The Rip-Off That is DKOldies [RANT]
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- čas přidán 19. 06. 2024
- Recently DKOldies has been exploding in exposure through a new TikTok marketing strategy. And with this new exposure, more and more people are realizing how big of a rip-off the website truly is.
Chapters
0:00 Cold Open
0:45 Intro
2:18 Explaining DKOldies
4:24 Pricing
10:15 Trade-Ins
11:58 Refurbish
13:51 Final Thoughts
14:29 Outro
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Glad to see so many people checking this video out, thank u for watching! But it’s been brought to my attention through the comments that this website isn’t actually a scam but more of a rip-off. And after searching the definitions I agree and wanna apologize since I used those 2 words interchangeably not realizing they had different meanings. Will likely change the title soon.
I'm going to be brutally honest here. You trash them, use them for views, and lie all while hiding your face. That's sad. You knew what you were doing. You made the title and thumbnail calling the business scam when you knew that it isn't? If anything, that makes you a scam. A SCAM is a deceptive scheme or trick used to cheat someone out of something. That's the definition. You deceptively titled your video and thumbnail to scam people into watching it where you benefit from the lie. None of your other videos have anywhere near the number of views this video does, and DKOlides is the only one you can thank for that. Expensive or not, DKOlides hasn't scammed anyone, the price on their website is the price when you add it to the cart, and it's the same price when you click to pay. They didn't price their stuff for $10.00 and then suddenly the price changes to $100.00 when you go to pay. This is why your channel wont grow. You may be able to scam clicks and views by lying in your knowingly lying in your title and thumbnail, but you won't scam long-term subscribers or engagement that way.
Change the title when. The moment you get enough views?. Come on Man you are as greedy as them
Just so you know, the NES' design causes the pins in the connector to bend which leads them to losing contact over time. You either need to bend the pins back into place manually, get a replacement connector, find something like the Blinking Light Win, or just get a top loader.
You're just mad at people making money. They clean and refurbish everything to like new and give a warranty and you're crying about it. If you can't afford it then don't buy it. No need to blast someone for doing better than you. That's why you block your face your a.punk
You made literally an entire video about how they are a scam, and stated it multiple times in the video. You aren't taking it back, you are fishing for views and you're rightly getting called out for it.
Who else remembers walking into GameStop in the early to mid 2000’s and being able to buy a N64 for $20
5 dollars when I was a kid
When my friend came to my house with an N64 and a copy of Mario Cart, and told me he paid almost $200 ...
It's like damn, man, I get nostalgia, but I have an emulator right on my PC that we could all play together, whatever controller you want, for free. 4k.
I had an N64 so... no I don't remember because mine was bought a year after launch. D:
@@jesserogalski1402*kart 🤓🤓
Paid $40 for mine with 2 controllers in 2020
I used to work for DKOlides and seeing these kinds of videos are warranted. I was on their cleaning team (and testing team for a little bit) also the guy who's all over their tiktok and Facebook is literally hired to be a personality for social media. That's all he does. Also I personally never saw anything thrown in for free when working there. I assume that's for show. Also they buy all their consoles and games from eBay or good will or auctions, they then clean them and then sell them
Also they don't "refurbish" anything, they clean it which includes using kitchen cleaning products, q tips, and magic eraser. The console is never opened unless the console doesn't work. Sometimes they don't even refurbish it
@@Cammotto Give me a ballpark on how many total consoles you think there are/were there. I can never get a good perspective.
@@bjerrum4921 they had literally thousands of consoles in piles waiting to ship or be cleaned. I could clean anywhere from 120 to 600 consoles in a day
@@linusmayden8465 Commenter said consoles. :p
@@linusmayden8465 Cartridges are easier to take apart and refurbish than consoles. Cartridges are more likely to be opened by people compared to consoles
Your channel is under rated as hell! Expected you to have at least 100k. You'll definitely get there someday ur doing great 👍
I remember seeing them for the first time like 6 months ago thinking "wow how convenient" but then slowly saw how much they're actually charging
I will never get over the fact they charge almost 40 dollars for Wii sports. A game that game stores used to practically throw at you when you entered the store, and a game that came free with every single Wii. You can literally go into any charity shop or vintage gaming shop in the UK and there's a 75% chance you'll find a copy in there for a few quid.
Wii sports and resort both got very popular because of speed running. The price shot up pretty high after
The only wii sports game worth anything is the one that has an actual game box I'm not talking about resort there was a nintendo select wii sports that came with an actual box that's the only one of value and it's for the plastic
They charge one hundred fucking dollars for Mega Man. A game that you can get on the Nintendo Eshop for the virtual equivalent of $2.50
@@Syrus_Priest yh, and the one they sell is the disc only
@@OldMateBlue that's dumb considering there's literally millions of Wii sports discs out there. When did the speedrunning get popular because they've been charging that for nearly 2 years now
I'm from Mexico and the retro consoles are very cheap on flea markets.
When i see the prices from DKOldies for GTA V on PS3 i have a heart attack, specially when i bought GTA V for PS3 on a flea market for about 8 dollars.
And the most hilarious thing about DKOldies is when they make the "ultimate" console and they just attach a lot of random addons
Soy de méxico también, vivo en monterrey y no he encontrado muchos mercaditos donde vendan juegos lol, sólo un par. Me vendría bien, quiero regalarle un playstation 2 a un amigo
To be fair, you sound like you've got a good flea market who actually prices stuff right. GTA 5 does go for 9 bucks on PS3.
The worst are the ones who price stuff up. When I have a thrift store that overprices games, it's like "bitch, I'm browing random games here in impulse, you don't get to upcharge!" -- on ebay you get to choose exactly the one you want with a money back guarantee. Brick and mortar stores basing prices on ebay is gross.
But yeah, DKOldies is worse. lmfao. They are taking advantage of the people who land on their store from ads and don't know any better.
@@MrHombreLaser acá en la CDMX como esta lleno de tianguis siempre hay puestos donde se venden videojuegos.
El otro día vi una NES original aunque algo descuidada por 300 pesos, el punto es buscar
@@GiuseppeGaetanoSabatelli DKOldies is selling this things for a very high prices just because they don't know the real prices of the things.
And even worse that the prices of DKOldies, is the assholes who pays this prices just because they want a Nostalgia shot, and that's a bullshit.
That's the reason why nowadays buying a retro console is a fucking bullshit, just keep emulating or just buy your stuff on Ebay
A mi siempre me gusta buscar juegos en el tianguis, una vez encotre metroid fuzion por nomas $25 dólares nada comparado aqui en los Estados Unidos
I’m surprised DKO hasn’t come into the crosshairs of Nintendo’s lawyer ninjas with their name alone.
Another awful thing about DKOldies is that they put a lot of CZcams shorts showing stuff that they make it sound like is a very obscure and unusual like a unicorn but is something that anyone with fair knowledge on videogames already knows.
"CAN YOU BELIEVE THE PSP COULD DO THIS?! 😱😱😱" and then it's just UMD Video or something.
My experience with them is when I bought an old phat DS that was "cosmetically flawed" and when I got it, it had a few dead pixels on the top screen. I asked them to replace it or repair it because I don't think a bad screen is a cosmetic flaw, and they claimed to replace it but they sent the exact same one back
I hope you charged back your credit card
DKoldies is mostly popular with older people who just want a nostalgia kick and arent aware of the games actual value, or people who dont trust ebay. They tend to justify paying so much for the "quality" and safety of these items, but lately there have been a lot of complaints about people getting dirty or faulty consoles. DKoldies is also known to remove bad reviews or complaints on reddit and other places. Their customer service also seems god awful
Shame to see them exploit people who don’t know any better or are just getting into the niche with their marketing and prices. Hopefully they improve or more people find out about their shady tactics.
I feel bad for those people I'm very weird video games about me PS2 and eBay for a great price never quick gaming either since I was younger I feel sorry for people that actually buy from them they're f****** retarded sorry but
@@KangFasho ya a lot of people are very paranoid and people who tend to play retro games are well off. They don’t mind paying the extra price it’s not a scam, if the people want to pay for it, they will if people don’t they’ll go out of business.
@@stevesharpe3370 agreed buisness is buisness employes electricity rent all these things need to be pay unlike a ebay selling from his house. now the problem i have is the online store, I work at a retro game store i gave alot of advice of what to buy and what not, console game etc just to say when you come to a store its for the service the advice the little extra your paying is for that but a online store you dont get to talk to nobody so its kinda lame just go on ebay if your already online with all the security now protecting the buyer on ebay.
@@Albatrox I love retro game stores! But a lot of people live in very small towns that don’t have them.
You’d be surprised how many americans live in fly over states, in little redneck towns and have a ton of money as well
The reason you’re NES was grey screening is because the cartridge reader has gone bad but the good news is you can get them fairly cheap and it’s very simple to install. Hope this helps out.
The 72-pin connector. My dad and I replaced it when I found his old NES, good memories
Eh just stick a game genie in it and it’ll work 😂
everytime i see their prices i remember buying a nintendo 64 and an extra controller for 20 dollars at my local disc replay. it is INSANE they think this stuff holds that much value
I remember seeing DKOldies on CZcams. I thought “wow, this looks like a really professional retro company.” Then I saw the price of Pokémon Emerald and said “yeah screw them.” Lol
I suppose the benefit of them is they actually have what you want maybe
Pokemon is too damn expensive everywhere you go. The retro store near me has it for 150. Yeah, nah. To the high seas I go.
@@ps3beatswii emulator’s are free bro x
Yeah and the worst part is that you’re competing with DK if you wanna buy it anywhere else as seen by the shit ton of Pokémon games they have in stock.
@@ps3beatswii W Sumire pfp 🗣️
I never heard of this website until they started pushing their tiktoks on CZcams and Facebook, which as a retro gamer just just kinda set off alarm bells in my head because most retro gaming stores I know of don't need to advertise their stuff that hard to get customers. So hearing that they are doing this type of crap tells me all I need to know to steer clear of them.
Nah it just means that they are capitalizing on a market that no other retro game store has done yet. Retro games have taken off since 2020 and now is a good time to take advantage of advertising. Unfortunately now a days Tik Tok is the most used platform and making videos like DK oldies is gonna rake in a lot of customers.
It’s at times like this that I’m glad as a kid I held onto all my retro games like gold 😭
I sold all mine to GameStop…. I regret it, I was young and dumb
Rip PS2, Xbox, Xbox 360 and ps3 I’ll miss y’all
@@emma6648 daaammnnn even went to the worst ones I’m so sorry 😭 my collection for my ps2 and 3 are my favorite so I couldn’t imagine selling any of it
@@Hellnolongerawaits I kid you not going by todays prices with retro games I would have had around damn near 2000-4000$ I had a lot of rare games on the Gamecube, and DS. Games like all the Pokemon, Paper Mario TTYD, Fire Emblem etc. I would have had all of them still to this day but my Dad made me sell them if I wanted a new game console. I've been trying to slowly build up my collection for Gamecube and DS again and it hurts seeing these prices for the more "popular" games.
I remember walking into GameStop, 2011, buying a mint editition game boy advance SP, and used Pokémon leaf green for 40$, around 55$ with inflation these days, still good deal. Those were the days fellas!
I'd never buy their products, but what annoys me most about them is they are actually contributing to the inflated prices of the retro market as a whole.
The funny thing is if you go to their website you’ll see some nice sale prices for games. But then you click it and realize that the good price is for “cosmetically flawed” and 90% of the time they don’t have those in stock so it shows you the price for the good condition one which is like 3 times the price. Which is crazy to me.
Good condition is probably just not on fire or a bare PCB
That happened from another store. First time I was fine, second time I made them honor them or I walked out. Half the games the second time did not even work, said I would not return and meant it.
Wow lmao that's like saying "hey I'll sell you a new in box ps5 for 1 dollar! But I don't have any in stock. Anyway now that I have your attention I'll sell you an opened PS5 for 9 billion dollars"
@@madaskueuchiha that’s exactly how I felt, I saw golden eye for like $30 and when I clicked it, the price shot up to $65. With tax it would cost the same as god of war ragnarok.
The worst thing about this situation is that Facebook mom's and casual eBay sellers are going to think they're sitting on a gold mine because they found a box with a PS2 and a Wii in decent condition 💀💀
I discovered these guys when I was looking to buy an old PS2 game, The nearest store that had it was still an hour away from me so I decided to try and find an online store. I see DKOldies and click... Search for the game I'm looking for... A PS2 game, The store that was selling it an hour away had it listed for $10, I was down to spend that. And then I see that DKOldies is selling that exact same, used game for 70 DOLLARS. A Playstation 2 game.
Their "sale price" is just the actual price with a falsely inflated price to make you think you're getting a deal.
The sale price Is even too fucking expensive, they are useless fucking scammers
Which is illegal
TBH that is common practice for any business. Just like when grocery stores drop something $1 for a week, then when the sale ends, the items only go back up 50 cents. Walmart will slowly raise prices of TVs over a span of a few months, then on black Friday mark them $200 off. But it' the same price, if not more than it was a few months ago. That's how they get rid of all of their old stuff every year.
@@cooldudeplanet5779 only in Canada Australia and the EU
@@cooldudeplanet5779which literally every other reselling company does lol. Like if someone falls for that they’re just slow
I remember finally checking out there site only to shit bricks laughing at how much they charge for everything. Who pays for that?
Almost me the when I started getting into this stuff 😂
@@KangFasho they are charging 130$ for a wii... A FUCKING WII... the system that sold 100 million and collects dust in every person's home nowadays.
Lil Yachty
@@ComradeChyrk I literally was a few hours from home and meant to bring 1 of my wiis to have a guy homered it 2 years ago before I figured out how easy it was but I forgot my wii I ended up going on marketplace and bought 3 wiis with no cables for 20 Canadian had 1 modded and chucked the others in my spare console bin lol
@Andrew Chyrklund the wii is nearly 20 years old. All the resellers bought them in my town and if you find one in the wild they aren't costing 10 bucks,20 bucks anymore. They're 100 and up and usually in shit condition. A store in my town has cheap wiis that are broken and they STILL sell them for 40 bucks with a damaged disc drive or just a brick. No returns either so it's a complete gamble
I looked into getting an Atari from them, but when I saw the sale price and clicked on it for the cart, the price shown then didn't even match the sale price shown on the previous page. I thought it was maybe the USD to CAD exchange rate but after a quick Google of that current days exchange rate, it wasn't even close. No idea what was on the go there. I didn't buy anything in the end.
I was in the market to replace a bunch of GameCube games I lost when my family was forced out of our house when I was younger, and ofc Dkoldies was the first site to pop up and HOLY SHIT, they were selling 007 night fire for like 70 bucks and I got it from a local comic shop with the case and manual for $17
I used to sell my garage sale and flea market finds for a few bucks over what I paid for retro to buddies. It was fun to share nostalgia with friends, once the retro market boomed I shut that down when apparently everyone started reselling my crap on marketplace. It was never about the money; I paid nothing for my massive collection and always offered to "buy/sell back" to keep the fun in my friend groups.
My opinion on DK oldies.... It's an upper middle class service, not at all what I'd consider a place for fair trade. You get something "guaranteed" to work and in "good" condition. I personally never paid more than $30 for anything retro and have amassed piles of everything. "Did that snes have roaches in it? Yes." But it played Kirby superstar like a boss.
Yep
I use to collect for fun
Now people that raise the price take the fun out of it for me
Same to me I would hook them up and they would resell for double to triple lmfao but most of the time they can’t sell it anyways so Im still laughing at them and phuk dkoldies for their scamming prices
@@YourPrivateEyeyeah because people like dk scammies
@@YourPrivateEyeSo scam people, great…
Discovered DKoldies few months ago, Instantly laughed and said to myself you'd have to be absolutely brain dead to pay for their asking prices.
Some of the games are aight, but the consoles are a bit nutty
Same here
@@bondsmatthew every game they sell is between 50% and 2,000% markup
@@johndodo2062 nah, 360, wii, and basically any 2000s game are mostly not marked up if not really low. was able to buy rdr2 for ps4 for 16 dollars on dkoldies
YES. I looked and was like wtf
Saw the video on tipster's stream and man this is impressive! Just earned yourself a sub! Definitely love to talk about retro games.
I went to school in Senatobia, MS which is a shitty, small ass, country town. In its “downtown” area, this old woman opened a game store. I always went to GameStop at the time (2011) and I thought I’d try this new store. My grandmother took me there after school one day, and the store used to be a boutique, and the old woman kept it looking that way. She had an insane amount games in this store. I got super excited seeing how many games were there. I walked up to one of the rows/aisles and noticed all the games were either og xbox, nes, ps 1 & 2, gameboy, Nintendo 64 or PC games. She had 1 row of 360 games that were all games you’d never see advertising for, like Saw, Naughty Bear, and hunting games. Every single game there was priced at $45, for obviously used games. ALL of them. She had the related systems behind like a jewelry store glass display countertop. All systems were $250-$300. And she told my grandmother that she has a store rule that kids must have a parent with them in order to buy T or M games.
I left super disappointed. The store was open for 5 months and closed. All my friends went there, and no one ever left with a game or system.
Alot of my childhood hobbies such as video games and anime have been ruined by scalpers etc lol
My buddies recently got me into anime and I can’t get a hold of anything physical, I don’t mind digital but in most cases I prefer physical, but I am realizing it’s not possible due to what you mentioned.
@@bndtx3 this is why I get classy merch and buy some collectors editions here and there but even that's getting eaten up by people wanting to sit on it for profit.
Ruined by capitalism tbh
People do this shit exclusively for profit
dkoldies are basically scalpers, the amount of stock they have is proof of that
@@irregulargamer1352 yeah I been noticing everything that is pre ordered isn’t even available most of the times everything being being scalped now it’s sad
search engine optimiziation look it up he did it.. or had someone help him 1:24
What makes it worse is that even if you think the games are decent price at first glance but the prices shown are for the flawed condition and once you click on it, the game in good condition costs considerably more.
Retro games stores have turned into what is essentially a pawnshop for games.
This shit is why I emulate, yes it's not the true experience, but it absolutely will not stop until everyone else starts doing this, it's called "Voting with your wallet"
It's the true experience for me, especially when you can play games at 60FPS and even get adaptors for original controllers
Emulation isn't bad at all. Without emulation and ROM dumping, we'd lost a ton of gaming history due to stingy collectors and pure old age.
That and I also buy ever drives. I have 2 so far. Just for the times I want to play 1:1 on a CRT, but most of the time. I emulate using glorious 8bitdo controllers or use my bliss box that have adapters for most system. I find the Wii classic controller gives me the feel I enjoy with retro style games!
to me its as close as im gonna get without paying scumbags my life savings
I just got every gamecube game I owned as a child. I'm now 25. I'm ordering a gamecube USB controller tomorrow. Emulation keeps my inner child alive so I'm not having to fork out for games I USED TO OWN to fucknuts like this who prey on nostalgia. Fuck DKoldies.
It was fun collecting a few years ago. Now i cant go in to any retro store without seeing ridiculous prices. Theres a few that still have decent prices but i feel like most are not even worth going to anymore
This video really does show all my gripes with DKOldies. It's frighteningly easy for someone to get scammed using this website, especially for someone who doesn't know all that much about retro gaming. Just this summer, i was looking into buying one of those old wiis with the GameCube ports since my own childhood one did not and I was really looking for some clean GC controller functionality and another shot at enjoying the Wii's titles. When I searched online, I found that DKOldies had Wiis sailing for far over $80-$100 if you want all the wires and some games included when I ended up just buying a simple lot which came with the console, all the wires, 2 nunchucks (no wiimote unfortunately but I already had that covered) and a copy of Wii Play totaling to only $40. And even then I increased my own value of the Wii way more since I filled it with homebrew so now it's my ultimate retro machine for only $40! Please spread the word of DKOldies and help guide people away from these scammers
its about time someone starts talking about this. hopefully DK recognizes their greediness and lowers their prices.
The problem is that dkoldies is a company not a individual, they have employees. So how can you pay them if you don't make profit?
@@abztrackt they can still make a profit without ripping people off , i think you missed the point .
@@linzaaay how?
@@abztrackt exactly just broke people whining about games they can't afford
People buy their stuff though or they would be lower already.
The thing about their "sales", it's that they are simply a marketing tactic. If you go to the wayback machine on their website, their prices have ALWAYS been like that. Those "Sale" prices have been like that for years. As for their bs excuse for their prices, they always go for "It's because the shop is at the slow season. So they have to up the prices" and if it's not that one you get another along the lines of "We have very little in stock so we don't want to run out of stock". It's either one or the other, You always get different people giving you a different answer. Which doesn't even add up, they make it sound like the world supply of mario bros games are running out or something.
Isn’t that literally illegal?
@@Cam_Can_Play yes it is illegal, you cannot create a fake discount sale on your store front. Without ever selling it in the original price.
I love how an excuse is that they don't want to run out of stock, that's exactly what any person selling anything wants!
It’s bait and switch
I seen dk oldies on CZcams shorts
Can you recommend websites that sell for a reasonable price. Im looking for a soul silver and I generally know that its kinda expensive but ik it aint worth like 300. If amazon or ebay is a option then i get that but i dont rlly trust it or know who is legit or not. If you do know legit websites that sell for a reasonable price then i would appreciate it.
Is there any better options to buy retro consoles compared to Ebay? Or has Ebay worked on helping people who get scammed?
Ebay has a money back guarantee on a ton of stuff. You will get refunded no problem and usually keep the item as well if it is not how it was described
Same thing happened to me while looking for games / consoles to buy.
Saw DKoldies and thought
"neat, I can finally start a collection instead of emulating"
Just to then go on ebay and make a list of everything I wanted for literally half the price.
exactly
Ebay is now just as bad. Its very hard to find an actual good deal on Ebay for things like LEGO or Video Games.
@@Sir_Adam it really isn't. There's tons of auctions and if you don't want to wait for auctions, there tons of listings for games with "Make an offer" as an option. As long as there are tons of pics and it's a reputable seller, its good to go. And eBay always sides with the buyer if something goes wrong.
@@Irraptured Its still rare to find something affordable
@@Sir_Adam Really? I've gotten so many good deals the past couple years alone. Takes patience sometimes but it's my go-to for retro
The moment I saw them on shorts I knew it was fishy. Anyone recording their sales to show how "good" they are immediately turn on red alarms in my head.
Edit: To those that were defending them in the replies, I wonder if you still have that opinion with everything that has come out now.
It’s not to show how good they are it’s for extra revenue though CZcams.
There's nothing wrong with the company I've even bought from them this guy is just throwing a temper tantrum like a child every company has to make money society is just entitled these days and wants to trash everything by calling a business a scam because their prices are higher than the guy wants
@@rickdiculous420 l mean if you are fine paying more than twice or thrice the price of something, I get you want to justify the money spent. Anyway I got some land on the moon interested in buying?
@@vintageoriginallegit It’s probably more for marketing
@@yesnt8907 yeah mainly for marketing and then they got a little revenue coming in from CZcams maybe.
One of the most ridiculous prices on their website is the Wii balance board. $50 for one of those guys. Literally every goodwill I've ever been in has one of those things going for $10. My local retro game stores stacks them up like a deck of cards on the floor. They're worthless.
So is there some kinda lawsuit that can be thrown? Something along the lines of artificial inflation making it easier to call whatever price you want and then jacking it up higher because you're price at first was only 200%markup? Is there something like that? Civil?
I was looking for a replacement for my NES and when DKoldies came up I was curious. Looked at their prices and pretty much laughed my balls off and ended up buying a Raspberry pie until I could find a decent deal for a NES.
😊😊😅😅q
@NateZurlent doesn't hit the same
I used to work for DK games the amount of plain right stealing we did was crazy we would pay about 10-20$ for a NES, 25$ for n64 and about 1-5$ per game
Really ? Were they working console or Junk ?
@@MegaShingo97 working
How is that stealing if your customers were intelligent they could do that as well
@@noahsexton612 thats why
Lets rob these resellers you’re right
I have been a customer of theirs for over 10 years. Their prices have gone way up over the years. I used to buy stuff when the prices were fair, I haven’t purchased anything in a few years because of prices obviously. The retro market has been ruined for us real collectors.
Is the white screen just a screen with the polarizer removed and you’re wearing polarizer glasses?
I love how they have a “is DK Oldies a scam” video on their own channel. Of course they would say they are not a scam or their business would be taken down
theyre not scamming tho
overpriced ,yes
but they able to sell it with marketing, its not a scam ,if you wanted to get more profit then do marketing like them, how is it a scam?
lol
also, you cant just compare business like dkoldies to a person just selling their own stuffs
of course the price would be different lol ,why are this a huge issues?
Well it’s misinformation atleast. They say that they clean and refurbish their consoles but their consoles are shown to be not clean.
@@crist3809its not ok to use deceptive marketing bs to hawk a product that you inflated the price on and did not build/create in the first place. They’re parasites, and whether or not it’s illegal has literally nothing to do with that assessment.
Legally They couldn’t be taken down, even if it was a scam
Another thing that they removed/changed on their page recently was the switch oled... before they changed it they were charging over $600 canadian for a REFURBISHED switch oled (they are normally $450 canadian brand new)... there were a bunch of comments on that, so now they lowered the price to around market value and said it is complete in box, however it is still not in new condition... if you want proof that they had it like that, look at the switch oled reviews.
Reviews are gone they got rid of em
Such scumbags
@Garrett Ramsey I still see them, there is one calling them out about charging over 100 dollars over market price
They definitely are also refurbishing it less and putting some no-returns or exchanges policy after that
@@irregulargamer1352 Is this even allowed ? i mean here in germany they are not allowed to say "we dont accept returns" but i dont know about US law.
I’ve been seeing them advertised a lot and have almost been suckered into going through them. Thankfully I was smart enough to go on eBay instead and snag a pokemon blue version for about $40
Warning!!!!! Joey shits in all the consoles before they ship them.
this is why emulators have grown on me over the years
It seems a lot of companies that are also viral on social media are a rip-off that charges way too much, some even legit scamming people. I feel skeptical of any of these businesses when I see their channels.
If you are buying anything from TikTok then maybe you should be the one banned from social media
They just take advantage of the “give me convenience or give me death” side of our society.
See AD
Want product
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That’s why videos like this have a place.
@@BMPK 100% man. I mostly see these people on youtube shorts because I don't wanna give my phone cancer by getting tiktok
Are ps5 still hard to get? And when will the price of ps4 go down?
Isnt showing first party Controllers on the product page but not giving you it after you pay considered false advertising?
I was really bored around quarantine and decided to go retro again. Dkoldies was the only website at the time but way overpriced. I loooked for my consoles at yard sales at swap meets later on where my collection costs me around 200 total whereas dkoldies I would’ve paid at least 5k for what I have now.
If they tell you the price up front and you agree to it, then it’s not a scam. It just means you were fool enough to pay inflated prices.
Thank you! Someone else understands how words work. It's a ripoff, not a scam.
Was going to say just this!! People think everything is a scam these days, seems to undermine actual scams to me.
Best comment here.
Yeah, you're not wrong. It still makes them scummy though but it's their business and they have the right to charge whatever the fuck they want to for the stuff they sell. It's up to the consumer not to be stupid and give dkoldies their business. The same goes for scalpers. I can't blame a scalper for trying to get the most money for something possible. It's all on the consumer for being stupid and patronizing those people.
I guess that works if you ignore the bit where their refurbishment practices are pretty poor, or people getting cosmetically damaged consoles after specifically ordering something in good condition. Not getting what you paid for is a bit scammy...
I noticed the forever sale thing with league of legends starter bundle. They say oh it's on sale this week. So new players think oh I gata pick that up before it's gone. Then as you play you see it's on sale every week. So that sale price might as well be the retail price. Idk the legality of this.
Once I saw an eBay listing which was 2 n64 controllers one grey one green they said it was brand new very rare( the sticks were loose). It was 18,000 dollars
I had a great experience with DKOldies years ago. I’m saddened that they are doing things like this now.
Same, the prices used to be far more reasonable and at least for me every NES game I got from them was near mint.
yeah me too. I usually compare prices at other places before I buy from them.
Sounds like they were a humble company that absolutely took off, so they thought "what the hell? they'll pay anything. Raise those prices!".
They are greedy Trump supporting scammers! Everyone needs to boycott them and get them shut down once and for all!
@@TheViper4Life don't blame em. They probably saw a spike In sales and noticed their own stuff selling for 50 percent more. At that point you can sit there and watch potential profits going to scalpers or play the game even if you know it'll piss of real enthusiasts and make the market less sustainable.
The absolute best part about all of this… you can play all of the old games for free. You can also buy a knock off retro controller and a pair of Rose colored of sunglasses if you’re jonesing for nostalgia.
Yeah, for free. If you wanna go the emulator route.
@@NoxWyatt Emulation for the win!
I played through a GameCube game fully using an emulator and a DualShock 4. Worked out perfectly.
i would say that its better to extract the original game files from a copy of the game you own, but we are dealing with companies that don't sell the old games anymore and might go out of their way to fuck you over for trying to get them. emulation is infinitely more convenient than getting the original consoles and you can even emulate a ps2 on your phone if its powerful enough (rest in peace aethersx2)
@@corktail7900 wait what happened to aethersx2? did it get butchered?
Got into the retro stuff mainly cause I wanted to repair my 2DS. Bought a solder and trying to get experience to refurbish or clean stuff. Most of the its just cleaning stuff cause they got dirty and dusty.
I try to somewhat sell it for an affordable price depending how people see the prices. Which my prices ranges are: Gameboy DMG & Pockets go for around $40-$50 depending on condition and model for the Pocket if it a Power LED indicator or not.
The GBC are like $55-$60
Regular GBA ranges are $60-$65; the SPs are like $70-$80
Gameboy Lights - $120-$150
Gameboy Micro - 140-170
I know some of those prices can be a bit out of whack. I do make sure the stuff is working and comes with a replacement aftermarket battery cover of it missing one or a charger if the system has a rechargeable battery.
Still need more experience for other consoles as well.
Plus I have also gotten selling some limited editions too and region editions found only in Japan.
So yeah...I hope those prices are somewhat reasonable to buy and not over the top expensive like these kind of sites
I plan on starting my own games store in the future. I have the capital and the games for the start up. The difference is, I'd be fixing consoles, games, and more, as well as sales. And not for the crack prices these people charge.
There’s this antique store in my hometown that frequently sells retro games and one day I saw an orange zapper with duck hunt/Mario and it was priced at like 23 dollars. To me this seemed like a good price for me to have it right now so I went to purchase it. After having small talk with the owner he decided to give it to me for $2. Obviously I took that price and I still visit him to this day. And yes it’s original I cracked it open already to check.
Man that's sweet! I remember getting an N64 and about 20 games with it for 2 dollars back in 2003 and getting XD Gale of Darkness for Gamecube a few years ago for 30 dollars...now everything is insanely expensive (150 for Emerald is wild)
100% agree on the console pricing. It’s absolutely ridiculous. I’ll never purchase any console from them. However, I will say with my experience buying mainly OG Xbox and 360 games they’ve been fair as far as price. Now I’m a huge Pokémon fan and have been since Gen 2. Since the Pokémon boom during Covid, those games are priced astronomically high. So just taking advantage of the trend. It sucks but at the end of the day at least we have eBay for some of the ridiculous shit.
I managed to get some Xbox 360 games there for a decent price yet again though I purchased games that are very very common and only meaningful to me so yeah everything else on there is overpriced as shit lol
No point buying. You can literally emulated these games for free
@@Saiputera Because people want to own things and Emulation doesn't equal piracy.
@@SaiputeraSome people just want to own physical copies or collect consoles 🤷🏻♂️
@@Saiputera there is a point of buying; having the actual game is worth way more than emulating “for free”.
one time i ordered some ds game from them, like last year and i never got the game
In my opinion, the fact they ships you a third party controller as DEFAULT with the console is even worse than their pricing, if possible.
You have to MANUALLY select a first party controller with the console you want to purchase, which of course costs more. That’s pure madness and I honestly don’t know what to say.
There's a retro store that has Klonoa for ps1 for nearly $1000 and Dragon ball z Budokai Tenkaichi 3 for about $250 near me so dkoldies isn't the only scam retro store. Correction: $350 for the dbz game.
The retro bubble is going to pop eventually and nobody is going to be paying for this shit anymore
@@ForeverChiIIin all thanks to a certain corporate name that started the trend after purchased super mario Bros game for thousands of dollars.
I remember seeing an advert in a gaming magazine here for a shop that sold some PS1 games for about £50
@@ForeverChiIIin normies didn’t buy retro games until 2020 when everyone started scalping to make a living
I remember going into classic game store in 2016/2017 & it was a peaceful place without scalpers walking around
Ya I seen Budokai Tenkaichi 3 for 300
I have mixed feelings about DKoldies. You can complain, but as long as people buy from them, they'll continue to charge what they want. It's actually quite genius how they can make more money then most resellers. As far as games go, at least from what I heard they're usually in really good condition. So paying a few bucks more for a game you're sure it's going to be in really good condition, is not the end of the world. As far as consoles go, yea they charge way too much for those. If you're patient and don't mind dealing with people, Facebook Marketplace or local game stores are for sure better options then online stores.
No reason to give more money, period, to the scam that is DKOldies, gold plated condition or not.
Personally I find more scams/over charging sellers on FB Market place since it’s more of the Wild West. OfferUp and EBay are what work best for me. I trust Craigslist more than Facebook martketplace
I was thinking of buying from DkOldies because of their videos on social media until I actually went to the site and saw the prices...
theres a local card ship that specialize in non sports like magic n pokemon. i have an epic collection all kinds of nice cards i brought my collection there to see what he give me. was expecting offer of like 300 bucks. the idiot offers me 30 bucks. these stores are all the same some smiling moron pretending to be friendly but the reality is they are a con artist who likes to steal.
Homie dressed like he's a Seattle molly dealer on Drugs Inc
At this point when I see a business that is more social media oriented than anything else I am very skeptical. Plus Ebay is my go to for old stuff like games and toys.
dkoldies has some of the lower end prices on snes. i dont shill but im totally happy. and also they sent me a garbage cart, i make a story about it on tiktok and they responded and made it right INSTANTLY. these guys will go the length to do you right. they will even give you cab fare in the morning ;)
"Game stop is the worst game store ever"... Dk oldies... "hold my shitty controller"
I had seen their account on tiktok, and as someone who is largely a Nintendo fan, their prices + shipping costs are absolutely inflated, and in my opinion, a scam.
Why wear a mask in this video?
Why 😮 stop this now 😂
I recall going on their website a few weeks ago and nearly puking from looking at the prices, I wanted to buy a gameboy and I noticed that I could get a custom modded gameboy with an IPS screen for the price they're selling a "refurbished" unmodded gameboy
I’m a seller on eBay. One of my buyers is the owner of DK oldies himself. I knew because the buyer was Drew Steimel himself. He bought my game for half the price he’s reselling it for. I would never buy from them and I don’t feel sorry for anyone who does. Flea markets private sellers eBay Mercari itself is more competitive and more honest
I love how they sell console bundles as ‘Player Paks’. It gives me the impression that they treat selling a console bundled with its *own* controller as a privilege, not a basic consumer right.
I've actually had 2 friends that worked there. Said it was completely ass. One of them was straight up fired for not doing orders correctly but the boss never told them. Just straight up fired him. It's crazy that this giant business is only like 20 minutes area from my rural area. Too bad their prices are trash
I hope this gets more attention, honestly their prices are absolutely ridiclious. A 150$ overhead average on consoles and seeing from other peoples videos some of these have been never dissasembled, meaning they didnt even bother to replace the thermal paste....
While we’re exposing shitty companies, might I recommend making a video on Dice and Dragons on tik tok? He posts videos about being a small business and had these mugs for sale, wanting to support a small business I purchased a mug. It took hundreds of comments, and unanswered emails and a year and a half before I finally received it. Others have been waiting over two years. The lack of communication has everyone feeling scammed. There’s Facebook groups, and TikTok pages dedicated to exposing him as a scammer. I’d be happy to share a full account of my experience and why I’m so passionate about it.
It's very simple if you think it's too expensive then don't buy it
The markup on Nintendo consoles by these scalpers (yes they're scalpers not retailers) is insane. They're cashing in on nostalgia. Wish people would just check out their local game shops and Goodwill stores. I got an N64 with a copy of NBA Hangtime for 30 bucks.
DK oldies gives off the same vibes as the game store somewhat near my house. They would sell all the DS games for the exact same price, aside from a few titles that were jacked to around 200 - 300 plus depending on if they had a box or not, or if they were litrally any of the pokemon games, but you could get like barbie princess adventure for the same price as a mariokart ds at around 35 bucks after tax canadian, or 60 - 300 dollars for a nintendo 64/snes/nes ect. game which is absrud. On top of that, the store itself was just was ran kinda sketchily. the workers just kinda intimidated you, the overall atmosphere was just kinda dark, and unsettling almost, and they would practically follow you around the store and were overly nice to you to the point where you felt bad about leaving without anything, and they almost made you feel obligated to pay their arbitrary prices for a crummy game on a near 20 year old console.
I think it's insane they don't take individual pictures of each console/controller/game case or anything it's all just 1 stock photo they take and it's basically like playing Russian roulette if you're gonna get something good or not
Bethesda did the same thing on 76’s marketplace- sell something at a permanently “discounted” price to give urgency.
But its actually illegal to do so in the UK and other European countries.
Yeah the whole market got silly. I quit collecting about 2 years ago. Never bought from dkoldies. Usually ebay. Now I just emulate. A few of the shops I'd visit shut down during COVID. It's getting harder to get into retro collecting. I think those prices are too high, but if someone is paying them they make em valid. The bad thing is this usually spreads.
I am so glad you mentioned this, after watching a 30 minute marathon of dkoldies shorts a few days ago the whole time I'm thinking holy cow how are people getting ripped off this badly
we’re you a roblox youtuber in the past?
Why would you consider a sponsored link to be the first of anything?
very well said. i bought some stuff off of dkoldies a while ago and only just realized ebay has things for like, twice as cheaper. also idk how they’re getting away with their “discounts”, i bought an nes a while ago for 110 and it was still on discount then
Thank you for letting us know, I've been seeing their videos nonstop, and now I know not to get a poorly refurbished console from them, or retro games for that matter. There's a few game stores near me with much lower prices going in person.
I never ordered from this company by just by watching the videos I believe they are scam but what about the games themselves you know the disk for game cube PS2 Are they worth the money or no because I'm trying to find the old veal games I used to play when I was a kid
I'd never heard of DKOldies until the recent drama. Can't believe how high the prices are.
Don’t end up getting sued over your accusations.
There’s a BIG difference between a “scam” and a customer agreeing to pay for a product/service regardless of if the product/service is overpriced.
U can't if it's true besides the game market is gonna collapse soon
@@darioperez5084 source: trust me bro
@@TitoValcrist my source layoffs at my work I build semi trucks less trucks less good less ppl less money more things pawned an sold for cash
@@darioperez5084 but there will always be rich people
@@ilbez true
You probably need to re-tension the connector pins, get a small hook/pick to reach behind them. Also, don't push the cartridge down.
Did you calculate overhead into the prices and the I’m sure everything is cleaned and tested. Also everyone has a choice to buy or not.
If you look at ReviewTechUSA and Jacob R's video about them you can clearly see that they are not cleaned and tested
Went to my local family owned game shop and got a GBA, Pokemon Sapphire, and a mystery dungeon game for 45 bucks.
DKOldies would have charged me 334.97 and idk if there's tax or "handling fees" or whatever.