Originally Posted by CPRich
I have to chime in and agree with OP on this one, as I see the opposing arguments as rather silly.
Suppose you wanted a cheap mp3 player. You don't need to store photos, you don't need a display, you don't need a smooth-as-silk touch-click-magic controller. You find a $50 512MB mp3 player and the literature says it does what you need - plays mp3 and wav - no aiff, atrac, ogg etc - that's fine, all I want is an mp3 player
So it shows up and:
No screen - OK, I didn't expect one
30 day warranty - OK, it's a low end model, no surprise
kinda cheap looking - I get what I pay for
kinda clunky in operation - ditto
doesn't play mp3, only atrac - ????
Fine, so you return it (I think there's still more to the story that there's such trouble returning it after many posters have reported no trouble getting Amazon to accept returns), but don't expect to get everyone on the internet to get all worked up over it. If there's a valid reason that you can't return it, then accept it and learn for next time.
And, yes, I'm sure all of us have eaten the cost of cheap products that ended up not working as advertised. That's how we learned.