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.
@@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.
@@XdekHckr Depends, most of the time, it's for people with kids, for car trips, but a lot of older people will use an iPad more then a phone, for its bigger screen and being better for games (basic ones at least)
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.
@@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.
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...
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.
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
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.
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...
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.
@@pokemonprimedi second this, friend owned an older mac desktop and it was sold to him by a school nearby. They didn’t remove the admin and he couldn’t do it since they never gave him the password.
@@pokemonprimedYou’re right but that’s completely besides the point here. Schools are supposed to remove the software and usually they don’t, which is wrong, but as a reseller, it’s just as wrong to buy it and then knowingly sell that to someone you hope will be ignorant to it under false pretenses. It could be reasonable to assume that some people responsible for getting rid of the laptops from schools wouldn’t know to do this, however, as a retailer that claims to be near-expert professionals, selling a MDM-locked device is embarrassing. That’s some shady eBay no-refund no-name seller stuff.
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
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.
I have went and attended a school in Pasco county believe it or not, which is located in Florida. The county retired these laptops on May 28th, 2024 because they're no longer were receiving updates from apple and they retired them. Now they're mainly using Windows laptops and some iPads.
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.
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
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.
I want to a pasco school and was also part of that school partnership program they rolled out a while back, but they never told us we’d be able to keep them. Then they never mentioned this partnership again.
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.
I got a 2015 MacBook Air 11inch for $104 from Backbarket. Has some scratches as well, but it works smoothly and is so small! My favorite thing about it is how tiny it is
@@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
Personally... I trust Back Market, they have such high standards for their shops, if too many people get bad products from them, that shop gets booted... plus I bought a fair (lowest quality) s22 from them and it was perfect... that's why I live Back market
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 😣
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...
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
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.
as an IT person, the school probably wiped the Macs and sent them to e-waste but never removed them from Apple Business Manager / DEP that's why when booted up it tried to do automated device enrollment
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
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.
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.
@@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
The remote management part may not indicate it has been stolen. This normally happens when schools get rid of old supply to refurbishers. The admins often forget to manually exclude those devices.
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
I’m sticking with eBay refurbished. Everything comes with a one-year warranty and prices seem to be competitive. I’ve bought multiple used phones and have never had an issue with them. You should do a video on that.
14:34 Is it just me or are more and more places popping up trying to scam people that just want to score a gently used apple product? That price was horrible for an iphone 12 and it's condition was a terrible and selling you a macbook air that was still locked to a school is beyond sus to me. They are clearly not doing any sort of QA. They barely cleaned it (look at the magsafe port, I've seen ear canals cleaner than that).
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.
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.
There's a very good reason to target "strictly" Apple products when selling over priced and obsolete equipment while still asking for a tip and using shady marketing.
Around 0:10 into the video, he did watch the youtube shorts strictly apple made but here is a thing. The reason why the story was so sketchy is because its a way of an engagement for people. If you are telling a story and it doesn't even make any sense, its a way for people to buy it. Its just tiktok enshittification marketing.
I paid $430 for open box AirPods Max from Best Buy in February 2021, 3 months after AirPods Max were released. New ones are on sale for $450 on occasion, more often down to $500
As a relatively small business owner that deals with the public, people LOVE to tell you their life story, especially when you ask them a simple question which can be answered with maybe 4 words at the most. Instead they'll talk for a minute straight without ever actually answering your question. It's insane.
My wife works in the stage hand industry. She said: "It is possible that this may have been used for the production, or it may have been overflow to be used as needed. There is no guarantee of it being used or not unless you have the ability to contact someone who worked on the show directly."
Hey Austin I think you team even failed to mention @ 7:19 that the iPad is legit $250 at Target then been on and off sale at $250 for about a year now, so who will stop them to just buy it from Target or Amazon at $250 then resell it for $$310…
That MacBook probably wasn't stolen. The school was probably too lazy to unenroll it before they sent it off to recycling and then made it to the store that sold it to you.
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💀💀💀
They changed their return policy to 14 Days and updated their site to actually make then language consistent. 14 days with 20% restock for refund or no restock for store credit.
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! 😂
I used to work at a big repair and refurbished company and that phone is a C grade. The lowest we had was D, which meant it was mostly for parts. Descending quality from grade A, B, C, D. Grade A was basically a new phone.
A lot of these tech places get large quantities of laptops from e-waste facilities. The e-waste facilities receive old laptops in lots from schools to be "recycled" but get sold for profit. Sometimes these places when setting up and cleaning the device forget to remove the school lock. The schools have a password for all the laptops to keep kids out of certain areas such as BIOS or certain websites.
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.
one thing i think you should have tested to make sure is that the replacement macbook isn't a ticking timebomb and also is linked to a school district.. usually can attempt to do a manual device recovery and do a fresh OS install (not just a simple factory reset) and either it may block you or once you get in the OS it is locked down... but if it doesn't then that is more assurance it's not tied to a school district, which if it is, may randomly one day (well after the return period) lock itself down when its hidden license expires or whatever.
That second laptop is probably mdm locked too, and they just blocked Apple's servers in the hosts file to prevent that screen from appearing. Until you reformat and try to reinstall, then you'll get that screen again.
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
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.
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....
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.
"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.
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
@@MrCrucifer why people are buying with cellular? I will never understand that
@@XdekHckr Depends, most of the time, it's for people with kids, for car trips, but a lot of older people will use an iPad more then a phone, for its bigger screen and being better for games (basic ones at least)
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
😂
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.
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.
@@pokemonprimedi second this, friend owned an older mac desktop and it was sold to him by a school nearby. They didn’t remove the admin and he couldn’t do it since they never gave him the password.
@@pokemonprimedYou’re right but that’s completely besides the point here. Schools are supposed to remove the software and usually they don’t, which is wrong, but as a reseller, it’s just as wrong to buy it and then knowingly sell that to someone you hope will be ignorant to it under false pretenses. It could be reasonable to assume that some people responsible for getting rid of the laptops from schools wouldn’t know to do this, however, as a retailer that claims to be near-expert professionals, selling a MDM-locked device is embarrassing. That’s some shady eBay no-refund no-name seller stuff.
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
STOLEN Airpods Max
@@legendoflink5882used probably go for 250 or 150
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
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.
I have went and attended a school in Pasco county believe it or not, which is located in Florida. The county retired these laptops on May 28th, 2024 because they're no longer were receiving updates from apple and they retired them. Now they're mainly using Windows laptops and some iPads.
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.
Ebay beacuse phones like the s21+/ultra are us only but on ebay it ships to almost the whole world
Love swappa. Never had any issues with them
I usually use Back Market, it’s my go-to 🤷🏽♀️
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
Right but recycled =/= sold to third party. It literally means recycled
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
the type C cable with the iphone, the trashcan not even being able to open, the airpods max having somebody elses ID already on them.
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.
I want to a pasco school and was also part of that school partnership program they rolled out a while back, but they never told us we’d be able to keep them. Then they never mentioned this partnership again.
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.
@@IlBiggo no, open box can be sent with or without box. i've seen this many times over the years. y'all are stretching to find fault.
"Hey guys! This is Luigi!"
Luigi Pierre maybe--
I wonder if he's related to Mario Pierre lol
@@jsparrowthegamer7729maybe he is :)
"it's a me, Luigi!"
"it's a me, Luigi!"
“This might be the worst refurbished store we’ve ever shopped on” 26:57
Dammm 💀
Austin... i mean Pierre Luigi endend doxing himself.
Thanks Strictly Apple...
I got a 2015 MacBook Air 11inch for $104 from Backbarket. Has some scratches as well, but it works smoothly and is so small! My favorite thing about it is how tiny it is
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.
I'm sticking with eBay.
Same
Personally... I trust Back Market, they have such high standards for their shops, if too many people get bad products from them, that shop gets booted... plus I bought a fair (lowest quality) s22 from them and it was perfect... that's why I live Back market
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
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...
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
They make the Amazon Apple Refurb store look like White Glove Service
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
You put tape over the tracking number and not the barcode. If someone who works for UPS wants to find out your info they could just scan it
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
4:00 is the tip refundable?
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”.
Who noticed that he was complaining about not being able to open the Mac Pro, while it was locked
No he didn’t. Rewatch it was unlocked. The brill it was locked though
Strictly Apple probably buys MacBooks in lots from school districts.
"using it as a cocomelon delivery device" that's just......💀
how can you tip when you havent even had the products yet, it seems dumb
as an IT person, the school probably wiped the Macs and sent them to e-waste but never removed them from Apple Business Manager / DEP
that's why when booted up it tried to do automated device enrollment
Using a Windows computer to browse StrictlyApple takes balls
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.
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 have a 2015 Mac book air my screen went out but I just bought a monitor and it’s perfect ally fine
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.
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
The remote management part may not indicate it has been stolen. This normally happens when schools get rid of old supply to refurbishers. The admins often forget to manually exclude those devices.
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
@@joshuamerritt8897This must be the owner himself, lol
@@IceBlueLugia Nope, I’m just in the same industry and have worked with Landon. Some of his videos literally have his face in them
I’m sticking with eBay refurbished. Everything comes with a one-year warranty and prices seem to be competitive. I’ve bought multiple used phones and have never had an issue with them. You should do a video on that.
14:34 Is it just me or are more and more places popping up trying to scam people that just want to score a gently used apple product? That price was horrible for an iphone 12 and it's condition was a terrible and selling you a macbook air that was still locked to a school is beyond sus to me. They are clearly not doing any sort of QA. They barely cleaned it (look at the magsafe port, I've seen ear canals cleaner than that).
FINALLY, someone did a HONEST review. I keep searching, and I can't find a single one until now.
Thanks for editing Rio!!!
Idk if you would’ve been able to order that around this time 😂 Luigi 😂
This was the first time he actually got scammed
Not exactly.
It's surprisingly easy to remove MDM profiles. Apple actually has a guide on how to do it. You can remove them form system restore file system.
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.
you should do a video ranking all the sites for refurbished tech from best to worst , so people know where to buy from
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.
The return policy is correct. It is saying we accept returns for "in-store". They later say it doesn't include "online".
That’s actually pretty cool the Mac Pro was used to edit Daredevil
Something is off about that to me. Showtime Networks has no link to Daredevil I'm aware of.
There's a very good reason to target "strictly" Apple products when selling over priced and obsolete equipment while still asking for a tip and using shady marketing.
best i can say is try washing the ear cups via dishwasher then use rubbing alcohol with cuetip to deal with the ear wax.
I work for ATT and you can literally buy a brand new iPhone 12 outright at ATT for $40 more than that banged up thing.
Around 0:10 into the video, he did watch the youtube shorts strictly apple made but here is a thing. The reason why the story was so sketchy is because its a way of an engagement for people. If you are telling a story and it doesn't even make any sense, its a way for people to buy it. Its just tiktok enshittification marketing.
I paid $430 for open box AirPods Max from Best Buy in February 2021, 3 months after AirPods Max were released. New ones are on sale for $450 on occasion, more often down to $500
ah yes, I love myself a -$50 price drop
Hey guys, this is scam!
Yes but it's Austin Evans so we already know his scam 🤣🤣🤣🤣 I had to
@@TheCraftySmith89 huh
As a relatively small business owner that deals with the public, people LOVE to tell you their life story, especially when you ask them a simple question which can be answered with maybe 4 words at the most. Instead they'll talk for a minute straight without ever actually answering your question. It's insane.
Dude said tide pods taste better when cleaning the headphones 💀
My local Walmart has a refurbished section and I bought an iPad just like the one Austin bought for $214.99 and it’s like new.
The label that said "121gb" was technically correct because that's what it reads on the computer 😂
My wife works in the stage hand industry. She said: "It is possible that this may have been used for the production, or it may have been overflow to be used as needed. There is no guarantee of it being used or not unless you have the ability to contact someone who worked on the show directly."
Hey Austin I think you team even failed to mention @ 7:19 that the iPad is legit $250 at Target then been on and off sale at $250 for about a year now, so who will stop them to just buy it from Target or Amazon at $250 then resell it for $$310…
Never mind 💀 7:57 I’ll shut up now
3:49 oh boy thats a big red flag. If you dont tip youll most likely get the shiity version of what you buy
Secretly Apple reselling all their “Damaged” products 🍎
That MacBook probably wasn't stolen. The school was probably too lazy to unenroll it before they sent it off to recycling and then made it to the store that sold it to you.
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
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?
They changed their return policy to 14 Days and updated their site to actually make then language consistent. 14 days with 20% restock for refund or no restock for store credit.
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! 😂
These videos are always entertaining
I used to work at a big repair and refurbished company and that phone is a C grade. The lowest we had was D, which meant it was mostly for parts. Descending quality from grade A, B, C, D.
Grade A was basically a new phone.
I didnt even know toxic waste was still a thing... I used to have those in school in the UK (20 years ago)
How!?, It’s still eaten all the time by youngers
A lot of these tech places get large quantities of laptops from e-waste facilities. The e-waste facilities receive old laptops in lots from schools to be "recycled" but get sold for profit. Sometimes these places when setting up and cleaning the device forget to remove the school lock. The schools have a password for all the laptops to keep kids out of certain areas such as BIOS or certain websites.
That piece of candy bought had Austin on the hook for days. They just needed one other thing to go right
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.
“Who would poison Pierre Luigi??”
one thing i think you should have tested to make sure is that the replacement macbook isn't a ticking timebomb and also is linked to a school district.. usually can attempt to do a manual device recovery and do a fresh OS install (not just a simple factory reset) and either it may block you or once you get in the OS it is locked down... but if it doesn't then that is more assurance it's not tied to a school district, which if it is, may randomly one day (well after the return period) lock itself down when its hidden license expires or whatever.
19:14 "and taste way better" lmaooo
not me acting like a kid on Christmas when austin posts
1:10 cause you’re using bing
You should've called up that school district and ask them if they're missing a MacBook Air 11" and what the excuse was for its absense.
Unfortunately i have to do my homework
get to work bro 🫡
That second laptop is probably mdm locked too, and they just blocked Apple's servers in the hosts file to prevent that screen from appearing. Until you reformat and try to reinstall, then you'll get that screen again.
It’s a nice looking site, but behind scenes is just a pawnshop.
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
Austin mannn you had a bad day that day. You flipped the switch to locked on the mac pro
8:08 used isn’t the worst they have, used and clearance are different, clearance is worse then used, so this MacBook is the 2nd worst
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
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 miss the old intro
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....
For every like I get I'll do 1 push-up
Austin left the Mac Pro on lock when he tried to open it.
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.
13:59 one of the most scratched screens I’ve ever seen.
Meanwhile I’m like “that ain’t bad”