Is Strictly Apple a SCAM?
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- Опубликовано: 12 май 2024
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Chapter Titles:
0:00 What is Strictly Apple?
4:04 Problems for Mr. Luigi
5:17 iPad 9th Gen
8:05 MacBook Air
12:49 iPhone 12
15:58 AirPods Max
22:09 Mac Pro 
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"Seems a bit sus, but I'll try it anyway" *sells you a stolen Macbook Air*
Not necessarily stolen its not uncommon for a school to sell a bunch of used equipment to a recycler and forget to remove a few of them from DEP. You have to remember how poorly funded some schools IT are. And if your disposing of 2000 laptops its easy to miss a few.
@@bobothnyup my school did this back in 2014s
@@bobothn I work at an electronic recycler can confirm most of the computers we get still have bitlocker and or icloud still locked on the devices.
@@ItzSlushie We donated ~400 iPhones to a recyler charity a few years back. After having removed them all from DEP and some how missed ~20 of them. They asked us kindly and sent over the serials so we could release the rest. I work for a non profit its hard to have the time to not miss things but I don't want the phones to go to a land fill because we missed a few items.
Yeah, not an uncommon thing, I buy used computers/laptops from a nearby university on auction and refurbish them turn them into chromebooks and like emulator machines for cheap. Not unlikely places like this and plug tech are the reason I can never get my hands on apple products.
Just selling stuff without bothering removing/unlinking the accounts from the devices is borderline criminal. Also having prices borderline more expensive than other marketplaces or even actual stores makes me think like they pick stuff from various sellers online (ebay/facebook or whatever) and just sell them with a small bump in price for a profit. In general this screams scam where they target random people surfing TikTok or whatever that think the Macbook they are buying for $300 is the same as the one Apple sells for $1000.
This is a HUGE issue with managed Apple devices. The companies wipe the device and sell it but forget to remove the remote management, whoever gets the device doesn't know it's a managed device unless they try to set up a new user. So resellers open it up turn it and see it's ready (supposedly) for a new user and then sell it. Then the person who bought it gets stuck with a brick because they don't have any way to remove it from a managed device system. The ONLY way to remove it is for the original owners that managed the device to go into their accounts and remove it as a managed device. As you can guess, most school IT and office IT departments aren't going to bother helping you with that. Especially since they can't confirm you bought it legit and aren't just trying to unlock one of their many computers to resell. They can't know if that one has been sold or not.
Officially, they are supposed to remove any device they sell from their managed account before selling them, but they don't think of that when they wipe them.
But at least you can tip them
@@CaseyDplays most school disttricts have to keep a log of what they surplus and what they sell, though - I know the one I work at keeps track for a year after it leaves our inventory. If you call to check, they should be able to check records by serial number and remove it from Apple School Management and their MDM.
@@CaseyDplayshowever, as a company they should be checking this
Thats besides the point who tf in there right mind said its a good idea to link an account to headphones
Even the pawn shop cleans the headphones before they sell them.
Or at the very least gets new earpads
my local pawnshop dont clean the earbuds... i bought samsung buds from them and i had to clean them with alchohol wipes.. and the airpods they had were really gross so gross that i buy the samsung ones...
who tf buys used earbuds?@@dylanlindsay1993
or cashies
310 for a 9th gen iPad? What the fuck, Walmart has these fuckers brand new all day for 230
I mean, yeah if you buy it from a carrier they're about $460 w/cellular but they always are like $10 after promos 😅
@@MrCruciferyeah I just got one 50% off with cellular
Right I got one for my wife last Christmas for 200 from Walmart
Oofff...not only they didn't check the returned Mac Air if it's locked to school system but they've also gave you Type C cabel with iPhone 12....and they call themselves STRICTLY Apple? Yikes...
Don’t forget to mention the AirPod max being called pro, dirty and paired to someone else’s account
@@Edgar.55 oh dang you're right, totally forgot about that one! Jeez what a fail...
Type C cables are gonna replace the lightning cables in certain regions.
@@ZaeOSWS the new ones not the old ones
@@ZaeOSWS Yeah in EU (already did), but not for iPhone 12 :)
I love how at least two of the items were likely stolen and sold to strictly apple.. and then they did not test it and sent them to austin.. excuse me, Mr. Luigi
Locked to Pasco or whatever doesn't mean stolen. Schools neglect to remove management from laptops all the time, ask anyone who deals in bulk laptops from schools or other institutions.
The whole "refund for store credit" thing is some bs already. It needs to go back to the original payment method even if that's minus a restocking fee. I've made an effort to not shop at stores that do that crap for years now.
Fun fact: it’s illegal here im Europe. Item back, money back.
In Brazil that's illegal too
only a us problem lol
highly illegal actually, in EU countries companies can get huge fines for it, because it basically is like not providing money back. While it's legal to give store credit but only as an option the user selects!!@@erebostd
Most people in the US don't know that their credit card protects them from all sorts of BS including only store credit. If you have the receipt they have to accept the return and refund for everything including shipping if the device isn't what they advertised.
You got lucky on the exchange. I got a Macbook Air from there for my son and it to was locked. Been trying for 3 weeks to get Strictly Apple to fix the problem but they have told me multiple times they can't do nothing about it. The company is just one big scam
Do a chargeback on your credit card, that is some BS
email them and tell them you’ll just dispute it through your bank, that’s a worse outcome than a return/exchange for them and has gotten the wheels turning for me a couple of times!
I would see if you can contact whoever it's locked/linked to, especially if there's still stuff on it like pictures that they might want. But yeah do a charge back with your credit card. Don't even tell them you're doing it, they deserve it.
You should have known this was a horrible company
Y’all need to report to the better business bureau.
Super huge legal issues selling a locked MacBook... That is extremely sus and I wouldn't ever buy from them.
they have deals with schools and but loads of their used crap
super not legal issues right there
no legal issues at all. I worked for apple and they don't care about stolen devices. it's just more customers for them
100% not a legal issue lol. We send thousands of apple devices back yearly to our vendors and we might miss a couple every now and than when we send this information to apple. Nothing a quick email or a call wont fix lol
@@JavierPerez-xc6kgbut I've seen multiple people comment saying the same thing happened to them and strictly apple couldn't do anything about it. Didn't even take it back
A lot of people don't understand that when schools or companies recycle their devices, most of the time they don't do due diligence and properly wipe the devices and remove remote management. It could still be stolen, but probably not.
It all looks very sus when peoples accounts aren't unlinked, everything is in garbage condition, and the customer service and return policies suck
"Hey guys! This is Luigi!"
Luigi Pierre maybe--
I wonder if he's related to Mario Pierre lol
@@jsparrowthegamer7729maybe he is :)
You should contact Pasco County School district about that MacBook. It obviously was not tested by Strictly Apple and could be stolen.
As someone who deals with schools and e-waste it's pretty rare any of them unenroll, etc before throwing it in e-waste. Pasco County however may want to deal with their ecycler if this unit was ecycled and the vendor is improperly handling devices.
Austin... i mean Pierre Luigi endend doxing himself.
Thanks Strictly Apple...
Damn....and NO REFUNDS....thanks for letting us know just how bad this sham of a company is Austin....I'm sorry your bank account had to take such a huge hit to do it though 😣
It had refunds
Chargeback go brrr
@@Zywashin store credit only
This entire video is basically Austin getting excited then immediately followed by a “gotcha”. The checkout “tipping option”, the MacBook having remote management, the scratch on the iPhone 12, the fact that the AirPods Max was super dirty and owned by someone else
Gamer's Nexus tech Jesus would have dug into that whole potentially stolen item supply chain, contacting that school system and the headphone owner.
@@trex8135 Good to know thanks for the response. I wonder why it wasn't wiped or released or whatever they do with locked Chromebooks.
It's probably not stolen. Just wasn't removed from the school's MDM.
@@Garrettb214 my guess it's supposed to be destroyed but you know what's what..
@@Garrettb214in my experience (volunteering at a small school to fix their botched IT and looking at public school district procedures) no one bothers to remove things from MDM
He would do anything for attention that is true.
for any of these "refurbished" tech sites, a return policy like that is an absolute deal breaker. basically stick to eBay or Amazon, maybe swappa.
Dude the tip thing is soooo freakin outrageous!!! The pay for the work is the damn payment, why would you get a tip?? I guess if your already scamming someone might as well pile on! Lol great vid!
The tipping option was removed. I know the owner and he didn’t even know that it was on there to begin with. It was automatically put on there through the POS he uses
@@joshuamerritt8897 what
@@joshuamerritt8897 SURE it was
@@joshuamerritt8897 liar lol, they’d add maybe a shipping protection fee but not a tip fee😂
Shopify probably added it automatically
Based on that ad at the start, is the a DK Oldies spinoff?
*ripoff not spinoff
welcome to youtube where people take ideas ans twist it. everyone, i mean even ltt is now doing it.
@@KontrolStyle i get what ur saying but its not necessarily a youtube thing its more like a business thing and sadly it works most of the time. I also really wouldn't say linus tech tips i really doing anything bad because there are only so many ideas you can do when you base your channel on a singular subject
“This might be the worst refurbished store we’ve ever shopped on” 26:57
Dammm 💀
Seeing some Swedish text on that Mac Pro. That Mac Pro travelled far
Where?
@@Humellski75 23:57 top left corner it says “Apparaten skall anslutas till jordat nätuttag”.
The fact that I paid like a third of the cost of the "used" iphone 12 for a 12 from someone on marketplace a few weeks ago had me about ready to throw up when I saw the condition of what you got OMG, the phone I bought off a complete stranger has a healthier battery and a flawless screen...
how can you tip when you havent even had the products yet, it seems dumb
As someone who used to resell devices, typically "open box" is brand new however the box is quite literally opened. Meaning, the seals from apple on the box have been broken/open, but the device is new/never been used/never been activated.
Yeah, this was more like "missing box". A showroom sample, and they didn't even try to locate the original package.
11:08 - Yeah. I was in a test class for my high school, where they wanted to test if iPads were useable as a laptop replacement, instead of giving students chromebooks. The contract we were given stated that we would be given ownership over it if we graduated from there. I had to go back to their IT department several times after I graduated to get it finally released from their system.
so i see a lot of comments about the "stolen: laptop, Its likely not stolen. A lot of schools donate their old tech to companies that recycles and resell tech. Sometimes they dont release them from remote management. I worked at a company who was in charge of checking and listing them on ebay. So its likely not stolen. they just didnt check if it was remote managed.
The is exactly it. I know the owner. This MacBook fell through the cracks
Sometimes I feel like Austin needs a punching bag in the studio. Cuz I know i would spending so much money on “crappy” tech
@denki new mystery tech?
He is the punching bag
It’s called Matt
They make the Amazon Apple Refurb store look like White Glove Service
Hey guys, this is scam!
Yes but it's Austin Evans so we already know his scam 🤣🤣🤣🤣 I had to
Thanks for editing Rio!!!
"using it as a cocomelon delivery device" that's just......💀
Who noticed that he was complaining about not being able to open the Mac Pro, while it was locked
460 dollars for used AirPods Max?!? Just buy brand new ones. Legit scams.
And you can find nice used one for way cheaper in better marketplaces too
I'm sticking with eBay.
I'm sticking with eeBay. They send me holograms of Apple devices.
It’s a nice looking site, but behind scenes is just a pawnshop.
The lock buttons were in different postions between the SA one that didn't open and the one you had that did open...
Look at 24:05, you can see both buttons as the second one is opened.
the clip where he was trying to open it the mac pro was in unlocked position. he must have just locked it when filming the clip with the other machine.
A teacher I work with still uses her 15 Mac book air. It's a little slow now but still works
Most people I know still use their 2010-2013 MB Pros. I just upgraded to a 2015 because I needed Monterey. 2016-2020 intel Macs really don't have any advantages over older ones.
I like how the VO for strictly Apple is basically Austin‘s voice in a slightly higher pitch. It’s really funny at the beginning when they’re both talking and you can barely tell who’s who
I can’t un-hear it now.
the fact they called the 2013 mac pro the "trash can" is just insane
To be fair it looks like one
love your content love when you do mystery tech, remember the eye humidifier💀💀💀 that was amazing. keep coming with the great content. this is how you know tipping is getting out of hand, when a website asks for a tip after selecting what you want to buy at a refurbished tech place💀💀💀
@IMAPRO9307
2 minutes ago
love your content love when you do -> mastery tech
Strictly Apple probably buys MacBooks in lots from school districts.
These videos are always entertaining
best i can say is try washing the ear cups via dishwasher then use rubbing alcohol with cuetip to deal with the ear wax.
As someone who works in IT at a school, the only way to remove the managed setup from that device is to remove it from ASM, (Apple School Manager). To do that you would need the school district's IT department would need to remove it from their inventory.
That’s actually pretty cool the Mac Pro was used to edit Daredevil
That piece of candy bought had Austin on the hook for days. They just needed one other thing to go right
Thank you for this wonderful video! I'm looking to make my own product reviews. I learned a lot watching this with over a page of notes. Be on the lookout on your recommended when i make it big!
same thing happened to me when I bought a MacBook Pro off Craigslist. MDM was still activated. You can't ever unregister from their MDM DB. You pretty much HAVE to throw it away....
So, the story they used for the tiktok story is not even their story, they copied a video from plug tech. It is a 1 to 1 replica of the original video that they recreated. The fact that they have to lie about sales says alot.
Nope, I know the owner and have been to his warehouse. Stop spewing nonsense the only one copying is plug tech who is using the name that Landon Mooney aka owner of strictly Apple has built. They’re outpaying them on google seo therefore becoming the first result when strictly Apple is searched
They put all this effort into starting a business then just refuse to use common sense for pricing and quality. What a waste.
They probably don’t have any inventory lol, they just snatch something from the garbage or have someone steal them whenever there a new order
What watch brand are you wearing Austin? Looks good!
Austin’s reaction to pairing the AirPods Max(Pro) reminded me of Eric Cartman
This was the first time he actually got scammed
Not exactly.
Unfortunately i have to do my homework
get to work bro 🫡
I have a 9th gen iPad and for less than the price of the Strictly Apple refurbed one, you can get a new iPad 9 with 256GB if you really want it on sale. Seeing those AirPods Max in that shape with that price was incredibly sad. Again, you can find new ones on sale for less than the price of the refurbed one. I never seen headphones that bad in shape and I daily headphones for half my life.
I bypassed the school administrator screen by completely wiping the drive through terminal on my iMac Late 2009 that I got from the storage unit at work, but not sure if it’ll work in newer models
19:14 "and taste way better" lmaooo
I think they're just drop shipping from a chinese refurbisher
Is this even possible?
But the MDM lock was from a US school
@@killerhakie Those iphones and packaging looked quite similar to what those Chinese resellers use. Plus the grammatical errors.
@@killerhakie Don't underestimate Chinese companies' ability and know-how to get things extremely cheap. They are masterminds of doing it, then they sell it cheaper than anyone else in bulk. That goes for a lot of different products.
No they are local to me and they don’t do that. They have a store front in Grove City, Ohio
10:52 I had the same issue with a 2015 MacBook Pro i bought through Walmart. Only way around it is to set it with w/o internet connection. Then after its setup connect to internet.
The unboxed MacBook Air with school data raises concerns about Strictly Apple's device handling and data security. Failing to reset the AirPods Max is also concerning. Ideally, they should attempt to reunite the MacBook Air with the school. The unclear return policy with conflicting information adds to the red flags. These inconsistencies make me wary of doing business with Strictly Apple.
The school system would have surplus'd the laptop, I'm sure they don't want it back.
Man you look like my friend
I am your friend
I am also your friend
I wish i had friends😢
@@venemaatjesNLi could be
i am your best freind
I miss the old intro
We have iPads on our schools mdm and before selling or disposing we have to contact our supplier to remove the serials from MDM.
It basically hits Apple for activation then gets redirected to our schools devices.
Once removed they activate as normal.
the funnest part, Back Market’s Fair option is almost always pretty much used condition. I usually buy good unless I can’t afford it, then I go with fair - Pixel 7 Pro came with negligible scratches in fair condition. it’s like it was fresh out of the box, almost.
They said that they don't offer returns and refunds on their ONLINE store
what other store do they have
Dumb
hello
25:50 - Graphics glitch is definitely an OpenCore problem (I use OpenCore a ton, working on the ultimate 2010 iMac build right now) because the graphics card might not have supported drivers so it uses "hacked" drivers. But kinda hilarious that it's SO BAD now, when it was a great Mac in 2013! 😂
Austin, the 2013 Mac Pro with 64GB RAM and 1TB SSD retailed for $8,099 when it came out
ive been watching you for a while man and i just wanted to say that i appreciate you Mr. Evans
14:06 funny story, I actually recovered an iPhone from the side of a freeway after it had been left on the roof of my car. I remember hearing a bump at some point on the freeway, and I thought it was a rock or something small and didn’t much of it, but later I get a call from the person who’s phone it was, and I check their location and it shows up in the middle of the freeway. I immediately connected the dots and let them know, I went and picked up the phone, which had thankfully been pushed onto the shoulder, next to a divider wall so I was able to pull off and grab it. It was an 11 pro max, we replaced the screen and it still worked. Enough to move data off it anyways lol, the back was destroyed.
10:40 that used to be my school district. Those havent been used in years. This is probably where they all ended up after we upgraded to Dell systems
We started upgrading around 6-7 years ago and for the past 3 years I havent seen a single one
FINALLY, someone did a HONEST review. I keep searching, and I can't find a single one until now.
12:47 I bought two brand new iphone 12s, for a total of $150 each. No shady website, it was through a phone carrier, no subscription, pre paid. Checking a few carriers just now, a few of them are still selling them new for as low as $200
@2:17 It says no returns from 'online store'. Does that mean there is a retail outlet somewhere?
Probably some registered adress only that is no😊t a store
What do you think about pot of duality? When it came out it was awesome but now I feel not being able to special summon nowadays would be a death sentence.
yo austin loveee your vidssss
In Australia google has to say if its in ad when you search it
If the MacBook is MDM locked then most likely is was stolen. I know as I managed laptops with an MDM. We remove it before it is sold. But also that is really bad on Strictly Apple showing they don’t inspect products
4:44
I just imagined Austin saying, "It's me" to the UPS driver with his glass shattering voice 😂
By the way, has he hit puberty yet?
I didnt even know toxic waste was still a thing... I used to have those in school in the UK (20 years ago)
Can you not flash the MacOs on the Mac Book? I did years ago when I found one at a thrift store, of course it was much older 😅
I think they may have a physical location, which is how their refunds process works. If you had read it further it says "No refunds or returns on ONLINE purchased items." Not defending them but it clears that up that they MAY do returns if you bought it from them in person.
10:41 I have experienced this before. Good news is that it's easily fixable, and it's not ENTIRELY sketchy. So, Strictly Apple is a reseller of old computers from Pasco County Schools. I am typing this on an old 2013 iMac, that had the same thing with Chicago Public Schools. I bought it from a shop out in the Chicago Suburbs. I just had to call CPS, get in touch with their tech support, and they removed the Remote Management. Kind of a hassle, but it wasn't difficult.
I bought a dell laptop refurbished from Dell and it was locked to the city of Austin TX power company. The power company was not happy with that and I ended up talking to some C suite level guy at Dell to get it resolved because it was a pretty major fuck up with them giving me a laptop that could be connected to an entire major cities power grid potentially.
There are so many "companies" doing ish like this in ads aka shorts... Cause shorts are where so many random "youtubers" shove ads down our throats right next to youtubes new ads that show up every 2 shorts lmao
The iPhone 12 is just crazy. In january I bought a near perfect condition one for $300 on amazon besides some minor scuffing on the sides. Perfect front and back glass. AND right now some carriers are doing deals for brand new ones for just $199
Those shelves are fully packed! Couldn't it? Be interesting to see how you fit that Destroyer in there. Ever thought of designing flight stands?
Is it not the law there to accept returns? In Finland online stores must accept returns and most of the time they pay for return shipping too.
they knew Luigi wasnt getting peach so they threw something sweet lmao
Hey Austin, can we have a video thats basically a tier list for every website that sells refurbished products? I trust your channel a lot and I've been looking into buying a few Apple products but I dont know where to buy them from.
Austin mannn you had a bad day that day. You flipped the switch to locked on the mac pro
Holy shit what are the chances that it’s a Pasco MacBook Air? I currently go to a pasco county school (not specifying which one for safety reasons) and they used to have a bunch of those 2015 Airs.
I would say that’s normal iPhone 12 wear and tear the screen has scratched for me more than any phone I’ve ever used before honestly
In that case I would have ordered the same product with different tips, just to see if there was any difference in products, treatment or shipping quality
I’m sorry to say that based upon this it seems like a dice roll on if you get something at good quality. I’m lucky enough to have all the items I purchased from them be in near perfect condition for a lower than new price. But ultimately it’s up to each person to decide what dice roll they want to choose
That apple pro circular computer really looks like the "Brooklyn" xbox hey? Seems like they took alot of design elements from it for the series X
You have to contact the school. This happened to me, I emailed the company the MacBook was locked to and they removed the system lock
10:50 most schools and businesses with only low level IT support almost always leave retired computers in either Azure or the Apple equivalent. Thus locking the devices indefinitely.
I love this series !!!!
When stores have open box and used price nearly the same price I think it usually means they have finance options which will lend to pretty much anyone... that they made this huge point of their finance for the 'mum'
The macbook locked to a remote network shows that they either don't check and sort everything or they dont care and hope that people will try and get it unlocked and probably void their warranty