• [SIZE="3"][B]CLASSIFIED FORUM POLICY[/B][/SIZE] [B]Updated May 26th, 2010[/B]

    The Classifieds forum is provided by iLounge as a free 'marketplace' to buy, sell or trade Apple media devices (iPods/iPhones/iPads/tvs) or related accessories.

    It is not to be used for the sale of products by or to commercial entities, as defined by the commercial forum policy found here.

    Permitted Items

    • iPods
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    • Apple TVs and related accessories
    • iPod, iPhone and iPad accessories, such as cables, cases, speakers, headphones, docks, etc.
    • Original CDs or other original recorded music formats.

    Note that when listing an iPhone for sale, the seller must clearly indicate whether or not the iPhone is locked to a particular carrier, and if so which carrier the iPhone is for.

    Prohibited Items

    • Computer software of any kind.
    • Computer equipment such as laptops, desktop computers, monitors, or other peripherals that are not iPod related
    • Non-iPod handheld devices such as personal digital assistants (PDAs), other MP3 players/DAPs, cellular phones, or portable gaming systems, whether or not they also happen to play digital audio/video content.
    • Gift certificates/prepaid cards (e.g. iTunes Music Store or Apple Store gift cards).
    • Personally recorded media of any kind. This includes any kind of content distributed on a recordable CD/DVD, casette, diskette, or any other media format, including the content of an iPod itself. While we recognize that we cannot force a user to erase their hard drive before selling their iPod, existing content of an iPod should not be advertised as a selling point.
    • Any item or lot of items with a selling price in excess of $750 US.
    • Other items that are not directly related to the use or care of an Apple media device or related accessory

    Please note that the list of items above includes items for sale as well as requests to buy, and requests for trades. If you are not allowed to sell it, you are not allowed to trade it or advertise it for trade. Any adverts for prohibited items will be removed without notice.

    All members making use of this forum should exercise caution in any deals that they may decide to follow up. While 99.5% of transactions close without a problem and both parties are usually satisfied, there are those individuals who like to take advantage and use the internet as a way to scam people out of their hard earned money.

    We have set up a Buyer & Seller Feedback area for positive or negative feedback on previous transactions. You are advised to check the feedback on members before commencing.

    You are strongly advised to use the most secure method of payment for any item you are buying or selling. Some general advice can be found here.

    If we discover that a member has been involved in any dishonest activity in the forums we will ban that person and if there is evidence of a crime we will co-operate fully with the victim and/or law enforcement agencies to assist in making sure that justice is done.

    Remember, we cannot guarantee that an individual is who they say they are, nor that they have the item they are selling.

    When posting items, please keep the title of your thread concise, but include sufficient details to describe what you are selling. Also please include the prefix "FS:" (For Sale), "WTB:" (Wanted To Buy) or "WTT:" (Wanted To Trade) as this lets someone browsing the list clearly see the status of an item.

    Once your thread is no longer necessary (e.g. you have sold your item), please close it. There is an option to do this in the "Thread Tools" menu at the top of the thread. Only close your thread when you are sure that you no longer need it. Closed threads will automatically be moved into the Archived Classifieds forum, as will threads with no activity in 60 days or more.

    New Member Restrictions

    To help reduce the number of fraudulent listings from users who clearly sign up for iLounge merely to post such listings, we have instituted a new policy on the use of the Classifieds forum by new members.

    New "Freshman Loungers" will only be able to read the Classified forum and respond to existing threads and posts -- they will not be able to start their own threads offering items for sale until such time as they have reached "Regular Member" status ("Junior Lounger") which occurs after 10 posts have been made and they have been a member for at least 7 days.

  • With the number of recent threads from brand new users that we have observed in our Classifieds forum selling goods under questionable circumstances, we have instituted a new policy restricting new members of iLounge from posting new threads in the Classifieds forum until they have reached "Regular Member" status.

    New users become Regular Members once they have made 10 posts and been a member of the iLounge Forums for at least 7 days. Prior to this time, members may still read the Classifieds forum, and even respond to existing threads for items being sold by other members, but they may not create new threads advertising their own items for sale.

    This will hopefully help to protect our user community by discouraging fraudulent users from signing up and posting classified ads without having at least a very basic level of established membership in our forums.

    Obviously all users should still exercise due diligence when making use of our classifieds forums, but we hope that this restriction will help to decrease the number of blatantly fraudulent ads that we have been seeing in recent weeks.

    Please be sure to review our Classified Forum Policy for more information.

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Thread ID to iPod listed in Clasifieds - 141502

After several converstations back and forth I agreed to purchase his 4Gen iPod. Took delivery of the unit (1/17) and I immediately noticed a problem. The headphones that was included in the deal were shot. A short somewhere in the connection point. I was a little miffed but I have several other pairs of headphones. No big loss.

I plugged in a different pair of headphones and played a few of the songs he included on the iPod. Things seemed fine. Then I noticed that if I move the iPod just right with the headphones plugged in the iPod stopped playing and I would have to hit play to resume the song. At first I thought I just didn't plug the headphones in all the way but that wasn't the case.

Fast forward a few days later (1/21) and decided to get a few songs off the iPod and format it again so I could start to copy over my library. Everything went fine until I started to copy over the songs. iTunes would die a horrible death after copying over about 95 songs. iTunes would lock up and the iPod would freeze. I tried it again listening to the iPod and heard a strange noise from the hard drive and then the drive stopped spinning and then restarted. This happened every time I tried to copy my library over. Even tried using EphPod.

I should have been leary when he mentioned that he didn't accept returns and it is sold as-is. Here is an excerpt from my AIM log.

[18:23] HIM: u do understand from the listing that i accept no returns and it is sold as is
[18:23] ME: yeah..we have no problem as long as your description is accurate...
[18:23] HIM: yea ok
[18:23] ME: it powers up and works fine correct?
[18:23] HIM: yep
[18:23] HIM: plays music and all

I didn't see him AIM for a few days so I sent him an e-mail and this was his response....

"It must be a computer problem on your end because i had no problems putting music on the ipod. i sent the ipod already formatted, so maybe when you reformatted it it corrupted the hard drive. I used iPod Agent to put music on there. Sorry about the headphones i havent used it in a while so i was unaware they were shot."

Well needless to say I had a $180 paper weight. I decided to send the iPod into the repair center to see what they said. I just received an e-mail on (1/25) letting me know the hard drive is indeed shot. Since I'm getting the hard drive replaced they decided to throw in the repair of the headphone jack for free.

Personally I think he knew about both of these problems. At this point the only satisfactory resoultion would be for Cog to pay for half of my repair bill for the new hard drive. The drive was $150.00 so $75.
 
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