iPod

I have a slightly older iPod (year and half old).

Worked great for a while.  Then the battery wouldn’t hold a charge, apparently a common enough problem with this model.  I sent it back to Apple and forked over $70 for the privilege of being without decent tunes for THREE WEEKS.

Apple replaced it with a brand new iPod of the same model (I guess easier than opening up the thing and plopping a new battery in).  I load the sucker up.  Get it in the car… it won’t play the first several tracks on any album. AAARRRRGGGGHHHHH!

Over the next week I spend 10 hours scouring websites, troubleshooting, reading message boards, installing and reinstalling iPod updater software…. all to no avail.

I call tech support (FYI, the only way to get the tech support phone number is on the back of their invoice.  It’s not on the website, I looked. If you need the number, shoot me an email).  They tell me that the iPod is most likely borked.  Really?  I hadn’t realized that by now… thanks brainiac.

Now I’m iPod-less (again) waiting for a box to come from Apple so that I can ship the damn thing back… again.

I'm seriously considering forking out $249 for a new iPod Nano.