Re:Scruffy seconds. (Score 2, Interesting)

I agree! My MuVo2 4G thingy died two weeks after I got it. After three days, about two hours of hold music and five customer service people they sent me a *refurbished* replacement. I thought I would be readily accommodated and receive a *new* replacement. So I was all nice and polite as usual when I finally got through to a human. Instead I got transfered to every department, as if no one wanted to deal with me, with one guy in the tech dept. insisting (in a rather condescending way) that I repeat something I had already tried five or six times when I referred to to the troubleshooting instructions in the manual and on their support pages. That refurbished MuVo died not one week after the warranty expired. It froze, ran out of juice, and never responded to anything ever again. I have a grand scheme to take it apart some day and give the insides a dirty look.

So... wanting to remain non-conformist and avoid drinking the iKool-Aid, I got a Nomad 6G, which did the exact same freaking thing - died just after the one year warranty was up. This time it just stopped in mid-play, went blank and never played another note. That one is not as square so its uses are limited as an inert object. At least the MuVo is keeping one of my tables even on my warped wood floors.

I got lucky - I was given a free iPod 60G a week before the Nomad died, which is now 4 years old and still works its little heart out. Never again will I buy from Creative. I'm now a full-fledged Mac convert, with much better results so far in my never-ending tech gear saga.