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Thinking about getting an iPod, what should I get engraved?

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Originally posted by: jadinolf
"I love to waste money"
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Compared to other MP3 players, the price isn't that bad with my student discount - $269. It works with iTunes and has lots of other nice, easy features that will be useful for a variety of things.
 
You know what I think you should do? I think you should skip engraving your iPod and choose to instead engrave "I bought an iPod because I'm a tool" on to your forehead.
 
Originally posted by: DainBramaged
I bent over for Steve Jobs
and all I got was a lousy iPod.
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Thats great!!

i would definatly get a different brand many others make products just as good or better for the same price where i work we have a phillips mp3 player that costs as much as a 2GB nano but hold 3x as much has a FM radio same touch style controling and is almost as small also itunes is a rip when u can legally buy songs for $0.14 from allofmp3 or even 79cents from several other companies that are based in america
 
FYI, if you get an iPod Engraved, and want to sell it, all you have to do is RMA it to Apple saying Battery Life Sucks and they will send you a brand new shiney one with NO engraving..
 
fvck the riaa

is that banned?

and don't listen to the ipod haters. the competition still doesn't have a total package of hardware/software ease of use/accessories/interface that touches ipod. they have extra features sure, most done imperfectly or in ways where itsa chore to use. itunes+ipod makes adding playlists/shuffle whatever very very easy. nothing makes a gadget more annoying then having it be a chore to use and maintain it.
 
Originally posted by: Dritnul
Originally posted by: DainBramaged
I bent over for Steve Jobs
and all I got was a lousy iPod.
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Thats great!!

i would definatly get a different brand many others make products just as good or better for the same price where i work we have a phillips mp3 player that costs as much as a 2GB nano but hold 3x as much has a FM radio same touch style controling and is almost as small also itunes is a rip when u can legally buy songs for $0.14 from allofmp3 or even 79cents from several other companies that are based in america
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if your talking about the philips HDD1630 6gb thats a harddrive player, so its a different type and unfair to compare. its not really almost as small, its 6.8^3inch the nano is 1.5^3inch, the nano is 1.5oz, the philips is 5.3oz. and going by gb per bucks you can say both aren't worth it compared to the bigger harddrive players which get you 20-30gb for not much more. point of the nano is extreme small size and no moving parts so you don't have to worry when running or whatever you are doing. the philips does have sacrifices for its capacity.
 
its still not a chore to use or maintain my grandpa actaully has a nano but the screens so small he can barely see it nemore i have sold least 10 of those phillips to ppl looking for ipods and not a single person has brought it back or complained not even when we charged a bit more for them than the ipod anyway we're getting off topic i agree with those who say dont engrave it my sister sold her old mini 4GB to some guy @ my moms work just fine but i doubt his wife woulda been happy with a girls name or something engraved on the back of it
 
how much did she sell it for. i just dont' see much resale value ..atleast for buyers that know what they are doing. if you sell it a few years down the line its obsolete ..very obsolete. then you have to change the battery and thats another 50 dollars that could go towards buying a new player. and of course theres the wear and tear on a harddrive in those players...that should knock the worth down even farther. only the ipod could have retained some value because i guess its a classic or something.
 
i think she sold it for 50-100 i never heard the final price preloaded with a full 4GB of music which i assume was deleted the first time he synced it to his PC
 
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