Austin Evans's retro-store test delivers a shattered Sega console

His Retro vGames orders raise questions about third-party shipping, condition checks and who handles a return.

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I Found a Store WORSE Than DKOldies

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0:00Evans identifies conflicting warranty and return periods while examining the store's prices.
2:40Most delivered parcels come directly from separate eBay sellers rather than Retro vGames.
6:36The Sega Master System arrives with its plastic shell shattered inside the wrapping.
7:41The Wii works with another disc, but the supplied Super Smash Bros. Brawl disc is cracked.
17:26The missing Minecraft arrives; returning the Sega involves a label addressed to the original eBay seller.
20:20Evans shows his request for comment about shipping and pricing, saying Retro vGames had not responded.

What does paying a retro-game retailer's markup actually get you? Austin Evans follows his purchases from checkout to testing, then through a difficult return, finding a gap between Retro vGames' promises and what arrives at his door.

In "I Found a Store WORSE Than DKOldies", Evans discovers that most of the parcels came directly from separate eBay sellers rather than Retro vGames. He also finds conflicting warranty information on the website and in the paperwork accompanying his order.

The most striking delivery is a Sega Master System with its plastic shell shattered inside the wrapping. Evans pieces the casing together and, remarkably, gets it running Space Harrier. That makes for an entertaining test, but hardly the condition a buyer would expect from a checked-over console.

Other purchases bring less spectacular problems. The Wii works with another game, but its supplied Super Smash Bros. Brawl disc is visibly cracked and unusable. The original Xbox needs its stuck disc tray coaxed open. A New Nintendo 3DS arrives with scuffs, a loose hinge and a missing Minecraft cartridge. Here, "New" is part of Nintendo's model name, not a description of its condition.

The review's central question goes beyond whether old hardware still switches on: what service is the retailer adding? Evans argues that the prices are difficult to justify when orders arrive from other sellers and some items have obvious faults.

An update filmed three weeks later supplies the practical aftermath. Minecraft has arrived, but Alex explains that the return label for the broken Sega console sends it straight to the original eBay seller. Evans also shows his request to Retro vGames for comment about its shipping and pricing practices, saying the company had not responded.

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The Sega master system was shipped with absolutely no packing material underneath it but tons of air packets above it. Useless.
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TronicsFix will have a field day buying from them and trying to fix the electronics 😂
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