Something's Fishy About This PC Company...

a few weeks ago in our Discord server totally free to join by the way linked below I received a message from CKY reading hello Greg I thought this PC selling website would be an interesting idea for a video it claims to sell quote trading computers which are really just overpriced custombuilt PCS I recommend watching the introduction video on the site as it is pure irony let's kick things off with uh that intro video then hi everybody this is Eddie Z from Easy trading computers I've been trading the financial markets electronic for over 15 years and during that time I've come to learn what technology works the best and what doesn't if you found this site it's probably because you're shopping for a trading computer well let me warn you there are companies out there charging an arm and a leg for computer technology and taking advantage of your lack of knowledge to help you I've created a video series and a 19-page buyer's guide on how to buy a trading computer the free guide in videos will teach you exactly what you need to know about buying an awesome system without getting ripped off you know you don't need an entire book on trading computers it's pretty straightforward and we'll talk about that a bit later but while I don't necessarily appreciate the bait and switch of don't get ripped off so give me your email and I'll send you a book that tells you how not to get ripped off I think the bigger issue is the fact that once you do enter your email you're inundated with Pages upon pages of email Whit list instructions because apparently Google and others send his messages straight to spam I mean just look at this Whit list instructions for tons of platforms front and center on his site it just seems a bit odd this is just Overkill it it almost looks creepy and in case you're wondering I did receive his email it never went to spam but I never received a free book either another huge mistake I see guys make is not doing enough Research into finding out what kind of Technology they need and instead of going the Best Buy they wind up at some super slick website buying a trading computer for thousands of dollars more more than they need to believe it or not there are companies out there that are selling trading computers and taking advantage of your lack of knowledge this is just the tip of the iceberg I plan to go much deeper and I hope you'll stay with me if you're planning your next PC build then consider checking out our sponsor VIP SCD key their Windows 10 and 11 OEM Keys sell for a fraction of retail and will unlock the full potential of your OS it also remove those pesky activation watermarks click the links below to get started today and be sure to use our special offer code skgs for a sweet discount on a variety of options including Windows 10 and 11 Pro and home and more freebooks aside the meat of this video is his computer selling business and while I will certainly be critical I want to make it clear that my goal is not to take random dunks on random small businesses just for the sake of it I run small businesses I get it but at the end of the day my priority is the general consumer because I'm one myself so if I smell BS I'm going to call it out and you're more than welcome to do the same with me and mine we're all fair games here i' try to avoid putting myself or my company in situations like this but that doesn't stop some folks if you haven't already heard at least 80% of being a successful Trader is your psychology your state of mind if you get pissed off at your computer or a bad execution you're going to trigger your fight ORF flight response and I promise you're going to make bad decisions and fatal trading mistakes we'll begin with the homepage we find a large video that's the one we played at the beginning of this one some tabs up top a logo some information on stocks and options and some basic appeals to Traders remember again this is a trading PC website so for folks that like to dabble on the stock market stock and options Traders require powerful processing to handle literally dozens of symbols option chains and charts and a multitude of time frames and stating you'll have all the power you need with his machines now to be clear you could trade on pretty much anything with an internet connection nowadays yes including your cell phone and that's actually a popular way to do it now there's a sort of intermediary a middle between you and a trade it's usually an exchange or a brokerage and your own network connection plays a huge role in that by the time a stock price pops up on your screen it could be long gone because the numbers that are being filtered through so many outlets beforehand end up taking time before they reach your screen it could never pop up in the first place for the same reason there could be a stock price that pops up for a few milliseconds and it's completely gone before you ever have the chance to see what's happening because you're just not getting the data quickly enough it's why many wealthy firms purchase Direct Market access or dma to the New York Stock Exchange and others to limit trading latency and maximize efficiency this is not a financial Channel but it's important you understand the basics here because it's to what the owner of easy trading computers is appealing his logic is that if your PC is fast enough you'll be able to run special programs with custom indicators for precise trading and while that may be true it isn't the entire story there are still underlying limitations that even a lightning fast PC on a local ISP will never circumvent and again I have a feeling the owner already knows this speaking of who is the owner he has a huge about us page it's huge as an understatement actually there several several paragraphs and it's just a synopsis of his professional career for the most part on Wall Street his legal name is Russ hazelcorn not eddiez and he discloses this further down the page his mailing address is in Davy Florida which is just North of Miami but his company isn't registered as easy trading computers or easy breakouts which he States further down as well with the state of Florida something that only became apparent once I received his news letter by email whether or not intentional we can see that this company has in fact been in business for over a decade but it was filed with the state as a foreign corporation out of Nevada the officer's name appears to be either an alias or a partner someone by the name of I manella listed as the president and hazelcorn in case you're wondering is listed as the CEO first impressions of the site are a it's pretty cluttered and B it's not a PC selling site the homepage tells me nothing about what's actually being sold in fact nearly half half of it is an attempt to either sell itself as a legitimate business or one of its books not really a great start in my opinion my suggestion would be to rework this to direct users to your actual products you know the stuff that actually makes you money speaking of we can get there by clicking the desktops tab up top then clicking desktop trading computers right away we can see that he's offering a 5-year warranty lifetime tax support free shipping full customization and no credit financing I'm not really sure how this is a thing but we're just going to roll with it the top PC is called bulletproof easy trading computer and it supports an Intel Core i 5 13400 16 gigs of RAM a 250 gig nvme and windows 11 all for the price of $1,500 so there you have it he's selling a Windows 11 PC and well there's an issue with this you probably already noticed but for all intents and purposes it's it's like any other Windows PC out there there's nothing special about it there's nothing that necessarily makes it a trading computer and you shouldn't be expected to pay a huge premium just for that title 16 gigs is questionable for a bulletproof trading PC and a 250 gig SSD is kind of laughable in this budget he seemingly substituted the graphics card section for again a description of monitor support but this obviously doesn't answer our question and quick side note in case you're wondering he does sell monitor packages with included stands which is kind of cool I mean the premise of it is cool but without knowing which models we're talking about my faith and value is a bit lacking and these at least in their photos don't look to be all that expensive but the elephant in the room here is neglecting to mention the graphic card please don't tell me we're expected to run on integrated Graphics I don't see how it's possible he's got to be including some form of discret Graphics again at least in these higher-end models because some of the processors don't have integrated graphics on their own the super Trader has a core i5 14600 KF the Viper x14 this is a core i7 14700 F even the core I9 variant is an F skew which means that they don't have integrated Graphics which means you have to have a discrete card inserted so something's got to be there perhap some of his clients and his testimonials don't care what they're getting but anyone who values hard-earned money should and these these are questions that should be answered by the site itself I shouldn't have to call in to find this out thank you for calling easy trading computers we may record this call to ensure that we provide you with the best possible [Music] service easy trading come I help you hey I just had a question about the bulletproof easy trading computer I don't see a graphics card listed I wanted to know what what card I would get in that rig if I purchased it how many modor support do you require uh just four will be fine um that particular machine has an integrated graphics card um that one has the Intel HD I want to say it's 650 if I'm not mistaken but it's built in to the to the motherboard oh okay um so I'm just curious then so if I got the six monitor or the eight monitor support you know what cards I would get in either of those yeah we would use Nvidia Quadro series quad okay do you know what specific Quadro cards because I know there's a lot of different different ones I think it's a special edition version SE if I'm not mistaken okay but not like the you don't have like the model number like which which one I I do not this last PC is pretty funny by the way the Dominator X7 costs over $3,000 and still only ships with 16 gigs of RAM and a 500 gig in vme unless there's an RTX 490 in here which I highly highly doubt things are getting pretty ridiculous if they weren't already I would never recommend anyone spend this kind of money without knowing specifics heck we don't even know what kind of cooler each of these CPUs is being paired with and for all we know with this one liquid cooling could be something stupid like a 120 mil a just you know massive underkill for a CPU of this caliber they sell trading laptops as well by the way which are likely just rebranded oems thankfully they're concrete with the discrete graphics in these I don't think they really have much of a choice here I'm actually much happier with the way these are disclosed overall something that he should definitely emulate on the desktop side having to you know call to find out vital specs it's just it's not a good look on the subject of prices however these laptops uh they uh they seem by and large to be significantly overpriced their Odyssey X7 for example houses an AMD ryzen 979 45x 16 gigs of RAM 500 gig mvme and an RTX 460 and a 17in 1440p 1440p I almost I almost nailed it footprint for $3,300 compare that to a random Lenovo Elion Pro I found online with the same processor double the ram quadruple the storage and an RTX 480 all for the price of $2,300 $11,000 less for a product that is significantly better I would say probably twice as good look Traders may not care much for the graphics card and the systems with which they trade but why on Earth would you spend this much more Sheely out of principle you should stay far away from this machine I'm glad that they're more forthcoming with what's actually in here but the price is offensive really trading is a profession and a skill you wouldn't see surgeons buying their instruments at Walgreens or a professional tennis player buying his tennis racket at Walmart this part this part's hilarious because I'd be willing to bet that he sources a majority of his desktop components from Amazon look not defending Walmart here but the prices you pay for certain things aren't always indicative of quality Case in point his own machines if you find a great deal on a great component from a great company with a great warranty and you're already in the market buy it if you've got the disposable income buy it the idea you'd have to go through someone like him to receive quality products is just a farce in my opinion seems like he's trying to brainwash folks maybe old folks trading on their 401ks I don't know who know very little about the industry and thinking companies like his are the second coming of Jesus in reality my impression of easy trading computers is that they're manipulative again it's just my opinion but I I I can't in good faith recommend a company that's not willing to be forthcoming about what they're actually selling and the pric is he's lacking so much specificity relevant stuff it's just completely omitted paragraphs upon paragraphs exist of what I believe to be senseless fluff in its place and videos like this one just give off straight Kool-Aid Vibes and know not the good kind I I do sincerely hope that should Russ see this video he internalizes the feedback and uh makes changes to better suit his own business and his customers I don't have any ill will toward him personally although I do think that some of the things he's done with this business so far are very very questionable like this is coming from somebody who's been doing YouTube for a while with a very very critical YouTube audience it's just part of doing what we do it's uh it comes with the territory and I have become a little more hardened from it for sure um but uh it's also humbled me it's made me appreciate the things that I know I do well and uh kind of forced me to improve the things that I maybe didn't do so well in the beginning uh so take this as a learning experience Russ if you if you can if you're watching this um there's there are things that I think we could do to very quickly Turn Around The Impressions a lot of it again has to do with the site the way that things are um just thrown at you up front um maybe changing some of the wording scrapping some of the the the really questionable videos my friend they're not great um so yeah and and of course I'm here too if you want to reach out to me I'm not a guru know at all I don't claim to be I just think it would be a a nice uh you know change of pace to alter some of the things that you have on there to appeal to an audience that's perhaps a little more PC savvy so that you don't give off such a foul impression the only clients I really see you having are those who either know very little about computers or very little about trading or maybe both and maybe maybe that's by Design but after first clicking on your link in our Discord server I could not help but call it out it just uh smells a little too fishy but with again a few hours of work I have no doubt you can turn it all around only time will tell if you decide to thanks again for watching everyone and thanks for learning with me

Channel: Greg Salazar

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Length: 13min 56sec (836 seconds)

Published: Fri Jun 28 2024