GRRRRRR! MY CD PLAYER BROKE!

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Suddenly my portable cd player has stopped reading discs! I haven't dropped it and it doesn't look broken. Not fair! Fucking Dixons trying to charge me "only £35" or something for a warranty on a £50 walkman. What is it with these things? Are they powered by hamsters and if you don't take out warranty they give you one that has a heart condition or something? FUCK!

― dog latin (dog latin), Friday, 12 December 2003 13:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Portable cd players are almost always terrible, they break pretty easily.

― El Diablo Robotic (Nicole), Friday, 12 December 2003 13:35 (twenty-two years ago)

and Dixons are a complete bunch of shysters, I'm never giving them a penny again

― chris (chris), Friday, 12 December 2003 13:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Mine was robbed last week, I have gone through 3 in the last year. Never take out the warranty with them, they don't honour it anyway in my experience, unless you can haul in the one armed man that broke your discman or they happen to be there when it breaks.

Mine seldom break but are often robbed.

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 12 December 2003 13:37 (twenty-two years ago)

It was my third this year too. One was robbed and was actually replaced after about 3 months of protesting; the other got jumped on by some twat at a party but i couldn't get that replaced, but now this. I even kept it in a protective case in my satchel at ALL times so there's no way it could have been bashed or broken. It JUST STOPPED WORKING!
Dixons are fucking wankers, quite right.
Their warranty service is a big scam too. They claim they'll replace your hifi if they can't fix it. I had to send mine back five times in a year to get it fixed and it always came back still not working. Every time I asked them to replace it, they sent out another engineer who'd turn up at 7am and have forgotten his toolbox or somesuch. Then when I asked for a replacement, they'd find a tiny loophole. For instance they said if it gets returned four times in six months then you get a replacement but not outside of four months. Thing is they'd always take just under three weeks to fix it at a time, leaving me stereo free for most of those six months.
Fuck's sake, if you sell someone something that just breaks of it's own accord you should just own up and fucking replace it.

― dog latin (dog latin), Friday, 12 December 2003 13:56 (twenty-two years ago)

oooh don't get me started

― chris (chris), Friday, 12 December 2003 13:58 (twenty-two years ago)

time for an iPod.

― Chris B. Sure (Chris V), Friday, 12 December 2003 13:58 (twenty-two years ago)

When it just stopped working, did you change the batteries? That usually sorts mine out.

― Pete (Pete), Friday, 12 December 2003 14:05 (twenty-two years ago)

yeh, tried that. it doesn't play any of the cds either. i must say, they make these things pretty flimsily - especially the lid which could snap off with a slight nudge.

― dog latin (dog latin), Friday, 12 December 2003 14:19 (twenty-two years ago)

but it doesn't look damaged.

― dog latin (dog latin), Friday, 12 December 2003 14:21 (twenty-two years ago)

they are all crap, they used to be better quality, it seems, but I haven't had a regular one last more than a year without a problem in some time. I have an iRiver SlimX MP3CD player now which was kind of expensive and worked excellently for about six months and now has problems reading burned discs for no reason. Next purchase will be an iPod because moving parts are shit.

― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Friday, 12 December 2003 17:52 (twenty-two years ago)

woo-hoo! Silence = golden!

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Friday, 12 December 2003 17:52 (twenty-two years ago)

My cd player in my boom box broke.

― Aja (aja), Friday, 12 December 2003 17:53 (twenty-two years ago)

i hear the ipods crash / die a lot but i think they come with a free one year warranty.

― Dean Gulberry (deangulberry), Friday, 12 December 2003 18:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Don't you get a minimum of 12 months protection with anything you buy? You do in the UK, anyway (and even after that time, one can still sometimes argue that it was defective when sold).

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 12 December 2003 18:13 (twenty-two years ago)

A year ago I paid $70 American for my first MP3CD player -- a RioVolt. Half the MP3s on any given disc would be played back riddled with chirps and clicks and skips and distortion. I actually put up with it instead of trying to trade it in.

The next one I bought was far less expensive, far more reliable and was stingy on the battery usage. It was flung to the sidewalk accidentally earlier this summer but survived somehow. Then I dropped it on the floor a couple weeks later, and the flip-top-opening tab snapped off.

My current player (a Samsung "CDYepp") is kind of crap in that if I do anything that makes it jostle around "too much" -- such as having it in my coat pocket as I walk -- it starts skipping.

Dammit.

― nate detritus (natedetritus), Friday, 12 December 2003 18:17 (twenty-two years ago)

(I'm considering going back to using the one with the broken lid. I could just hold it together with electrical tape or something.)

― nate detritus (natedetritus), Friday, 12 December 2003 18:18 (twenty-two years ago)

What brand/model is the rugged one, nate?

dog latin: When CD players stop working you should clean the lens. Sometimes blowing compressed air on it is all you need to do.

― nickn (nickn), Saturday, 13 December 2003 08:28 (twenty-two years ago)

It's a Panasonic SL-SV550. As seen here. Only downsides to it is are:
1) there's no real display for track names or whatnot; you have to know what you'll be listening to going in
2) the volume is wonky (possibly lawsuit-proof ear-saving training-wheel crash helmet bullshit) in that cranking it all the way up is almost loud enough to hear over bus engines and gabby teenagers.

― nate detritus (natedetritus), Saturday, 13 December 2003 08:33 (twenty-two years ago)

I could use one that plays mp3s now, but my luck with portable elctronics is not very good. I sent my Philips player back to the service center last week after using it fewer than ten times.

― nickn (nickn), Saturday, 13 December 2003 08:44 (twenty-two years ago)

nickn, yeh I gave it a good blow but no luck. didn't look like the lense was dirty either.

― dog latin (dog latin), Sunday, 14 December 2003 23:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Broken lid = elastic band. This is the best fix in the world and will ensure your CD player lasts at least three years long that THE MAN envisioned.

― Pete (Pete), Monday, 15 December 2003 10:29 (twenty-two years ago)

They used to last forever. I have the same portable CD player I've had since about 1996. I got it from my brother - he bought it very early on, and the thing is indestructible as a battleship!

Maybe it's like portable cassette players used to be. My first one lasted for about 4 years. My second one lasted for 6 months. After that, I couldn't get one that lasted more than a few months. They build them shoddily with planned obsolescence because they know that people will have to replace them and give them more money.

― HRH Queen Kate (kate), Monday, 15 December 2003 10:42 (twenty-two years ago)

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