Thanks Apple!
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- jmteow0
Sorry to hear that.
But as been mentioned, it's the luck of the draw.
Hard drives are a fickle bunch, no matter what the brand (Toshiba, Hitachi, Seagate et al, all can experience the same crap problems). Couple the fragility of the HD with the rough-and-tumble everyday movements of an iPod and well...
Hence, while I know you are quite disgruntled, its important to see why they'd be really strict about this policy. I'm sure they have to replace a lot of broken HDs, and so the hard 1 yr limit is important for the bottom line, especially to encourage AppleCare.
In your position, I would probably just do what someone else mentioned, and replace it myself. You'll save money, and can definitely do a solid job.
- coolosxapps0
couldn't have happened to a nicer guy...GAYVAD...hahahahahahahahah... er...um... hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha...
- jevad0
you can eat a bag of dicks too gaybert fenn
- jevad0
thanks for the advice about HD replacement those of you that gave ot - I've actually found a place local that will do it for $40
To those of you who said I have nobody to blame but myself - please go eat shit. When I fork out several hundred dollars, I don;t give a fuck about warranties, or extended warranties, or any other fucking extra thing they can suck money out of you ofr - the fucking thing SHOULDN'T BREAK. And when/if it does - it should cost you as much as buying a new one to get it FIXED.
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fuck off
- nuarmy0
So i guess i should blame apple for frying the firewire port on my 5k video camera right?
saying fuck more than once isn't going to get you ipod fixed. yah we all know it sucks that your hardrive died. its happened to all of us. shit, my first car bought that fucker brand new, a week after its out of warranty the transmission goes out and its 5k to fix.
i hate to bring this up but how was the ipod treated? well? don't get me wrong im not implying that it was your fault. these things do just fail. but a harsh lifestyle could have possibly lead to its early demise.
- shilohous0
jevad perkins
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- mirrorball0
Count yourself lucky kiddo.
My much loved G4 Cube was blown up by a BT USB modem and did they do a thang? Aww well...
Thankfully I managed to get £300 quid for it on eBay though!
I'd pay that $40 for yee but think about, your lil rant is a spec of dust compared to other peeps probs!
Imagine the mulla you could have made already by not posting this using ur design talents.
- mirrorball0
Count yourself lucky kiddo.
My much loved G4 Cube was blown up by a BT USB modem and did they do a thang? Aww well...
Thankfully I managed to get £300 quid for it on eBay though!
I'd pay that $40 for yee but think about, your lil rant is a spec of dust compared to other peeps probs!
Imagine the mulla you could have made already by not posting this using ur design talents.
- micla0
I actually had the same thing happen to my 4g ipod twice! The first time I was able to get it running again by gently tapping the bottom of the ipod against something solid when it was first booting up... sometimes the hard drive gets stuck. The second time I just returned it, kept happening, but luckily was still under warranty.
So, try gently slamming the bottom against your desk, no joke.
- skelly0
"gently slamming"
I like that.
- FrogPond0
OH yes, its Apple's fault. Certainly.
And it's our fault that you're not eloquent and mature enough to respond to these posts like a mature adult.
Wait, no, its not. Caveat Emptor.
I just sold a 2nd gen and a 4th gen ipod this past fall and traded up to a 60 gig video for me and a 4 gig nano for the wife. No Apple Care on either. Why? Because I know that in a year, when the warranty is up, they will go on eBay again and be traded up for something else. Whatever new toy Apple or whoever has out that stikes my fancy. If they don't have anything that I want, I keep it for another 6 months and trade it out when they do.
The mistake I don't make anymore is to get so attatched to a product that if it dies, I will blow a gasket, let alone make a fool out of myself on in a public form.
Welcome to the new consumer culture. That's how things work. We are no longer in an age where we can buy something and have it last a lifetime, especially something that is engineered to exacting specfications, and is turned out a large quantities to make the product cheaper. There's a high rate of failure for these devices because of their size and their parts, ask any Apple store employee.
If you want something that will last a life time, take that $250 next time and put that towards a pair of diamond earrings for your lady, but don't you DARE come back here and rant when she loses them.
-- in the time it took to reply to all of these posts, you could have gone over to ilounge.com and figured out how to replace the drive yourself. --
- jevad0
gfys
- FrogPond0
Nicely done. I am certain that you're wife is SUPER proud at the way you act online...
And here, all along, us foolish Americans were thought of as being boorish and rude, and our Brit friends were posh and proper... good thing you put that idea to rest!
- FrogPond0
Nicely done. I am certain that you're wife is SUPER proud at the way you act online...
And here, all along, us foolish Americans were thought of as being boorish and rude, and our Brit friends were posh and proper... good thing you put that idea to rest!
- FrogPond0
http://www.notpopular.com/blog/c…
... and bob's you're uncle.
- ********0
they suck
- ********0
I'm all for venting online--go for it, jim.
- NegativeSpace0
I agre w/ Jevad, stuff like this for the price they sell it for should be able to last long. I am already pissed off at apple alone because of all the various things that have happened to my powerbook. Metal warping, latch not working, white spots on screen, shitty airport reception. Then finally I get the white spots replaced with a new screen, and the technician who installs it puts the hinges onto tight, which I didn't know at the time, and now its causing the back casing of the screen to open up, there are more white spots on the screen and dead pixels rght out of the box on the new display.
They will be lucky if I decide to buy any of their products in the future. I am sure not spending 400 dollars to get their rip off applecare.
- shaft0
Hey, Jevad didn' complain about the hd failure, but ripoff hd replacement price.
- nuarmy0
rip off replacement price? sure it probably is, apple is a company just like any other. they have to make some profit.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Pr… so quit your bitching and pick up that first drive for $70 and call it a day.