You may remember my giddiness several months ago after purchasing a new MP3 player, the Creative Labs Nomad Jukebox 3. Well, my delight died a few weeks ago when the headphone jack developed a pretty serious short. No problem, I thought. I"ll send it in for repair.
Well, it turns out that Creative Labs, a company notorius for its lack of customer service, only offers a 90 day limited warranty on all of their products. I bought my Nomad in May. I'm out of luck. They wanted $187 to fix it. For that price I can almost buy a new unit.
It's the second MP3 player that I've killed. I can't stand the train commute without music of some sort. Anybody have any good MP3 player suggestions?
Posted by mikewolf at September 03, 2003 01:31 PMSony Walkman cassette player $10.00 at Wal-Mart.
Posted by: Brad on September 3, 2003 04:36 PMiPod.
Though Brad's suggestion isn't a bad one.
Posted by: Frankenstein on September 3, 2003 07:18 PMI'm not going to kid you. I'd love an iPod. I just can't justify the price tag. I mean, I dumped that kind of money in the Nomad already. For a 20g iPod (the capacity of my Nomad) I'd be looking at nearly $300 all over again.
The new game plan involves hoping that one of my geek cow-orkers can help me solder the headphone connection. Surely we can do something...
Posted by: mrw on September 3, 2003 08:59 PMDying of laughter in Atlanta...sorry baby I just can't help it.
Posted by: Cassie on September 3, 2003 09:48 PMDavid just bought one of those no moving parts tiny tiny tiny USB hard drives that can store a bajillion Mbs. This particular one also happens to be an MP3 player. I have no idea how much it was though. I'm sure he got it from CDW.
Posted by: Meredith on September 4, 2003 10:39 AM