[Music] hey bro thanks for this amazing
opportunity for me to pick up this pc bro thanks so much
is it like what's this all about oh yeah mate
i'm actually dropping this off for my friend um i'll just quickly let you talk
to him on the phone hey buddy how's it going nice meetup
here's a pc here man um tested about two years ago he was an
absolute ripper if you have any drama's then I am just down the street buddy
oh hey guys i'm going to take this thing back home right now and play some games
on it
in nature when the hoser takes advantage of the hosie the hosie
will then the hosed will then just type in gg well played
so you've just met someone at your local gas station
you've come home you've started to test those used pc parts that you've bought
from the said person but nothing's working
this is what i call a classical hosing that is when you're promised something
that would work and it doesn't work or you just got
scammed pretty much this has happened to me in the past and
when i've asked for the money back i've just been
ignored it's actually happened to me two times
in australia in 2016 when i got back home and
never again am i doing it ever again for me once shame on you for me twice shame
on me and i guess the second time it was shame
on me however before we get into this video before we
get into story time i'm gonna say that there are some comments where
people have had great experiences with meeting someone down at the gas station
and it works for them aka down under the petrol station so
uh part of tech yes city is a big part of this channel is
doing what works for you i'm only doing what works for me
and i'd say we're having a dandy old time here with especially with the tech
guests loving around the channel here but straight
away doing what works best for you is always something i recommend i'm just
here to uh i guess elaborate on a piece of
information that i said in one of my recent videos
where i said i no longer meet people at the gas station and i don't recommend
doing so so let's roll that intro and let's go
story mode around tech yeah city are you ready
let's go
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below to find out more so in 2016 when i returned from japan
i had already got hosed in japan over the yahoo
auctions which in ways yahoo auctions is known in japan for basically just having
no claim no return they're just like a lot of the guys will just be
selling out even a lot of time just untested stuff so
i wasn't really angry about getting hosed in japan because it goes with the
territory you're getting this stuff super cheap
a lot of the times even if the seller says it works you're getting it for a
ridiculously cheap price but when i got back from japan there was two
instances in 2016 when i had met young guys as well young guys two young
guys at the gas station both times i got hosed and you know they
look in the eyes they i don't even know if these guys are
just they think the stuff is semi-faulty but someone can just bring
it magically back to life but the first time was an r9 280 and i
bought this from a guy at the gas station and i mean
we did get a signal out of it the problem was
is when you tried to install a driver the card was just it's gone
it's not a working card so i messaged the guy i said look can i get my money
back dude and he basically gave me that rundown of
no the card was working when it left my place
so i'm not going to give you a refund and so at this point in time you're just
wasting your money on a 120 part that you most likely not going to
get your money back from so that's why the guy met me at the gas
station the first time the second time was actually a cpu it
was like i think it was an i3 2120 i got off at 10 bucks but i mean
it was just it was like i didn't care at all but i met a guy at the gas station
he said yeah this little i3 is going to be great for a little pc put it out of a
pc and it was working absolutely fine got home tested out the i3 just kept
shutting the whole system like the motherboard just kept shutting off
and that's generally it's rare like it's actually a rare thing
to get a faulty cpu but one that's completely gone
so that can happen especially if it's been exposed to a bad switchboard a
power supply is blown out or a lightning storm
but at the same time it was 10 bucks so i just didn't even care but that was the
second time i'd met someone down the good old station
and it was the second time that i'd got hosed now here's where things get
a little bit worse because this is only my two experiences of being hosed
down the good old station but i've had people in australia
message me personally and they said brian i've been hosed
for say an rtx 2060. i met someone down the
the gas station and they handed me an rtx 2060 box
quickly took my money when i got home there was like a gtx 650 in the box or
something like so they got completely hosed
on these deals and i mean in ways i guess
it's partially their own fault that they didn't check over the whole product
before they got it but what's there to stop someone from
putting in say a faulty rtx 2060 in that box
anyhow so it's very hard first of all to validate parts when you're meeting
someone down the good old station so that's the reason i just don't do it
when i'm going over to someone's place to buy the part
i'm going to go either check the part or i know where they live
so if i want a refund if i get the part home and it just clearly doesn't work
then i can take it back and get a refund and so this is another story where
i have been over to someone's place before and they sold me i grabbed
they actually came to me they messaged me personally and they said brian i've
got a deal for you an r9 270 and i was like cool like how much do you
want for it they said 110 bucks initially i said dude
that's way too much for an r9 270. so then they came back to me and they said
look i'll do it for 70. i said okay it's a fair price and this was
i think it was like during a time when graphics cards
were getting sort of depleted they were hard in stock so this guy was just
around the corner from me about 10 minute drive so i quickly drove down to
his place and i was talking to him and i said dude
like you know these parts work right they're fine he's like yeah man
they're all good old swear to god they work they're fine
and i said well when did you last test them and they said oh like
i tested them over six months ago so when someone tells you that they tested
parts over a long time ago i would start
really raising some suspicions on whether that pc part works or not so
straight away those alarm bells ringing in my head i'm like
okay well maybe this pc part doesn't work at all
and so i like okay like i said to him look i know where you live so it's
not going to be a problem basically that's in the back of my mind
so i took the pc part i gave him the cash
and then i got home and i didn't test it that like i think it was like a little
bit late at night like 8 p.m or something and hey
don't worry like the tech yes uh hustle it's sort of like
24 7 kind of thing but i i got it home the next day i i put it in a system just
to i've got my test bench quickly booted it up
bang no signal got that b2 error this card was just gone skis and so i
messaged the guy and i said mate you just sold me a dud card and he said
i don't do he straight away his reply was i don't do
refunds sorry and i said to him what like that's a
weird reply to get from someone i don't do refunds straight away i said
this card i said this card doesn't work you sold me a dud
it wasn't anything else just like i don't do refunds so basically what i
said after that was i was like okay i'm going to be returning this graphics card
either the good way or the bad way so i just rocked up at
their place had the graphics card ready to go
and they came out they gave me a refund so it was all fine and so that's the
difference between meeting up at the gas station
and meeting at someone's place now did the person intended the last case that
last scenario did that person intentionally hose me
i don't know but all three cases where i've had faulty parts being sold as
parts that were working all the time it's been young dudes maybe
they're hungry for cash but that's not the right way to get your cash you
don't just completely hose people down it's the wrong way to do it so i mean
even if he didn't know if the part was working properly or not
he could have sold it as untested and recouped some of his money
so coming out of all this what's the moral of the story
basically it is if you can't validate someone's credentials you either don't
know where they live or you don't know who they are
or whatever then there's a high chance that this person is going to hose you
down so now we're going to go on to the next reason though this one's an
important one because i live down under in australia
and this one is the fact that australia was basically a nation of convicts
a couple of hundred years ago so those grass
roots are still within aussie to this day so you've just got to uh
learn how to sort of navigate your way through the murky waters
and now continuing on with the next couple of stories these are even worse
than what i've said before but one of these just came in this
morning a guy was looking for a gaming pc from us he just told me that
he had deposited 500 down on an rtx 2070 super build that was on
gumtree and i said to the guys like whoa okay
what happened and he basically told me that he deposited
money for this bill the guy was then going to post it
but then a few days later he's there's no replies or anything he tried calling
him and he'd realized his number had been
blocked he'd try calling on another number the guy picks up the phone
and then realizes it's him and then blocks that second number
so this is a scenario that i've heard in the past as well
and that is depositing money to people who you don't
know over the internet for say goods that look legitimate i mean this
guy might have this pc but he has no intention of selling it and so i
asked him about this the person selling it and he said that the seller had no
reputation or like no feedback and i was like
whoa okay take a step back there so you're giving money to someone you don't
know and they've got no feedback so that
straight away was a recipe for disaster and i've heard
this as well from a guy that i bought two pcs off who when
he he actually like this other guy actually got these pcs but they were
completely different and they just didn't both of them didn't turn on at
all this was uh back over two videos that
i've done over the last couple of months poor guy said he bought him from a guy
up north and even in the recent um the 100 flip up challenge we looked at
what had gone on with one of those pcs where one of the hard drives have even
been like raid petitioned half its size it was just insane like
what some people who are very knowledgeable even people who are very
knowledgeable in tech will do to hose people down so after i
saw that i was kind of like bottom line is nothing's going to
surprise me anymore when it comes to people getting hosed but there are
precautions that you need to take and the reasons
being is because as i said in the gtx i made some video
about this there was this this video we made on the
channel here where i was like don't buy this graphics card
and i just said like this is obviously a scam and people like people were in the
comments and they were saying brian what if it's
not a scam and it's like it's that same line of thinking that gets you
scammed in the first place there's just simple protocol and that's
what i'm following when i say i don't want to meet people at the gas station
it's all back to protocol because there's no recourse there's no way
for you to get your money back so same with the bank deposit once you put that
money in that person's account there's generally no way of getting that
money back i mean he the guy who spoke to me this morning he did tell me
that he was filing a thing with his bank so hopefully in 2020 they've made some
kind of fair dispute round where he can
hopefully get his 500 bucks back but i said to him i was like dude
there's little chance that you're going to be getting your money back
so just understand that even though you and i
think a certain way and we won't hose people down
there are people out there that won't hesitate
to hose people down and that's what you've got to like coming out of this
you've got to understand that every human being on this planet is
different and with that difference comes a different way of thinking and so
once you like once you do that you'll understand that
there's just protocol ways of doing things that's going to
stop you from getting host anyhow guys that video as well that gtx
whatever it was i think it was like a 1050 ti for 50 bucks
that was uh that ended up being a scam like people messaged me a few days later
like yeah dude um apparently this i think i think they
might have saw the video like the retailer might have saw the video and
then crack down on it on behalf of the customers so i think
if you guys got your money back for that like please let us know in the comments
anyway other than that that's the story of the gas station
uh the worst i have been hosed for on a pc part
is that 120 bucks that was and that's never coming back
that 120 men it's gone forever it's circulating out there in the
economy somewhere someone's spending those two 50s and a 20
that i put out there and i got nothing for it i just got like actually i did
get something for it it was a negative too that's the thing
not only are you getting hosed you're getting hosed for your time too you
wasted all that time so you got double whammied when you get
that so-called deal so anyhow guys i'm going to be signing
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your experiences with the gas station getting hosed
what not love reading those thoughts and opinions as always well in this case i'm
not going to really love reading these thoughts and opinions they're not really
good stories to be had but at least if people can see
what's going on out there they can realize just even based off the comments
uh to take these precautions and not get scammed because one thing is for certain
i love each and every one of you guys out there especially if you're a tech
yes citizen and you've hit that sub button and rang that bell
though with that aside we've got the question of the day here which comes
from a user called chaotic and they ask i'm curious
about what you do when you make multiple offers like this video
you made three offers on three gpus if they all accepted
do you get them all use the other two in your pc parts hunts or only the best
deal and use it for this series um this is actually like really
interesting because usually like i'll just buy like if i've
made offers down these gpus and they all came back
i just buy them all and that's because i'm making offers that
i know are sticking to that code of discipline i guess
this is that protocol thing we talked about it's even coming into pricing and
everything you got to be disciplined and it's the
most important thing it's the same with prices so when i offer all that
on those gpus i'm prepared to pay that and so i'm going to stick to that
and that's why you won't see me go on cannonball and go on
um stupid on prices like i won't overpay for stuff because
you're finding this actually i might even have to make another follow-up
video on this is that locally here now i made a video
saying prices were going to come down on pc parts and at the time like
people are like really really kind of staying high but now we're seeing it
it's coming down and a lot of people are messaging me
saying they can't sell their gaming pcs and i said well
it's it's all about balance it's all about balance
there's so much demand that demand's going to go down and that's what's
happening so um basically the tying that all back is
if you don't get the good deals if you overpay
for stuff it's going to come back to bite you
where you may even lose money on your gaming pcs
if you can't hold or of course if something like
rtx 3000 series is right around the corner which it is and we don't
exactly know what that's going to bring 100 yet but
we already know that rtx 2000 series has completely stopped production
there's no more of those cards being made which is
tells you a lot base even if we're just looking at on
nvidia's behalf as a business that should tell you a lot of
uh what's going what's going to go on anyhow guys
i'll catch you another tech video very soon peace out for now
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