{"id":99,"date":"2005-01-25T11:41:14","date_gmt":"2005-01-25T11:41:14","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-05-31T16:13:36","modified_gmt":"2010-05-31T21:13:36","slug":"busted-ipod-best-buy-life-lesson-13457","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2005\/01\/25\/busted-ipod-best-buy-life-lesson-13457\/","title":{"rendered":"Busted iPod, Best Buy &#8211; Life Lesson #13457"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well yesterday morning it finally happened.  My trusty iPod fell out of my coat pocket right smack dab on the street.  The poor guy did not look worse for the wear, but of course my music was slightly skippy and static filled after the fall.<\/p>\n<p>I never pay for extended warranties or the like because I do not feel they are worth the money.  However, since I just spent $399 + tax on this contraption I let the Best Buy sales lady talk me into a replacement plan.  Or so I thought.  The nice lady told me how it was easier for them (i.e. Best Buy) to just give me a new iPod instead of sending it in for a replacement battery.  Same thing went for a busted iPod.  It sounded too good to be true, but I guess I was drunk on iPod happiness at the time, so I forked over another $40 for the replacement plan.<\/p>\n<p>Last night I took my iPod into Best Buy and the repair guy informed me that they would ship my iPod off for repairs.  When I questioned him \u201cWhy? I thought I would get a replacement.\u201d I was told that I actually had a Product Service Plan (PSP) not a Product Replacement Plan (PRP).<\/p>\n<p>Of course my reaction was \u201cWhat the hell?  That was not what I was told at the time of purchase.\u201d  I told the guy the sales pitch I received and he said something like \u201cShow me who and I will kick them.\u201d  I told him to go kick the person that showed up on the receipt since the register number and clerk were on the print-out.  He did not think that was very clever.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, long story short, at one time Best Buy did PRPs for MP3 players, but I guess they got smart and realized that was not such a good idea for them.  So now my iPod is on a trip to the official Apple iPod repair place, in parts unknown, and is not scheduled to show back up until February 3rd.<\/p>\n<p>Sucks for me.  The life lesson of the story is to not drop your iPod on the street.  And you figured I was going to give some \u201cmoral of the story\u201d spill about reading the fine print on product service\/replacement plans.<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well yesterday morning it finally happened. My trusty iPod fell out of my coat pocket right smack dab on the street. The poor guy did not look worse for the wear, but of course my music was slightly skippy and static filled after the fall. I never pay for extended warranties or the like because &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2005\/01\/25\/busted-ipod-best-buy-life-lesson-13457\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Busted iPod, Best Buy &#8211; Life Lesson #13457<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2637,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions\/2637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}