[Thor06]

I had a 4 gig nano that I got for my birthday a year and a half ago. I got a lot of use out of it, but it randomly started to break after about 8 months. At first, the backlight would come on for the whole screen but only the top half of the screen would have the printing and shit on it. After a couple days it would only be the white backlight. I called Apple and it was still under warranty so they said they would check it over and fix it for free if it was determined it wasnt user error. Well theres a catch. Obviously you have to ship it there and that isnt a big deal (what like $5?) but they charge a "shipping and handling fee" of like $50 reguardless of whether it is found to be user error or not. On top of all of that, she said the problem sounded like a problem caused by a hard drop or hit (never dropped btw) and that it was most likely going not going to be under warranty. So it was going to cost more to fix it than it originally cost. So that sucked pretty bad.

I got to school and really wanted something to play music again. When the new ipods came out, I was going to snag another 4 gig since they went down in price like $50. Well, a guy down the hall got a free nano when he got his computer. Its the older style, but it was only $100 NIB so that was pretty cool.