I went to Target to buy a new one, an 80GB black one. I take it home and open it up.

The screen is covered with fingerprints, the back is slightly smudged, the USB cable is in the headphone box, and the headphones are in the USB cable box. Hmmmmm.

I charge it up, turn it on, and lo and behold, it was owned by someone named Nate and it has 50GB of content on it already.

I paid full price for a new Zune and got a used one instead with no guarantee that it wasn’t broken. Thanks, Target, you jackasses. Why the hell are you RESELLING previously-owned items, regardless of why they were returned?

Good old Live Search Club… first a free wireless PC headset, now this.

Also, a coworker gave me a 20GB U2 edition iPod (4th gen) that “wasn’t working”. It was out of warranty, so she didn’t want to drop $200 on a repair when she could get a new one for $250. Turns out the hard drive was just a little loose.

Considering that I just lost my 5-year-old Nomad to a busted headphone jack, getting ~50GB of media player goodness for free isn’t half bad.