We Bought EVERYTHING in this Mom & Pop Computer Store
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Enter FREE for a chance to win a Hennessey Ford Bronco or $75,000 through Sep 30th at ridge.com Use code “LINUS” for 10% off your order and 10 bonus entries! Thanks again to Ridge for sponsoring this video and helping us bring this to life! You can win some amazing prizes like a Hennessey Ford Bronco or $75,000 in cash. No purchase is necessary and you can enter for free on our website, by just entering your email or sms. You can also get an entry with every dollar spent, or get up to 1000 entries on dollars spent on custom Hennessey Performance products. Use our link or code LINUS for 10 bonus entries! Ever walk into a small computer shop and think “who is buying all these old products?” Well we did, and that weighed on us. Sleepless nights turned into exhausting days of wondering “just what is in that small computer shop?” It became such a problem that we found ourselves with no other option than to walk in, close the door behind us, and tell the owner “we’ll take everything you’ve got”. That’s what we did. We were forced to, if you really think about it. Just what are we going to get? Will there be RTX 4090s, or old Voodoos? 13th gen i9s or Socket 1 486s? Thunderbolt 4 cables or serial port connectors? Discuss on the forum: linustechtips.com Purchases made through some store links may provide some compensation to Linus Media Group. ► GET MERCH: lttstore.com ► GET EXCLUSIVE CONTENT ON FLOATPLANE: lmg.gg ► SPONSORS, AFFILIATES, AND PARTNERS: lmg.gg ► EQUIPMENT WE USE TO FILM LTT: lmg.gg ► OUR WAN PODCAST GEAR: lmg.gg FOLLOW US --------------------------------------------------- Twitter: twitter.com Facebook: @LinusTech Instagram: @linustech TikTok: @linustech Twitch: twitch.tv MUSIC CREDIT --------------------------------------------------- Intro: Laszlo - Supernova Video Link: youtube.com iTunes Download Link: itunes.apple.com Artist Link: soundcloud.com Outro: Approaching Nirvana - Sugar High Video Link: youtube.com Listen on Spotify: spoti.fi Artist Link: youtube.com Intro animation by MBarek Abdelwassaa @mbarek_abdel Monitor And Keyboard by vadimmihalkevich / CC BY 4.0 geni.us Mechanical RGB Keyboard by BigBrotherECE / CC BY 4.0 geni.us Mouse Gamer free Model By Oscar Creativo / CC BY 4.0 geni.us CHAPTERS --------------------------------------------------- 0:00 Intro 0:49 Thanks Ridge! 1:21 First Batch 4:52 Clearance Shelf 6:33 Third Batch 7:34 Fourth Batch 9:25 GPU Bunch 12:00 Batch Number 6 13:22 BUZZ LIGHTYEAR 13:54 Batches 7 and 8 16:51 Cable Wall 20:38 Another Wall 22:17 Laptops 23:27 The Really Old Stuff 25:44 Random Garbage? 29:53 Ridge x Hennessey 30:22 Last Case 33:05 GRAND TOTAL 33:50 Outro
We enter a small mom and pop computer store with a sense of curiosity about why shelves are cluttered with decades-old inventory. The Linus Tech Tips crew directly confronts the shop owner and proposes a bold move: they will buy everything in the storefront. The opening segments mix humor with genuine interest as they survey old USB switches, printers, and legacy hardware, setting up the premise that the store is packed with relics alongside a few solid, useful items. The video then unfolds through a series of batches and wall segments, each time negotiating price and testing the waters of what has value today versus what is nostalgic junk. Throughout these early exchanges, the tone oscillates between playful gambits and pragmatic assessments of condition, age, and potential resale value. The team acknowledges Ridge sponsorship and the sweepstakes plug, but the core action remains the hunt for bargains and the unpredictable outcomes of their bargaining games. By the end of this first act, the buyers have laid out a strategy and a running tally, while the owner experiences the tension between helping a local business and taking an unavoidable financial hit. This sets up the central tension of the video: can a storefront full of dead stock be transformed into a coherent, rentable inventory through sheer negotiation and a bit of luck?
Topics · technology · retail · hardware · negotiation · sponsorship
Questions answered
- What is Linus attempting to buy from the tiny computer store?
- Linus and his team decide to purchase everything left in the storefront, testing the value of old stock against modern demand.
- How do they decide prices for bundles of items?
- They use a mix of fixed offers and games of chance, such as dice rolls and marble bets, to determine discounts on bundles.
- Who sponsors the video and what is the prize involved?
- Ridge sponsors the video and a giveaway is promoted offering a Hennessey Ford Bronco or $75,000 in cash.
- What is the tone of the negotiation scenes?
- Playful and competitive, with humorous bets and strategic discounters, balanced by genuine effort to strike fair deals.