My Ipod Doesn't Work!!!!

Apple really has a fantastic way of screwing their customers. It's amazing a company with this type of customer support can stay in business. Just got off the phone with technical support, after my second ipod in the last 6 months has broken for no reason. I asked them, is this normal? He responds "ya, ipods are build to have a life of about a year. Really? 300 bucks for at best a years worth of use? Good deal. Here is the best part. If you are under warrenty you have to pay $40 to ship? Have you ever heard of something that weights under a pound costing $40 to ship? Here's an even better thing about apples repair service. They send you a refurbished unit that inherits the old Ipods warrenty. Pretty brillant. They build an Ipod to break just before your warrenty expires. You spend $40 to get a new unit. But you only have a matter of weeks before that warrenty expires, and then guess what happens? You guessed it, your Ipod breaks again for no reason. What do they suggest? You can pay $265 to get that repaired, or you can spend $300 for a new Ipod. Great deal either way wouldn't you say? There website says award winning service. They must hand out their own awards. Like best service and support for screwing your customers. And of course they don't have an email option so you can send your complaints, because their mailbox would fill up to quickly to ever get a response. Cheers to Ipod for building garbage products, having horrible service, and yet still managing to sell millions of products. I wish I knew how they did it!

Thank you for saving me the time to post my thoughts.
iPods have some nice features, but Ill take less features to have something that is reliable and consistent. My iPod works like a charm for 3 weeks and is worthless until I scour the internet just to find a solution for something that honestly....NEVER SHOULD HAVE HAPPENED.
Either Apple has mediocre production lines, or they are making garbage hardware so that one has to RE-purchase an iPod. Well, hopefully they would go with something other than an iPod. But, who knows. All I know is that I wish I had the $$ to spend so that I could either A)speak with Apple support over the telephone or B)replace my iPod (with something different).
Its such a shame too, because I hear great things from Apple computer owners/users.

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