http://www.ipodsdirtysecret.com/

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Good Lord! AGAIN?

http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index....showtopic=15818
http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index....showtopic=15825

One month delay, no less :B

Nov 27 2003, 11:59 AM

its a few months old issue, but I knew it yesterday

anyone? mod? admin? please delete this topic? ok?
thanks

While I can't close this topic I'd like to stop it.

This is ridiculous, it's a Li-Ion battery and it's supposed to only last 1.5 to 2.0 years. If you are constantly charging it at half charge, leaving it plugged it for days at a time, etc, you could be expected to reduce the life. It's no different with many other players and also so new cell phones that don't have an easily replaced battery to save size on the form factor.

About two years after the original iPod was announced and about the same time as this crap website was put up, Apple announced the official $99 battery replacement that include a 90-day warranty. Also, you've been able to get replacement batteries for QUITE some time from companies that carry laptop batteries like Laptops for Less and they cost less than $50 but you have to do your own work.

If I understand correctly, this guy was only so pissed about the iPod's [irreplaceable] battery due to the fact he bought a $49 battery rather than Apple's $99 option, screwed up installing it, and broke his iPod. Not to mention if you paid for either AppleCare on it, or the extended service plans from Best Buy, Circuit City, and CompUSA (and probably most others) than the replacement would have been free and been performed by having the unit repaired at a real Apple service center at no consumer cost.

I used to work at Best Buy and when the iPod first came out we always recommended it just because of the battery situation. It's also the main reason we were told to recommend the service for all other cell phones, PDA's, and MP3 players. If it's $29 to $49 bucks for a 2 or 3 year extended warranty you know a battery costs $49 alone, isn't that obviously worth it?

It seems these geniuses at "ipodsdirtysecret" cheaped out when they bought it, cheaped out when they needed a battery repair, messed up doing it, all while out of warranty, and now they loudly, publicly, and childishly embarrass themselves. Not the mention that the majority of original iPod's out there are still working perfectly and holding their charge just fine, two and a half years or so later I think it is now. You look ridiculous when you try to blow a problem out of proportion.

I'm guess I could decide that I'm going to make my own site called "compasdirtysecret" and let them know how after 18 months I blew one of the internal speakers in one of their 1200 series laptops and it wasn't under warranty and they wanted $300+ to replace it and a 6-8 week round-trip time to a service center in California, when I'm here in Florida. I ended up eBay'ing the part, but you don't see me bitching. I could make "xxxxxxdirtysecret" sites for almost every product that I've owned and something goes wrong when it's just outside of the warranty.

My mother bought one of those extended warranties through Cingular when she got her cell phone, and she's been through at least 8 Li-Ion Hi-Cap batteries in the last year and a half, so it easily pays to get that service when the batteries are $60 or so each, and the service was $99 or something.

I guess there is something to be said for being a "smart consumer".

I'd like to apologise for my post on this topic and suggest that we make this one a Sticky just to stop it being posted again