Who here bought the Zen Micro between last month and now

When did you buy it's (From Begining of last month till now)</LI>
Did you have any problems? What were they?</LI>
See, I'm about to buy one, but some of those who bought it latetly have had major problems:smileysurprised:...has anyone else who bought it from last month till now had any problems?
Please reply, I really need help

ok if you buy a zen micro now, to you its new. but it may have been sitting in the shop for 6 months, thus isnt new, where as someone who bough theres 2 months ago might have bought it from brand new stock and so its only 2 months old.
creative have made little fixes to the players, slight hardware revisions and sending them with the latest firmware update, so you cant really tell how new you player is just by when you bought it. so to find out if the really new players still have the problems you cant just ask who bought theres recently and how many problems they still have.

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