I've been trying to buy a Zune so that I won't have to bring all my CDs with me to college, 'cause that would just be insane with all the CDs I have. But so far I have gone through two purchases and they are both defective!!! The first one I was suspicious of from the start because it had obviously been repackaged, but it was the last one the store had. So I gave it a try and naturally it didn't work. It would send static through the headphones (I tried more than one pair of headphones) and it would shut off randomly and not turn back on (and the battery was fully charged). I even tried restarting it like the help website said and it would NOT turn on. Geek squad tested it at the store and they said it was definitely defective.

So I exchanged that one for a new one a week later. This one was definitely new, but it worried me when I got home and saw that the bottom of the box says "for sale in Canada only." Yeah...weird, since I'm in the US. Well, turns out that one is defective too! Same static as the first one, and the battery will not stay charged at all. I charged this thing for five hours and got 45 minutes of play!!!! Now I have to return that one too.

To make matters worse, I bought a case for the second Zune that came with a screen guard, so the screen would stay nice and unscratched. Only problem is, the freakin' screen guard was not in the package! And they wouldn't believe me, so I couldn't return the darn thing either. I'm going to a different Best Buy location next time, because this just shouldn't be happening. I don't think the Zune product is the problem, I think that my local store just resells defective returned crap. I'm spending a lot of money on a MP3 player here, and I want it to be in working order!

Anyway, rant over now. Just needed to get that out.