In response to our request for a statement on what iPod Mechanic did to rectify its customer service issues, owner Nick Woodhams says:
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iPod Mechanic Bristles Over Post
By 8.31.06
Two months after we posted a negative user review, the owner of iPodMechanic.com sent us this note:
Don’t Be This Consumer
By 8.21.06
Instead, he used the oldest black hat consumer trick and bought a new video ipod, put the old ipod in, and returned it.
Reader Explains the Circuit City DMCA Disconnect
By 8.7.06
Hey, we’re all for Circuit City flouting the DMCA. It’s a bogus law, as anti-consumer as they come. So we were a bit disappointed when Bill Cimino, director of corporate communications, clarified that the sign wasn’t the opening jab in a legal title fight between Circuit City and the RIAA/MPAA, but was instead a disconnect between the wishes of corporate and that particular Circuit City’s store manager.
UPDATE: Circuit City Flouts The DMCA For A Tenner
By 8.7.06
Despite the sign we posted on Friday, Circuit City says they are not offering a copyright-breaking DVD to iPod service.
Circuit City Flouts The DMCA For A Tenner
By 8.4.06
Well, well, well! Look who’s violating the Digital Millennium Copyright Act! For only a couple of fins, Circuit City will take your DVD and an iPod and flagrantly breach copyright at your behest.
Teaser for Zune, Microsoft’s iPod
By 7.27.06
The News; Say it With Brio, Say it With Bernake!
By 7.20.06
• Consumer affairs just got a whole lot sexier! [WP] “Avoiding Customer Service Nightmares”
Best Posts Ever, This Week
By 7.13.06
Most popular stories of the week so far, excluding anything that has to do with AOL. We’re gonna play it cool like that, and ignore the top seven results or so.
iPods Killed The Genius Bar
By 7.11.06
One of the blogs I’ve been following recently after my experience at the Apple ‘Genius’ bar with a smug doofus who told me I’d have to return my $2,000 laptop because he couldn’t figure out how to turn a screwdriver counterclockwise is ungenius, the chronicles of an ex-Genius detailing life behind the Bar. I haven’t linked it before now because it’s never really as incriminating as I’d like.
Kill A Man At Ten Paces With An iPod Nano
By 6.30.06
While we’re subversively busy this morning giving our TSA lurkers more bullet-points for cool swag they can justify confiscating from us as dangerous weapons (we imagine a common determinant in their thought process is: “Wouldn’t I look just darling in that passenger’s swank rhinestone belt and Gucci stilettos?”) let’s add the iPod Nano to the list!
iPod Factory Admits Breaking Chinese Labor Laws
By 6.26.06
As you can easily imagine, breaking labor laws in China is a bit hard to do as an employer. However, Foxconn managed to do just that by forcing the workers in the Apple iPod factories to work up to 80 extra hours per month. Under local law, laborers can only be forced to work 36 extra hours.
iPodMechanic.com Takes Broken iPod, Runs
By 6.22.06
With the meaty heel of a palm resounding against the center of your forehead with a leathery slap, this might strike many of you as particularly astounding advice, but we think it needs to be said: please, please do not mail your $400 iPod to some random Internet stranger proclaiming himself to be an iPod Mechanic. Especially if there isn’t even a phone number on the website.
HazMat Protesters Drop Mad Science
By 6.21.06
Here’s another version of the DRM protest involving hazmat suits and the San Fran Apple store. It’s got less Talking Heads, more people speaking about (or, heads talking…) about why DRM is bad. If you don’t know why it is, watch. If you do and would like to have your beliefs affirmed, watch. If you like sweaty geeks, watch. All we know is DRM prevented us from easily transmogrifying our sister into the next Grandmaster Flash, so now we’re totally mad against it, even more than we were madly before.
