Austin Evans

Tech creator Austin Evans bought a range of outdated, discontinued gadgets through the refurbished marketplace Back Market and tested how they hold up today. The video, drawing over 847,000 likes, shows what older devices like old phones and consoles are still worth, and how well refurbished sellers handle rare, obsolete products.

Tech YouTuber Austin Evans has released a video in which he buys gadgets that failed to find an audience, testing and reviewing products with poor sales or abandoned by the market. The video is drawing large engagement, with viewers responding to his take on the flop hardware and discussing which forgotten devices deserved a better fate.

Tech reviewer Austin Evans has bought a batch of cosmetically damaged MacBook laptops from Back Market, the refurbished electronics marketplace, to test what condition the company's lowest grades actually deliver. The stunt is drawing big attention as viewers weigh whether cosmetic flaws on refurbished Apple laptops are worth the discount, and what that says about the second-hand tech market.