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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. This is a ripoff! Sell on eBay instead. by enosys · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The story makes it seem like this is a great deal but in fact it is a terrible ripoff. Search for "broken ipod" on eBay.. For example "ipod 15 gig 3g 3rd gen broken" with what appears to be a broken hard drive is at $82.01 after 8 bids and with 5 and a half hours left.

  2. RE: iPod Photo 60GB problems by King_TJ · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Actually, one of my good friends works a second job at a large electronics retailer, and he said they had a "large number of returns" of the 60GB model of the iPod photo. None of the other models were affected. He suspects they had a bad production run of the 60GB microdrives in them, and Apple hasn't openly acknowledged it yet (perhaps because it's such a limited issue).

  3. iPods as replacements under battery settlement by Go_Ask_Alex · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Is it possible that Apple will use recycled iPods as replacements under the recent iPod battery settlement?

    http://www.appleipodsettlement.com/
    http://www.appleipodsettlement.com/claim.pdf