Considering Purchase - Worried about reviews concerning water damage
So I am considering a purchase of a Touch and was looking at the reviews on Amazon. There are quite a few bad reviews regarding water damage to the touch and Apple not honoring warranty coverage if there is absolutely any sign of water damage. Apparently this water damage is even caused by simple condensation that can occur from going inside from the outside cold. I live in Chicago so this would obviously be a concern of mine during the winter.
It would seem that if this is true - then I wouldnt want to risk that and having a $300-$400 dollar paper weight after awhile. Many reviewers said this happened to them within weeks/couple of months of purchase.
Has anyone here heard of this issue or experience it themselves? I really dont want to purchase one if this is true. I went back about 15 pages of this forum and so far have found no mention of this water damage issue. Although I do recall about a month ago seeing a news report about Apple lowering their cost of repair/replacemnt of a water damaged Iphone to about $180 or something like that.
Anyway, any help/info on this issue will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance!!
You should be aware that some of those anonymous product reviews are posted by the competition, posing as regular customers. I'm not saying this happens in particular with the iPod touch; it happens to a certain extent with all popular products.
Also, you have to consider it statistically (even if you believe the reviews are generally true). Apple sells millions of iPod touches (37 million combined iPhone and iPod touch unit sales as of last quarter). Most people will not bother with posting a review, whether it is positive or negative. But they are more likely to post a review, or post a comment here, if there is a problem. So most people are not going to post anything just to say "everything is just great with my iPod touch and I am happy." So how many iPod touch users are out there, in Chicago and elsewhere, who are perfectly happy with their iPod touch for every customer that runs into a problem? I don't know; no one knows. But if you happen to see a few hundred bad customer product reviews, that is a tiny miniscule fraction of total number of iPod touch customers out there, most of whom are probably satisfied and did not bother to take the time to post anything anywhere.
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