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Refurbed 8GB iPod touch for $220

Isaac — Mon, 05 May 2008 20:41:21 EDT

@SgtMac02: Yes and it also doesn't play crysis. But nobody cares about either.

Isaac

Refurbed 8GB iPod touch for $220

rbedi — Thu, 01 May 2008 19:40:42 EDT

@ChromiumSwitch:
1.0.0, I would guess. You'll have to update it to the current firmware version.

rbedi

Refurbed 8GB iPod touch for $220

dinger_82 — Thu, 01 May 2008 15:37:12 EDT

@ChromiumSwitch: It means it doesn't have the phone-type apps they released in Jan/Feb... Mail support, weather, notes, stocks, maps and the like. So it will cost you $20 to get them from iTunes.

dinger_82

Refurbed 8GB iPod touch for $220

Tsumi91 — Thu, 01 May 2008 15:32:09 EDT

I'd rather get a 4gb Archos 605 wifi for ~180-200 plus the cost of an sd-hc card

Tsumi91

Refurbed 8GB iPod touch for $220

ChromiumSwitch — Thu, 01 May 2008 14:54:41 EDT

@Ph30nix & M e d i a d d i c t: Thanks, I just ordered me one. I can only hope it hasn't yet been upgraded with the Smell-o-vision profile of the previous owner.

ChromiumSwitch

Refurbed 8GB iPod touch for $220

Monty — Thu, 01 May 2008 14:44:28 EDT

@Rupan: I guess the thinking is: If you can afford the tuition to be a student these days, you can afford to pay full price for gadgets.

Isn't it usually the parents that have to pay for it anyway? We need a discount for not being a student. :)

Monty

Refurbed 8GB iPod touch for $220

Rupan — Thu, 01 May 2008 14:20:48 EDT

I just checked the student price and it is still $229. No discount there. Apple has been getting pretty stingy with student discounts lately. From what I remember they used to apply to everything and were pretty good. Now they only apply to the systems and the discounts aren't nearly as big.

Rupan

Refurbed 8GB iPod touch for $220

xirian — Thu, 01 May 2008 14:11:19 EDT

I got an 8gb from the BX for $239, no tax. And the normal warranty. Worth the extra $19 to me.

xirian

Refurbed 8GB iPod touch for $220

SgtMac02 — Thu, 01 May 2008 14:02:13 EDT

@ChromiumSwitch: Still more than a 20gb Zune...

SgtMac02

Refurbed 8GB iPod touch for $220

daftrok — Thu, 01 May 2008 14:00:57 EDT

@ChromiumSwitch:

Just get this:
[store.archos.com]

daftrok

Refurbed 8GB iPod touch for $220

ChromiumSwitch — Thu, 01 May 2008 14:00:52 EDT

Also, does anybody know what they mean by "Original software release"?

ChromiumSwitch

Refurbed 8GB iPod touch for $220

DaOtter — Thu, 01 May 2008 13:53:21 EDT

God, Woot is wonderful. Nowhere else on the web can you fill your house with random, useless clutter and feel so freaking good about it! :D

DaOtter

Refurbed 8GB iPod touch for $220

ChromiumSwitch — Thu, 01 May 2008 13:49:17 EDT

So what do you guys reckon- if I were to wait until the Second Coming (probably July, right?), how much less than this will the 8 gig be?

ChromiumSwitch

Refurbed 8GB iPod touch for $220

cayton — Thu, 01 May 2008 13:31:12 EDT

@Ph30nix: @M e d i a d d i c t: Plus, I think you can use apple's student discount, if, you know, you are a student.

cayton

Refurbed 8GB iPod touch for $220

M e d i a d d i c t — Thu, 01 May 2008 13:20:27 EDT

Ph30nix is right:
[store.apple.com]

M e d i a d d i c t

Refurbed 8GB iPod touch for $220

Ph30nix — Thu, 01 May 2008 13:08:03 EDT

Apple has refurbs for $230 w/a 1 year warranty.

Ph30nix

Refurbed 8GB iPod touch for $220

GeekyNerdGuy — Thu, 01 May 2008 13:03:52 EDT

I wonder what breaks the most on these things. In other words, what was the leading cause of these things becoming refurbs? Faulty touch screen? Bad memory? Some other component?

GeekyNerdGuy

Refurbed 8GB iPod touch for $220

zerooveride427 — Thu, 01 May 2008 13:01:21 EDT

Just thought I'd let you know, I got an 8gb iPod Nano (current gen) from Woot about a month ago. It was refurbished and had the same warranty. I was able to walk into Apple, have them look it up and was able to add AppleCare to it, which added about 2 years to the warranty.

zerooveride427