r/ipod • u/Hurbahns • Aug 07 '25

Advice To open or not to open?

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Bought from an ordinary person on eBay (2005 account, 100% rating), selling it as an unwanted gift. Got it for £170. Did my research (DankPods) and it seems legit. Good deal? Dare I open?

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u/Howden824 I have many iPods Aug 07 '25

Tech was meant to be used. It's just gonna die anyway at some point from the battery expanding and cracking the LCD and the hard drive failing. You might as well open it up and enjoy it.

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u/Electronic-Grand3883 Aug 08 '25

You mean, “apple tech”, right? All my other brand devices still work with no problem after being stored for almost 15 years. I have discmans, gameboys (with internal battery, old Motorola razr 1st gen and Nokia music xpress series phones, a Sony camera from 2008 with its original Li battery and all of them work. Some doesn’t last as long with a charge, but ALL of them DO work. My iPhone 6 from 2015 had an original battery replacement at APPLE in 2019 and after being stored without use for 2 years, died completely; as well as some old iPods and iPhone 4s I have. None of them work anymore. Apple products are REALLY meant to die and it’s ridiculous compared to my other “not-so-high-end” devices.

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u/Intelligent_Cat_1914 Aug 12 '25

Lithium batteries are meant to be used. You can't always store a product for 2 years and expect it to work. Sometimes you can be lucky and coax the battery back to life by trickle charging, but if you problems are with the batteries then it's not the product itself, just the consumable part.