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Old 08-11-2010, 02:21 AM   #24
delphidb96
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Device: TWO Kindle 2s, one each Bookeen Cybook Gen3, Sony PRS-500, Axim X51V
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Originally Posted by JSWolf View Post
Why would anyone want to get a K2 fixed at the same price as a K3 with wifi? And it's not much more to get a K3 with 3G. So really, broken K2s are to be tossed out. They have no use at all.

Why would you buy a broken nook?
Six broken K2s. Average purchase cost to me: $37. Five repaired at warranteed NO COST. One at $135. So spreading out the cost of that one repair over six units means that my 'average' additional cost was $22.50. So I now have (or rather had as most of them were given to friends as gifts) K2s that cost *me* $59.50 each. MUCH cheaper than buying a new one at this point.

They are fully functional so that means that to have tossed them away - or the opportunity - would have been almost criminally stupid.

And I know that Mom prefers ePub and is getting tired of her PRS-500.

Besides, you don't just sh*t-can a warranty because the original owner has sold/given the unit to someone else!

Derek

And yes, $189 for the 3G version is NOT a 'throwaway' price - at least not on *my* budget.
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