for sale

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FOR SALE: CHEAP

One 60GB iPod Photo

One year old. Thoroughly used. Backlight is burned out and definitely not repairable. Pause/Play button occasionally sticks. Remote control accessory port does not function. Hold switch does not engage. Unit is covered with scratches, some quite remarkable. Unit has been pried open repeatedly. Unit has been dropped. Conspicuous dent on bottom of case. Docking port has become corroded - synchronizing sometimes downshifts to USB 1 speed. Unit has minor debris on inside of display area. Unit has probably suffered water damage.

However: unit still plays music loud and clear, and holds a great charge!

:D

I repeat: CHEAP

Comments

[monkinnabeanpod.livejournal.com]

you should see if mr james. is interested!

[monkinnabeanpod.livejournal.com]

heee, I put the dot in the wrong place!

[monkinnabeanpod.livejournal.com]

or make me a deal, and I'll buy it for james :) !

[penguin-boy.livejournal.com]

HAY I work at the Apple Store, I could maybe get fixed I DNO

How much $$$ you want?

[robocowboy.livejournal.com]

What did you do to it??

heh

[garote]

I've been using it just about every day since I got it, and of all the iPods I've owned, I've treated it the absolute worst. I bought no case for it, and carried it around almost exclusively in the front pocket of my jeans. Once in a while it would end up next to my keys in there.

When using it in the car, I would shove it in the accessory slot beneath the radio, regardless of what other items were in there. Sometimes I would carry it in a sweater pocket, or the front pocket of my overalls, when it was too cold out to go fumbling around in my pants. Every now and then it would fall out from there.

A couple times I took it out of my pocket to sit down, and put it on my desk. Then I'd get up and walk away, forgetting it wasn't in my pocket, and it would slide to the floor.

Actually all those accidents didn't affect the iPod functionally... It just got a progressively more scratched. It was when I left it in my raincoat pocket in a warm room when all the functional damage began. Some water had oozed into the pocket, and the iPod soaked it up for a couple of hours.

When I pulled it out, the display was flickering and there was condensation on the inside of the window. I held it next to a gas heater and tried to vacuum it out but that only helped a little. So I got out a set of tiny screwdrivers and opened it up.

That's when I saw all the dirt and corrosion inside. Apparently it had been building up for quite a while. I used Q-tips and rubbing alcohol to clean all the parts I could get to, including the window of the screen, and a polishing cloth to dry it out, but the backlight worked less and less until it stopped working altogether. I reassembled the iPod, resigned to continue using it without a backlight, but shortly afterwards the hold switch stopped working.

And if I can't engage the hold switch, I can't really use this iPod.

[beatings.livejournal.com]

Yah, how cheap are we talking? :D

You know I love gutted equipment...

[garote]

SRSLY, an iPod without a hold switch will drive you bonkers. But just in case you're SRSLY interested, I've placed you "second in line". Miz Monkinabeanpod is first, and I'll know her verdict in a couple hours.

(She's my housemate, and her and me and La are having a low-key Christmas here at home in Santa Cruz)

[garote]

oop! It's been sold! TOO LATE SUCKA!!11!!11
PWN3D

[thegoodreverend.livejournal.com]

K TNX BYE

[monkinnabeanpod.livejournal.com]

MWAHAHAHAHAHHAAHAHAHAAAAA!!!!