Don’t Be This Consumer

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Instead, he used the oldest black hat consumer trick and bought a new video ipod, put the old ipod in, and returned it.

This kid bought a video ipod from Best Buy, along with a $100 extended warranty. A few months later, it started getting slow and glitchy. He took it back and got pissed because Best Buy told him to mail it in, on his “own dime,” on the Apple warranty.

Instead, he used the oldest black hat consumer trick and bought a new video ipod, put the old ipod in, and returned it.

Congrats, diphead, now your $100 extended warranty is worthless. But at least you saved on shipping.

In the time it took him to make this razor video, he could have reformatted the iPod and reinstalled the software. (Thanks to Phil!)

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