I just signed up for a Microsoft event in the Chicago area, and was told all attendees would be given Zunes... another sign the Zune Glut continues in full swing.

Maybe the fact that they are only discounting them 20% off in a closing store, is why they have so many of them left...

They are 198 on the tweeter website. I wonder what that dollar is about.

Most distributors don't allow any Zunes to be returned to them, so resellers who brought them in are stuck with their current inventory until sold, somehow.

If you really want a Zune, you can probably name your own price.

Staples now carries them for $199.

I wouldn't mind a Zune but it has to be heavily discounted for me to consider it.

Already even the word Zune sounds so 2006.

and iPod sounds so Trustfundy

Yes, because the $79 entry level iPod is so overpriced compared to the comparable $74 Creative entry level MP3 player...

As someone who saw this abortive effort forming up almost a year ago, I almost hate to say "I told you so".

What did Zune give the market? Nothing that wasn't already offered from other, standards-based vendors in a more stylish, similarly-priced package.

Microsoft Mee-Tooism at work.

Creative labs has a player called the stone, its 40 bucks and is the only comparable player to the shuffle that creative sells. Products at the 74 dollar level boast a far greater deal of features, like a screen.

If you're in the market for a Zune, you might want to check your local psychiatrist.

you guys can keep your lame ipods, stones & zunes b/c i gots the multimedia player that rules them all: edork! http://igargoyle.com/archives/frame13.jpg

i'll buy a couple when they filter down to tuesday morning - it is just a matter of time..

@ mwwilk: What event is this?

maybe i'll just squirt myself over to the nearest tweeter store and have a look see (or i'll just stick with my ipod and shuffle)

im really out of it.....what's a ZUNE??????????

I'd actually like a Zune...people can come up to me and ask "WTF is that," and I'll say "It's a poor man's iPod!"

Seriously, I would buy it. The Zune is nice and big, and the iPod would disappear from my hands an hour after I bought one. Of course, the way the Zune is going down the shitter, I can wait a month or so.

Next week, the sign will read "For the love of god, SOMEBODY buy these things! It's too expensive to bury them somewhere."

or better...who would want to steal a Zune?

Zunes and iPods are both big pieces of turds. Only difference being that Zune has an FM Radio (and a useless Wireless card) but the iPod looks cooler.

Funny story. One of my friends sister bought a Zune cuz she liked the large screen. Then she had a ton of problems setting it up on her *wait* Windows XP laptop so she returned it.

Conclusion: She bought an iPOD Nano and had no trouble syncing it up on her HP laptop running XP.

Moral: The Zune is a real turd among turds.

hop: How can you expect anyone to tell you, using only 10 "?"s. You gotta use at least 15, or you're not trying hard enough.

@revmatty: $50 on the apple refurbed store!! $54 with sales tax and free shipping.

I like my iPod. Thanks.