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Neobloom Split AC Deflector Central, AC Vent Deflector Adjustable Windshield 56-102.5 CM Central AC Air Flow Deflector, Universal All AC Split Air Conditioner Deflector, Registers, Grilles
AED 73.99 (as of November 27, 2024 04:29 GMT +00:00 - More infoProduct prices and availability are accurate as of the date/time indicated and are subject to change. Any price and availability information displayed on [relevant Amazon Site(s), as applicable] at the time of purchase will apply to the purchase of this product.)
Philips 5000 Seires Steam Iron - 2400W, 160g Steam Boost, SteamGlide Plus - DST5010/16
AED 99.00 (as of November 27, 2024 04:29 GMT +00:00 - More infoProduct prices and availability are accurate as of the date/time indicated and are subject to change. Any price and availability information displayed on [relevant Amazon Site(s), as applicable] at the time of purchase will apply to the purchase of this product.)
THYNING Cable Holder Clips,4Pack Black Self Adhesive Cord Holder, Ideal Cable Management Cord Organizer Wire Keeper for Desk,Nightstand, Phone Charger,Computer,Home,Office,TV(1,3,5,7Slots)
AED 19.99 (as of November 27, 2024 04:29 GMT +00:00 - More infoProduct prices and availability are accurate as of the date/time indicated and are subject to change. Any price and availability information displayed on [relevant Amazon Site(s), as applicable] at the time of purchase will apply to the purchase of this product.)
BuyOn Water Bottle Stainless Steel, Drinking Thermos Double Wall Insulated Water Bottles for Hot and Cold Water Kids School Hydro Flask Water Bottle for Gym Office Water Bottle (ROYAL BLUE 750ML)
AED 38.49 (as of November 27, 2024 04:29 GMT +00:00 - More infoProduct prices and availability are accurate as of the date/time indicated and are subject to change. Any price and availability information displayed on [relevant Amazon Site(s), as applicable] at the time of purchase will apply to the purchase of this product.)
Shower Caddy Shelf- Self Adhesive No Drilling- Bathroom Shower Rack- Wall Mounted -Organizer with Rustproof Basket-Toilet and Kitchen Storage-Pack (2PCS Black.)
AED 39.00 (as of November 27, 2024 04:29 GMT +00:00 - More infoProduct prices and availability are accurate as of the date/time indicated and are subject to change. Any price and availability information displayed on [relevant Amazon Site(s), as applicable] at the time of purchase will apply to the purchase of this product.)
UAE National Day Flag Scarf, 150 x 15 cm
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Duracell, AA 1.5V Alkaline Batteries, LR06 / MN1500, Pack of 20
AED 29.00 (as of November 27, 2024 04:29 GMT +00:00 - More infoProduct prices and availability are accurate as of the date/time indicated and are subject to change. Any price and availability information displayed on [relevant Amazon Site(s), as applicable] at the time of purchase will apply to the purchase of this product.)
HERIOS Heavy Duty Engine Degreaser Foam Cleaner, Dissolves Grease and Oil
AED 17.99 (as of November 27, 2024 04:29 GMT +00:00 - More infoProduct prices and availability are accurate as of the date/time indicated and are subject to change. Any price and availability information displayed on [relevant Amazon Site(s), as applicable] at the time of purchase will apply to the purchase of this product.)
JOTO Water Shoes for Women Men Kids, Barefoot Quick-Dry Aqua Water Socks Slip-on Swim Beach Shoes for Snorkeling Surfing Kayaking Beach Walking Yoga
AED 25.99 (as of November 27, 2024 04:29 GMT +00:00 - More infoProduct prices and availability are accurate as of the date/time indicated and are subject to change. Any price and availability information displayed on [relevant Amazon Site(s), as applicable] at the time of purchase will apply to the purchase of this product.)
BrainGiggles UAE National Day Hair Accessories - UAE Flag Pattern Hair Bow Clips & Headband for Kids Girls (Multicolor - Headband & clips)
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Necomi Men's Thermal Underwear Set, Cashmere Silk Base Plus Fleece Underwear Set, more Delicate and Softer（Black）
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Philips Compact Handheld Steamer 3000 Series - 1000W - 20g/min Continuous Steam - 2M Cord Length - 100ML - Compact & Foldable - Blue - STH3000/26
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McMola Hot Glue Sticks for Hot Glue Gun, 50 Pack 7mm x 100mm Hot Glue Gun Sticks - SGS Approved
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UAE National Day Flag Scarf, 150 x 15 cm
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HANGDENGO Christmas Reindeer & Snowflake Gift Wrap Paper - 17"x393" Roll, Perfect for Gift Boxes & Holiday Party Decorations
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BrainGiggles UAE National Day Hair Accessories - UAE Flag Pattern Hair Bow Clips & Headband for Kids Girls (Multicolor - Headband & clips)
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NutriCook Rapid Egg Cooker: 7 Egg Capacity Electric Egg Cooker for Boiled Eggs, Poached Eggs, Scrambled Eggs, or Omelettes with Auto Shut Off Feature - Silver
AED 51.00 (as of November 27, 2024 04:29 GMT +00:00 - More infoProduct prices and availability are accurate as of the date/time indicated and are subject to change. Any price and availability information displayed on [relevant Amazon Site(s), as applicable] at the time of purchase will apply to the purchase of this product.)
1 Year Extended Warranty Plan for Small Appliance/Tools/Kitchen Appliances/Watches (from AED100 to AED199.99) (Email Delivery to your Amazon Email ID|No Physical Delivery)
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MOMENT Lint Roller Remover Hair Kit, Extra Sticky Reusable Lint Remover with 210 Sheets(7 Rollers+1 Upgraded Handles),Fluff Brush for Clothes/Furniture/Bed/Car/Dog Cat Hair/Carpet/Dust
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Refurbished SSD, like new, only 743TB written
Celestia Pony “written”. He didn’t mean its a 743tb ssd.
toilet brush pretty sure that data can be tampered with
Celestia Pony learn to read 😂😂
What’s wrong with buying a used SSD as long as the S.M.A.R.T. report is given with the amount of writes to the drive. I wouldn’t worry 1 bit as long as it’s below say 100TB written. Plenty of life left usually
danwat1234 it depends on the size of the drive and model in question. A 125gb Samsung 840 evo would likely be dead at 100tb written. A 2tb 860 pro will still have a ton of life left after a 100tb written.
1:26 is why we love you Linus
I TOTALLY missed it
I like when Linus drops it down… 😛
I bought a new laptop. It died. I didn’t have any recourse other than a £250 motherboard replacement. A few months later I found out there was a common problem that killed my motherboard and many people claimed against the company. I had already binned my laptop.
My brother bought a new car. It was freshly built and factory new with 14 miles on the clock. The radiator blew within 4 days and he had to take it back for warranty repairs.
My car, I bought second hand, knowing full well that I’d most likely need to do a head gasket repair on it as it was a common failure point. This made the car cheaper to buy, but it was cheap for me to fix to a better standard using higher quality parts from China (who took over the car company and actually improved upon the British engineering). I fixed the car and it’s running so much better than when I bought it, and the price of the car is appreciating as other people are losing theirs to the same head gasket issue.
Moral of the story: Buy what you KNOW is going to work, or what you KNOW you can fix to a standard you can either sell for the same/higher price or just use for yourself. Never buy new and expect it to work flawlessly because it has this “NEWWWW” label on it. New means that it’s at the beginning of the *Failure bell curve* and that it hasn’t gone past the peak, and that none of the common failure points have been identified or fixed yet.
Jim Griffiths curious as to what car you bought mate?
wilsonram39 a rover 1.4 probably
+wilsonram39
MG TF.
+sbisxi
K-series engine built by Rover group haha.
Jim Griffiths 😁😁😁
I bought an Asus GTX 1070 Strix OC on amazon reconditioned products (idk if it’s the same, that’s how is called here), and here (in spain) it’s obligatory per law to have a 2 year warranty on anything any company sells.
I paid like 100 euros less, (especially because the non stop raising prices back then) and works perfect, actually I think it was a consumer’s return, because the box had a detached sticker of a mail company, and it was like opened but with all the accesories and the bags resealed, it was like the best buy ever
ENEKO TORRES strix oc doesn’t have memory cooling, be careful.
LOL
I think reconditioned just means that the product was never repaired in any way, just repackaged. Like you said, somebody bought it, and figured he wanted a 1080 ti instead, so he bugged his parents and had them swap it out.
In Denmark, and probably a lot of other european countries, we have the same laws. In general, if you’re a business and sell electronics to customers, you have to give them a 2 year warranty, whether the product is new, refurbished, home made, or whatever.
Although, if you sell to an other business, there is NO warranty at all! That’s when you have to handle that with the manufacturer yourself.
ow in france you have a site ldlc that has a refurbished 2nd hand thing. and it give 2-3 months waranty 🙁 that is all (that the sites gives) even if the product is new never used just opened. but it also says on a other page it says new product/opened ones have manufacture waranty but on every product it says 3 months so yeah like wtf is it lol
100 EUR for GTX1070? Damn you hit the jackpot!
You can thank the EU for making the 2 year warranty obligatory.
Once bought a refurbished smartphone on which they forgot to install the Playstore at first
that’s weird, the Playstore comes with the stock firmware, so it should already be on the device (as far as I know)
EggoMyLego actually, some chinese manufacturers don’t include Play Store and instead use their “app market”. For those devices you can manually download an apk file of the Play Store
Custom roms don’t include Playstore or Google apps in general, great to choose which ones you want or don’t need
zalibassga yup, like for example, when is installing cynagenmod or lineage OS (both custom ROMS) u have the option to install Google Suite apps manually (i.e. u gotta do it by yourself)
coolstorybro
I work at a Goodwill where my job is refurbishing computers. I definitely approve of buying refurbished with the caveat being that you should know what you are getting before you purchase it. We try to make it very clear if there are any issues and what they are, and we only sell computers with issues if it isn’t something that affects it actually being able to work (e.g. a USB port not working).
you guys actually do get some good stuff in the reboot store in iowa city. never bought a system there, but bought several high end cases, and sundry parts. never had any problems with any of them. whether they have any really good stuff just depends on the day of the week, which way the wind is blowing, the angle of the sun to the third stone of stonehenge’s tangent from the great pyramid of giza, etc though, but showing up a couple of times a week helps.
Shane Robinson I have dropped off electronics at Goodwill and have more to donate once I make sure my private files are permanently gone. I am happy to hear from a Goodwill electronics specialist how you deal with them. Thank you for posting your comment.
Kayla and Jim Bryant: Great comment. Funny, too!
A caution about this: on several laptops that I bought refurbished, the USB ports were slightly loose. They worked fine for transferring text data among my drives, but music files would come out distorted. Yet this is not the sort of detail that firms like Discount Electronics seem to check.
@@stevevasta I no longer work at that job, but I can say that at the scale we were working at and considering time constraints and profit/per item (or profit/per hour), being able to test what you are describing is impossible without just straight up losing money. We had a pretty reasonable return policy at the time, to allow time for customers to catch those things we missed or just couldn’t thoroughly test in the amount of time we had.
I bought a refurbished Lenovo Thinkpad T430 from Amazon, and though the reviews are kinda all over the place, the only problems I had were that there was slight cosmetic damage on the top of it, there was so much bloatware that it ran slower than the Windows 95 computer I grew up with (but this was probably how it came originally :rolleyes:), and the third “problem” was something that I was considering doing anyway: Though the laptop came from when Windows 7 was out, they said that it would have 10 installed, but mine came with 7. Almost immediately I remembered how much better 7 was overall and so didn’t really pester them to give me a key, since unlike my main computer I didn’t have anything tieing me to using 10. Still, I got it for far less than I could have gotten another laptop with flimsy build quality and lower specs that would break apart after a couple years. Seriously, I hate this modern trend of trying to make laptops (and electronics in general) as thin as possible: I will take my old laptop that I repeatedly dropped and it still worked just fine over these laptops that you condemn to a quick death by just putting in a backpack.
I’ve been dealing with technologies for over 37 years of my adult life and I quickly learned that refurbished items are good or if not better than new items. This video pretty much validated my experience thus far. My family thinks I’m cheap or stupid for buying refurbished items over new but it is they that was blinded by stigma of the wording “new”.
Bought a Refurb Corsair RM750x PSU recently because I saw the growing number of people complaining the fan never comes on. Not a big deal when you realize the fan is a thermo-sensing fan that only comes on when needed, which some people may not like that function and return them with absolutely nothing wrong with them. It also comes with the 2 year warranty, so kudo’s to Corsair!
“Linus drops Razer Blade”
Iconic
1:23= “kinda like a stray dog” (shows picture of pig)
That’s a dog
It’s a dog.
It looks like your mom!
@@PizzaPowerXYZ sweetheart, i think you switched beetween his mom and yours
Watch your tongue kiddo
Kind of like a pidog
Bought a hp computer over ten years ago and everyone at the time told me it was not a smart idea. Price was good and I bought it. The computer still works to this day.
Many people just hate on HP products JUST because they see “HP”. Nothing more than brand bandwagon hate by elitists.
same, here. on my 2nd one now. first 1 still works perfect. Got a sweet deal too. Brand new would have cost at least 5K, i paid 900
Lucky you.
@@AG.Floats I hated my old HP laptop because it acted up on me so since then I haven’t liked HP.
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It depends
512yottabytes I-
I’m thinking about buying an iPhone x from the site device refurbished.com , should I????? I really don’t wanna get scammed lol
In my experience, the refurbished is still covered by manufacturers warranty. At the very least, the things I’ve gotten refurbished has. If that’s the case with most items, there’s not much risk of buying it.
1:45 spit a tooth
when buying refurbished ask if the fans have been cleaned and thermal paste changed as alot of the time places dont.
I bought a refurbished hp spectre x360 13t and this thing heats up the entire house
@@paulp551 contact seller if it’s unsafe if your in Australia send it in 🙂
See I asked that and the guy started to act like a smartass saying “But sir, it’s a printer”. Such a prick.
Great point. The term “refurbished” is not a protected term so you must be careful to only purchase from reputable companies who do fantastic refurbishment.
We provide new and professionally refurbished business headsets. The refurbished models are all done in house and go through a rigorous process to bring the products up to grade A standard. Same as new warranty included.
Buying refurbished can definitely save you money without sacrificing quality but do your research so you don’t get a dud!
I bought a “Grade A” refurbished laptop from Best Buy for almost half-price. That was almost three years ago and it’s still chugging along just fine as my daughter’s gaming PC.
When my school upgraded their computer lab, they went with refurbished Dells, ended up costing a fraction of the retail price. They bought 25 for every 20 they needed, since they didn’t have a lot of faith in them, but they performed brilliantly.
I guess it depends on who re-furbishes them.
0:16 guessing you had 59 fps instead of 60
HOLY HOLY!!! I can proudly say that I have the two HOTTEST women on this planet as MY GIRLFRIENDS! I am the unprettiest YouTuber ever, but they love me for what’s inside! Thanks for listening leo
i bought a dell monitor refurbished about 10 years ago, and it stills works, totally worth it
No
Totally agree. In fact, I would go as far as to say computer monitors are probably the most reliable computer accessories that one can comfortably buy refurbished.
Treat them well, and they literally last forever.
comtox you sound like a spoil child who spends all day playing roblox
@@paypur stfu