Oy vey. I’m holding onto the hope that the third time really is the charm. As thrilling as it is to open up a brand-stinkin’-new iPod (!!!!), it’s really starting to get old. I mean, it’s still cool to peel back the plastic and not see a scratch or fingerprint anywhere but afterwards, syncing all 5,162+ songs is not so cool.
Yesterday while driving to school I noticed that a few songs weren’t playing. I skipped over them and after parking messed around with it some more. Still didn’t work. And today when I tried plugging it into my laptop to recharge the battery, it froze completely. For about two hours. So nice.
Back to Best Buy we go. I told the Geek Squad guy what my problem was, he plugged it in, got it to unfreeze and then got someone else to address the no-playing-certain-songs issue. The second guy told me that they would have to send it back to the manufacturers. Great. But he said I could exchange mine if I still had all the hardware. I ran back home, picked up the box and rushed back to BB. I was told to go to Customer Service and they would exchange it there. The guy tried finding a black 80 but they only had silver. I almost settled on it but decided against it. He told me that I could wait until Tuesday or go to another Best Buy store that had what I wanted. Turns out a store about 20 minutes away had 5 and since I’m so impatient, I drove there right away. After waiting around some more, the exchange was made and since it had been a mere 6 days since I’d exchanged the first time, my warranty carried over. Hooray!
So I am again the [not so] proud owner of a brand new 80 GB black iPod. I hope this concludes my iPod saga. Oh please.
