I bought my last ipod at Futureshop. Also bought an extended warranty plan with it (ie 1 year original warranty + 4 years additional).

What do you know, 3 years into using it, it breaks. I walk into future shop and get a brand-spanking new 8 gig black nano (~300 w/ tax) for free. (nearly free, b/c again, I purchased the extended warranty)

My advice with these things is to go to FS, get the extra warranty, and use the crap out of the thing. Within 3-4 years, it will surely bust (if not, I'm sure you can figure something out ). So after 3 years walk in, get a free new Ipod and buy another warranty plan (70$ these days). Rinse. Repeat. I'm sure you see the financial benefit...

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Originally posted by The Highroller Last time I didn't want to give in, I bought a Creative Zen Micro for $300. It broke within 8 months. I'm giving in.

Poor guy

Still loving my little 4giger mini.

No problems in 2.5-3.00 years.

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Originally posted by harcourt I'd go for the 30GB, slimmer and less expensive. Do you really need 80GB of music on you at any given time? I figured 30 was plenty for a trip or place I may go where I'm away from my laptop.

It may be slimmer, but if you fork up the extra 100$ or whatever, you get an extra 50 gigs. That's not that bad a deal at all, and the battery life is the same.

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Originally posted by oldschool420 It may be slimmer, but if you fork up the extra 100$ or whatever, you get an extra 50 gigs. That's not that bad a deal at all, and the battery life is the same.

jimmy is so practical, fuck.

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lol ipod is so fucking overpriced its unbelievable..

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Originally posted by The Highroller Last time I didn't want to give in, I bought a Creative Zen Micro for $300. It broke within 8 months.

And iPods never break, right?

Doesn't the Zen come with a 1-year warranty, anyway?

The Zen Micro, unfortunately, does seem to have a high defect rate, which isn't surprising since Creative has lousy QC. I don't think they're any worse than iPods though - anecdotally the ratio seems to be about the same but I can't find hard data on the Z:M. Personally, if I were buying one of those things I'd go with the Zune, or maybe an iRiver Clix with a couple of flash cards. No moving parts in a flash card or player, ergo, very unlikely to fail.

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is there a need for an 80gb?

try www.irepair.ca

Graham, buy one from costco, the return policy kicks ass if anything ever happens to it, if you ask someone, they'll say the policy is a year, but really its an indefinate time, plus if you ever want your money back, just bring the unit back with your original receipt

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i just bought a cheapo mp3 player just for the 16 hour flight back to toronto. its made by a hong kong company named Speed and has 4gb internal storage with ability to add another 2gb via mini-sd, 2" tft screen, video, photos, tetris. all for $690HKD.

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Battery life is better in the 80gb versus the 30GB or the model below.

It might be thicker and heavier, but for $100 more, you get 50GB more and i think 4-6 hours better battery life.

I love my 80GB..i put tons of movies and TV shows on there too.

I have about 20 movies that I've uploaded recently to watch when I'm on the train in Europe..the screen may be small, but it occupies at a lot of your time!

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Originally posted by DigiNut And iPods No moving parts in a flash card or player, ergo, very unlikely to fail.

TOTALLY! Sent my Dell usb stick through the wash.

So thats soapy water. And our washer is broke, and doesnt always drain propperly. It sat in the washer for 3 days FULL OF WATER.

Found at the bottom when I wen to dry my clothes several days later, put her in, and PRESTO, works no problem.

I love it when water wont even fuck up shit

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I would look on Redflagdeals.com

I have bought a few ipods on there.. Just browse through the forums, you will run into something.

Negotiate a price, and then meet up somewhere in TO and do the business.