[DM-MUG] Used iPods

Tue May 27 13:39:09 CDT 2008

Thanks, I had never thought of having it engraved.  My wife has a 30G video and my daughter has a 4G Nano.  I'm in 3 different contemporary bands right now and like to listen to a lot of books on audio and music.  I'm sure that I would use the iPod more than both of them combined (my daughter doesn't like me using hers and my wife takes hers to work).  I'm the main Mac person in charge of  getting audio to their iPods so I think it's about time I got one of these little gadgets for myself.  Any other thoughts about used iPods would be appreciated.  (Why don't I buy a new one?  Our family's already bought two new ones and I don't mind taking a chance.)  What I would rather have is an iPod with 32GB non volatile RAM (not on a harddrive).  But I am not will to plunk down $400+ on it.  So, I'll make do with a used 30GB or so iPod.

On May 27, 2008, at 1:03:42 PM, "Bryan Baker" <ka_klick at mac.com> wrote:
From:   "Bryan Baker" <ka_klick at mac.com>
Subject:    Re: [DM-MUG] Used iPods
Date:   May 27, 2008 1:03:42 PM CDT
To: "Des Moines Mac Users Group" <dmmug at dmmug.org>
The flip side of that is that if an engraved one goes bad, you have to 
wait for an engraved replacement, or take a non-engraved replacement 
and loose the engraving.

My initial 40GB 4G was engraved (my wife got it for my BD that year) 
with my name.

It died, under Applecare/Warranty and I wanted to keep it engraved, so 
had to go through the whole exchange dance. THat one failed similarly 
(there seems to have been a bad batch of those 40GB models) I was 
loathe to go thorough the 3 week ordeal again, so this time I just 
took it to the Apple store and had them exchange it for a plain one 
that is still ticking (even after it being gnawed through it's case by 
our over-eager Labrador) I'm well out of coverage now, but I'm glad I 
finally decided to stop getting it engraved. It's funny you mention 
the warranty since the Apple store said they suggested taking them 
down to "Things Remembered" when this was going on.

Don't know if I'd ever engrave a phone # or address on one - between 
that and the info on the pod it could be a good way to get more stuff 
ripped off. Thief looks at the back, notes name/phone, looks through 
contacts for same name (probably w/ nice "Me" tag) and gets address 
from that, then looks at calendar for appointments, or better yet 
vacation...

Joel's got me thinking paranoid.

fwiw: recording the serial number does about as much good as having 
the back engraved as far as I can see.

My wife's has never gone bad though, so she still has the engraving I 
had done for her.

On May 27, 2008, at 11:45 AM, Roses Derise wrote:
> This may be of little importance in making your decision, but just 
> for the record:
>
> I bought a "refurbished" ipod from apple and it worked great until I 
> lost it. Too late, I learned that if I had bought a new one Apple 
> will engrave your name and phone or whatever on it at no charge. 
> HOWEVER, if you get one and have it engraved, it invalidates the 
> warranty.
>
> Roses
>
>
> On 5/27/08 9:34 AM, "cmsspace" <cmsspace at aol.com> wrote:
>
>> Can anyone tell me any known issues with buying a used iPod (except 
>> the fact that it is used and obviously may have a problem)? I'm 
>> thinking of buying a used iPod off ebay but I'm concerned that it 
>> may not be able to be synced up to iTunes on my computer. There is 
>> a limit on iPods using iTunes. Is the idea that you can only have 
>> so many iPods synced to a particular iTunes on a particular 
>> computer or is there something else to worry about?
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