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Man buys $4595 of returned Apple products to resell for profit and the results are jarring
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Published 16:21 7 Dec 2024 GMT

Man buys $4595 of returned Apple products to resell for profit and the results are jarring

The YouTuber splashed nearly $5,000 on refunded Apple products which he claims were worth double that

Poppy Bilderbeck

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Topics: Apple, Money, Technology, YouTube

Poppy Bilderbeck
Poppy Bilderbeck

Poppy Bilderbeck is a freelance journalist with words in Daily Express, Cosmopolitan UK, LADbible, UNILAD and Tyla. She is a former Senior Journalist at LADbible Group. She graduated from The University of Manchester in 2021 with a First in English Literature and Drama, where alongside her studies she was Editor-in-Chief of The Tab Manchester. Poppy is most comfortable when chatting about all things mental health, is proving a drama degree is far from useless by watching and reviewing as many TV shows and films as possible.

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A YouTuber who bought nearly $5,000 returned Apple products and then tried to flog them for more has shared the results online.

With some tech fanatics trying to stay up to date with all the latest gifts and gadgets, some products end up getting returned and YouTuber Harrison Nevel decided to try and take advantage of this.

Nevel took to YouTube last year to reveal that he'd sourced various Apple products that had been returned, splashing $4,595 on products he claimed to be worth nearly $10,000.

Harrison Nevel was hoping to make a profit (YouTube/@HarrisonNevel)
Harrison Nevel was hoping to make a profit (YouTube/@HarrisonNevel)

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Taking a quick peek of them out of the boxes, YouTuber decided to take them all to a pawn shop in an attempt to sell them and make a profit, seeing 'how much money we potentially made or lost'.

The YouTuber discovered that many iPads were in the boxes of different generations.

"We have five of them that are worth $600 new, now I would be happy if we could maybe pull half of that, maybe a little less than half out of that, so we're talking maybe $200 to $300 a piece because we can get $200 of each of these - that's $11,000 right there," he explained in the video.

With all that tech in hand, Nevel was feeling confident he'd been able to make a sizeable profit.

Zero profit was made (YouTube/@HarrisonNevel)
Zero profit was made (YouTube/@HarrisonNevel)

As the Apple products are not in a great working order, Nevel began by disappointingly only getting $80 for two of them at a pawn shop.

Another iPad was locked, so the shop refused to buy it altogether unless it could be unlocked.

Meanwhile, Nevel also attempted to use an automatic device seller to shift the iPad.

The result? $35; the YouTuber decided to decline.

In the end, Nevel made $3,750 from the unwanted Apple products, but that is, of course, far less than what it paid for it - a whopping $845 less to be precise.

"We're probably in a little bit of a negative but that's why nobody bought the box off of that website and why we're here to take the risks," Nevel concluded in the video.

Many viewers have flocked to the comments section, with the vast majority surprised at the money Nevel made.

"$80 for an iPad?! That's an insane low ball offer I would have refused," one person commented, while a second added: "Dang wasn’t expecting that much in the red."

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