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Good place to buy an iPod in downtown Toronto? (pg. 2)
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| Superstring |
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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| Jem_hadar |
| quote: | Originally posted by The Highroller
Last time I didn't want to give in, I bought a Creative Zen Micro for $300. It broke within 8 months.
I'm giving in. |
Poor guy :(
Still loving my little 4giger mini.
No problems in 2.5-3.00 years. |
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| oldschool420 |
| quote: | Originally posted by harcourt
I'd go for the 30GB, slimmer and less expensive. Do you really need 80GB of music on you at any given time? I figured 30 was plenty for a trip or place I may go where I'm away from my laptop. |
It may be slimmer, but if you fork up the extra 100$ 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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| Jem_hadar |
| quote: | 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, . ;) |
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| geroin |
| lol ipod is so ing overpriced its unbelievable.. |
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| DigiNut |
| quote: | 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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| MikeyN |
| 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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| chinamon |
| 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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| exstasie |
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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| Jem_hadar |
| quote: | 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 up :D |
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| Cro_Addict |
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. |
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