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Ipods are worthless

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jc_dunn
Posts: 1014 - Karma: 25
my ipod is officially a paper weight. it broke a week after the warranty ended, and i've tried everything. anyone else have this problem?
Oct 1 2006 2:31AM
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Mezmerize19
Posts: 6475 - Karma: 18
......nope. Im just happy with my iPod. Although its getting repaired. But Ive had it for 2 1/2 years so its all good.
Oct 1 2006 2:34AM
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jc_dunn
Posts: 1014 - Karma: 25
lucky you.
Oct 1 2006 2:40AM
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jc_dunn
Posts: 1014 - Karma: 25
lucky you.
Oct 1 2006 2:40AM
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jc_dunn
Posts: 1014 - Karma: 25
looks like i totally just killed the spambuster 5000
Oct 1 2006 2:41AM
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Kevo
Posts: 2374 - Karma: 136
yep. Me too. I get the sad iPod face when I try to turn it on. From now on, I'm buying the extended replacement warranty from a place like best buy. But I don't think I'll be getting a new iPod anytime soon. I need a new avi beacon (remarkably the same price), and well...avi beacons are kinda more important than iPods.
Oct 1 2006 2:46AM
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Mezmerize19
Posts: 6475 - Karma: 18
Thats exactly what I sent it in for. I got the extended warrenty though
Oct 1 2006 3:03AM
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Jake...
Posts: 11976 - Karma: 296
im getting an ipod within the next week, and all i conclude from this is TO GET THE EXTENDED WARRANTY
Oct 1 2006 7:35AM
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leckett1
Posts: 6476 - Karma: 294
i am the master of that
Oct 1 2006 7:42AM
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skiatgore69
Posts: 1677 - Karma: 27
mines ok
Oct 1 2006 8:43AM
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SkierX
Posts: 16253 - Karma: 538
I have heard soooo many peoples break just after the initial warranty period is up. Seems sketchy to me.

My one friends wheel stopped working and his was never misused. It spent it's life in his car pretty much. Never was dropped.

I can't really say much, I have never succumbed to getting an Ipod.
Oct 1 2006 8:49AM
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jp_draves
Posts: 1866 - Karma: 37
i have a shuffle, and there durable as hell. I recommend these since there cheap now. Like you can drop it in snow and like accidently ski over it and it will still work. Amazing mp3 player
Oct 1 2006 9:33AM
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bangarangmules
Posts: 5065 - Karma: 84
i dropped my mini, and it broke. but then like a week later it started to work again. i got lucky
Oct 1 2006 9:46AM
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soulskier
Posts: 17806 - Karma: 3,841
sooo many people hate them, i havent had any problems with mine yet
Oct 1 2006 9:55AM
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C-Burg
Posts: 4729 - Karma: 130
i had a choice between a sansa and an Ipod and went with the sansa, it was a smart decision
Oct 1 2006 10:05AM
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C.J.
Posts: 5460 - Karma: 72
Thtas what happens when you buy a product from a company the clearly dominates the market. They dont care about the little guy, as long as they were able to fool you into buying one. Thats why you buy from creative, a superior product any way.
Oct 1 2006 10:08AM
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StealthSteez
Posts: 3183 - Karma: 11
ya. And if you are planning on getting any accessories that come with it then they will give you like 1/2 price on them if you ask. You have to negotiate all that though.
Oct 1 2006 10:19AM
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skicraze123
Posts: 1393 - Karma: 12
just be careful and don't drop the fucker
Oct 1 2006 10:23AM
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TheBigE
Posts: 2 - Karma: 10
ipods are designed to do that
Oct 1 2006 10:25AM
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tBatt
Posts: 9632 - Karma: 580
ive had 3 new ipods... thank god for extended warrenty. but the extended lasts only a year and if mine breaks after it ends i thik im gettin some kind of zen
Oct 1 2006 11:14AM
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jack_weisman
Posts: 2310 - Karma: 169
i've heard that the main problem with ipods is downloading free music from like lime wire and and other sharring programs because it gives your ipod viruses. this girl i know hers would turn on and then an ipod logo with a sad face would flash and then it would turn off. mine just makes this wierd humming noise and beeps in the back and then shuts off. ipods suck
Oct 1 2006 11:17AM
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milkdud951
Posts: 960 - Karma: 21
i got a nano with my new computer, and within 4 days the screen shattered. I had it in the pocket of my sweatshirt, and I took it off when i was playing tennis. Then when I got home, i took it out of my pocket and the screen was fucking shattered. LESS THAN 4 DAYS! I still have no clue as to what could have broken it. The sweatshirt took no impact while i was wearing it, and it was just lying in the corner while i wasn't. 
Oct 1 2006 11:18AM
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AhrenStein
Posts: 1941 - Karma: 177
whats a sansa?
Oct 1 2006 11:24AM
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scratch_this_
Posts: 120 - Karma: 16
I have a shuffle too, and I've fallen directly on to it, and it's doing fine.

However, they do not withstand the powers of a washing machine...
Oct 1 2006 1:10PM
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fouldsys
Posts: 7404 - Karma: 39
no u didnt it only stops you if you post twice in 20 seconds and it took you like 30
Oct 1 2006 1:34PM
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jimmychung
Posts: 6857 - Karma: 25
they're fucking pieces of shit. all i hear about them is how they break. stop buying them, they're obviously shit.
Oct 1 2006 1:43PM
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C-Burg
Posts: 4729 - Karma: 130
is there anyway to get scratches off of the screen.
Oct 1 2006 3:11PM
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twistedxfaith
Posts: 915 - Karma: 20
I dropped mine into the pool, whoopsiesss, but i took it to get fixed and they couldn't fix it so they gave me a new one, but i didn't tell them it fell in the pool, because the warranty doesn't cover accidents
Oct 1 2006 3:17PM
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FUUUCK
Posts: 18426 - Karma: 4,888
yeah, a product called apple sauce, google it
Oct 1 2006 3:18PM
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C-Burg
Posts: 4729 - Karma: 130
does it work for no ipods
Oct 1 2006 3:22PM
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C-Burg
Posts: 4729 - Karma: 130
non*
Oct 1 2006 3:23PM
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TheWorst
Posts: 7883 - Karma: 17
I love my ipod... if you cant turn it on then hold the menu button+the centre button at the same time for 10 seconds... thats what happened to me, i thought it was broken but now it works fine, just had to reset it
Oct 1 2006 5:15PM
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SteezePatrol
Posts: 10281 - Karma: 36
no the spambuster just pwned your ass, it's over 30 seconds apart
Oct 1 2006 5:15PM
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4frntSkier
Posts: 4008 - Karma: 143
i like mine
Oct 1 2006 5:29PM
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KeegLove
Posts: 10166 - Karma: 55
they are pretty.
Oct 1 2006 5:31PM
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hartig
Posts: 8192 - Karma: 10
the only problem i've had with mine is that the screen died (it was an early nano, and alot of those had screen problems).  they replaced it without even asking what happened or caring.
Oct 1 2006 8:02PM
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timmi
Posts: 12874 - Karma: 3,460
i am on lucky number 4 with the ipods
1- 5 days after owning it, fell out of my pocket. cracking the screen (no replacement)
2- about 2 months after buying the new one, messin around in the halls at school got knocked over, landing on it. cracked screen (bitched on the phone, getting a free replacement)
3- battery died. free replacement
4- fingers crossed
Oct 1 2006 8:06PM
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airmoose5677
Posts: 54 - Karma: 10
did u try to restore it
Oct 2 2006 1:22AM
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cofreeskier
Posts: 3189 - Karma: 15
thats why i have a dell digital jukebox...
Oct 2 2006 1:26AM
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CTD
Posts: 6301 - Karma: 350
i myself am also on my 4th ipod. my first one was the 3rd generation 15 gig (in my opinion that was the most well designed and highest quality ipod to date). it lasted for a good solid 2 years, and went through 2 batteries before it died. i was incredibly tough on it, and it went through hell. the fact that it made it that long was amazing. that ipod got replaced with a 5th gen. video last year with student pricing for like 250. a few weeks in, i crushed it skiing. sent it in, got a new one. the replacement got scratched to all hell over summer, and developed a issue where it would randomly turn on on its own. JUST got the replacement for that one this week, and was smart and got the case ; ) but apple has, in my opinion, an amazing warrenty with the ipods, and i have nothing but good expierences dealing with them.
Oct 2 2006 1:29AM
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Nihiriju
Posts: 2061 - Karma: 27
puufhc naah way cj, my ipod is 4 years old now, and it works liek a charm. 
Oct 2 2006 1:37AM
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Sashac
Posts: 3197 - Karma: 88
I've had my Ipod for about 2 years now and, yeah, I've had some problems but they always clear up after resetting or restoring it.
I actually just got my Ipod working today after a couple months of it sitting in my closet, frozen.

I love it!
Oct 2 2006 3:10AM
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Paul-o-Rama
Posts: 3301 - Karma: 13
mine broke a week after teh warrenty ran out
Oct 2 2006 3:43AM
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freeskier08
Posts: 192 - Karma: 10
I had a 4gb mini and sold it to some kid cuz i wanted a bigger one. He told me like a month later it died. I've had my new video for maybe...3 months now? and hopefully nothing will happen.
Oct 2 2006 8:35AM
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uni-corn
Posts: 13846 - Karma: 651
I like mine. Never a problem.
Oct 2 2006 8:46AM
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Mat.
Posts: 7167 - Karma: 94
no you didnt, look at your post times.

2:40:13

2:40:47

now if you subtract those, thats 34 seconds.
so it looks like spambuster5000 owned you.



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Oct 2 2006 1:04PM
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jarossamdb7
Posts: 6322 - Karma: -10
what else just breaks out of the blue like an ipod? think aboutt it. they are peices off shit. it happens ALL THE TIME
Oct 2 2006 1:37PM
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Von
Posts: 4869 - Karma: 21
my creative broke a week after i bought it, and fucking best buy wouldnt let me return it..... i should have just used that 200 dollers to roll joints out of.
Oct 2 2006 1:43PM
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New.Era.
Posts: 135 - Karma: 10
My friend has a old 15 gig i think, or 10 not sure, but he has dropped it so many times, the screen is scratched to hell. Hes had it for 3 years and hes just buying a new one now and his old one still works fine.
Oct 2 2006 2:15PM
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