse poor work or shady practices by Gamestop, but the company that does Gamestop's refurbs surely has their techs under super tight time constraints and have quotas to meet. Cleaning off the old thermal paste takes up a few valuable minutes. An interesting video might be to try to repair things within a time limit. 5 Nintendo DSs within 90 minutes, or whatever would be a reasonably challenging timeframe, for instance. Could be a cool livestream too.
And that's what bring poor quality with companies forcing the time on tech's, tech's should have time to analyze all the issues and get the fix done properly rather than leaving issues for later on. Repairing stuff is not suppose to be a time race 🤦
@@myst5585 Sure, but the reality is there's going to be a time limit on just about any job you can think of. Repair shops don't have infinite time to work on things. If you're doing it for yourself or your own enjoyment, sure, but shops have to turn stuff around fast or else they go out of business.
When people think fixing loads of items in quick sucsecion is better than taking there time making sure each product is repaired and in top quality almost like new ... then wonder when no one buys there refurbished products 🤔 🙄 can't all be like this guy tho who's one of the best techs I have ever seen tronicsfix
Gamestops only customer is tronics hah
@@sledzeppelin sure it would be nice to have (insert your favorite system) my console repaired by tomorrow but it does not matter this is something to be patient for. I’d rather wait one month for my console to be fixed and no issues ever as opposed to one day for my console to be fixed only to come across *one more problem.* GameStop was never really for the gamers
Officially refurbished consoles and controllers from MS & Nintendo are very high quality. In fact unless you look very hard (even inside) it’s difficult to tell you’re not receiving a new or like new item period.
That was definitely my experience with the one in this video.
This video and comments by a few people have put me at ease about buying MS refurbs If they become available before I can get a new one anywhere
Sometimes or most of the time Microsoft puts new products as referbuished just to keep the sales going, they are imaculate at their referbuishing/warranty fixing their products aswell. best in the game imo
Really cause all it took for me was holding my finger on the seam and feeling an airgap(PC builder I know what's up with airflow) as soon as I shone a light and could see the marks Instabtly knew they are selling refurbs as new .
I'm so glad I bought my refurbished through Microsoft after watching this! Thank you for the vid!
Is it still working ok ?
@@jacobthornton7854They’re not answering you
Just buy a new one for $499
I imagine with the MS one, any damaged areas were just replaced with a fresh board / component, so there won't be any repairs to 'see'.
Microsoft could have printed a new label for that pad, it could be a refurbished pad, like a stick drift return with an OEM repair
Yes, that's true
@@Tronicsfix I noticed you said that after you looked at the consoles,
That's my fault for commenting before the end of the video
I have a buddy that works for Microsoft and he said that Microsoft term for "Refurbished" is pretty loose. Aparently they called them refurbished even if the last customer returned it right after they got it.
The Microsoft console, the thermal paste was fine. But if you look at the time 9:40 on the Gamestop console thermal paste applied vs 11:20 Microsoft console thermal paste applied, there is a lot more on the Gamestop console vs the Microsoft console. So how are both the perfect amount, when there is more on the Gamestop console?
I noticed that too. It was a significant difference.
I think he changes his perfect amount each time.. lol
This is quite the question....I thought it to be a bit pretentious at first to even comment to compare, but now I want answers and feel lied to all this time
I understand what you are saying & I agree that he used different amounts on both but that is just a line he says every time, its kinda like his catchphrase, so whilst yes they are both not the same its just what he says, I get why it can be confusing though!
Honestly he put way too much on the Gamestop one lol. The Microsoft one was a much better amount.
Shocker Gamestop cuts corners with thermal paste, lmfao.
When are the new consoles going to sell for retail price? What a crazy time to be alive.
Yes, agreed. It's crazy how much they still go for.
Get walmart plus and you can get one
video just relesed how did you commend 1 day ago
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@@vasownedv1548 ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Is this the same Gamestop Series X you had in your video on May 27? All the defects and issues on the mainboard look absolutely identical. Seems you even reused the footage and voice-over.
That said: Considering the MS refurbished only costs $10 more than the Gamestop one, I'd definitely go with MS.
He refurbished the video. :)
I bought my PS4 refurbished from Sony and it looked brand new. I would trust the OEM to have much higher quality standards. You never know what was living inside a used console...
will never forget how GameStop butchered Xbox 360 motherboards and called them “refurbished”
Thats why i always watch the video before I comment i was gonna say Microsoft just has new stickers I bet you they still open it and put a new sticker on there witch is actually good cause it looks original
I think they must have done something to it but they did a good job. I can't tell what they did other than maybe replace that ribbon cable.
I would never trust gamestop to refurb anything but a controller or accessory. Given they can't even remove old paste and put new really bothers me as a pc enthusiast.
i was rooting for microsoft for this one since obviously they are the manafacturer and can use oem parts, but after seeing the price it made me a bit skeptical and made me lean more towards the gamestop one, but that one doesn't look as clean as the microsoft one so im stuck between the two
yea, the cost is 499 NEW, why would you pay over that for something that was broken and then fixed?
@@TriforceOfCourage97 yea in the US idk why anyone would get the refurbished for over $450. As of this moment I see the brand new is available at Best Buy and Microsoft.
Yea, I mean, I just looked on the MS website right now, and the refurbished is $470 and the 3 month gamepass bundle is optional (as noted in the video). Honestly, though, why WOULDN'T you be getting Game Pass.
@@TriforceOfCourage97 where the hell do you get it for 500$ new,it's 900€$ where i live
@@RomanBasarabean no man everywhere its 500€
The amount of thermal paste on the MS refurb was just fine. Not sure what the obsession with "the perfect amount" is.
That's because viewers of previous videos would complain about the proper amount of thermal paste used in repairs, so now any amount he uses is the "perfect amount" to poke at them for complaining. At least he still shows the paste application, many people don't show it anymore since viewers complained so much about it.
Agreed. And he put far less thermal paste on the factory refurb then he did the GameStop unit.
I came to the comments to say the exact thing. One definitely had more than the other when he said each had the perfect amount. Then I read DCookStaVideos comment and that made a lot of sense.
Love your videos, however i have a quetion, so now the recent batches of xbox series controllers have defective dpads where the dpads feel very mushy instead of the tactile, or need a lot of force to push down, it is most common on the forza horizon 5 version controller which i have, however im afraid to open the controller myself to investigate the situation so can you please do a video on a fix,thanks!
Hmmm, maybe. I haven't heard about that. I'll have to look into it.
Yea, we have the Forza pad and it definately "feels" different to the pad that came with the console. From memory, particularly up/left (or is it up/right?).
@@peteanderson2533 yes up right precisely
I would love to see some PS3 backwards compatible consoles being fixed I am a big fan of that model @ Generation and I see so many on eBay that are for sale but broken and if someone doesn't do something they're going to disappeared for ever. Please fix some playstation 3 systems and possibly some Xbox 360s as well
If u watched him fixed this and everything else, then the ps3 and xbox 360 are just like everything else lol, it's a ps3 and xbox 360, I don't see anybody rushing to buy that ancient junk 🤣
@@cormaro13 you're sorta wrong. many older consoles do have market even today and original with lil revitalising are generally better than remakes to play old games
@@dalekcat still a very low market, especially with the newest consoles out and being able to play all those games on a PC... so yea u can play around with that old tech or update yourself and get a computer like everyone else and run them, it's not hard I have ps1 and ps2 emulator
would you please get a refurbished DKOldies console? PLEASE! :)
yeah i would love he do the reviews too
Shouldn‘t be a used console be considerably cheaper instead of costing the same as a new one?
hay steve. all through I appreciate knowing how each vendor did on refurbishing these consuls, I was a little disappointed that you didn't turn them on to see if they even work. the e-bay one had the HDMI port replaced. yes it looked good but it would still be interesting to see if it worked. also, what about the controllers. do they have stick drift, do they even work. I know you like to keep your videos on the shorter side but as a fellow technician I couldn't help wondering about these things.
Noted. Thanks for the comment. It’s tough to make a thorough video while keeping the retention up.
I guess you can be 100% sure they'll work, why wouldn't they, they are certified refurbished with warranty and definitely someone did test the consoles after the repair and before putting them on for sale
I agree. While I understand why it was done and the internal component view was great I would have liked to see them both running just to see if anything was noticeable with the console or controller while in operation.
@@Mo-uk7pv Microsoft and Gamestop are not random craigslist or eBay sellers and again, there's an invoice and warranty. Every console comes with a one year warranty (two in Europe) with just with the serial number in the back so relax, the least they do before listing it is to test it, you are just beeing over-suspicious.
@@Tronicsfix A quick montage of "Turn on, fiddling with sticks on the controller app, 'yep, no issues'" would have been sufficient and satisfying, I think! But yea, I always appreciate that not everyone in the audience is looking for seeing every detail.
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Just for the poor thermal paste aplication in the gamestop one to me is not worth buying, mixing to pastes and not cleaning the old one is very unprofessional, why a technician that has the hability to fix an hdmi port in that thick board and do that pretty good job would do such a poor job in terms of thermal paste?
That's what I thought too. They did a good job on the repair only to not do a good job with the thermal paste. Just makes no sense.
I got my Series X day 1 directly from Microsoft. Have not seen any issues or repairs needed thus far. There's always a high chance that getting it from them will guarantee a working console. As long as you use it correctly.
I've been impressed with the refurbished products I've gotten from them.
It’s always going to be a working console…did you drink lead paint when you were an infant?
Games top was shaking in their boots when they saw this. They know they can do better lol.
If you don't care about gamepass one could argue that the gamestop one has better value...maybe?
One could argue that.
when you buy a refurbished console, it is just so much luck rate.
Depending on where you buy from. I've had really good success buying directly from manufacturers
How do you know it's not the perfect amount of thermal paste microsoft put on their own xbox? =P
That's what I'm saying. You co NOT need gobs of it, rather a surprisingly small amount. The amount of fresh thermal paste applied in the video honestly looks like way too much.
I got a refurb from Microsoft and it’s like brand new. Plus if something is wrong ya still get that warranty for a year so no big deal. It was the only way I could get one due to the stock and I got to save like $50 than buying it brand new.
It looked to me that the amounts of thermal paste you put on the two processors was different. If so, how can they both be the “perfect amount of thermal paste”?😉
yes how indeed.
That's just how perfection works.
Was thinking about this while watching him apply the first xbox. That was way too much thermal paste.
@@iroccata Thanks Mr. Wizard. Now shush.
@@edwardmclaughlin719 Sure, whatever you say champ. Now go get your food stamps.
It’s not required to buy 3 months. After you add the Xbox to the cart before adding the 3 months click on the cart and it will let you check out with just the system
Kinda dumb they make you buy 3 month gamepass. Especially when you can buy the new console for $30 more,
and get for first month of gamepass for $1.
M$ probably also have a reflow machine with the correct board temperatures and a part holder to reflow and replace common faulty chips and parts like that hdmi, so it is aligned by eye but then placed by machine.
That's what we used to use when I worked at a Sony authorised mobile repair center
The machine would have templates for the correct amount of heat and times to heat the board andthe parts holder would have a digital alignment tool with documentation about what to align on screen with the cross hairs. Then it'd beep when the Han interaction needed to be done to manual start the part lowering and placement process, and start the reflow/change heating temperatures to reflow solder.
This is the cheaper option as it's semi automated but accurate so each chip or hdmi connector that is replaced would be perfectly aligned and potentially as good or better then manufacture
I would never buy another system from Game Stop/ The exchange… i’ve gotten multiple broken systems from them… and also things I would never think they would repackage. Save your time and spend the little extra money and get it from Microsoft!
Seems like the Microsoft one was a return from someone who didn’t want it for whatever reason. It’s pretty much brand new, including the box (not packaging)
I wish I could do this for a living. I love these kind of videos. What do I need to study to do this for a living?
There is something very satisfying about you and your channel that is completely different from similar channels. I'm watching it to learn new procedures how to fix these devices, but also just to relax in b3d before sleep haha. I want to say thank you and please keep it up.
Great video again, but why you put more thermal past at Gamestop console then to the Microsoft console?
The main thing is to make sure there is enough thermal paste. There was more than enough on both of these.
just a waste it will squeeze out the sides when the heatsink is put back on, you only need a pea-sized amount he's put on about 3 times as much on the gamestop one lol
I liked this video, but it was a bit easy to see that one of the consoles definitely had the incorrect amount of thermal paste...
Microsoft 11:23
Gamestop 9:41
From my experience back years ago with refurb items and bigger companies like Mircosoft is that they dont do minor repairs like an HDMI repair, they just replace the whole board instead since its easier for them which is why everything may look new in the refurb microsoft one.
Yikes that's wasteful. Good to know
When I did Dell field repairs they did board swaps to speed repairs but the boards did get refurbished they did that at a different facility.
I fully respect your work and everything, do not get me wrong, but your definition of "perfect amount of thermal paste" is far away of perfect. I really hate to see paste spread all around chip. There should be just u tiny layer to make contact with heat sink, and, maybe I am wrong but you put too much paste... As somebody below in comments mentioned, you can make a video with glass and applying TP, that will be interesting :)
Why so much for a refurbished console from Microsoft? Isn’t retail 500 for these brand new??
$513 is a ripoff for a new Xbox but for a refurbished one is nuts
How is regular price a ripoff ? If this was 2 years ago u couldn't find even find a xbox unless u wanted to pay $600+
I used to work as technical adviser for Microsoft Xbox Latin America, and when they repair a console, they replace the components, they do not repair it. By the way, most of the Microsoft consoles are repaired in Mexico, and then they are sent back to the USA.
I never understand charging $500+ for a USED console completely assinine to me
I got a switch from GameStop they just threw it in a box loose without anything to keep it from being tossed around..
One thing but if you look at your perfect amount of thermal paste you did different amounts on each on lol so one of them does not have the perfect amount of thermal paste Just busting you balls. Love your videos
Oh my god, there’s different amounts of the perfect amount of thermal paste for the same console.
Revelatory.
I got mine refurbished from Microsoft last July and it still works great
Idk a refurb that costs as much as brand new is completely pointless and counterproductive
2nd xbox from gamestop with thermal paste all over the side.... gameplsstop
Funny how I knew what the outcome of this video was going to be...:-)
Neat! I'd assume Microsoft has replacement parts for everything. Scratch in the case? Replace it! Nice look!
I like your videos
why is "the perfect amount of thermal paste" so much less on the microsoft version than on the gamestop one
Wow. What a rip-off. It should be at least 25% off of the retail price.
Uses the whole tube of thermal paste thats the perfect amount of thermal paste there's a reason he doesn't show the spread after because it's way too much
Did i just Re-Watch your GameStop refurbished video from months ago?, i just realized when you mentioned the thermal paste in 7:15, not a problem for me but i thought it was new/recently bought
Perhaps microsoft just put in a new sticker since its refurbished?
Hey tronics I wonder where you buy parts to fix ps5 ps4 controllers I’m trying to fix mine but I don’t know where to buy good quality parts
1:32 Well, since it was refurbished by the original manufacturer, I think it's a safe bet they have more warranty stickers they could use to replace the original one if they did need to open the controller to refurbish it.
EDIT: I was impatient with posting my comment, and saw you mentioned exactly this possibility later in the video 😅
@@juansalas2882 Neat, I didn't know about that, thanks for sharing!
@@juansalas2882 Oh interesting. Good to know!
If im guessing correctly Microsoft only taking back consoles during warranty window and only if no sign of physical or liquid damage so their refurbed going to be of a minimum quality.
Either I'm clairvoyant or I've seen this video before. I remember the little broken chip and the smashed thermal paste.
My dad purchased a Refurbished Xbox One from GameStop (at the time it was EB Games, since I live in Canada) in 2014. It still works. The console has a loud fan (which only is loud when launching a game, but it goes away after about 10 seconds), but other than that, works fine. Just a little slower because of the older internals.
You can’t really compare the company that existed at that time with the company today. Not really a fair thing to do
@@anonymousamerican4580 I'm aware of that. Just sharing me and my family's experience with it. That's all
Xbox series x inside an original xbox ? Do you think its possible?
That amount of thermal paste on Microsoft refurbished Xbox was perfect, you just had to say something, that they did bad...
Nah, it was an A-. Almost perfect, not perfect 🤣🤣
Thought I killed my £17 Switch, battery had about as much grunt as a politicians promise so bought a new battery but moving the SD card reader off and on did something to the reader as it got really hot then just stopped working :S Got it all back together and I suspect the reader is toast or the card is toast as won't boot with card in slot, everything else works and a new reader is only about £3, I even added the perfect amount of my gold filled thermal paste hehe
Is any of this video recycled footage? I feel like I've seen this exact gamestop console.
We used some of the same footage as the video where I review the Gamestop Series X console. Since I wanted to compare the two we used some of the footage from that video.
@@Tronicsfix I think it would've worked better if you mentioned that. "I'm comparing this Microsoft refurbished with that old GameStop one, heres a reminder of how it was" or something.
Without it, it does look, well, lazy or something.
@@Tronicsfix at least you know how close your fans watch now :D also I wanted to tell you in bought tools for electronics repair and already modded my PSP to run on a cell phone battery. New life for PSP and recycled a cell battery. Thanks for rekindling a hobby I had 25 years ago!
Why does Gamestop SAND consoles and controllers!?
Big fan of this channel. Man you're very generous giving GameStop one a B- I don't think I would have lol.
All the content on this channel related to Xbox Series X are my favorites
I don't know how you can improve even more, every time that you apply the perfect amount of thermal paste is better than the last one. I wonder how can that is even possible...
Cool
I have an xbox one s that is working but hdd is clicking but its working fine but i replaced that hdd to an ssd
Good idea. Usually when they start clicking they are on their way out.
@@Tronicsfix i know so that is why i replaced it to an ssd
here is a trick i did...i used a hair dryer to get the sticker off then made a custom controller then put the sticker back on i only did it for fun..
Yep, that can work well.
Gamestop gets heaps of thermal paste "perfect amount", Microsoft get half as much ...also "perfect amount".........
Hahahahaha!
the lack of a visible screw doesnt mean the controller was not taken apart. since this is an official OEM refurb, MS has all the stickers and components to bring the console and accessories to near new levels including replacing the housing plastics. This is usually the benefit of buying a OEM refurb.
He mentions that if you watch the entire video…
I was going to say the same thing people are so fast to jump to conclusions to find something wrong with anything.. instead of actually taking the time to watch a listen 🤔
I bought a switch from GameStop and it like brand new and it’s been half a year and no problems and it was pre owned
That's great to hear! I'm sure a lot of their stuff is great.
Been trying to get my son a series X since they came out but don't have enough money for a new console...no refurbished anywhere around me had no idea Microsoft sells refurbished units
so your why i cant get a xbox they all alwasys sold out
Damn. Hes using the same footage from an old video
I bought my Series X refurbished from Microsoft. The money I saved I put toward their extended warranty. So far so good.
Smart move the warranty one
Put new paste over the old paste. For shame. That's just being lazy.
Ya, that's a little strange that they did that.
You need to release a TronicsFix thermal paste applicator with a built in voice clip of you saying 'THE PERFECT AMOUNT OF THERMAL PASTE!' every time you squeeze it
Honestly, I argue that you put on too much thermal paste. It's only meant to fill in imperfections. You nailed it on the second one, half the amount you put on first one though and I am happy.
How about comparing old + new thermal paste against cleaned + new thermal paste, running a temperature test?
Why do used or refurbished cost more than when new?
Dear Microsoft: Please make a controller that the bumpers don't break after 40 hours of use.
Honestly at this point Tronics-fix might as well produce his own gaming console. Id rather buy this guys repaired products than a brand new from factory.
Ha, ha...that would be awesome!
I bought a refurbished Xbox series X that came from Microsoft last year when they were impossible to find.I couldn't tell anything had been done to it?It was marked grade B?Whatever that meant?But it has worked flawlessly.Refurbished items aren't a bad way to go as whatever issue they have had has been fixed as opposed to a New one where there could be a potential unknown problem?I'll usually get refurbished to save money and get a extended warranty with the money saved for piece of mind in high priced items especially when you see How common things can go bad with these things.
I have bought a refurb series X for -469 Eur and then got the ms complete warranty for 49 EUR. Paid a total of 519 for the full waaranty of 3 years. It was also delivered 2 days late so i got a refund of 45 EUR. So it was worth it much more than the new one. Also it looked brand new. The controller two.
Very interesting video, thanks for your work.
Is this a re-upload? I feel like I've seen this before
Not a re upload but we used some of the footage from the video where I reviewed the Series X from GameStop. Since I was comparing the two consoles I wanted to use some of the actual footage from the one from GameStop
I don't think that Microsoft part is, but the game stop definitely is. I just came to the comments to see if I was the only one.
May 27th, he uploaded a video of the game stop console. :/
@@Tronicsfix ah that makes sense. When u showed the broken corner on that chip, I was like I feel like I've seen this lol