First off, I agree that Apple should have handled this better...not sure what the back story is on why, but needless to say it should have been handled better.

Secondly, I agree with the above poster...I have had nothing but good experiences with Apple, especially the retail stores, when bringing in equipment that has failed. Several iPods (of which my family of 6 has had numerous over the years) have been replaced, exchanged, no questions asked. A couple were out of warranty.

My most recent experience was with my daughter's MacBook. Purchased for college, it was about 4 years old, when just before Christmas, the screen started to fail, then eventually did. It was out of warranty, and certainly had seen better days. We brought it in and they told us it could be one of several issues and that the repair would be ~360. This was fine, as a new machine was certainly much more. Several days later, she got an email that it was ready and the total bill was $120. That was a pleasant surprise, we figured that they must have found the problem to be a simple repair. When we picked up her MacBook, it has a new screen, a new keyboard, a new bezel around the keyboard (old one was cracked), plus they replaced a power supply and something on the GPU board that death with the screen. She practically had a "new" 4 year old MacBook.

So, this is just one more reason why I am a satisfied Apple customer.

I had that book as a kid!

The "Pocket Rocket" (while not a paper airplane) was seriously the most fun a 10 year old could have with a pack of matches, some tin foil and a paper clip. From there I graduated to some seriously large and quite dangerous solid fuel and liquid fuel rockets. None of that Estes rocket stuff, these were home brews, including a full LED indicated launch control board that was capable of 4 separate launches with fail safe and low power ignition check to the filament "fuses."

Times have changed, I'm sure some of my "creations" would be heavily regulated today.

It's called the Clean Hands Doctrine. And yes it is very relevant that the "plaintiffs" to-be are trading in borderline illegal activities and otherwise unsavory characters.

When Farrah Fawcett arrived at heaven, God granted her one wish. She wished for all the children in the world to be safe. So God killed Michael Jackson