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title: 'We Wasted $1012 on Mercari...'
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date: 2026-06-13
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# We Wasted $1012 on Mercari...

> Source: [We Wasted $1012 on Mercari...](https://youtube.com/watch?v=tDUIClvarBM)

## Summary

Austin Evans explores Mercari, a peer-to-peer sales platform, buying a variety of vintage tech and collectibles. He unboxes items like a Nintendo Radio Boy, a Samsung Galaxy S4, a MacBook Pro, Pokemon cards, a PlayStation, and more, testing their condition and functionality. The video concludes with a verdict on whether Mercari is worth it, finding the platform similar to eBay but with weirder items.

### Key Points

- **Introduction to Mercari** [0:00] — Austin introduces Mercari as a peer-to-peer sales platform, noting he's used the Japanese version before. He plans to buy Pokemon cards and other tech items.
- **Nintendo Radio Boy Unboxing** [2:18] — Austin unboxes a sealed Nintendo Radio Boy from 1992, paying $187. The headphones disintegrate, and the radio barely works, picking up static.
- **Samsung Galaxy S4 Review** [5:17] — A Samsung Galaxy S4 in good condition for $105. It boots up, has a bright OLED screen, removable battery, and headphone jack, but can't activate due to network issues.
- **2016 MacBook Pro Assessment** [8:08] — A 2016 15-inch MacBook Pro with Touch Bar, i7, 16GB RAM, 27 cycle count battery, paid $216. It runs High Sierra, has a butterfly keyboard, and is no longer supported.
- **Pokemon Card Mystery Packs** [11:54] — Austin buys two mystery packs for $32, finding mostly worthless cards worth about 1 cent each. He also buys a 2007 Pokedex for $37, which works but is tedious.
- **Original PlayStation Unboxing** [15:28] — A boxed original PlayStation from 1997, paid $193. It works, plays games like Duke Nukem and Tomb Raider, and includes two controllers and a memory card.
- **Mario Teaches Typing CD** [19:05] — A DOS-based Mario Teaches Typing CD from 1993, paid $15.50. It runs on a Windows 98 machine, but the audio doesn't work without a Sound Blaster card.
- **Palm Tungsten T5 PDA** [21:56] — A PalmOne Tungsten T5 PDA, paid $95. It boots up, has Bluetooth, VPN support, and a heavy stylus. It's a functional vintage device.
- **Nvidia GeForce MX 440 GPU** [24:01] — A sealed Nvidia GeForce MX 440 from 2002, paid $98. It's a small purple board with VGA, S-Video, and AV out. However, the test motherboard lacks AGP slot.
- **Modem Blaster Accident** [25:30] — Austin accidentally cuts open a sealed Modem Blaster from 2003, paid $34. He realizes the motherboard doesn't have the right slot, desecrating two artifacts.

### Conclusion

Mercari is similar to eBay but with weirder items. The purchases were mostly as advertised, but many items were overpriced or had issues. Austin concludes that while the platform works, it's not significantly different from other second-hand marketplaces.

## Transcript

- What the hell is a Mercari?
It sounds like my Mercury Cougar
that I used to drive in the year 2011.
However, this is a site
that purports to give you some great deals
on tech, collectibles, and more.
I've actually used Mercari in the past,
but only the Japanese version.
So, let's see what's like
to use the global version.
I'm also buying Pokemon cards
in case that wasn't clear.
Okay, Mercari is a
peer-to-peer sales platform.
While we work diligently to
facilitate your transaction,
it's important for buyers
to perform their own due diligence.
No, I don't wanna do due, do,
due, due, due, do, dili...
A leotard. I do need a leotard.
It's like new, which is the
way I prefer my leotards.
Ooh.
An iMac G3, now we talking boys.
Honestly, I don't like the haggle,
but I am almost open to anything.
Tons of floppy discs. I
keep seeing sold listings.
Why are you showing me sold
listings? I don't care.
Okay, so a 2016 MacBook Pro,
it's hard to recommend
these older MacBooks
just because they're no
longer supported by macOS.
That being said though,
dedicated GPU, touch bar, decent battery.
How about gaming? I wanna do some gaming.
A white PS Vita for $450? Brother, chill.
I'll say these prices are not good.
Although a PS One complete in box, sealed,
I mean $900 is an
extortion amount of money.
I mean, I shouldn't do that, right?
Tyler, The Creator themed face plates.
- [Ken] Oh god.
- What in the hell is a
Nintendo Radio Boy? Excuse me.
It looks kind of fake,
but also in a way that '90s
products kinda looked weird.
There's no way that's a real thing.
Fortnite coach. Oh god, not again.
I am mediocre at Fortnite
and you can be too.
A Creative Blaster PCI modem.
Boy, I'm getting a little
tingly thinking about it.
All right, so with that my friends,
I think we have plenty of items
to take a closer look to see
is Mercari actually worth it?
Welcome back, my friends.
So, buying stuff from Mercari
was a little bit of an adventure,
mostly because half the stuff I found
was overpriced and boring.
So, I did what any good YouTuber would do
and found the weird stuff.
We have another package with
a separate UPS label on it.
All right, we have my
friends, the Radio Boy.
- [Alex] Ooh.
- This is, supposedly,
an international Nintendo
licensed product.
This is still sealed in the original box.
It is a Game Boy themed
radio. Does that make sense?
- [Alex] Yes.
- [Adriana] No.
- Radio Boy is a trademark of Nintendo
and licensed to Mani,
the manufacturer of
this high quality item.
- [Alex] It's just Manny.
- As someone who's been doing
this for a very long time,
I did not know this
existed until I found it.
Alex, do you have any
information on the Radio Boy?
- [Alex] This came out originally in 1992.
- Great year.
- [Alex] It was a thing, it
wasn't like insanely popular.
- How much was this thing?
How much did we pay for it?
Like what's the deal with this guy?
- [Alex] We paid $187.
Now, keep in mind, it is
factory sealed, all that stuff.
Sealed prices for these things
go anywhere from like $140 to $200.
- Normally, I would feel kind of bad
about opening something like
this, but until we open-
- [Alex] You should feel bad.
- Here goes nothing, my friends.
Oh my god.
- [Alex] This is hurting
every collector watching.
- Can we get a zoom in on this?
The headphones disintegrated
on the actual battery door.
Do you see all the black
like gunk on there?
I'm not putting that in my ear.
It's actually like
crumbling off as I touch it.
- [Alex] Ooh, we finally found something
that Austin won't sniff
or put in his body.
Don't do it. Oh my god.
You just got asbestos in there.
- It is crazy to me that
this is a brand new product.
It looks like it's in terrible
shape, like it's yellowed.
Even the front,
it's got like a million
little bubbles in it.
So, you have an AM, FM switch
on the top, headphone jack,
you have a volume rocker
as well as you've got your tuning knob.
So, to make sure
that we can all experience
the Radio Boy together,
I brought out a pair of speakers,
now, a lot of these kinda radios
use the actual 3.5 as an antenna.
Oh, on/off and volume controls.
You just have to turn up the volume.
I'm only picking up a little bit of static
on both AM and FM at the exact same spot.
Lemme try the original headphones,
I'm not gonna put them in my ears.
- [Alex] That's not terrible.
Okay, no, I lied. That
is terrible, nevermind.
Yes.
- Oh no, it's all on my shirt.
This would've been cooler
if it was like a little
like Game Boy attachment.
- In recent times, people have made,
have basically taken that exact idea
and made like custom game cards.
- [Austin] Yeah.
- [Alex] That could do exactly that.
- I'm gonna put this back in the box
and we're gonna resell
this on eBay real quick
as lightly used, complete in box,
totally works, no problem.
This next one, I said
menacingly with a knife,
should be a phone that is very
near and dear to my heart,
which is, of course,
the most meaningful piece of tech of all,
Samsung Galaxy S4.
- [Alex] Oh.
- The Galaxy S4 was back in an era,
this would've been 2013, I think,
in which smartphones
got unbelievably better
every single year.
This had a 1080P OLED display.
It actually had like a
properly good camera.
I might not have that same opinion today,
but like, this thing was
actually pretty good.
Oh my god, it's so blue.
- [Alex] Ooh.
- Look how blue that is.
Remember when phones were actual colors?
And it had a headphone jack.
This is actually in
incredibly good shape though.
Something that you just
can't do with modern phones
is just pop off the back panel here.
And you should see not only
your easily removable battery,
which actually had NFC built in.
In addition, you've got
yourself in micro SD card
which is already installed and a SIM card,
which still already installed.
The biggest downside though
was that even though it was a
very nice design for its time,
even for 2013, you could get
something like an iPhone,
which is all glass and metal,
and the plastic felt a little dated,
but like, plastic actually has
like a bit of a charm to it.
Oh my god, it's turning on.
- [Alex] What?
- [Austin] I felt it vibrate.
- [Alex] Ooh.
- Yeah, boy!
That screen is actually incredibly bright.
It's clipping on the
camera it's so bright.
And it's an OLED,
so it actually has like good
viewing angles, like, man.
Ah, the setup wizard.
Oh, everyone has to get ready.
Uh-oh.
- [Alex] What happened
to the beeps and gates?
- [Austin] It can't activate.
- [Alex] But SIM card.
- How about we use wifi to activate?
Do we want to set up
our Yahoo or AOL email?
Yo, let's go. TouchWiz,
TouchWiz, TouchWiz, touch,
TouchWiz was bad actually.
Man, none of this is gonna work,
but it's still great anyway.
I am now recording on a
beautiful Samsung Galaxy S4.
How does it look?
Anyone wanna take a bet on
if any of that was in focus.
I'm now recording. Oh,
that's actually not bad at all.
I know this is just the nostalgia talking,
but if they would make a phone
that was like actually this
size, I would be so happy.
I mean, it really feels
like it's not too far away
from something like an iPhone Mini
when it comes to actually
like the feel on the hand,
how much did I pay for this Galaxy S4
that is in very good condition.
- [Alex] We paid $105.
- Hold on a second.
- [Alex] Yeah.
You know how minimal
phones are a thing now?
What if we just all buy the
beautiful old pieces of hardware
in good condition?
You can't do a lot on it, but
you can probably find a way
to do some very minimal things on this.
I think I'm onto something here.
- [Alex] Yeah, Austin Evans
bought off by all hackers online.
- Well, don't do any those,
okay, yes, yes, yes, that's true.
How about we go with.
So, this should be a MacBook.
And something that always shocks me
is the price of old MacBooks.
Because MacBooks, almost
without fail, hit a price floor.
So, if you wanna spend a $100 to $150,
you can get everything
from like a 2018 MacBook
all the way to like a 2007 MacBook.
And it feels like they're pretty much
all that same kind of price.
So this, my friends should
be a 16 inch MacBook Pro
from 2018, 2019?
- [Alex] 2016.
- 2016. Oh, so sorry.
15-inch, not 16-inch.
So, this was when they redesigned the Mac.
So before this, you had tons of ports,
then they took it, shrunk it
down, got rid of all the ports,
and only has Thunderbolt/USBs on the side.
And it most importantly, the Touch Bar.
This one's a little dirty.
Alex, could you gimme
any info on this guy?
- [Alex] We bought the i7
with 16 gigs of RAM.
- Which I think was the base model.
Now, this laptop, I will
say, had some problems.
The Butterfly Keyboard,
which, as we've discussed
in the past, not good.
I still, as my voice cracks,
think that the Butterfly Keyboard
was actually not bad to type on,
it was very shallow,
but it actually had like a nice
little bit of a click to it.
However, incredibly unreliable.
And the problem was that if
any of these keys went bad,
half your MacBook would literally
just need to be replaced.
This did have USB-C, which,
what the hell's the password?
Oh my god, not again,
not again, not again.
What the (quacks)?
What the, it's the best color,
and it's everything I ever
wanted, and it doesn't work.
- [Alex] Well,
why don't we try the new
thing that we learned?
- Push the Enter button?
Nope.
Is it Apple? It is Apple.
- [Alex] What?
- Okay.
Dude, stop putting passwords on things.
So, it is, in fact, a
15-inch 2016 MacBook Pro.
Well, also, something's borked here.
My System Information doesn't
work. It doesn't work?
- [Alex] That's weird.
- [Austin] Oh my god,
finally showed up, okay.
- [Alex] Oh, okay.
- That's super weird.
Okay, so it does have a Radeon Pro 450.
It is not very powerful, but it is enough.
So, it is a 27 cycle count battery,
so it's basically brand new.
Unfortunately, this is
an Intel MacBook Pro,
which means that in this era,
the early ones actually weren't too bad.
Once they got a little bit down the line,
these things would run really hot.
Now, the concern with any old MacBook,
it is no longer supported.
Alex, what's the newest version of macOS
I could put on this one?
- [Alex] High Sierra.
- High Sierra?
Oh, yeah, so that's way behind.
As you can see, our web browser
is a little bit out of date.
When did we start trusting
Google with our entire lives?
At least for me. Terrific
speakers, great screen.
And the Touch Bar,
one of my favorite things
of MacBooks of any year.
I think what's gonna help me calibrate
how much should I pay for this?
- [Alex] Two hundred-
- 2?
That number shouldn't start with a 2.
- [Alex] $16.
- 216?
- 216. Oh.
The problem is I bought an M1
MacBook Air not that long ago,
for like, what like 250, 260 bucks,
which is just a bajillion times better.
Okay, yeah. Ah! I, okay,
if I paid like mid to high one hundreds,
I'd be pretty happy with this.
I think that this hardware
is very serviceable.
I like it, man. I like it.
I wish I would've paid like
170 bucks for it though.
Now, as I was perusing the
virtual store shelves of Mercari,
I couldn't help but find
one of my favorite vices.
Not that one. No, the
other one's Pokemon cards.
Okay look
we've all done a little bit
of degenerate behavior, right?
- [Alex] All of us?
- So, these are Pokemon
card mystery packs.
For the most part,
they're just a bunch of junk bulk
that's just tossed in a thing.
They put a very expensive
card on the front.
- [Alex] But what they guarantee a foil,
that means it's worth something, right?
- I think I see the foil right here.
It's kind of cool,
but I don't think it's
actually worth anything.
Oh, oh, oh, little oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.
Wow dude.
all of those cards are worth,
I'm gonna be generous to say 1 cent each.
- [Alex] Well, it was
worth something to you,
you're the one that paid for it.
- Alex, before I open the
second one, can you just tell me
how much of my money I
wasted on this nonsense?
- [Alex] You paid $32 for both of these.
- A reverse holo? Are you kidding me?
- [Alex] To somebody who doesn't
care about shiny cardboard,
can you explain to me-
- [Austin] 50 cents.
- [Alex] Okay,
- Man. $30?
The only thing that's gonna
make me feel better is this.
I,
have you ever seen a Pokemon
that you just don't understand
what the hell that guy's name is called?
Look, I got a Pokedex,
and I'm really excited to use it
to find out what my cards are.
- [Alex] Oh, yeah.
- I knew that that was gonna be bad,
so at least I wanted to
get one good Pokemon item.
There have been a lot of
Pokedexs over the years.
So, there was the original one,
which actually I still have in my office,
which is I think legit and cool.
So, this should be from 2007,
which I don't know how
good this is gonna be.
Does this work? Is there a
power button? How do you?
- [Alex] Does it need
battery of some kind?
- [Austin] Oh, there's
a button on the side.
- [Alex] Fun.
- Cut all that.
- [Adriana] Don't cut it.
- What is this music?
- [Pokedex] This is your Pokedex.
Ivysaur is a grass and
poison type Pokemon.
- [Alex] Aye.
- Wait, do I have to scroll
through every single Pokemon?
Wait, let's gimme a number, yeah.
What number Pokemon are we looking for?
- [Adriana] Let's do 351.
- [Alex] Is it just mute-
- [Austin] Castform.
- [Pokedex] Castform
is normal type Pokemon.
- Sometimes.
- 217. Wait, let me guess,
what is Pokemon 217?
Houndoom.
Ursaring. That's close.
- [Alex] How does that? I guess.
- Gimme like, oh, here,
let's look for Latias.
So, I type in the word L, it
just shows me each L Pokemon.
Oh, wait, more info.
Oh, Lairon makes its nest on mountains
where iron ore is buried.
This is cool, but incredibly tedious.
Banette was once a discarded
and forgotten plush doll.
All of its cursed energy was escape
if it ever opened its mouth.
Yeah, see that's the kind of (quack)
the Pokedex is great for.
Who's that Pokemon? Is everyone ready?
- [Alex] Aye!
- [Unison] Let's go.
- All right, Jumpluff,
Jumpluff, Jumpluff, Jumpluff.
I am a Pokemon master.
This is the, it makes me forget
about all the money I
wasted on Pokemon cards.
It's very delightful.
How much do we pay for
our 2007 Pokemon Pokedex?
- [Alex] We paid $37.
- See, good use of 30 something dollars,
bad use of 30 something dollars.
How do y'all feel about
going a little old school?
- [Alex] Haven't we been going
old school this whole video?
- No, no, no. 2007?
That was yesterday. No.
We're talking about
back when hair was tall,
clothes were great, and
Japanese cars were amazing,
the 1990s.
You can see, I think,
what we're looking at here, my friends.
- [Alex] Oh my god, is that a PS5?
- An actual,
this is an actual, original PlayStation.
I do know that the box is quite beat up.
Is this a launch model
or was it slightly later?
- [Alex] I think it's
ever so slightly later.
- Nicely padded though, I will say.
I appreciate the little like air dinguses.
So, this should be our PlayStation itself.
Uh-oh, cables are falling.
Oh. Oh, it smells like 1997.
Ah.
So, we've got the original paperwork,
which is the instruction
manual for our PlayStation.
Now,
oh, and the memory card
that just fell out.
Oh, this is the Performance memory card.
Behold my friends,
1997's favorite console,
the Sony PlayStation.
It is in good shape, a little dirty.
So, yeah, so this would've
been the later revision, yeah.
Because the launch models,
they had RCA on the back,
if I remember right.
Oh.
- [Alex] Ka-chunk.
- Let us begin my friends
with a choice of what
game we want to play.
Is it "Duke Nukem Land of The Babes?"
- [Alex] Yes.
- Yeah.
"Tomb Raider."
- [Matt] Same universe.
- [Alex] Also "Land of The Babes."
- [Austin] "Need For Speed Hot Pursuit?"
After you visited the "Land of The Babes."
Well, play some "Need For Speed"
that seems like the right move.
- [Alex] What? Of all the games in there?
- I could, I-
- [Adriana] Do "Tomb Raider."
- "Tomb Raider?"
- [Matt] I could have bet
millions of dollars on that
and won.
- We're gonna play "Land of
The Babes" now then. Sorry.
- [Alex] Yay.
(cover clicks)
- Not plugged in.
I'm looking at the cord.
I'm looking at-
- [Alex] And the best part.
- Nothing's plugged in.
- [Matt] Two separate cords.
(somber music)
- I just peed my pants.
Oh, those are babes.
Oh, I think I see the babes. Wait, what?
- [Adriana] Oh.
- Oh, what the (quack)?
- [Adriana] My god.
- [Austin] Wait, wait, why is
that, wait, is that a gorilla?
- [Adriana] You are looking
at the wrong thing, dude.
- "Tomb Raider," look at
that. Let's go raid the tomb.
Like how it's freezing
outside so she put a scarf on.
This is where the guy
gets eaten by wolves.
- [Matt] Whoa.
Spoilers.
- Spoilers. Sorry.
It doesn't support the DualShock.
So, basically, I have to
use the D-pad to walk,
which is very bad.
- [Alex] Yeah, this is amazing for 1996.
- Oh, arrows, arrows, arrows, bad.
- We've learned all we need to
learn about this PlayStation.
However, the best is
yet to come. My friends.
- [Alex] Matt?
- [Matt] Yeah?
- [Alex] How much do you
think this would cost?
- [Matt] I'm going 300.
- Alex? The actual number is?
- [Alex] This bodes
very well for us. $193.
- It's pretty good, right?
- [Matt] Pretty good.
Pretty good.
- It's not that much more expensive.
I mean, it's more expensive
than just like a stock PlayStation One.
But, with the box, with two
controllers and everything,
it's actually not that bad.
I like how this one comes
with eBay tape, as, of course,
and I purchased from Mercari.
But Matthew-
- [Matt] Yeah?
- What is something you
miss from the 1990s?
- Is there a, is there like a-
- A hint? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- Avenue I'm supposed to be going?
- What are your feelings on Nintendo?
- Nintendo in the '90s was decent.
- Good.
- Like, I hadn't hated it yet.
- So, this is an item that
I, kind of, forgot existed.
Why the hell is that
"Dance Dance Revolution?"
Hold on, hold on, hold
on, hold on, hold, hold.
- [Matt] And that's Snoopy.
- [Austin] Wait, wait, wait.
- [Matt] And Woodstock.
- Wait, so.
- [Alex] What's happening?
- Oh, okay, okay, okay, wait, wait-
- [Matt] Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
- So, this is my friends is
"Mario Teaches Typing" on CD.
- I think I remember this.
- [Austin] So, Mario could
teach you how to type in 1993.
This is before he even had fingers,
don't ask how he typed.
- Oh yeah, he had the two balls.
- He had the two balls. I will
say there's one slight issue.
Can I direct your attention
to the bottom of this?
Which is for DOS.
So, we might need to source
a slightly older computer
to make this one work.
But trust me, it will
be worth it, it will.
All righty,
now that we have procured
ourselves a Windows 98 machine,
it is time to go back to yesteryear
with "Mario Teaches Typing."
Can I make sure that the.
Yeah buddy.
- [Alex] What?
- Welcome to the world of Windows 98.
The CD was modified last May 20th, 1994.
- [Alex] Wow.
- Shout out to the fact that
this 30 something year old CD
works right outta the box.
Whoa whoa whoa wait.
There's a bunch of
extra stuff on the disc.
- [Matt] Yeah.
- [All] "Lord of The Rings."
- [Austin] "Star Wars Judgment Rites."
- Why are we caring at all about Mario
when there's "Star Trek?"
- So, it doesn't look like the
audio works, unfortunately.
Probably 'cause we don't
have a Sound Blaster card.
- Woo-hoo, hello. It's me, Mario.
- [Matt] I want to know whether-
- Oh my god, wait, wait, wait, what?
This is the way it works.
- [Ken] You need to type to play, dude.
- [Matt] Yeah. How? Why
is this better graphics
than current Nintendo games?
Yeah, like it kind of-
- I did. Oh, apparently I'm done.
- [Matt] They didn't even
have the steps to jump up,
there was not a single pipe.
- I just will say that this Mario,
I'm not sure what's wrong,
he looks like bootleg Mario.
- Look, I'm doing it.
- What the hell?
You're not learning anything.
How are you supposed to be
learning typing right now?
(Austin humming)
Well, the good thing is, Alex,
for what a relic of history we have found,
it was quite affordable, right?
We did not have to pay a lot of money
for this copy of "Mario
Teaches Typing," right?
- So I, of course, you're
playing "Star Trek."
- [Alex] We paid $15.50 for this.
That's not much,
but I'm pretty sure it's
probably more than it's worth.
- There's a lot of other
demos on this thing, man.
I think it's pretty good.
- Yeah, but they're
not letting me play it.
- [Ken] Whoa.
- [Alex] Aye.
- Uh-oh.
- [Austin] You know it's
just a trailer, right?
- What it's?
- You're not playing any, it's a trailer.
It's a trailer.
- Let me shoot.
- It's a trailer.
- The game's not on the disc,
it's a trailer for the game.
- Oh. Oh, oh.
- This is old.
You'd think that in 2026
people are gonna use a
keyboard and a computer
instead I got that new wave.
What the kids are
actually doing these days.
- [Ken] Meta Quest?
- [Matt] Zyn?
- [Ken] Zyn.
- This, my friends is-
- [Ken] Oh no, it's a Pokemon card.
- A Palm.
- [Ken] Oh!
- [Matt] Oh!
- See? See, now we're
all excited, aren't we?
So this is a PalmOne, this is a Tungsten
which is legitimately one of
the cooler looking Palms.
- All the Palms were cool looking.
- [Austin] So, it has this like
little, like leather pouch,
and you got yourself the
stylus, which actually is here.
- [Ken] Look at that.
- This thing was money.
Alex, do you have any idea
how much a Palm Tungsten
T5 cost when it was new?
- [Alex] The original retail
price for one of these guys,
it is $400.
It is, it is advertise.
- [Austin] It immediately lights up.
- [Alex] All right, cool.
- [Ken] Oh dang.
- [Matt] Oh, look at that. Ah.
- Are we, oh my god, look, it actually is,
the wizard searches for new drivers
for the PalmOne Handheld please.
- [Alex] Wow.
- Is Bluetooth, which is
pretty impressive for 2004.
It has VPN support, which, wow.
- [Matt] These were corporate.
- So, if I want, I'm
gonna turn on drive mode.
Theoretically-
- [Ken] Pull the files.
- Yes.
- [Matt] Yeah.
- Yeah, I can actually now
show up as a Windows 95, yeah.
Also, I just wanna point
out this stylus is so heavy.
It feels expensive.
- [Alex] Oh, I heard thunk.
- Yeah, I know.
- Dude, what the heck?
- Oh, the program has
performed an illegal operation
and will be shut down.
- [Alex] Oh.
- [Matt] I once wrote an
entire paper on one of these.
- [Austin] That's crazy-
- [Matt] Using.
- [Alex] How?
- [Ken] Beep, beep, beep,
beep, beep, beep, beep.
- [Austin] Well would you like to come and try it?
- [Matt] It took like
a seven hour car ride.
- Did you safely eject the
media, you sick (quack)?
- You're a sexy little Palm Pilot.
- [Ken] Whoa.
- Like tell me this is
not a more fun interface
in anything that, like
this (quacks) Spotify.
Wrote, draw on picture.
I drew another tree.
- [Ken] He doesn't need an S-pen, he has-
- [Adriana] Dude, which one
is it? I can't even tell.
- [Matt] Exactly. You can't even tell.
- [Alex] Well, Mr. Ansini,
you're so enamored with this,
how much would you pay for this?
- $127.
- [Alex] Well, I've got
fantastic news for you then
because we paid $95.
- It's a great deal.
Well, it's another one
for the Overclock Museum.
But, have you gotten about Jensen?
- Yeah. Jensen was this
girl I had a crush on-
- No, no, no.
- In the seventh grade.
- So, this is a,
I believe, still sealed
Nvidia GeForce MX 440.
- [Matt] Best Buy. Let us install it.
This is, this is pre-Geek Squad.
- So, it is not like the
first Nvidia GeForce card,
but it is a very old one.
It does work, however,
with Windows 98 and higher.
- PNY technologies offer a
lifetime replacement warranty.
- [Alex] Wow.
- Ah.
- [Alex] Whose lifetime?
- Alex, can you tell me a little more?
Do you have any idea what the MSRP was?
- [Alex] So, they would retail
anywhere between $100 to $150,
give or take.
- Do you remember when
graphics cards were $100?
Before we crack it open,
Alex, how much did we pay
for our still sealed Nvidia
graphics card from 2002?
- [Alex] We paid $98.
- We paid retail for a-
- 20.
- 25-year-old card.
- Yeah.
Look at this, look at this.
Dude, it's so little. Look
how little this GPU is.
I like how it's got a
straight up purple board.
So, if got yourself VGA, S-Video,
as well as actual just AV out.
- I'm gonna ask the important question.
What are you gonna do
with said graphics card?
- I'm glad you brought that up my friend.
I'm gonna need a little bit of internet.
- You have like all of
Wikipedia in your pocket.
Oh my god, I just-
- [Ken] Yeah.
- Wait, this is also a sealed item
and I just started cutting,
I realized there's no padding on it.
I just cut the sealM.
- [Ken] Oh my god.
- [Alex] Oh my god.
- Look, I was so happy when I found this,
a sealed Modem Blaster, previously sealed.
Now, not sealed anymore 'cause
I just cut the damn plastic.
For those of you who were
born in the last 20 years,
it was the thing went.
(Austin imitates dial-up sound)
I cannot believe it-
- We're taking this away from you.
- Yeah, that's fair. I
can't. Oh, I'm so sorry.
Alex, at least it was cheap, right?
I didn't pay a lot of money
for a sealed modem from 2003?
- [Alex] We paid $34.
- Okay, I feel slightly
better, but not by much.
I cannot believe I accidentally opened,
at least with the graphics
card, I was all careful.
Wait, oh no, wait.
This motherboard doesn't have AGP.
- [Alex] Oh my God.
- [Ken] Wait, what?
- [Matt] After all that?
So, we desecrated-
- [Alex] Two.
- [Matt] Two pieces of of artifacts
because you didn't check.
- Okay. Well, we learned
some things today.
- Nothing-
- [Alex] Did we?
- Nothing to do with Mercari at all,
besides the fact that it's just like eBay
except a little weirder,
like I have almost nothing
to say about the platform
because all the items we got
were pretty much exactly
what we were advertised.
But also, it was a bunch of stuff
that probably was also listed on eBay.
I have erred in my ways today,
but if you subscribe to
the Austin Evans channel
and ring-a-ling that ding-a-ling button,
you too can watch a dingus on
the internet do dumb things.
- I can't believe you made us stay late
to watch you desecrate technology.
- Bro, it's like 9pm
my kids are waiting.
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