- Today I'm going to be
building a gaming PC from Walmart...
Until I discovered this.
Uh...
Hello.
So they're selling
a restored Asus ROG STRIX gaming PC.
So if I try to build the same system
on PCPartPicker with that Ryzen 7,
a relatively cheap board, 3060,
I'm spending $824.
Whereas on Walmart,
I'm getting that same system,
or basically the same system,
for 679 bucks.
So this is such a good deal,
but actually, I will say,
it's not actually sold from Walmart
even though I'm buying this from walmart.com.
It actually is sold and shipped
by VIP OUTLET.
Who the hell are VIP OUTLET?
Although, I will say,
that name does ring a bell.
We ordered a cheap Nintendo Switch on Wish
and got a essentially brand new Switch.
- Lenovo Legion T7, $1,900.
This vendor seems pretty legit.
- I don't think this
is a gaming PC video anymore.
So I wanted to sit down today
and do this video
telling you all about
how I'm gonna build a gaming PC at Walmart.
I don't think there's much point.
I feel like I need to know
who VIP OUTLET are.
VIP OUTLET.
Save up to 70% on top brands.
So they actually have their own website here.
Free shipping and free returns,
great savings on top brands.
Apple, Samsung, Sony,
Microsoft, Intel-
Whoa, whoa, whoa!
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!
"VIP OUTLET is North America's
largest refurbisher of retail returns."
So VIP OUTLET
literally just "refurbished" returns.
So I'm sure they buy pallets
of old computers or tech or whatever
from Walmart, or from Amazon,
or from whoever.
They refurbish them,
which who knows how much work that is,
and they will turn around
and they'll sell them back.
Even on Walmart's own website.
Yo, I'm going down the rabbit hole right now.
Okay!
We got ourselves a discounted PS5!
They have a digital PS5 for $360.
If I'm trying to buy a digital PS5,
I'm almost paying $500.
Can we find some cheap Xboxes?
Ooh!
Dude!
The Series S for $204.
We cracked the code.
It's been years.
I've been scammed on Wish,
on TEMU, on Amazon,
Best Buy, GameStop,
Walmart, Target.
Have I found the promised land?
Is it really VIP OUTLET?
Dude, if this is legit,
these are ridiculous deals.
If you go a little bit deeper
and you really pay attention
to some of the specs,
there's some legitimately
good stuff in here, man.
I'm gonna order a bunch of stuff
from VIP OUTLET,
and one of two things is gonna happen:
I am going to, A,
get scammed and lose all my money
and receive absolutely nothing,
or B, find some of the most dope deals ever.
Or I guess, 1A,
I get my items
and they're in terrible condition
and it wasn't worth it.
There's only one way to find out.
So we've had a little bit of time
to dig into VIP OUTLET,
and it is only one small subsidiary
of a much larger company
known as goTRG.
So unlike most platforms
that will just set a price
and forget it
or change it every few days or whatever,
goTRG's platform allows
the price to constantly change.
Part of the reason why on VIP OUTLET,
I saw some prices change
while I literally had things in the cart.
So fingers crossed
that when we get all of our stuff,
it may actually be legitimately great deals.
Or we get scammed again.
But I'm gonna just say great deals.
So we have received our item.
It's clearly a laptop,
but they've put it
in some kind of generic black box,
which I will say kudos for them
to actually use proper packaging it seems like.
Yeah, boy!
So this is our Netbook.
Oh, my good lord.
Yo, it's minty!
So the fact that VIP OUTLET,
in the year 2023,
are selling a Netbook,
which is what,
15, 16 years old at this point,
is wild to me.
- I'm old!
- We got ourselves ethernet, VGA,
a couple of USB 2.0 ports,
microphone,
as well as headphone jack.
On the other side
we have ourselves a Kensington lock,
and we have the actual power barrel,
as well as a SD and a MMC card slot.
Wow.
And then we have removable batteries.
Which this is a 25 watt hour battery,
which is tiny.
Even, again,
by those standards of the day.
Oh my God,
I may have just pooped my pants.
Just a little bit.
Now, looking at the specs,
you're gonna see some things
that are not super strong.
So we've got ourselves an Intel Atom processor,
this is one of the old school Atoms
designed for Windows XP.
'Cause even though a lot of Netbooks
were successful in a time period
where Windows Vista existed,
Vista was so hard to run
that Microsoft actually
continued to allow manufacturers
to use Windows XP
for years after Vista had existed.
Okay, so we've got a little charging LED.
It's coming alive!
- It's alive!
- Is everyone okay in the room
if I cry a little bit?
- [Ken] Were you this emotional
when your son was born?
- No, he's not running Windows XP, so.
(everyone laughing)
So Netbooks originally
were very cheap for back in their day.
I believe this was supposed to be around $400.
But even then, like,
you know for 2006, 2007,
a $400 computer was incredibly hard to come by
in any kinda regular way.
Like, these were meant to be really cheap.
But we got this
essentially brand new and perfect for $120.
Oh, oh, oh.
Is it gonna do the thing?
Anticipation.
(Windows startup sound)
(Austin groaning)
- Jesus.
That-
- Whoo-hoo!
You children who are watching this video,
the fact that you grew up-
You grew up on an iPad, didn't you?
I'm sorry that you didn't have a childhood.
- Are you talking to Joanna or the camera?
- I'm talking to the camera and the audience.
Joanna I'm sure had a wonderful childhood.
I would never talk (beep) about that.
Zero cap, I am going to use this
for at least a while.
I will definitely crumble and cave
when I realize that I can't do anything
online anymore,
but like I'm so happy.
I'm gonna straight use this thing.
Subscribe and ringling the dingling button
for Austin's Windows XP
Netbook adventure.
VIP OUTLET, though,
you could not have possibly given me
a better item to start this sort of unboxing out.
I am so damn happy right now.
We have actually
a decent amount of padding here.
PS Siete.
- [Joanna] Cinco.
- The PS Cinco!
So, I'm gonna stick to my day job.
So this is the PS5 digital edition
"God of War: Ragnarok"
fully functional Grade-B console.
Oh, interesting.
Okay.
So these are the original accessories.
They've been repacked, though.
I don't believe that the DualSense
comes in this sort of bag.
This controller does look minty.
It's got a little waft of flatulence.
I'm not sure how best to describe it.
As our resident flatulence expert comes-
- Okay. Okay.
- A little off gassy.
- No, it's pretty normal.
- Oh. Oops.
Was that me?
(everyone laughing)
PS5 "God of War: Ragnarok"
and scratch here for the pin.
So I'm assuming
that it actually has not been redeemed.
So as a refresher,
this digital PS5
cost just under $370.
Although, thanks to the magic of their algorithm,
if you actually wanted to go buy this
on VIP OUTLET today,
it's actually 350 bucks.
So this is one of the superior
PS5 1200 models.
Check out,
we've done a few videos,
but especially
"The new PS5 is better"
is the one I would really recommend
because that shows
what this new 1200 will do.
But I'll say,
this is the model that I would much prefer.
The first damage I've seen at all
is around the USB port.
So someone had some fun trying to plug that in.
But this looks pretty minty on the inside.
I'm not seeing really any dust on the fans,
either it was very much refurbished
and cleaned up,
or more and likely,
it was a return that someone
got angry with the USB A port
trying to plug it in then go,
"Mom, I want the disc version.
All my friends have 'Fortnite' on disc
even though it doesn't even exist!
But wah!"
That's fairly accurate.
I think that's what they sound like.
I'm afraid, though,
that their algorithm's so smart
that as soon as I start talking
about this in the video
and people start going to their site,
their prices are gonna start
algorithmically spiking.
That's the only downside I see right now.
So after a quick setup process,
our PS5 is operational.
My only real question now,
it clearly seems to work fine,
is whether or not
my "God of War" code actually works.
Code for "God of War: Ragnarok."
Punch that code in, my friends.
Whoever gets it first
gets a free code to "Ragnarok"
courtesy of VIP OUTLET.
So this, if I remember right,
is our Xbox Series S.
So this is showing as a Grade-A console,
fully functional.
I wanna say,
was this 230 bucks?
We paid $204 for an Xbox Series S.
I do not know what to do with myself right now.
Can you see
the look of genuine happiness and delight
on my face?
So some of these things
have clearly been repacked,
but something like this
looks like it probably wasn't touched and-
Does it have batteries?
No batteries inside here,
so you know what?
That's one thing I'm not seeing
which is very minor
in the grand scheme of things.
Okay, let me just take a look
to make sure it's not all scuffed to hell.
Nah, dude.
Nah, it's a wrap, dude.
This is so good!
Now this one is Grade-A
fully functional.
Boom.
That is a full
Series 2 Elite controller.
So this was $95,
but as a refresher,
we purchased this
not from VIP OUTLET direct,
but from eBay.
So we already have our paddles on the back.
We've got what is almost certainly brand new.
Like there's no way
that someone's used this.
'Cause the thing is with this,
it's got that sort of really like
kind of tacky sort of rubber grips.
Use this thing for like a few hours,
and it definitely is no longer new.
Smells new.
Oh, dude, this is mint.
Excuse me while we interrupt
this regular scheduled programming.
Right as I saying all these nice things
about this controller,
we had a little discovery.
So while the controller does fully function,
the right stick will sometimes get stuck.
So I think I see
why someone returned this,
and why I will soon be testing
the VIP OUTLET return policy
'cause my super cool
great deal of a controller
doesn't work that great.
So with my Elite Series 2
plugged into my Series S,
let's fire it up.
Just works.
(Austin applauding)
Can we get a spotlight, please?
There's been a lot of sleepless nights,
a lot of tears,
a lot of sniffing items
that shouldn't have been sniffed,
and aural bliss
that just wasn't bliss enough.
Finally all paid off.
Thank you, VIP OUTLET.
Thank you.
We're supposed to be in the middle
of shooting this video.
Everyone's so impressed with the deals.
What are you looking at right now?
- This 512 gig,
4th gen iPad Pro 11 inches M2
is $800.
- [Austin] Joanne,
instead of running the camera,
what are you doing right now?
- I'm ordering a PS5.
- [Austin] From?
- VIP OUTLET.
(Austin laughing)
- We're not kidding!
We finally did something good!
It's taken so long!
We finally did something good!
We're gonna finish this video strong
with the item that kicked
the entire premise
of us doing VIP OUTLET off.
So this, my friends,
is our Asus gaming PC,
which to remind you,
is Grade-A fully functional.
So we purchased this,
again, it came from VIP OUTLET,
but technically
we purchased it off of walmart.com.
And this is outfitted
with an RTX 3060,
which, mind you,
we ordered this before the 4060 came out
which is probably
slightly pushing some 3060 values down,
but not by that much.
But this was a little bit less than $680.
- [Ken] Yeah, actually,
currently it is $642
on the website right now.
- This is not a great way to ship a PC.
This is the first time
where I'm actually not
massively excited about VIP OUTLET.
The fact that the PC can-
I mean, you can see here,
even with this closed,
has a little too much rattle.
Especially 'cause we do have
a full dedicated graphics card.
I think it's okay,
but this is not great.
All right,
so what do we have here?
Uh-oh. Yep.
This has gotten scratched.
You see there's actually some fairly deep gouges
above the ROG logo right there.
Oh yeah.
And look, there's a little scuff here.
There's like some sticker goo.
So the original listing
actually said
that this had a side panel,
but instead
it's just got a metal side panel.
None of this
is anywhere close to a deal breaker
considering how much we saved,
but compared to every other item
that we've seen here,
which was damn near flawless,
this has a little bit to be desired.
It's a smaller low-profile card,
which is totally fine.
So it actually has like a bracket
which is actually connected to the motherboard
and therefore
to the back panel and everything, right?
So this bracket here
means that there's no flex in that card.
So we've got a 550 watt
80 plus bronze power supply.
You can see manufacture date is July of 2021.
So this is a little bit of an older system.
You know, it's basically been sitting around
for I mean essentially two years now
at this point.
Ooh, okay.
- [Ken] There's RGB in it?
- [Austin] There is RGB,
which is weird,
'cause, again, there's no window
but you've got a little strip there.
Oh yeah, okay.
It works.
Well, that was anti-climactic.
Clearly not every single thing
you get from VIP OUTLET
is going to be minty
and amazingly priced,
but this is still amazingly priced.
I would consider swapping out the case,
especially because this one is slightly scuffed.
But other than that,
this thing gets a big thumbs up.
And I gotta say,
VIP OUTLET, man.