I bought the above pictured Chinese made iPod knock-off on eBay for $42 (free shipping). I was actually pretty happy with it aside from two problems.
1) As you can see from the picture the auction claimed it has 8GB of memory. And it shows as having 7.something GB capacity when you connect it to computer via USB. But try to put more than 2GB of files on it and you get "The File Not Exist" errors (Engrish = quality). Checking online I found that most such media players are memory hacked to show a higher capacity than it acutally has so this is a common fib.
2) The auction claimed something like 10 hours battery life for music and 5 hours for video. It's actually MUCH shorter. I'm not sure exactly but after one hour playing music the battery meter showed about half.
Anyway, it has a 14-day return/refund policy and a 1 year warranty (but seeing how true the rest of the claims were who knows) so I was debating whether to ask for a refund or just accept as still a pretty good device for the price.
BUT THEN, I broke it. At work today it fell out of my pocket. And when I tried to use it later the touch screen wouldn't respond. Then I noticed it had cracked in the corner.
So the point in posting this is I'm wondering which is the better course of action. Should I pretend it was broken when I got it and demand a refund or do I ask for a refund for the two legitimate reasons and pretend it must've broken on the way back to them?
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