Is Amazon Renewed a SCAM?
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- Опубликовано: 31 май 2024
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0:00 Ordering
2:23 Fire HD 8
5:31 Meta Quest 2
8:07 MacBook Air 2019
10:20 PlayStation 2
12:21 Z Flip 3
14:12 Beats Studio Buds
14:55 Xbox Series X 
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the real scam is how i keep watching these videos of austin buying the same items over and over again
You’re not wrong. I just caught myself saying the same thing just now. Think I’m done lmao
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I think i'll continue, good background noise.
@@georgelopez771
Of course this pops up as I’m waiting for an Amazon Renewed product to be delivered.
Got mine yesterday and safe to say I'm mostly satisfied. Got excellent condition but their was a small crack on my Tab S8 ultra which isn't that noticeable and everything else seems pretty much new. But one of the other things I didn't like was the packaging it basically arrived in a basic box and my tablet was put on top of the bubble wrap and a thin foam piece covering the screen and the s pen was just lose in there but everything arrived undamaged
Got a dsi xl from there. If I’m being honest I just got it there because of the return policy otherwise would’ve bought it from eBay .
Thanks I found it on your porch
Funny how I just bought some Amazon retro games ds.
I just got an Amazon renewed headset
I worked in returns for amazon, dusting it off and putting in a new box if its demaged is all they do to get the best numbers as fast as possible.
how many you have clean in day ? 200 ? ;)
@@adredy more like 300, 30/h was considered as normal, most of it was automatically trash
tell us more
I did too, I still work for Amazon but at my warehouse a lot of returns surprisingly don’t just go to trash.
Well that explains the "renewed premium" phone I got that had a defective camera and scratched screen that Amazon refused to take back.
Anything "renewed or refurbished" online is a gamble. But with companies like Amazon they have easy return policies. Unlike DK oldies and such
Not anymore. They're going or have changed their policies
Not true, you got to return it now and wait 30 days for them to inspect and refund
@@hotmess9640i just returned a mobo and it took a week for the refund ish
Half of the items aren't even from Amazon Renewed Y'all! You have to make sure it says SHIPPED & SOLD by Amazon. Several of the items you guys picked out are from 3rd party sellers.
They're still renewed. The sellers are accepted into the program by Amazon.
$173 FOR A PS2?! thats criminal 💀
Yikes anything more than like 30 bucks is criminal
Not really no. Ps2 have been going up in prices recently and those dont come with any coverage or return policy.
@@TheElly750 People are wild I still have my launch day full backwards compatible PS3 with both headsets and controllers in the original box and is still partitioned with Linux because I signed up for the lawsuite and got it back instead of the PSN membership they were giving to buy people out it'll be worth dang near what I payed for it with any luck
@@TheElly750 Yup. There is a U-shaped curve. We're probably on the right hand side, going upward.
When the PS3/PS4 was a thing, people still had them to get rid of. Now, nobody has them to get rid of and people only want to buy them.
yes because PS2 is so old it's a COLLECTABLE, you can emulate PS2 games in 4K easily BUT if you want a PS2 in great condition for your collection/decoration then you need to pay big bucks for it lol
3:48 As someone that used to own a fire hd 10, it's not worth getting the hd 8. It's smaller, slower, and doesn't have the hd 10 party trick which is to act like an Alexa when plugged into it's charger. Seriously, it worked so well as an Alexa echo show device put only broke out of it when it needed to do something only a tablet could do, but otherwise, it works better than actual echo shows. Now, with amazon not really caring about their line of devices, I wouldn't touch any of them with a ten foot pole.
I have a Fire Max 11 which I loaded Google Play onto and the tablet itself is okay at best. I can't imagine how bad the other ones are.
I Had all and the best tablet is the Tab S4. It's not supported anymore but it still does great my only pet peeve is that it uses the Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 instead of the Qualcomm Snapdragon 845.
They get support for a long time, and do the job for a cheap price. I don't know what people are complaining about.
A friend got one of the cheapest model, when they didn't have much and was struggling, at a reduced price. It came with a two year warranty unlike trying to get something second hand so no need to worry, nothing else new came close to as good for that price, nothing else new would have had any support, and nothing second had for that price was really much better but came with all the drawbacks of being second hand (and definitely not supported still).
2:30 fun fact, Bezo’s internal alias in Amazon is just “jeff”
And he isn't even employee #1 If i recall correctly hes #13
@@JapaneseHeavymetal And he owns only 10% of Amazon. But he is the highest shareholder and founder, And those shares are currently worth 160 billion dollars lol
I once bought an iPhone 11 from Amazon renewed in excellent condition and it came with 78% battery and a bunch of scratches
Each cycle count represents the number of times a battery has been drained and charged. It's important to note that the decrease doesn't necessarily mean that the battery was drained to 0% -- if someone used their battery for only a few minutes and the battery drained from 100% to 99%, and then the owner charged the laptop again, that would still count as 1 cycle. So all cycle counts are not created equally.
I think it depends device-to-device tho. My laptop doesn't increment the cycle count how you said.
I have always been told to be wary of buying TVs “renewed” because you dont know if its the original panel, would be interested to see a video on those
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at this point Austin is just a refurbished tech youtuber
I actually bought a 12.9 Inch 2018 iPad pro Wi-Fi + Cellular renewed in "acceptable" condition and when it arrived it would've been mint of not for some scratched by around the USB port! It even came with a screen protector and folio case (Which I was unaware of), it would've been perfect of it came with a first party charger. Mind you I only paid $420 too! Amazon Renewed is pretty decent imo, tho I usually get my stuff off eBay.
Riiight I just did the same with the Pixel 6 Pro acceptable for $202
Earlier this year I bought a Certified Refurbished iPhone 14 Plus and Watch Series 8 from Amazon. They both arrived in good shape and function perfectly. As long as you do your research buying refurbished is nearly as good as new.
You got my old watch! I sold it because my diarrhea was all over it but I washed it off
@viewviewview1236 HOW DO YOU SHIT ON A WATCH
@@Chisthebest0 find your focus and intention… be one with the poop and it will do as you wish. I was a young child when I first realized I had this power… in a fit of uncontrolled anger my diarrhea rose from the toilet and spread itself across the ceiling.. over the following decades I learned to control this ability… harness it… yesterday a 7 foot tall 300 pound warrior attacked me.. I called out to the poop in his bowls.. called it to work its way backwards through his intestines, his stomach, up his throat. As he fell struggling for breath I knew I was finally the turd master!
That edit with the cat listening to music with beats was hilarious lol, literally ONLY bass.
As a person who purchases lots of Amazon returns, I can say for certain if there's an LPN sticker on there, it was returned and resold whether directly back to you or to an "Amazon returns" liquidation shop.
I bought a ton of stuff from Amazon renewed, my current GPU and a pair of Corsair headphones for example, both where basically brand new.
This man has to own at least 100 ps2s by now
And 40 z flips lol
and 100 xbox
seeing this after just returning my renewed iphone 14 pro that was supposed to come in “excellent” condition and instead came extremely damaged and not functional is definitely an extra slap in the face from some sort of higher being.
At this point I think Austin owns more z flips than samsung
My experience has been quite good the few times have used. Just this month, I purchased an Apple Watch Ultra 2 model and the classification was "Used - Very Good". The watch was discounted from $799 to $604. Upon receipt I inspected and could tell by Apple serial number status that it was original bought in November 2023 and still under AppleCare until November 2024. Everything was in the box, in like-new condition. The only signs it was used was that the charger cable had been removed and put back into the box and could tell the band had been used for a little bit. The watch was in pristine condition with no defects at all. Was very pleased.
that meta quest definitely got smacks on walls LOL
If you buy renewed. Make sure to get prime for that month so you can return the product within Amazon's 90 day no questions asked policy.
Fire advice thank you bro
For that xbox, reset the video settings by holding the power down for 2 beeps and then start it up. It should reset all video settings. Happens a lot causing ppl to return their xboxes
Amazon can be very tricky. They'll say free shipping, but at checkout they will default to paid shipping. You have to choose free shipping. They are horrible.....
That's odd. I've bought a ton of used or otherwise refurbished productions on Amazon that didn't have the 2 day delivery but regular ship for free. They never defaulted to paid shipping. The last used item I bought was a Evolution track saw for cutting materials like wood or thin tin. Looked like brand new aside from a little wear on the power cord and the shipping was free and regular delivery.
@@MrMega200 Its not only on refurbished products, it happens on new ones too.
Had it happen to me a couple times. The only reason i didn't paid more was because i created a virtual card with just the amount needed.
Defaults to the paid shipping when there is a free option every time on the Canadian site for me but I haven't used Amazon in almost 2 years now, so idk if it's still like that... probably is.
@@Dan-Simms gotta get that coin xD
@@Dan-Simms Huh. I've only ever been on the US version.
My experience with a refurbished Galaxy watch 4 classic was really good until I went swimming with it 😭 the third-party seller was tryna not give me a new one because it was after the 90 day warranty from them. But thankfully I got a new one after I had to threaten them on getting Amazon involved 💀
I know a little something about Amazon renewed 😂
I got an iPhone 13 for my mom for 480 dollars, for the prices in my country was extremely cheap and it came pretty good, the battery had 100% and no damage at all just the metal ring in the camera had the paint off
What happens to all the tech after you buy it? Do you return everything or does it go to people or do you just have ten z flips and ps2s lying around? Genuinely curious
I buy from the Amazon warehouse all the time. They are returns, so it’s a bit of a crapshoot - but sending back is easy if you get a dud. Good deals on non-electronic household goods especially. They usually try to confirm all the bits and pieces are included but it’s very common for small parts to be missing.
I bought a renewed SteelSeries Arctis Pro for almost 50% off the original price, with the caveat that the BOX was only slightly damaged and scuffed. Too good to be true. However, the product description was misleading. The device came faulty, with a non-working handset and both rechargeable batteries busted. Thankfully, being a Prime member made the return process seamless!
I still appreciate these videos ❤
What do you do with all this stuff after a video? Just return it? Or do you sell it?
Really Great Video Austin ✌🏻
props on getting a crt on set for your old games.
I've bought 3 renewed phones and 1 tablet and all of them were excellent almost mint. no complaints from my experience
you chose excellent condition ?
The Samsung Watch I bought on your livestream was Amazon refurb and it was mint. ❤
When building my pc I got a few things renewed. The motherboard, turtle beach wireless headset and cooler master mouse. Everything new would have been half the price of my pc, around $150 after it all.
my biggest gripe is the renewed vs new price a lot of times is not much different than the full price of a new item
I've bought a renewed Surface Pro for $800 ($1200 MSRP), haven't had any issues at all and was in brand new condition, not even a scratch.
Dear editor, the Bezos water bottle was hilarious!
My first smartphone that I bought was the Note 10 back in 2020. at the time a brand new one cost $1000 and I found an ALMOST NEW Note 10 that was refurbished and unlocked for $515. I bought it and it was basically a new phone. No damage, no scratches, nothing. Lasted me up until January of this year when I upgraded to the ZFlip 5 because the battery on the Note 10 was dying within half a day of light use. Great purchase but Renewed stuff can be a gamble
They are just customers returns! Open box stuff.
Austin: 1280 x 800 is low rez
Me(watching the video at 640 x 480): wdym bad? How good is good...
watching it at 360😭
Who else is watching this on an Amazon renewed product?
At are you rating the specs? I want to know the quality of the “refurbished” process
I'm hesitant, but a year or two ago, I got a 6700XT for $290 before the prices dropped that low. It came in its original box and was packaged like new. That was a good deal. But I still think it's a gamble. However, with the return policy and everything, the risk isn't too crazy. It's more or less just a matter of time of having to return it if so.
Listening to non-copyrighted music with earbud is crazy🤣
any renewed offers by multiple sellers across the website is automatically a red flag. just like websites like back market ect.
I love these vids testing if sites or services are a scam
Same. I’m looking around for a refurbished MacBook Air and this video got my hopes up to trust Amazon alittle more
@@belongtobill even if it's not up to standards, they have a good return policy at least
I have had greatly varying luck with Amazon renewed products. I've had awesome finds and i've also gotten some straight broken products.
With all this renewed stuff Austin buys, he can make his own renewed tech marketplace
I got my mother board from amazon warehouse years ago which i think is the same thing here in the uk its returned items. It was way cheaper than buying new and ive had zero issues with it
I bought a Dennon refurbished Atmos from Dennon receiver had doubts it very happy with it eight years in
Joanna in the background claiming difficulty 2 is not difficult, then quickly proceeds to backtrack her statement 😂
that's Joanna, not Kinsey
I love how the Z Flip lacking water resistance picture is literally the 3 or 4. So it has water resistance but good luck lol
The best thing about Amazon warehouse is they give you a normal return policy.
I bought a renewed M1 Mac Mini a year back from them, looked brand new, except it was iCloud locked, so I returned it for a refund. It can be hit or miss.
How many refurbished Z Flip and Z Fold phones has Austin bought at this point? Does he just have a shelf of them at this point.
The one thing I find Amazon is a bit of a scam with is the fact they get a return that the person states is faulty and sends it back out to the next customer.
So many times I have gotten something that looks like a return that has been sent right back out without them checking.
I tested it once.
Sent back a keyboard and mouse and kept the mouse... got a refund and no word about the missing mouse lol.
I feel like they do that just hoping one person doesn't bother returning it, maybe too busy or something and they do this until it doesn't get returned and that's a item sold they do not have to worry about lol.
Generally when I've run into problems and had a return, they just send me a brand new version of the item. Had it happen a couple of times. I think they just tend to eat the cost of a lot of stuff to avoid as much time as they can on support.
A couple of years ago, I had ordered a 1/200 scale model of the battleship Bismarck from amazon renewed. It was surprisingly in perfect condition and had all of it's 1000+ parts. For that, it seemed to be a great deal. I'm not sure I'd trust getting tech from amazon renewed.
They sent you a BRICK OF GIRL' on accident 😂😂😂 save me sum😊
Love this content. Shows if this is worth it or not.
I bought an Amazon renewed iPhone 15 pro and it came with 100% battery capacity, only 1 battery cycle, 2 small scratches on the display, and there is no indication of any parts having been replaced according to the settings. In fact, I’m not even sure how it was possibly renewed if it only had a battery cycle count of 1 and no parts were supposedly replaced. But to say I’m happy with my product is an understatement. Saved me a couple hundred bucks and works like new!
I bought my m1 12in iPad Pro from Amazon renewed, it was around 1000 dollars and it was the 250 gb model it was in perfect condition the only flaw was a little 2 mm line on the screen (and as I had it for like 4 days without a screen protector I can’t be sure it was not my fault) and it came in with generic cable and charger. It did come in with a little note that let me know that a third party refurbished the item and it was just being sold in partnership with the Amazon renewed program.
I still think I got a good bargain, bought it a few months before the m2 iPad Pro got announced.
As someone who works at amazon, I'm surprised that anything arrived not broken, Those machines are not soft
I'm curious, what model is the PS2?
I have always been told to be wary of buying TVs “renewed” because you dont know if its the original panel, would be interested to see a video on those
Should do the same thing except buy from Back Market I’ve always been curious about them.
Back in 2021, I got a Samsung S20 Ultra 512GB + Galaxy Buds Pro for $700 from Amazon Renewed. Practically brand new for less than half the price. Not bad.
Bought a referbed Roomba and Alexa in the past two weeks. Ive no issues..... but its only been two weeks.
The fire tablet was solid, maybe 6 years ago. I remember I put the play store on my moms, but she switched to a Samsung tablet a couple of years ago, and that thing is miles ahead of the fire tablet.
I purchased an Amazon Renewed Z Flip3 5G for my son recently and it looked pretty solid. Sure, same residue near the spine. No screen protector installed. A good size cluster of dead pixels in the top right corner. Good condition supposedly. Bummer, but they took the return no problem.
I bought an s21+ from Amazon renewed. "Excellent" condition and it was obvious they changed the back glass and display with a damaged frame. Insane what they can get away with...
I doubt you will see this Austin but I bought the Thinkpad X13s as a renewed model on Amazon and it has been great!
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Brother uhhhhhh uhhhhhh what's that
WHAT IS THAT BROTHER
My monitor came from Warehouse and its fine- just the model itself was faulty, my colleague also had one With similar minor issue^^
My experience with Amazon renewed has been good, except for one order. I’ve ordered three products from them so far; I ordered an iPad mini 6th generation that came in like-new condition (no scratches or marks of any kind) with only some understandable battery degradation (but way above Amazon’s 80% mark). The second item I ordered was an iPhone 12 mini, and that was in terrible condition despite my ordering excellent condition. It has minor marks on the aluminum and the back looked alright, but the screen was majorly scratched up, which the seller had tried to hide under a poorly placed screen protector. I ended up sending that back and got an iPhone 13 mini instead, and I swear they sent me a brand new 13 mini, as even though I ordered the same “excellent condition”, this phone didn’t have a single mark or scratch, and the battery was even still at 100% capacity. I really feel like I lucked out on that one. My mom has also ordered a Pixel 7 renewed from Amazon and that came in very good condition, so here’s hoping the 12 mini was a fluke.
I bought a Kindle scribe for 2/3 of the regular price because it was renewed. I could not tell the difference from new
I have tried Amazon renewed products twice. Both items were returned as they either didn’t work or were missing components. 🙄
Ive gotten a few deals with refurbished items. Only dud and my most anticipated one was a prebuild corsair with a 4090, the gpu didnt work at all.
Send me your extra Zflip! Haha... love the videos as always
I picked up the Steel series Arctic 7x wireless for $99, normally $180. They came in a random box but we're in like new condition
Got my 15 Pro Refurbished for $200 off and was brand new basically. I had a good experience.
Actually no, you're not supposed to peel the screen protector off. The phone even tells you this when you first set it up. If it gets damaged, you're supposed to get it replaced by Samsung asap.
I got a refurbished copy of NCAA Football 12 for Xbox 360 a few weeks ago. It worked.
Got my s21 in perfect cosmetic shape and a broken camera… had to sell it at a huge loss because I couldn’t return it… never again…
I was thinking of buying a renewed Z fold 4 from Amazon, is it worth it buying it renewed
I had bought a Blue Yeti and it is still serving me well with great sound quality so I honestly trust em.
I got an "excellent" Galaxy s22 refurbished and there was significant specs and scratches all around the side of the phone. I'm not to butt hurt about it since it's just cosmetic, especially since I'll just put a case over it anyway, but for it being "excellent" that's not great!
As someone who worked for Amazon...there isn't a huge amount of work going into most products. They don't care about your quality, they care about you hitting the numbers they want. And if you don't hit said numbers, even if you hit perfect quality every time, you'll get a manager coming to tell you to speed it up, and if you don't you'll end up without a job.
I would expect that the companies that just ship through Amazon probably DO refurbish their stuff, and Amazon probably will refurbish something that is actually broken and easily fixable, but I don't see them putting a huge amount of effort into repairs. Especially when they can just send you a known working product otherwise and not have to waste the extra time. Besides, they can easily afford it.
Just do the display reset on the the xbox series s with the buttons, i believe it should be the power and sync button. If not then all 3 buttons until the display shows. The display is most likely set to 4k 120hz, and was returned due to there monitor not being able to receive the output thus thinking they messed it up.
i got some liberty air 2 ear buds on amazon certified refurbished almost 2 years ago and never had a problem at all!
Guys can we please appreciate.. HIS ARM VEINS DAM
I have purchased an Apple series 4 watch, Galaxy watch 4 and 2 pc towers and all have worked perfectly and were in like new condition. If you can save some money, with Amazon's easy returns it's a no brainer to give refurbished a try.
Jeffy B is no longer the CEO. Andy J is sending you this stuff.
So as someone who works at an Amazon warehouse returns site, warehouse deals items, like the XBOX Series X, are barely checked for cosmetic damage much less actually tested to see if they actually work. If a customer comment doesn't specifically say that it has connection problems or power problems or something along those lines, and the item looks correct and without major damage, it will probably be resold as warehouse deals.
320 for an intel macbook air, if i'm not mistaken these are the ones with a measly cooling
Bought a Samsung Galaxy S21 Plus refurbished from Amazon. The screen was all scratched up, had some Dead pixels, and the charging port was damaged. I'll never buy electronics from Amazon every again.
I bought refurbished headset and it came like brand new no scratches and manufactured packaging