What the What! (please read as this might help w/ your adventures in shopping)

RANT ALERT!

 

Bought a new Ipod Shuffle for 55 Dollars at Target.

For the Chiclet. Hence the pink color.

She wanted something simple for listening to music.

She spent time picking out stickers and making a list of requests tune-wise.

We finally got it all charged up, loaded up , and ready to go.

Handed it over and guess what?

The latest Ipod shuffles only work w/ the earbuds they are packaged with.

Seriously!

 

We tried a little speaker system we had picked up for her.

Also various headphones around the house.

We checked all of the packaging and the box.

No statement of any kind about having to use the enclosed earbuds.

!!!!

Or that it wouldn't work w/ other after market accessories.

!!!!!

 

Went over to Amazon.com to read what others had to say.

It was true...and we weren't the only purchasers that had this suprise.

One guy wrote that he had tossed his earbuds in the garbage while on a jog only to find that they were needed!

There is a Belkin after market adapter...which everyone on Amazon wrote lousy reviews of.

It's cheap & falls apart quickly.

 

So....as far as I can tell....for the 1st time in personal listening device history...you have to listen w/ the headphones (earbuds provided).

 

How exactly do you listen to this anywhere else?

Car?

Stereo?

We found that if you pull the earbuds out of the Ipod shuffle it will immediately turn itself off.

!!!!!!

 

Feels like we got the old bait and switch.

 

 

So Dana (the only person in the house who enjoys the earbuds) got a new pink Ipod shuffle. Not exactly what we'd planned but she likes it as an unintentional Mothers Day gift!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Done