They Sent The WRONG PC: eBay Refurb NZXT BLD
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- čas přidán 10. 02. 2023
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I bought an refurbished NZXT BLD gaming pre-built from eBay and ended up getting a surprise.
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Randy must have also sent a 9100f/1050ti to someone who paid for this system and that guy is PISSED right now. :)
I was thinking about exact same thing :)
Luckily ebays buyer protections are really good
@@flamingscar5263 sometimes to good..
@@kaymigiwa Yeah, if you're enough of a piece of shit thief you can return scam just about everything with eBay's "buyer protection". They will almost never side with their sellers in any dispute.
@@kaymigiwa So good that sellers have no scam protections.
Really nice of you to message the seller back to let him know. I wonder what he'll say! Hopefully it hasn't put him in too much trouble for the work he's doing
I'm thinking the customer support of the seller is so bad that Dawid will end up keeping it lol
@VERY EVIL PERSON FROM ILLUMINATI yeah, that's a good law. It's meant to prevent somebody from sending you something and then demanding that you pay for it. Apparently it used to be a thing where scammers would send something valuable, leave it for a while, and then contact the recipient with a huge bill with the justification that "well you used the item so you have to pay for it". Pretty damn scummy. Having said that it's not usually quite as simple as "yay free stuff". You often have to make a genuine effort to rectify the issue, and return the item if possible. You just can't be forced to pay for it or be held legally liable for the delivery. Obviously this depends hugely on where you live... Some countries probably have no such protection, and others likely have very different rules.
@@veryevilpersonfromillumina5893 here in The Netherlands, if a seller sends you a more valuable product than you had ordered, you are obliged to return it if the seller asks for it. Logically, the seller is responsible for the costs of the return shipment and sending you the correct product.
Only if a company sends you a product without any request from your side, you are allowed to keep it under any circumstance. Would you however decide to return the product anyway, the original sender will still be obliged to pay for costs of the return shipment.
(for those interested, above is based on Dutch law: article 7:7 Burgerlijk Wetboek (civil code of The Netherlands))
@VERY EVIL PERSON FROM ILLUMINATI Might be why, when i ordered 3 cables and got 40 the seller said keep them. And postage.
@@diizzii 🤡
imagine if Randy said "no refunds"
😂
@enrique amaya does this Jesus have a 3060 Ti?
@enriqueamaya3883
@@vangelis7 probably only gt710
@@GewelReal lmao
Seller probably recognized Dawid and thought “Ohh, I’ll send him something much better than he bought, then he’ll give me really good promotion and feedback!”
Dawid: “So I bought this PC from some rando online.”
Randy: 😢
Na we ordered it on a secret shopper account :)
@@AnnaDoes Ahh, haha. Nice 👌
😂
Good one xd
G'day @@AnnaDoes, GN Steve uses Beve Sturk, so do you use Mawid Duller? 😂
Weird stuff happens. I once ordered a used Amiga 500 system off of EBAY for $500 C.O.D. So the ups driver delivers it at my door and leaves. Never collects the money. It took me 3 days of arguing with the company before they finally looked it up and discovered they made a mistake and it was a C.O.D. shipment. Long story short, they told me that since I was the first one who was honest & reported it, I could just keep it as a reward for my honesty. Still have it.
I actually work for a system refurbisher for schools and businesses. That first boot into Windows is a built-in admin account to download drivers and install software before a user is created. It's not a bad install, just an unfinished one!
Edit: If you're at the "Choose your Country" screen, press "CTRL+SHIFT+F3" and it'll reboot into said admin account. It's very useful if you're building a computer for a friend and want to pre-install certain programs for them!
Well it's in audit mode which is usually the way to prep a system image. Although it's kind of an outdated method to use for most enterprise users. But yeah they haven't put it back into OOBE mode.
You are a legend
I'll have to remember that
Audit Mode
Yep and the problem occurred because they just unplugged it rather than shutting it down or it was unplugged after it went to sleep or locked.
I wonder if Randy mixed up the Addresses and someone else that ordered a 3060 Ti System got the 1050 Ti system instead? Oops!! LOL!
ohh god big ouch indeed if so...... haha
I've bought quite a number of refurbished PCs from eBay/Amazon/Newegg marketplace sellers and in a few instances, a better system arrived than what was in the listing. It was always the same case/chassis, but it might be a generation newer, have a higher-spec CPU, more RAM, and/or an SSD instead of a hard drive. I got in touch with the seller the first time it happened- the system had an i7 for the price of an i3, and twice as much ram as I'd ordered. They told me there was no mistake, they simply send out the same model PC with higher spec components if the one ordered is out of stock.
Back in 2012 I ordered a 256gb Samsung SSD on Amazon. Got a BOX with 5 of them. :D
How is Randy still in business after mess ups like these
Randy don't care, profit is all Randy cares about, whether you get the right system or not. And with eBay fees and maybe even PayPal fees Randy will be out of business in no time... unless... these machines are from a "gray" market shall we say, the back of a Penske truck?
Every Randy is a new Randy so Randy is simultaneously in business and out of business. Kind of like me and my life in my box.
The Randy Paradox!
@@schrodingerthecat Schrödinger's Randy
@@aelaan12 Randy can probably afford the rare mistake since he is probably flush with cash for selling POS i3 9100 & gtx 1050ti pc's for $580 Cdn. Why would Dawid buy such a POS pc for the price to begin with? $580 should be the price for the used pc that he got. (I know Nvidia is keeping their cards prices high.)
I'm confused as to why randy managed to tie the cables down NEXT to the actual cable routing channel that NZXT has built into the case.
bang up job, randy.
well Randy did send him a rtx 3060 not a gtx 1050 so yeah🤣
@@raven4k998 fair
Thanks for making consistent, very high quality videos Dawid! The quality of your videos for how often you post them is insane!
My coworker isn't a computer guy, but asks basically everyday, "is there a new Dawid video?!" Great stuff for everyone bro!
I bought a cyberpower prebuilt back in 2017 that came with that foam packing stuff. They also had to leave the power connectors unplugged put had a note inside to let the end user know to plug it in before you do anything else
Loved the XTREME CLOSE-UP spamming the Del key to enter BIOS 😂
SFX power supplies can be quite expensive, so that's another win in my opinion. You can swap it out with an ATX PSU and use the SFX in an actual SFF build.
I feel like the seller might've looked you up when buying the system and purposefully upgraded you in hopes it would drive your audience to buy from him in hopes of also getting the "wrong" system
Exactly the thought that first came to mind lol smart move if you ask me...
If this is the case you should name drop him Dawid to throw the guy a bone.
ah just like the "escobar phone" scam way back..
But he got no promotion.
Well then they did a terrible job looking him up, because if they watched any if his other ebay videos they would know he does not promote the seller
I'm kinda excited to see Dawid pinning a message here about the update, it's been an hour yet.... hopefully the guy from ebay isn't screwed(first time for me to say).
I googled the model number and looked it up at the beginning of the video and it's called the "starter pro" they sell for $1150 usd. Looks to be all the original parts too.
What an honest and upstanding dude Dawid is!
Its probably pretty easy to be honest when you've got 10 other computers and this is purely for entertainments sake.
Really awesome if you to let them know of the mistake. Alot of people wouldn't have said anything. Major props!
the fact the advert was over in the first 45 seconds was top tier.!
Good of you for being honest, it may have been a simple error on their part. Happened to me with Amazon once and they just said "hey keep the better crap". A 1050-Ti vs. a 3060-Ti is a hilarious comparison also.
I once ordered a single joystick from Amazon and received a case of them. No regrets. Just meant me AND the boys all got new joysticks.
@@achaerna.6662 you selling any? 😛
Happened to me too, I ordered a PC that should have had a rx550 and an i3 10100 but I received a beast of PC instead... Rtx3060ti and i9
Amazon is so dumb they failed to scan any small package I bought. So if I bought any RAM, NVMEs etc. off of Amazon, they'd always end up being deemed "lost" days later even though I already have them and am using them. And I'm always able to ask for a refund lmao. Thanks for the free stuff, Bezos.
Before screaming 'fraud!' at me, keep in mind I'm only committing fraud against Amazon which works for me. I always buy new, sold & shipped from Amazon themselves. Which means the companies that actually made these parts already got their bucks from Amazon buying in bulk. Only Bezos gets screwed over here.
"There's a cpu cooler you wouldn't be embarrassed to whip out at a public shower.
Although it's curved a bit funny"
Goodness sakes that's one of Dawid's best ones yet 😂🤣
@enrique amaya Hail science
Absolutely 😆
Had me feeling Ozzie Man vibes with that one.
Whip it, Whip it good 😊
There's a test I would love for you to do if possible. My friend recently bought an H5 flow and his glass panel was cracked in half... Tempered glass isn't supposed to crack, it shatters. I've never seen a case do this yet and because of that fact, his refund isn't going very smoothly with Canada Computers because they claim it's impossible.
such a humble man for messaging the customer
*Honest*. But I get what you mean, and that was very good of him 👌
@enrique amaya bot
If an ordinary guy experience this they would never contact back the seller
Karma is real.
@@makuIa Technically yes, it would.
An ordinary guy would realize that someone else paid for this and got the potato PC. If they weren't a self-absorbed asshat they'd understand that's not okay.
There is no reason to. If someone sends you MORE than ordered they can't charge you more and that's on them. Only a FOOL, NOT a "good person", would send back an upgrade! This is NOT just some guy doing this to pay for his mom's cancer meds. This is some kinda company who is making big profit over pricing low end systems and clearly they pay so little attention to what they are doing chances are people get ripped off more than they get upgraded for free!
You do NOT own a sell anything if they fuck up in your favor, you only have to say something if you didn't get at least what you paid for!
@@twiztidsidfreak13 You quite literally know none of that to be true and factual.
Actually, I'd love if you expanded your Prebuilt series to include the sites like NZXT, IBuyPower, Build Redux, Digital Storm, etc. I think it would be really fun!
wow, i paid a lot more for my 3060ti and 5600x build. that is one heck of a deal you ended up with. hopefully the person it was meant to go to, ended up getting this all fixed for them pretty easily and without too much hassle. randy the randos loss, and your gain, since he wont respond to you. haha. thanks for the videos. pure entertainment always. (when I read linode now, it is always in your voice! haha)
I gotta say, I really love your video's, they make my day! You know how to keep it light and humourous. Keep up the good work!
I died a little bit on the inside when you used a screwdriver on the thumbs screws 🤣
Speaking of the peel, just bought an old used case (this model has been discontinued for years) and they *somehow* hadn't done the peel yet.
I almost feel bad for peeling it after all this time. Almost.
You sir are a riot! So entertaining, a fun way to learn about computers, thank you!
5:56 You can use Sysprep mode to install all drivers and stuff so that the user can create his own account. If you install windows and press crtl shift f3 in the setup screen this mode will open. The seller forgot to close Sysprep mode by clicking ok in the Sysprep window.
How do you continue to consistently put out good content? I love all of your videos and none of them bore me. How do you put out so much good content?
The same thing happened to me a while back. I ordered a PC with a R3 3200G and 8GB ram 3200mhz with a 120ssd + 1tb hdd but i instead recieved a PC with a R5 3400G and 16GB 3600MHZ and a 240ssd + 1tb hdd. They had the same case but different internals. This was on AmazonUK.
Buying a potato and getting a decent rig is a win in my books
a potato saved GladOS.
Never underestimate the processing power of a spud (or a baking soda volcano)
TBF... he has had enough crummy builds that he well overpaid for. It was karma that he found a nice mislabeled box for one that was not a gtx 1030 and a celeron
buying a potato and getting one baked with all the toppings....I fixed it for you
@enrique amaya DO NOT use this platform for religious proselytization!
Next time I WILL report you.
It is absolutely presumptuous and infuriating to assume you know anything about my religious point of view. If you enter that discusssion with bias towards one particular man-made god, I do not have the time of day for you. It's way more complicated that you could possibly imagine, (and Jesus has nothing to do with it).
@@PeBoVision Alright now just spam this message 10 billion times like the other guy and you'll defeat him !
anyway I'd rather have someone spam religion crap than links to cc stealing sites
Crazy, one automatically assumes you were sent a crummier pc. Surprised it was the opposite! Will be interesting to see if the seller responds and what he actually says! Way to be honest n upstanding Dawid!!!!
When linode dropkicks tour screen at the beginning of a Dwaid video, yk it gonna be a banger
I really love your sense of humor. You are like the 60’s Batman of CZcams tech channels 😊
same man lol
Yeah, the way I seem to be is if a seller doesn't message me back within 2-3 days, whatever it is is mine to Keep lol. Some sellers are like that anyway! If they mess up and send a superior product and you're honest about it they'll just say keep it and a lesson learned on their end to pay more attention to what they're sending to which buyer.
I had the exact same situation happened to me when I was purchasing a new graphics card on eBay I was looked at a RX 5500 XT the seller didn't know what they had ended up being a 5600 XT all for $175 a steel.
that minecraft server is crazy, love that
My side panel still remains unpeeled 1,5 years after I bought it 🤣🤣🤣
Dawid even used my secret shopper eBay account so there is no way the seller knew who he was.
Don't know the situation in Canada, but here in Germany you have to report such mix-ups because there is no legally binding contract for the delivered goods. The seller can, at least in theory, reclaim the goods for up to 10 years.
during the gpu shortage i bought a broken not booting asus gpu where i checked the the serial number and it was under warranty so i was going to rma it. I could not find any problems of that gpu, sometimes good surprises happen
I'm wondering if Randy purchases open-boxed/damaged PCs that were sent back to assemblers like NZXT and resells them. Probably paid NZXT next to nothing for it, and he's likely not at much if any loss.
I remember when I bought a copy of Heroes of Might and Magic 2 for $10 on sale and the lady at the store accidentally put a copy of the newly released Heroes of Might and Magic 3 disc in the case instead! This was totally one of the best things that could have happened to a nerdy 13 year-old in 1999!
I still maintain that the Alienware from eBay might not be broken. Alienware Ryzen AM4 boards are only compatible with 1 generation. If it came with Zen 3… the. You cannot use a Zen 2 CPU on it. In your video, you only tried 1 CPU… that might have been the wrong generation.
Holy shit that's some next level bs
Yeah, Dell really screwed over Alienware when they bought them. At first, it was just turning them into plastic crap instead of metal. Then they started limiting upgrading by locking the bios down.
@@mattBLACKpunk The unfortunate reality of 5 year socket compatibility. Early motherboards literally didn't have enough memory for every Ryzen CPU.
@@BeerDone yeah I know about the standard size of on board flash being too small some time after gen 3, but 1 gen of support with no possibility of updating bios is 100% on dell
Its the same with intel processors as well and not limited to the alienware line apparently. I know since the company i work with is a dell only house.
You gotta test it at 1440p. 3060s run it a lot better than people think
Deffo, I'm running a 1080 still at 2k and its mostly good still haha
3060 ti is def a 1440p card
i run a 1080 ti and i run 1440p
Gotta love Dawid his 'Punchlines' in all the videos
we demand more prebuilt videos
If I saw the build you go for that price on marketplace id scoop it up in seconds!
As always, love the content. ♥
Wow, that was an actual decent pc build!
Hey that system was first assembled on my birthday thats pretty cool
You deserved a better bargain Bro. Hope you can keep it, nice bonus for all your hard work and insanly funny humor ,'-) love ya
Linode must have made so much money thanks to Dawid.
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Are those decently large frametime spikes on BF V normal? Never played it before but just looked pretty odd.
Those temperatures are fantastic
Dawid should start his own line of custom dodgy PCs!
@enrique amaya I'm seeing Jesus as more of an AMD fan boi!
I find it a little amusing that you compare the 1050 to the 3060, as that's exactly what my PC upgrade last summer was. 1050ti to a 3060ti. Though obviously the rest of the system was upgraded, too so it was more than just a GPU upgrade lol. But I did play through Cyberpunk 2077 the whole way on that 1050ti. I'm usually cool with FPS as low as 30-40 so long as it's stable, but even that game and setup pushed me to my limits of tolerance haha. I'm looking forward to replaying it (soon?) on the 3060ti, but I've got a backlog of other unplayed games to play before then. RDR2, Days Gone, God of War, Death Stranding, and currently playing Hogwarts Legacy.
Rando that's actually named Randy: "HOW DOES HE KNOW MY NAME?!"
Why can't I be that lucky LOL. That's one hell of a sellers Whoopsie! LMAO
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I enjoy seeing Will Wheaton unpacking PCs
I'd be worried about the ebay sell putting a keylogger or something on that system to steal your info
I thought that too. I reinstalled windows on it before I logged into anything.
Hell of a deal for under $600, someone done goofed on the shipping lol
It's too good to be true
@@RustedCroaker naw i got a 2080S w/ AIO New in Box for 200 😂it's genuine been running it for months and it rips
I feel "less dodgy than an Alienware" is a low bar to clear these days.
You got good deal there, congrats!!!
That sfx psu looks like the ones they put in the NZXT H1 so it might be one he had just laying about.
FINALLY!
PREBUILDS!
I wonder if the seller somehow sniffed out who the buyer was and hooked him up for a nice review ? Anyway that's awesome! you payed less for the card and got a free system to boot wow!
This is pretty much how I do thrift shops. The ones that have the ridiculous pricing, usually also don't know when something HAS value. Just keep going.
My local thrift gouges like they are selling new stuff, not crusty junk from the recycling center. and dead peoples clear outs..
They wanted 30USD for a dirty S/H air fryer, because modern and trendy...
Saying that, sitting on the floor unloved and strange, they had a (very nice) 24" HP Business LCD monitor with fully adjustable stand and DP cable for 10USD, got it for 5USD on half price day. Seems a DP cable plug is space alien tech and worthless LMAO.
Pawn shops too. I made a killing selling laptops during the GPU price gouges.
Awesomesauce video Dawid. I am curious what their response will be for you. Isn't it a great feeling you get from ordering one thing and getting something better. At least you didn't get a worse system. Lol
I can hear Anna now. "Really, another bad system? We aren't made of money here. [Smirk]"
So a system finally kinda went in your favor lol nice solid system you got there! :)
Sysprep is used to generalize an image, it looks like you initially opened it in audit mode. I wonder if they were building an image off that PC
Can you do a video about how to clean and prevent dust in these high air flow cases that don’t have filter but have a mesh front?
Better CPU and GPU. Nice little system you got there for the money. I am guessing that still no word from the Randster. Perhaps he was trolling you and decided to give you a better system to see what you would do. Probably not expecting you to get back to him so he could get back to you and say he made a mistake. But I guess he never realised how honest you really are and it took him by surprise.
So it looks like the seller left the System in Audit Mode, where you can mess around with things in Windows without setting up an account, useful for making sure drivers and such are on a PC you plan to sell as a one-off. (If there were more you might as well make an image). Hit OK on the little popup (leave the options unchanged) and it should restart the system and go back to the initial setup. Audit mode also tends to get upset about waking back up from sleep/hibernation, hence the message about the disabled account.
Dawid im wondering you buy a lot of pc what do you do with them all .. do you resell them >? or do u just have a big storage of computers lol... either way great video.
I believe the technical term for when that sort of thing happens is 'serendipitous larceny'.
Imagine the person who bought this pc from him getting yours 😂
"If you look at the... oopsie." Dawid, the whole PC is an oopsie.
Holy f-ck. Using autoerotic asphyxiation to describe the lack of airflow in OEM prebuilts had me in tears laughing. This is why I subscribed. These hilarious euphemisms.
My house has been about that temp all winter, computers like it a lot more than I do 😂
Everybody needs a Randy in their life.
Very nice, only thing that was annoying was your keyboard that clicking sound. Can you try some gaming monitors with 200hz that is good to gaming and have nice blur on it
Wow that is a very large mixup lol, kind of strange
maybe randy was feeling generous and threw it in as a late Christmas present lmao
The anemic psu in every prebuild makes my skin crawl. Yes the hack job assembly and mismatch components are annoying but even once all of that is sorted, whould you by a hyper car and put a 9v battery in it and hope it is enough power to support crucial components?
What I think could have happened is that they ordered 2 PCs with the same cabinet, one with your specifications and the other with the 3060 TI and they sent you the one you didn't order by mistake.
You're not legally liable anyway, although it's nice of you to send Randy a message in case he wants the computer back.
Maybe the dent in the back of the case was from when it fell off the back of the truck👀
what is the name of that mouse on your intro? the left handed mmo mouse. I can only use my left arm to game and my only option to game is with the razer naga left handed edition. I would like to find out but /I looked everyehere and cant find it .
What is the name app that shows you the gpu/cpu usage of the game you are playing?
Randy did some really good work ngl
This was probably a fall of the back of a truck situation
Reminds me of my first proper gaming pc back in 2014, was supposed to be an fm2 system with a gtx 960, 1tb hdd, 8gb ram, i looked inside seeing double the memory and a gtx 1060 which when pascal was brand new made me all skippy considering i also got a 20% discount on the whole system! and of course..e-waste peripherals that weren't half bad! £450 well spent! coming from a sempron 2800+ FX5200, e7400 + gt210 system, it was a mahoosive upgrade!
That battlefield experience was quite stuttery tho