I Bought a Suspicious PS5 from eBay... they DESTROYED it

How could they mess up this bad? 😂

The biggest problem is a lot of ebay sellers will sell you consoles and then ship them in practically nothing, and I hate that. They act like the postal service doesn’t toss these boxes around like they’re nothing.

Glad you mention the seller's name so we can avoid this scammer!

My theory is they had a PS5 that was broken so they bought themselves a Spider-Man 2 ps5, bought the plates separate and put the spare plates on the old one and sold it as a Spider-Man PS5.

They bought this ps5 limited edition. Took the face plates off the new one, and put it on their old one. Then they sold you their old one with the Spider-Man covers. They didn’t care about Spider-Man, but needed a new PS5 cuz the old one is broken. They then sold it to you for a profit. So they ended up getting a new PS5 for free essentially after selling it to you for $700.

eBay is a cesspit of scammers. Not just for consoles, but for anything. In last two months have had two people supposedly send me baseball caps that I bought. First one just never showed, asked what happened, no reply just refunded. (was obviously never posted) Second one provided tracking but on the tracking site it said the label had been generated but was never received by them. Messaged the seller, didn't reply so had to file for refund. (once again was obviously never posted). I have been on eBay for two decades, and it was never as bad as this. It's just become scammer central.

That's a bad deal! Hopefully the seller will admit there are errors and respond pretty soon! The state of the console and the issues faced are things that should not happen with such a new console. Definitely seems like a swap job there! (Two things you could try: 1 - look at printing on the main boards to see if they are identified as being older than they should be (an older revision date, or whatever); 2 - as the console asked for a system update, look at the software version it currently has and see how much older it is). Just a thought or two.

This makes dk oldies consoles feel like brand new 😂😂

absolutely wild how someone could own a console for maybe 2 weeks and it have that much dirt and grime and not working

Wouldn’t be surprised if they swapped out main console and changed the plates to the busted one

You can’t trust any of those “EBay refurbished” people. I ordered a refurbished GBA SP once and it just didn’t work at all. And to make matters worse, the hinge was put in improperly

50% sure those splashes on the controller are from somebody open mouth coughing onto it. source: I used to live in a trap a house where people don't know how to cover their mouth and just cough down into their lap.

It’s wild, I just started doing console repairs for myself and yah the “Refurbished” consoles I bought have barely ever been looked at it feels

Money on this being an EARLY PS5 and they just swapped out the plates and took advantage of the collector value

Make sure you give that eBay seller the appropriate feedback rating and comment!

The thermal camera was so interesting! That is so scary how hot the console with the broken fan was getting just on the home screen. You're so right that too many sellers are selling as "refurbished" when they really mean "used". Just because you're reselling it or it simply boots up doesn't make it refurbished. Thanks for the video!

I'm subscribing, I love your channel!! you're just being yourself, not desperately trying to be funny, not annoying, NICE

Love the random events that happen in your videos Jacob lol

Unfortunately ebay support will remove negative feedback upon the sellers request so there is no way to avoid this type of seller. I rarely leave neg feedback but everytime I do it is later removed by ebay. This is especially true for power sellers. All they have to do is complain and ebay will remove the feedback.

So the ps5 fan will indeed spin faster if it needs to in order to cool down the console! I’ve always been under the impression that I ps5 has only 2 speeds. The idle speed at the Home Screen and one more speed a little higher when opening a game and activity gaming. You plugging in that fan and it blasting off shows the ps5 will actually ramp the fan up if need be! Mine has always been super quiet since day 1 and I’ve never had it so this! Thanks for these videos!