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Where the hell do you get off saying shit like that, without doing your research - EXACTLY like the guy who made the video?

Of course charging $250 to replace a battery is ridiculous.  But, if you bother to look around for about 10 seconds, you'll find you can buy a battery for $50 from ipodbattery.com, and it's a matter of minutes to replace it in the old style ipods.

So far from having more money than I know what to do with, or swallowing what companies give me, I take the time to look a little deeper into what I own and what is going on, and doing enough research to be truly informed.  I don't expect any corporation to do anything BUT screw the consumer, so I take steps to ensure that when it happens, I'll be ready.  It's not that hard, unless you have too much 'self-respect' to learn a thing or two on your own, I guess.

Chris

P.S. Keep on drawing conclusions about me and all of Western Civilization based on a post to a mailing list, it makes you look so very intelligent. 
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On Mon, 22 Dec 2003 17:37:29  
 Rob Yale wrote:
>He was told that the battery would cost $250US.  So as I understand it, 
>you'd be willing to fork over that kind of money for a battery?  I also 
>take it that you think that consumers should simply buy what's sold to 
>them, and not complain?  If the answer to the above two questions is 
>yes, I would have to conclude that you have more money than you know 
>what to do with, and that you are that marketeers dream - the perfect 
>consumer.  You swallow what you're fed, pay up and shut up.
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>Frankly I hope the majority of the Western World have more self-respect 
>than you seem to exhibit.  If not, it would be fair to characterize us 
>as a population of automatons - programmed to hand over dollars and 
>ingest whatever form of excrement that manufacturers want to hand us.
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>Rob Yale
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>On Dec 22, 2003, at 12:14 PM, Chris Butler wrote:
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>> No, the guy was just too lazy to buy a new battery and replace it 
>> himself, so he whined and whined about it until he got his way.
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>> Plate of shrimp
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>> On Tue, 23 Dec 2003 00:19:33 
>> Murray McDowall wrote:
>> >dfusion2000@... wrote:
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>> >>Yeah, it sucks to know the battery will crap out.  But Apple will
>> >>fix it for free if it happens in a year or you can buy an extended
>> >>warranty.  Honestly though, I think after a few years most people
>> >>will buy a new one, like getting a new cell phone.  Their becoming
>> >>commodity (cell phones AND mp3 players).
>> >
>> >The point of the article in the link was that Apple originally did not
>> >offer  replacement batteries. The guy at the centre of the story was 
>> amazed
>> >and disgusted that they just wanted him to junk the unit and buy 
>> another.
>> >He and his brother then applied a little pressure through the 
>> multimedia
>> >dramatisation they created and,  lo and behold, Apple came up with a 
>> change
>> >in policy. NOW they do offer a battery replacement scheme.
>> >
>> >
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