[DM-MUG] Used iPods

[Bryan Baker]

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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