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no offense but that is pretty dumb

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Why in God's name would you do all that before hearing back from Stars? If you tried to buy an Ipod from Apple's store and they sent you the wrong one what would you do? Pawn it?
You got it YESTERDAY. You were materially harmed by an error by Stars and there is a very obvious solution(mail back the 20GB to Stars, get Nano from there).

The saleslady at the Apple store better have been smoking hot.

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The iPod had taken nearly 4 weeks to get to me from Stars, and then turned out to be an opened / possibly refurbished model -- I sure wasn't going to put everything on hold again and wait for them to get their ducks in a row. Only around 50% of my emails to them about the prize had been returned. At this point, I had gotten frustrated to the point that I finally decided to take things into my own hands. If Stars decides they want to provide some kind of restitution to me, terrific. If not, well that's a risk I took when I made the decision to take the Nano exchange offer from the store, -$75.

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Mr. Jones:
Thanks for the reply. I replied to the e-mail from which i had recieved email about the ipod, which is blogtour@P*.com.
That was friday, and i haven't heard back yet. when i tried contacting the general support email shortly after the tourny was over (but before i had recieved contact from P*), i was told that general support could not help me.

the ipod is still boxed up, and i'll wait.

Re: Pokerstars freeroll prizes: can they do whatever they want??
 

I think the important unexplained question here is why would someone get upset about receiving a bigger, better prize?

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I think the important unexplained question here is why would someone get upset about receiving a bigger, better prize?

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You are wrong. Nano > regular 20GB iPod.

In Stars' defense, they both retail for $249, so it's technically a substitution of an item of equal value. But I had already bought a bunch of Nano accessories and docking station in anticipation of receiving the Nano. Coolness factor also overwhelmingly favors the Nano.

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You are wrong. Nano > regular 20GB iPod.

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How so?

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Coolness factor also overwhelmingly favors the Nano.


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Coolness factor also overwhelmingly favors the Nano.

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5x song capacity overwhelmingly favors the "classic" iPod!

I also love the poster who complained about the "big fat" iPod. It's the size of a pack of cigarettes fer Crissake!

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Coolness factor also overwhelmingly favors the Nano.

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5x song capacity overwhelmingly favors the "classic" iPod!

I also love the poster who complained about the "big fat" iPod. It's the size of a pack of cigarettes fer Crissake!

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What he said.

My 60 gig is smaller than a pack of cigarrettes and so light I don't even notice it. Unless you're planning on hanging it from a nose piercing, it isn't too heavy. I also have about thirteen gig on it and it's not enough.

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Coolness factor also overwhelmingly favors the Nano.


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it's not really close either