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Apple to Recycle your iPod for Free

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the reduce-reuse-rerock dept.

rdarden writes "After you get your dough from the recent iPod settlement, why not recycle your old iPod at an Apple retail store (US only). Starting today, that worthless hunk of environmental unfriendliness can be turned into a 10% discount on a new iPod (purchased at the same time)."

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  1. I used to never like apple by brickballs · · Score: 5, Informative
    I used to never like apple, but my opinion of them is starting to change. I dont see their products as superior, but I do consider them acceptable nowdays.

    I bought an iPod Photo 60GB. Within a month the thing crashed. And I dont mean crashed, where you hit two buttons and it reboots. (that happened the day i got it.) I mean crashed as in it wont reboot, the battery didnt charge, and winblows didnt recognize it. For all intents and purposes it was an expensive brick.

    I sent it back and they fixed it for free, got it back to me in just a few days.

    The thing still crashes occasionaly but now the two button reset always does the job.

    Moral of the story: apples good, but not perfect.

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  2. Re:Will they by standards · · Score: 2, Informative

    Definitely return it! Depending on what country you live in, your warranty may be two years, one year, or 90 days. And in some US states there are "fitness of merchantability" laws - if it fails after the warranty expires but well before it should, you may still have the right for free repair, replacement, or refund. (I used these laws when my cell phone failed out of warranty, due to an obvious manufacturing defect.)

    Of course if you dropped it from your tree house, you're up the creek without an iPod.

  3. Re:This is a ripoff! Sell on eBay instead. by murr · · Score: 2, Informative

    In fact, if you do that eBay search, you find that 1st generation broken iPods go for about $20. Now, you could trade them in for a $45 discount on the highest end iPod photo. Sounds like a pretty decent deal to me.

    Right now, not too many people will want to recycle their iPods yet, but every year, there are going to be more iPods that have outlived their useful lives. This year, Apple got picketed over the iPod recycling issue, so offering this program seems like a good idea.

    It's not a deal anybody is FORCED to take, but if you can't find a sucker to pay $80 for your broken iPod, you now have an official fallback.

  4. 2nd life: iPod is still an external HD by AHumbleOpinion · · Score: 2, Informative

    I'll take $30 for something that has a dead and irreplaceable battery. Although it would make a pretty snazzy paperweight.

    Ignoring the fact that iPod batteries are replacable, when a hard-drive based iPod is no longer viable as a player due to the battery charge it is still quite useful as an external HD.