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IPod Conspiracy

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SoupCurry
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So i was on my merry way biking back from a normal average day at work while listening to my iPod, when all of the sudden tragedy struck. The music stopped. I thought to myself...'maybe i hit the pause button on accident'. I stop on the side of the path and look at my iPod screen only to see a little logo of an iPod with a sad face with x's for eyes telling me to go to apple.com/support. Now obviously the first reaction that came to me was anger. I realized that my iPod warranty had expired 3 days prior to the incident. I visted the apple support website and the website stated that since my warranty was expired. I had to pay $250 to get it fixed. At this point i was in a jumbled state of disbelief and fury. I want to swear off the technology forever, however in the days of my iPod ownership i have become helplessly addicted to the portable device. I am now forced to embark upon a journey to find money to buy a new one...My iPod broke 3 DAYS after the warranty expired...CONSPIRACY?!?!? me thinks yes
May 18 2006 3:37AM
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yeti
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you paid $250 to get a used ipod repaired?

thats stupid.
May 18 2006 3:54AM
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Rosbif
Posts: 2543 - Karma: 930
Nah, he said they wanted him to pay $250 to get it repaired.

Dunno about the conspiracy, everyone loves a good conspiracy these days, but it's probably just bad luck.
May 18 2006 3:58AM
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spudz
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how the hell is that a conspiracy.
May 18 2006 4:38AM
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Rosbif
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I think he's saying that apple conspired for his Ipod to break just after his warrenty ended so he would have to give them more money. Like I said, probably just crappy luck.
May 18 2006 4:46AM
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burr
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No, i think it is, i hurd this happen to alot of people. everything newer than 4gen are shit
May 18 2006 6:36AM
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T-Nels
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i feel for you man, my 4th generation (click wheel) broke this christmas, one year to the day of when i got it (my dad bought it the week before). NOw i can only play it on my ipod-speaker thing. The funny thing was, my friend had the same exact ipod but it was the 40 gig, and his broke on the exact same day, and he got his on the same day as i did. Coincidence, or not?
May 18 2006 8:29AM
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freestyle_kyle
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yeah my buddy's broke 2 days after the warranty expired
May 18 2006 9:46AM
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Timmy_G
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Yea they could very well do something to them no doubt.

I bet the government puts thing in medication so it goes into our bodies like tranmitters or litle micropohnes or something.. hmm
May 18 2006 9:58AM
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ski_cartel
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why didnt you just pay the 100 to get the extended warentie
May 18 2006 11:37AM
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Redstar
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I bought my U2 iPod off my buddy for $100, and he'd had it for a year or so. It finally broke about 6 months after I bought it. Apple sent me a brand new one, and it's been fine since. The old iPods are tanks, fuck the new ones.
May 18 2006 12:39PM
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FUUUCK
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thats why you dont buy shitty apple hardware
May 18 2006 12:46PM
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SoupCurry
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and another shitty thing.....i bought an extended warranty for $60 about 6 months after i bought my ipod. but apparantly since i have the HP ipod clickwheel the extended warranty that i bought doesnt work for it, it only works for the regular apple issue iPods..so i now have a broken iPod and an unused extended 3 year warranty....its pretty much the gayest thing ever
May 18 2006 5:56PM
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CooksCorner
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I have a 30gig photo, one generation off the new ones. Some one stole my one with the four buttons on top, that model was my favorite, tough as shit and no external moving parts.
May 18 2006 6:00PM
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4frntSkier
Posts: 4008 - Karma: 143
that shit happens with cars i think
like when you hit a certain amount of miles the check engine light will come on or the seatbelt light and shit like that
ive never thought of ipod
but it could be possible
if ipods were rediculously reliable like creative zens lets just say
i would orgasm
May 18 2006 6:00PM
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7X
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absolutely same thing happend to me, only it was 2 months after. i agree with you tottaly man
May 18 2006 6:01PM
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SoupCurry
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its a love/hate relationship
May 18 2006 6:04PM
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44Rounder44
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250$ are u crazy!?... to get it repaired.....wow you got ripped off
May 21 2006 2:41AM
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.John.
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same thing happened to me, except it was one day after it expired. I know a guy that works at customer support at best buy, and I convinced him to send it in for me.
May 21 2006 11:36AM
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GhostfaceKillah
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mine ipods still kicking, i get the sad ipod face every once and a while but the trick is to just drop it from like 3ft and that will (hopefully) knock everything back into place. when you're warentees up you have nothing to lose so why not eh?
May 21 2006 11:41AM
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BurgRider
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My Ipod is just over a year old now and the battery lasts for about a half hour at most
May 21 2006 11:44AM
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Eazy_Eags
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hahaha yes thats how i "fixed" mine. i got soo pissed when that little face came up i just threw it and now it works perfect.
May 21 2006 11:45AM
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snoopy
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so true.
May 21 2006 12:04PM
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Xave
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4 buttons on top=3rd generation=fucking tank
that's what i own, never had any kind of trouble....yea
May 21 2006 12:07PM
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skiierman
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Moral of the story is, don't be a fucking sheep and buy what everyone else has.
May 21 2006 12:46PM
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JockinJLoads
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i liked the ones wiht the actualy moving wheel on the outside, i think 2nd gen
May 21 2006 12:49PM
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44Rounder44
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im pretty sure thats NOT the moral..... nice try tho...
May 21 2006 12:50PM
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Apple
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thats what I have too. it broke once though, but not like really broke, it just wouldnt play some songs, so i got it fixed, and now 2 years later, my batterie is shot, so im sending it back in now actually to get that replaced. only 1 month before my extended warenty expires.
May 21 2006 1:17PM
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cracko
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haha i totally agree about 3rd generation ipods..i had one with the 4 buttons on top and it worked perfectly, my theory is that when ipods finally caught on, aplpe started mass producing them just to sell them, and the quality got shittier and shittier. unfortunately my old one got stolen and i had to get a newer one and its broken like 5 times.
May 21 2006 1:23PM
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STAUSS
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fire bomb your local mac dealer... or better yet your local microsoft dealer just for the fuck of it.
May 21 2006 1:23PM
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hartig
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my nano's screen died the other day (just showed plain white), and i brought it to the apple store yesterday, and they gave me a brand new nano. no questions asked.

it was pretty cool
May 21 2006 3:33PM
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~Cork_1080~
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its like 70 for 3 years... if you have the harddrive players then you shouldnt have even thought 2wice about the warranty.
May 21 2006 5:59PM
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prosnurfer
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yaaaaa my 4th gen click wheel part broke too but if i click the hold on and off it works sometimes.. this also happened like a week after a year of having it
May 21 2006 6:04PM
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rightcoastskier
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yeaa go 3rd generation.. ive had mine for about 4 years and the only problem ive really had has been how long the battery lasts.. and thats not even too huge of a deal considering i only use it when im driving
May 21 2006 6:06PM
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freestyle_rich
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ipods suck. LG makes an awsome mp3 player
May 21 2006 6:34PM
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Petey.
Posts: 5736 - Karma: 4,885
screw apple and all of their equipment.....i have a website that will help with ur problems:

www.crapintosh.com
May 21 2006 6:56PM
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jib_kid_01
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yeah... ipods always break
May 21 2006 7:28PM
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ag.
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man i feel for ya...that would blow
May 21 2006 7:53PM
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TRIppEN
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meh mine still works
May 21 2006 7:57PM
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DynastarriderGP
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that happened to mine but it was under warranty
May 21 2006 7:57PM
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DynastarriderGP
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that happened to mine but it was under warranty
May 21 2006 7:59PM
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soulskier
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i dont think i'll register for a warrenty until i need it, if thats allowed
May 21 2006 10:19PM
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Rhastaman420
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oh fuck when i first saw it i thought you said it was $25 bucks to get it fixed and i was like "no big deal"

but seriously why in the hell would you pay $250 to get a USED iPod fixed...i would say you got owned by apple
May 21 2006 10:53PM
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aznpcskier
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mine is breaking down, and I'm 169 days over the warrenty
May 22 2006 1:00AM
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CanadianSkiGod
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FUCK, I didn't read the first post or anything, but I just came back home, went to take a leak and as I bent over to flush the toilet afterwards (before zipping up or anything if you understand),

MY IPOD FELL OUT OF MY COAT POCKET AND FELL IN THE PISS-INFESTED TOILET--

Now the stupid backlight timer is feebly blinking and the screen is fucked up. Is this covered by the warranty? Dropping the Ipod in a FULL toilet?

Sorry for ruining this thread or whatnot, but I'd swear my Ipod now alse SMELLS like piss. FUUUCK.
May 22 2006 1:28AM
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wazzucrewskier
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haha, holy shit, i thought i was the only one to do that. i got pissed and threw it and it magically worked. i did that at least like 4 or 5 times. its kinda weird how the same thing that makes it break is the same thing that fixes it
May 22 2006 2:36AM
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shea.
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thats what they do dude... rip u off
May 22 2006 2:53AM
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hippie_cat
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now its time for all of us who own creatives/irivers/whatever to sit back with a smug grin, cos our shit doesnt fuck up after a year.
May 22 2006 3:39AM
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bangarangmules
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that sucks. i dropped mine the other day and now i dont get any sound. everything else works fine. but i still have my warrenty until this fall...
May 22 2006 7:12AM
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KEVTRON
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i think when he says 250$ to get repaired he means just buy a new one?
May 22 2006 7:38AM
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KRASHED
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Its like anything else you buy these days, as soon as it becomes more than just a fad, compaines like iPod cam start to make bank by building devices that will blow up soon after their manufacturers warrenty expires. Thats why its always a good idea to buy the best and longest warrenty you can possibly get.
May 22 2006 7:50AM
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