Are you wasting your money on scammy TikTok products? – Let’s talk about that. (laid back theme music) Good Mythical Morning! – When scrolling through TikTok, you probably come across a product video or two. – Mm-hmm. – But if you really start to pay attention, you might notice something nefarious at play. – Are you twirling a- – Imaginary nefarious mustache, yes. – Yeah, that’s what it looks like. – I mean, at least that’s what I’ve been told. I’m kinda new to all this. – Well, yes, a whole bunch of these sellers seem to have companies and elaborate backstories about how they develop their products. The problem is, is that many of those same products can also be found and purchased in bulk for very, very low prices on the Chinese e-commerce website, Alibaba, you might’ve heard of it, which means that these people are doing something a little bit shady. – Hmm. So are they lying? – They’re stretching the truth. – They’re just marketing real hard. – Real, real hard. – They’re marketing the gray areas of the internet. – In ethically unquestionable ways. – So we wanted to explore this, and what better way to do that than via a beloved and classic GMM format? – Hmm. – It’s time for (upbeat music) “The Price Is Wrong: Alibaba Resellers Exposed”! – Our first and only guest has the power to single-handedly start World War III just by showing the internet how he eats a sandwich. It’s Link Neal! (crew cheers) – It feels good to be back on the show. – Yes. And reprising her starring role as the person who shows us the answers, it’s Stevie! (crew cheers) – [Link] Whoa! – Oh, look, she’s punching the air! Whoa, whoa! – Watch out. Watch out, clouds. – Ha, she was- – Whoo, she’s, whoa, she’s punching the air- – [Link] Came outta nowhere! – So hard! – What? – It is totally necessary that I am here. I just wanna let you know. – Yep, right. We never get to see you, Stevie. You’re always back there. – Yeah, it’s nice back there. It’s dark, kinda cool. – I think you were here. Before, you were really much just the voice. – Is that true? – This might precede the voice. – Oh, okay. – This format. This is what got you started, Stevie. – You can talk as much as you want, by the way. – Great. – I mean, just because you’re back here- – [Stevie] I’ll enjoy that. – [Rhett] We still wanna hear your voice. – Do you wanna push a button to know when you’re gonna talk? – Yeah. (Link laughs) – [Rhett and Link] Okay. – Link, this is how this is gonna work. – No! – You need to pay attention to this- – See? She’s there. – Because I know you have the simplest responsibility of all of us. – Yeah. – But things are hard for you, so- – I’m the only one playing. – Okay, so what I’m gonna do is I’m gonna show you a TikTok where this person is basically trying to sell this product, but also kinda trying to make it seem like they came up with a product, they developed the product. But as we already told you- – Mm-hmm, mm-hmm, marketing, lying. – These things are valuable in bulk on Alibaba. So you’re gonna watch the TikTok. You’re gonna be handed the product. You can interact with the product. – Oh, cool. – I’m gonna tell you how much it is sold for on this person’s website, this company’s website. – Mm-hmm. – And then- – I’ma see if I can remember that. (crew laughs) – And, nope, that’s not what’s gonna happen. You’re gonna guess how much is this sold for in bulk on Alibaba. All you have to do, Link, is choose between two numbers. You have a 50% chance of being right or wrong every single round. If you get- – Use your mic. (crew laughs) – Its this thing on? No, it’s a stick. (chuckles) – A paint stick. – If you get four rounds correct, you win a prize. You ready? – Yes. – Hologram ballers, rejoice! Our first TikTok comes from a company called Bright Sport that claims to have originally designed this holographic basketball. They also make holographic footballs and soccer balls. Let’s show the ball. – [Narrator] Everyone is talking about this magical ball, and this is why. Bright Sport created a revolutionary and reflective ball which will impress all your friends, family, and followers. I bought it for my son, and I’ve never seen him as happy. Check it out now at brightsport.com. – Okay. – Wow. I wonder if when the son gets happy, he seems happier than the mom. – Yeah. (laughs) – Seems when she’s really excited about something- – And it says Bright on it, and said Bright Sport created. But you’re telling me that Bright Sport didn’t create it? – No, and why is that one just black? I guess you gotta be outside in the sun. – Well, maybe there’s a- – [Rhett and Link] Oh! – What’s happening? – It’s still not that impressive. – [Link] It’s just a blue basketball. – I think maybe if the real sunlight hit it, you’d be so happy like a little kid. Okay, Link. – [Link] So nothing’s hap, I mean- – [Stevie] Move it? – Move it around, David Hill says. Oh, yeah. Look, first of all- – Wow. What moves. (crew laughs) – First of all, your athletic prowess always shines through kind of effortlessly. You know what I’m saying? Some people just can’t help but look coordinated. – Shut up. Shut up. – Okay, Link, this thing sells at Bright Sport for $41.25. Does that feel like a $41 basketball? – No. – But if you wanna get this thing on Alibaba, you can get them in bulk, and that is from five pieces to 49 pieces for either $7.50 or $12.30. You make the choice. – I forgot to do it, I’m sorry. Sorry, guys, it was my bad. – Sorry< $7.50- – Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. – Or $12.30. – Yeah, yeah. – They’re selling them for $41- – [Link] Good gosh. – And 25 cents. – I’m gonna go all the way for the steal at $7.50. – Let’s see. – That’s quite a markup. Yes! – Look at that! Link, that is right. They sell these things- – And that’s only to buy five. – Yeah, if you buy a thousand of ’em- – And then you sell ’em for- – You get ’em for 5.50! – $41 a piece. – Hey, let’s go in together to buy a thousand! – You’re talking about margins. Of course, it, I mean, it doesn’t work. – Yeah, well, we’ll sell something else. All right, Link. You did so great on that. – Why does it not work? – All right, our next product is the perfect fashion accessory for anyone whose fashion taste is bad, and with an interesting story to boot. Let’s check it out. – I worked for Trugala. They’re this online jewelry brand. And I worked there for about three years. – [Link] Okay. – I was on a call with some executives of the company. I had my camera off. I was just laying in bed with my dog. I had another tab open, and somehow, my camera turned back on. – [Link] Okay. – And my boss goes, “Hey, Liv, who’s our furry little friend?” So we finished the call and my boss asks me to stay on for a few more minutes. He then proceeds to fire me on the spot. So speaking of unprofessionalism, I’m gonna get some revenge. I had this 100% off discount code that I would use to order new sample products, and it still seems to be working. The code is LIV100, and it literally gives you 100% off of any of the jewelry that you want. I will link the store here, so go crazy, y’all. I did not deserve this. – Can you believe that, Link? – Let me get this straight. – Yes. – All of that’s a lie? – Yeah, someone got a 100% off discount from integrity. (laughs) (crew laughs) Yeah, that’s right, Link. This is a scam. This is a scam on a scam on a scam. – I’m confused. – Okay. This is what happens. – You get 100% off though. – Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, no, you don’t. (crew laughs) Here’s what happens. You go to the website. – I’m not a sucker. – You get the 100% off discount, and then you have to pay sh-sh-sh-sh-shipping. – Shipping. – And the shipping more than covers the cost of whatever it is that you’re selling. This is actually done quite a bit with these types of products. – Trump that shipping. – So you might have to go pay, like, in fact, for- – And she gets the money, that lying girl? – No, no, she got fired! That part’s true. – With her dog in her bed. – No, so basically, there’s one product in particular on this website that we wanna bring your attention to. It is this ring. You have it right there. This is the fashion black tungsten wedding Celtic dragon rings for men, inlaid green, zircon, punk men, stainless steel, green carbon fiber ring. – Okay. Why does it say Celtic dragon as part of it? – Does it feel Celtic? – Uh-uh. (crew laughs) – So you go to the website, you put in the discount code, you get 100% off. So you get this ring for free, but then you pay $12.47 in shipping. – That’s reasonable. – Okay? But what do you think- – For a free ring. – What do you think they’re paying on Alibaba for this ring if you buy between 50- – They meaning her? – She’s just a prop, bro! – So she’s an actress? – Yeah, man. – Oh. – And a great one though. – But she can also be a lying entrepreneur. – Yeah, well, she’s in, she’s making money, of course, in this. – Okay, all right. – So if you buy between 50 and 199 of these on Alibaba, what do you pay to then turn around and sell them for $12.47 in shipping? Is it $0.99 or $1.99? That’s the two choices here, Link. – I mean, this is dumb. I like how one of the words in the description is punk men. – Oh, yeah, that’s where I took special note. – That’s what they’re trying to do is punk men with this thing. – (chuckles) Many men have been punked. – 99 or $1.99? I gotta go for the $0.99. Yes! – Link, you are on a roll, friend! You get to keep the ring! – $0.99. I mean, this is something that would be in one of those little things that you’re going out to the grocery store and you put in the quarter. – Yeah, but we could make a lot more money than that. – Yes, we could. – Are you sick of traditional blenders? You wish there was a way you could blend that required more effort and yielded worse results? – Yes. – Well, I’ve got a product for you. Let’s check it out. (upbeat music) Uh-huh. Look at that. – [Link] Oh, yes. – [Rhett] You thought it was a bottle. – [Link] I’m interested. – [Rhett] But it’s a blender! – [Link] But it is a bottle. – [Rhett] And a blender! – [Link] And a blender. – But why drink it out of the blender when you can pour it into a glass that’s sitting in milk. – Right. – Why not? I don’t care. – He spills, why do you spill milk on the counter in the video to promote the product? That’s just- – Because you want comments. – Relatable. – Yeah, you wanna get comments. Everybody spills milk. – #Relatable or just relatable? – Not #Relatable. – Okay, yeah, yeah. – You don’t wanna be obvious about it. – Hey, Link. – Yeah, I got this thing right here. Yes. – Look at that. Blend it up. – Oh, there goes the charger. – I don’t think we need the charger. It’s fully charged. – It says DeFyned with a Y. And is that a lie? – This one’s not necessarily a lie. – So what do I, I just hit the button? – [Rhett] Hit it twice, twice. Are you hitting it twice? – Yes! – Hit it a little bit- – [Link] Are you- – Hit it slower. – You hit it twice! – Yeah, you just like, one, two. Here, let Stevie try it. Hit it twice. – If it works for you, I’m gonna be so mad. – Well, she went real fast. – I went fast? – It seems like you went bu-du-du. – No, no, no, see? He doesn’t know what you’re doing. – Do it faster. – Dang it! – Yeah, it’s not working. – Let me try again. Let me try again. You see this right here? – No, that’s not gonna work. There’s two whole bananas in there. (crew laughs) I mean, you can try to shake it. – What if I hold it down? – Maybe you hold it down. Knock on it. – It doesn’t work! – Blow into it. Okay, well, I think you get the idea. It’s a blender that doesn’t really work. However, this thing sells as the Blendify bottle for $34.99. Do you hear what I’m saying? (crew laughs) – Thirty flive, $35. – Thirty flive dollars, that’s right. – See? That is the game. I remember what you say. – $34.99. But you can get 100 of these, and boy, think about what you could do with 100 of these. – $5 or $11. – $5 or $11. – Okay. – What you want, man? – Versus $35? – Which one? I mean, you got all of ’em right so far. – I’ve gotten ’em all right by going with the lowest unbelievable number. – [Rhett] Why change the strategy now? – This thing is so crappy, but there’s a number of components to it. I have to say $11 for this one. – Let’s see! (buzzer blares) Ouch! – Ugh, $5. – Ouch! – This is some crap, man. – $5 for basically a bottle with a- – Oh! – Oh! (crew laughs) – What did you do? – I pushed it twice. (Rhett laughs) – Oh, man, you’re making banana milk! – Yes, yes, yes, I am! Yes, I am! It’s working! – Can we try it? – Oh, man, it’s worth, this is worth $35 now. – [Rhett and Link] Ah. (group laughs) – Can I have some? Pour a little, oh. – Pour a little in this mug. – What is that mug you’re pouring in there? – This is the, this is our old mug. – It’s the old mug. (crew laughs) – Yeah. – Why’d you got the old mug? – Because we’re almost out of these. But if you wanna buy one, now’s the time to buy one. If you buy ’em together, you get a discount. – Hey, listen, I got a little story to tell. I was on a phone call, I was on a video call with my boss at Mythical. And I was in bed, and I had my dogs, and- – You talking about me? – Yeah. And like, I thought it was cool, but then like, when the call was over, my boss was like, “You’re fired for being unprofessional.” And I was like, well, I’m gonna show you. I’m gonna sell the old mug- (chuckles) – Oh, thank you. – At mythical.com. And you know what? If you go there and you buy both of ’em, you get a discount. (crew laughs) So go there and show ’em who’s boss! – I’m the boss. – Banana milk not included. How is that banana milk? Is it worth it? – So go to mythical.com. – It’s fine. – Is it worth it? – It’s banana- – I mean- – It’s banana milk. It’s actually not a bad thing. I wouldn’t call it a smoothie. – I’d give that to a baby. – I don’t think it’s too strong. But does it continue to work? (blender whirs) – Oh, look at that. So still- – Stick your tongue down there. – Oh, gosh! (group laughs) Boy, that would have been amazing. – It’s kinda scary to put your tongue in there. – Yeah, yeah, I’m not- (Link screams) Okay, stop. What if they like, I feel like something could go wrong, man. God. All right. Well, Link, you didn’t get that one right. – Five freaking dollars. – But we had a lot of fun with it. Cheap rubber toy lovers will be bouncing with joy when they see our next item. Here’s a TikTok from a company called Bounce Pop. – [Narrator] The legendary Bounce Pop brings satisfaction to your habits to fidget. Bounce Pop bounces from the same height from where you drop it from. It defies all laws of physics and is now available to all of you, so get bouncing. – Why is it so like imperative? – I know. It’s very intense. – Dude, you’re like forcing me to get this thing? What do you know about my habit to fidget? You don’t know anything about it. – This is it, huh? – [Rhett] Yeah, and Link- – It says pop here, and it says pop there. – Here’s the thing. It actually doesn’t defy all laws of physics, just a couple. So if you, yeah, you set it like that and then you drop it. No, upside down. (crew laughs) So like, do it again, and drop it like- – Like this. – Yes, like that. – [Rhett and Link] Whoa! – Physics be damned! – It’s gone. It’s totally gone. It freaking disappeared. – We’ve got more. – All right, here we go. It’s back. – Do it again. – I’ma do it- – Throw it on the ground. – I saw that people were doing it like this way. – Whoa! – Oh! (laughs) – Oh. Is that fun? Don’t do it forcefully. – Don’t be so jittery about it. – Because let the physics be defied by just dropping it. (Rhett laughs) – Give me that. – Okay, Link- – [Link] That was meant for Stevie. – All right. – Stevie, catch it. – Wow. – Oh, wow, that was so fun, and physics were defied. – I love it. – You know what? You can have it. – Thanks. – Because I paid $0.30 for this. – Here’s the thing. – Now how much did I pay for it? – This is kind of crazy. There’s a couple of things, hold on to your hats, everybody because I’m about to blow your mind. Link, listen. This is important. This is just like that last product or the one before the blender, the ring, it costs $0. But here’s what they do. They say today only, we have marked this down from 18.99 to $0. But they, today is every day. – It’s so fun. – Okay, can I hold this? – Yeah, yeah. – Okay, I’m gonna keep this from you guys so you can listen. I’m trying to help you. (crew laughs) What did I just say? – This is how you feel all the time? – Um- – Okay, okay. What did I just say? If you can’t tell me what you just said, you automatically get this one wrong no matter what happens. – (laughs) Like I’m gonna- – No matter what happens, if you cannot tell me what I just said, like just the gist of it- – No, no, she was part of the problem. – You get a zero on this! – You were in on, you were with me on this. – Yeah. – Tell me what I just said! – [Link] I want you to say- – Tell me what I just said! – You see? Do you, are you relating to him right now? Because- – Well, I know what he said is the thing. – Okay, what did I say? – Oh! – Stevie can give you half of it. Give him 50% of what I said. – It’s kinda like the one where the girl that had dogs- – Mm-hmm. – And got fired and sold it- – It’s kinda like it. – For $0. – But what? What do they do that’s different? – But they, they did, there was no dog involved. No puppy. – [Stevie] True, technically. – They say that it is free only today. – Where is it? – I’m not gonna tell you. What did I just say? – Is it free today? – No, I didn’t ask a question. (crew laughs) I told you that it was free only today. That’s what they say. And what do you think they do with that information? What do they do? They say it’s free today only, but what do you think really happens? – It’s also free tomorrow. – Yes! It’s free all the time. – Yep. – Down from 18.99 to zero. And then, of course, you pay shipping. You pay 9.95 for shipping. But there’s more, ’cause you can customize this thing with anything that you want, any logo that you want. – Where is it? – It’s in my crotch. (crew laughs) This one is the default one that says pop on it. They called their company, this is my theory. They call their company Bounce Pop because they were like, “Let’s just go with the default and let’s just name our company after the default logo on Alibaba.” What’d I just say? (group laughs) You’re a horrible listener, man. Ha-ha! What did I just say? What do they call their company? – Pop. Bounce Pop. (Rhett and Link laugh) I got it. – Okay. – I got it now. – Okay, so you can get between 100 and, 100 and 999 of these for a certain price and then sell ’em for 9.95. – Yeah, yeah, yeah. – And a bunch of idiots will buy them online. – $0.30. – Is it $0.30? Wrong! (buzzer blares) That’s what you get for not listening! Yeah, Link, it’s $0.77. But you know what? I’m gonna give you one more chance to redeem yourself if you swallow that thing whole. (group laughs) You must swallow it, and we you never see it again. Or you can stick it in any orifice, but you cannot play with it anymore. – I’m gonna put it in my vagina as a, (group laughs) as a form of birth control. Isn’t that what this really is? – Yeah, it is a little bit, no, it’s not birth control. It’s more like one of those fancy tampons if you really wanna know. – Diva Cup. – A Diva Cup. You just don’t want it to bounce the wrong way. (chuckles) Stevie is hiding in the board. I don’t know how we got here. But you know what, Link? Now that we’re here, I actually have one more. And you technically can’t win, but I don’t care anymore. You win. (chuckles) – What, what- – It doesn’t matter. – What about this? – Yeah, it’s a dumpling maker. You can have fun with that on your own time. You can stick it in any orifice, and you can stick those dumplings in any orifice. – Ha! – [Rhett] Yeah, it makes- – Ha! – Yeah, he’s having fun. Okay. (crew laughs) You get to choose between $1 or what’s in the mystery box. – I pick the box. Oh, what is this? (crew laughs) – Link, this, believe it or not, is the first result when you search Link Neal on Etsy. It’s a goose key holder. (crew laughs) What you got going on with gooses? (chuckles) – I don’t know. I don’t know. – Okay, well, you can- – I don’t know! – You can have fun with that and your little Diva Cup all afternoon. (crew laughs) Thanks for describing and clicking that bell. – No. – You know what time it is. (group laughs) – Hi, I’m Devon. – I’m Connor. – And I’m Riley. – We’re from Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. – [Group] And it’s time to spin the Wheel of Mythicality. – Yeah! – I was like, what are they holding and for the longest time? – Right, they’re all- – Oh, there’s a rocket behind them. (Link laughs) Click the top link to watch us take a picky eater test in Good Mythical More. – And to find out where the Wheel of Mythicality is gonna land. Need new mugs? Let’s talk about that. Get the Colorful Conversations mugs now before they’re gone at mythical.com.